NYC School-based Staff Programs
Calm Classrooms
Accessible practices for educators to stabilize, calm, guide, and respond to students who are dysregulated, overstimulated, or unresponsive.
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Accessible easy tools to support student’s transition from fear or agitation into calm and focused.
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Tools and protocol for those unsettling moments after a conflict or critical incident.
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Body-based tools and exercises that calm and reset the nervous system. Simple practices for all ages.
Taught by a Compassion Fatigue Therapist.
RESET together
Your remedy for burnout and compassion fatigue. RESET has been helping NYC Public School educators since 2016! Help for the helpers.
Staff trainings, group coaching, and retreats.
Online and in-person.
3-150 ppl per session.
RESET Program
Originally developed for NYC DOE educators, Compassion Fatigue RESET™ was piloted in 2016, making it the first-ever STS workplace support program for colleagues in the world.
Since then our programs and tools have reached thousands worldwide and have been adopted by U.S. intelligence agencies to support professionals’ mental health.
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Accessible nervous system regulation tools to use at work, in life and to teach to clients, patients, or students.
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Centered Boundaries™ framework to create balanced boundaries for helping and protecting professionals.
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Action planning to address the root causes of burnout and provide some relief.
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Anxiety reduction strategies to use at work, in life, and to teach to clients, patients, or students.
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Stress management planning for traumatic stress reduction.
Approaches can be applied at work, home, and can be taught to clients, patients, or students.
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Simple peer support strategies to increase resilience and trusting relationships between staff.
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5 minute Resilience Debrief™ method to reduce the impact of traumatic stress on staff after critical incidents or after prolonged exposure.
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Protocols to reduce feelings of overwhelm, clarify the next appropriate steps and more!
All tools are adapted to your industry and staff.
Services
Cultivating shared knowledge and peer support to keep staff, clients, students mentally safe.
Online and in-person.
Professional Development Hour
One hour training on select topics from RESET and Somatic RESET.
1 hour.
Small, medium, and large groups.
Somatic RESET
Nervous system regulation practices that you can do on the job and teach to clients, patients, or students.
1 hour - 1.5 hours.
Small, medium, or large groups.
Mini RESET
Our most popular program delivered in a retreat style experience for your staff.
Emphasis on traumatic stress prevention and mitigation strategies.
3-6 hours. Retreats available.
Small, medium, and large groups.
RESET
Our signature and most effective program. It includes prevention and mitigation, somatic, and recovery.
Extremely effective for alleviating symptoms, cultivating peer support, and creating sustainable careers.
8 weeks, 90 minutes each.
Small groups
One-on-One RESET
One-on-one coaching sessions for staff to access support and tools when needed.
55 minutes
“Every social worker and teacher needs these skills and this support to deal with the challenges of their job.”
— Social Worker, NYC Public Schools Shelter System
“I’ve stopped feeling bad about the symptoms and learned to take action for myself, but more importantly how to take action with my colleagues to help each other.”
— Educator, NYC Public Schools
"Being part of this community gets me through the most difficult times in a healthy way."
— Educator, NYC Public Schools
Our Clients Report
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Our participants have reported that their increased confidence and skills led them to seek promotions or feel more prepared to meet the requirements of their recent promotion.
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Participants frequently report trusting their colleagues and leaders more after attending our programs. They also demonstrate kinder and more open communication.
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Participants have reported our programs kept them from hurting themselves, and helped them overcome depression, anxiety, and burnout.
They also report developing and maintaining new habits such as journaling, meditating, and scheduling peer support. -
Participants have reported our programs supported them in building and maintaining healthy habits, such as walking daily, eating healthy, and sleeping regularly.
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Participants often report being more flexible, open to change, and able to navigate change with confidence where they were previously distrustful, fearful, and closed off.
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Participants report a higher level of optimism, resilience, and job satisfaction after attending our programs.
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Participants frequently report choosing to stay in their careers and positions as a result of attending our programs.
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Participants frequently demonstrate and report more reflective decision-making, great problem-solving abilities, less burnout, errors, and reactiveness.