Emotional Awareness: Understanding and Navigating Feelings in Education

Description

Concept by Marta Mandolini

Classrooms increasingly recognize the importance of emotional awareness, as emotions significantly impact students’ learning and relationships.

However, educators often lack effective strategies for integrating emotional understanding into daily teaching practices.

This course introduces educators to key strategies for recognizing and incorporating emotions shaped by biology, personal history, behavior, and context in the classroom.

Participants will learn to identify physical signs of emotions in both them and their students, explore the influence of family and community on emotional connections, and reflect on how behaviors shape the learning environment.

Additionally, they’ll examine the broader “backstory” of thoughts and feelings to build a more empathetic and supportive classroom culture.

By the end of the course, educators will have a toolkit for enhancing emotional awareness, which will help deepen connections, boost student engagement, and foster a more inclusive and empathetic classroom.

What is included

 Unmatched Support: full day chat assistance

 Fully Fundable: tailored on Erasmus+ budgets

 Flexibility Guaranteed: easy changes with minimal restrictions

 360° experience: from coffee breaks to cultural visits

 Post-Course Training: 100€ voucher on 40+ online courses

Learning outcomes

The course will help participants to:

  • Recognize and analyze emotions in themselves and students;
  • Understand how personal and collective histories shape emotional responses;
  • Develop strategies to promote emotional awareness;
  • Integrate emotional recognition into teaching practices to support student well-being;
  • Build empathetic relationships in the classroom;
  • Adapt teaching methods to address students’ emotional needs.

Tentative schedule

Day 1 – Navigating life’s overwhelm

  • Introduction to the course, the school, and the external week activities;
  • Icebreaker activities;
  • Presentations of the participants’ schools;
  • Engaging in body and mind dynamics to reconnect;
  • Practicing improvisational theatre and movement using the emotional wheel.

Day 2 – Navigating life’s uncertainties

  • Morning writing routine;
  • Gentle approaches to student feelings;
  • Balancing parental expectations with personal desires;
  • Understanding boundaries and limits;
  • Comparing accusatory vs. assertive language;
  • Managing anger, boredom, and disgust;
  • Uncovering hidden community feelings;
  • Group activity: installation on hate and “negative emotions”.

Day 3 – The impact of comparison

  • Exploring the emotional wheel;
  • Art therapy: mapping my heart;
  • Reflection on emotions from the past month;
  • Neuroscience insights;
  • Creating an emotional moving canvas;
  • Walking meditation;
  • Multi-sensory experience.

Day 4 – Building connections with others

  • Cultivating openness and honesty in students;
  • Strategies to enhance empathy, joy, and overall well-being;
  • Mindfulness through the story of the fir tree;
  • Creating together: the Tree of Joy art installation;
  • Co-creating a mural: the forest as our shared masterpiece;
  • Practical tips for fostering happiness and well-being.

Day 5 – Embracing an open heart

  • Stream-of-consciousness writing for self-discovery;
  • Collaborative art activities to foster emotional connection within the community;
  • Visualization exercises with sensory engagement;
  • Reflecting on aspirations for the upcoming months;
  • Positive psychology workshop: creating your “Box of Joy”.

Day 6 – Course closure and cultural activities

  • Course evaluation: round-up of acquired competencies, feedback, and discussion;
  • Awarding of the course Certificate of Attendance;
  • Excursion and other external cultural activities.

Dates and locations

You can register for any date, even if it's not yet confirmed, especially if you're interested in courses several weeks away. Once we have a few more enrollments, we will confirm the date. If we are unable to confirm it, we will offer you alternative options.

Seville

Price: 480€*
OID: E10247545
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    6-11 Jan 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    3-8 Feb 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    3-8 Mar 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    7-12 Apr 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    5-10 May 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    2-7 Jun 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    7-12 Jul 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    4-9 Aug 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    1-6 Sep 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    6-11 Oct 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    3-8 Nov 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    1-6 Dec 2025

Seville (480€*)

  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    6-11 Jan 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    3-8 Feb 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    3-8 Mar 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    7-12 Apr 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    5-10 May 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    2-7 Jun 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    7-12 Jul 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    4-9 Aug 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    1-6 Sep 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    6-11 Oct 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    3-8 Nov 2025
  • Open to enrollments
    Open to enrollments means the course is pending confirmation. You can register now to help confirm this session, but you will need to wait for our confirmation before booking flights and accommodation.
    1-6 Dec 2025

Cultural Activities

  • A half-day or full-day tour on Saturday

*A 60 € late registration fee will be applied if you register less than 8 weeks before the course start date.
All prices are VAT included or not due.

Similar confirmed courses

Confirmed CourseLocationStarting DateStatusEnrolment
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Successful Sc…Ghent17 Feb 2025
Confirmed
Register here »
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Successful Sc…Barcelona24 Feb 2025
Confirmed
Register here »

Create a two-week course

140€ discount for a two week-long course

Combine a confirmed date of this course with a confirmed date of another course and easily create a two week course by yourself. Start selecting one confirmed date of this course and see which other courses are confirmed in the same Academy the previous week and the following week.

Search for similar courses