Programs
for School Staff
Educators are human too.
You may have more capacity, but you don’t have less humanity.
Unfortunately, credentials and experience don’t erase our basic human need for understanding and support as we face today’s greatest challenges together.
FH&A delivers progressive programs that both train and support school staff on the most pressing and relevant topics of our time. We work at the intersection of student and staff mental health amidst rapid AI-driven global and societal change.
Take a look at our unique offerings below or contact us directly.
PD Sessions
Progressive professional development on staff and student mental health.
Coaching
Coaching support for educators navigating new and complex challenges.
Tools
Psychoeducation and tools to reduce traumatic stress.
Areas of Expertise
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Compassion Fatigue
Manage the cost of caring for others and cultivate resilience. Sessions care for you, so you can better care for and protect your community.
Professional Development
Group Coaching
Coaching Support
Training
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Vicarious Trauma
Prevent and mitigate on-the-job trauma exposure and cultivate resilience. Restoration and repair for the “second-hand smoke” of trauma exposure on the job.
Professional Development
Group Coaching
Coaching Support
Training
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Principal, AP & Dean Support
Leaders are human too. Sessions for the person behind the title because credentials don’t erase your basic human need for understanding and support.
Coaching Support
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Pop-up Support!
Political changes, ICE raids looming, hate crime rising - it’s a lot to respond to new needs and new challenges when you are already at capacity. We can help you fill the gap and stabilize your staff during challenging times.
Peer Support Groups
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Personal Power
Reclaim your personal power, gain clarity, and make value-driven choices in tough situations such as crises and rapid political changes. This helps keep you from shutting down or feeling overwhelmed in tense times.
Professional Development
Training
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Support Groups
Individual, group, and team coaching to address compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, political crises, burnout, rapid global change, and today’s complexities of moving towards an AI-integrated world.
Coaching Support
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Resilience Debrief™
Build school-wide peer support with our trademarked approach for frontline professionals to reduce the impact of the “second-hand smoke” of trauma exposure on the job.
Professional Development
Training
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Professional Latin Dance
Programming, delivered in partnership with in partnership with Adolfo Indacochea, is designed to uplift school communities, provide positive international role models, and cultivate unity through a bilingual journey of dance history and performance.
Workshop
Performance
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Resilience
Sustain your good work in the world with nervous system-regulating tools and practices. Education requires your full self to be present. These tools are designed to support you as you support others.
Professional Development
Group Coaching
Coaching Support
Training
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Stress & Anxiety Reduction
Mining gold from fear, gaining perspective and tools to manage work-related anxiety, stress, and burnout. When we learn to listen and dance with our fears they become quieter and make more space for peace and fulfillment.
Professional Development
Group Coaching
Coaching Support
Training
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Navigate Global Change
Stay connected to what matters. Cultivate balance and perspective to build a value-driven classroom and career amidst rapid global change. As the political divide escalates and AI changes our world, we can come together to process, reflect, and plan.
Professional Development
Training
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Tech's Undue Influence
Investigating, and unwinding tech’s influence on your life and career to live and work in alignment with your core values. This helps educators develop a sense of personal power, community, and purpose during the rapid tech transition in education.
Professional Development
Group Coaching
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Ethical AI Decision Making
Facilitated dialogue informed by relevant research on how AI is or could impact people’s mental health, development, and ability to form relationships. This discussion can help educators make informed decisions about the future of their classroom and school community.
Professional Development
Group Coaching
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AI Distress
Step into the future without losing yourself. Manage AI-related stress & anxiety, cultivate balance, and make value-driven decisions for your classroom. Rapid change is spiking people’s existential anxiety, and raising questions about what it means to be human. Putting words to this experience allows educators to plan and support their students during this transition.
Professional Development
Training
Retreats
NEW!
Resilience Debrief Journal
Pre-order our signature journal for your staff.
This journal was developed to help frontline workers reduce traumatic stress on the job. Educators can now turn towards themselves after a hard day and follow the prompts to obtain balance and perspective.
*Minimum order requirements apply
Bilingual Latin Dance School Performances & Artist Residency
Taryn Hughes, a certified Compassion Fatigue Therapist, certified coach, and founder of FH&A authored the first white paper on AI Distress. She also developed the inaugural workplace group coaching program for Compassion Fatigue RESET™ which has supported thousands of first responders and frontline workers worldwide since 2017.
Compassion Fatigue RESET™ was first piloted with NYC DOE public school teachers in 2016 and has supported thousands of educators and frontline workers worldwide ever since.
Prior to FH&A, Ms. Hughes ran a nonprofit that provided intercultural trauma-informed and trauma-support educational programs to youth who were incarcerated, discriminated against, and subjected to trauma and abuse.
Known for her progressive program development skills, compassion, and intuitive facilitation, Taryn has racked up thousands of 5-star program reviews. She excels at helping participants navigate complex and nuanced challenges with integrity, resilience, and hope.
New times call for new support.
Social workers and mental health professionals have access to clinical supervision for tough cases, yet many teachers are expected to navigate complex student mental health needs and rapid societal change alone.
As school staff receive more requests for restorative circles, SEL and IEP support while navigating social conflict, violence, and AI within the school walls, teachers may feel overwhelmed and unequipped. Though willing to learn, many teachers would like to have more formalized support on an ongoing basis. This allows them to build new skills, increase their capacity, and develop confidence in their expanded role.
