Feeling Strong is a 3-step framework for helping youth identify aggression, manage emotions, and resolve social conflicts.

Over 3,000 schools have been trained! Your staff and parents will finally be united around a rational approach to build resilience and lower aggression reports.

This training program covers our entire conflict resolution system.

You will learn research-based strategies and tools to help students manage conflict. You will gain skills to empower students to manage their emotions and resolve their social problems. You will gain quick intervention techniques, access evaluation tools, and enjoy a library of role-play games to solve painful problems in a spirit of play.

Course Outline:

1. Welcome & Introduction
2. The Meanness Matrix: The Four Types of Aggression
3. The Resilience Meter: Helping Students Manage Emotions
4. The Power of Positive Thinking
5. The Motivations for Aggression
6. Game Plan: 1:1 Intervention Tool
7. Intervention Games: Fun Role-Playing Strategies

This training is for all school staff.

Additionally mental health providers social workers, psychologists, juvenile and residential care workers, behavior interventionists, student advocates and  other specialized educators. There are no prerequisites.

We recommend one of the packages to help make the biggest impact on your campus for the most cost-effective benefits, however each aspect of the program is available a la carte.

Included in the price are several intervention tools and games that are used in the Feeling Strong Framework.

Have multiple campuses or interested in a multi-year license?  We can help with that!  

Please see the pricing page for information.

At the completion of this training, you will be able to:

• Teach students how to apply the common-sense wisdom of the Golden Rule to break free of the bully-victim cycle.

• Promote the resilience, emotional maturity, and independence that will equip students for facing life’s challenges.

• Teach students how to handle the broad variety of social challenges they typically encounter, such as verbal bullying, cyberbullying, rumors, social exclusion, relational aggression, physical aggression, and intimidation by adults.

• Teach school staff simple approaches for reducing aggression among students while enhancing their self-regulation and coping skills.

• Replace the prevalent, ineffective and time-consuming legalistic approach to bullying with a more effective and efficient psychological/educational approach.

• Teach students to solve interpersonal problems on their own.

• Manage parents’ anger triggered by their child’s social problems and get buy-in to try a more resilient approach to solve the problem.