Training Details

Date: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025

Time: 3:30 - 5:30 PM Pacific Time

For: Teachers & Counselors

Location:

Live Zoom Session

You’ll Discover How To:

• Reduce anxiety

• Find confidence

• Stay calm under pressure

• Understand your triggers

• Respond to difficult behaviors

• Connect with the most challenging students

Finding Calm in the Chaos

Emotional Regulation Training for Teachers & Counselors

Teaching today can feel harder than ever. Between challenging behaviors, and constant pressure to “do it all,” even the most dedicated educators are feeling anxious, burned out, and disconnected from their jobs.

Be honest:

• Do certain students trigger strong emotions, and you’re not sure where it’s coming from or why?

• Do you ever doubt your ability to make a difference?

• Do you feel like you’re close to calling it quits?

• Do you ever find yourself on the verge of panic or tears?

• Do you feel unqualified?

• Do you feel like everyone else has it figured out while you’re barely getting by?

• Do you ever dread going to work?

If you answered “yes” to any of these, you’re not flawed, and you’re not alone.

Finding Calm in the Chaos acknowledges what educators already know deep down: you can’t teach well when you’re in survival mode, and you don’t have to stay there.

We’ll help you rediscover your confidence and peace through:

• Knowing you’re not alone. Not everyone has it figured out, and you don’t have to pretend you do. Together, we’ll normalize the struggle and help you reconnect with why you started teaching in the first place.

• Facing the hard moments with calm and courage. When a student’s behavior triggers fear, helplessness, or anxiety, you’ll have the tools to regulate yourself and respond effectively.

• Understanding your own triggers. Learn why certain students “push your buttons,” what’s happening in your body and brain when that happens, and how to respond with awareness. Discover why you act one way with some students but differently with others.

• Discovering that you are qualified. You don’t need to be a therapist to make a difference and teach effectively.

• Learning to connect with “the hard kids.” Beneath the behaviors are unmet needs. You’ll learn to see them through a new lens.

Led by Greg Sommers, LPC
Greg Sommers is a team building, training, and facilitation expert. Greg specializes in school staff development, curriculum, and student leadership. His programs and workshops are designed to provide individuals with dynamic and insightful experiences that produce true and lasting growth from the inside out. Greg offers a variety of support for schools to increase resilience, build connections, and enhance safe and secure climates that support student well-being and academic success. Greg has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Montana State University and is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Idaho. He has served schools for over 25 years.

Questions?

Email greg@thecorepro.com

The Core Project offers a series of mental health and wellness experiences for both students and educators. While we provide services nationwide, we're proud to be based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where local schools and individuals benefit from direct access to in-person services led by our trained facilitators and licensed professional counselors.

*This class is therapeutic in nature and designed to support emotional well-being, but it is not a substitute for individual or group therapy.