Regulate to Educate: Building Emotional Skills for Learning & Behaviour

All of us experience emotions. Though for some, and particularly adolescents, feeling these emotions can seem overwhelming. Emotion regulation is the ability to effectively manage and respond to emotions. Emotion regulation forms the basis of our distress tolerance, the ability to manage emotional distress. Most of us use a variety of emotion regulation strategies and are able to apply them to different situations in order to meet the demands of our environment; however, in adolescence the changes in brain development, societal roles and expectations can make emotion regulation and distress tolerance a nearly impossible task.

When students are regulated and emotionally resilient, they are better able to engage in learning, build positive relationships, and stay connected to their sense of identity and future goals. As educators, understanding how to support the development of these skills can have a powerful impact on student wellbeing and behaviour. Join us to explore the foundations of emotion regulation and distress tolerance, and gain practical strategies to teach and reinforce these skills in your classroom.

This webinar is presented by Ilia Lindsay, Head of Psychology at Komodo Wellbeing.