1 Hour Course: Emotional Safety: Unpacking the Role of Emotion and Defense

1 Hour Course: Emotional Safety: Unpacking the Role of Emotion and Defense

Presented by Tamara Strijack, M.A.

Live Streaming on September 24, 2025

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FREE one hour workshop!

LIVE STREAM: September 24, 2025 from  10:00am – 11:00am (Vancouver, BC) Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone. 

ON-DEMAND: Recorded footage & course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until November 1, 2025. Please allow 3 business days for footage to be processed. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.

Our children are often entering their homes and classrooms in survival mode and bringing with them the behaviours that make it challenging for us to take the lead and build relationships with them. And often behavioural problems are framed as disciplinary issues that must be “fixed,” rather than understanding them as an indication that a child has an emotional need that needs to be filled. As humans, we are emotional beings … but what is the purpose of emotion? And what happens when we lose access to our feelings? When we understand the link between emotion and behaviour, we can better respond. In this session we will explore some of the common roots of troubling behaviour, including aggression and anxiety, as well as how we can create the conditions for the emotional safety that our children and students need in order to be emotionally healthy and receptive to learning.
Reclaiming our Students:
Children are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever. Faced with this epidemic of emotional health crises and behavioural problems, teachers are asking themselves what went wrong. Why have we lost our  students? More importantly: How can we get them back? Hannah Beach, a celebrated educator and specialist in the field of emotional health, and Tamara Neufeld Strijack, clinical counsellor and academic dean of the Neufeld Institute, provide a thoughtful guide to restoring the student-teacher relationship and creating the conditions for change. Reclaiming Our Students empowers teachers with relationship-based strategies to restore their leadership role and build emotional safety and inclusion in the classroom.

 

Tamara will be presenting at The Developmental and Emotional Challenges with Children and Adolescents conferences in Calgary and Victoria this Fall. Available in-person or online. More information here

Tamara Strijack, MA is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who lives and works in the Vancouver Island area. She is co-author (with Hannah Beach) of the book, Reclaiming our Students: Why our children are more anxious, aggressive and shut down than ever, and what we can do about it. Tamara has worked with children and adolescents in various roles over the last thirty years. She is currently the Academic Dean of the Neufeld Institute, where she develops and delivers courses on child development for parents, teachers and helping professionals. She is a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and educator of counsellors and educators in training. Tamara works primarily as a parent and educational consultant, helping put adults back in the driver’s seat in a way that facilitates growth and learning for the child. Connection, relationship and play continue to be central themes in all her roles, both personally and professionally.

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