Feeling Strong is a psychological framework authored by Brooks Gibbs, PhD. We help parents, educators, and students identify aggression, manage emotions, and resolve social conflicts.

Over 3,000 schools have been trained by our approach. We've presented to over 3 million people face-to-face and our viral videos have reached over 300 million online.

This training course is a comprehensive professional development course for school counselors and other behavioral specialists who work with children. It presents an easily taught and learned approach to dealing with aggression that empowers the individual, reduces bullying and aggression, and improves the child’s relationships with peers at school and siblings at home. You will become proficient in the Feeling Strong Framework that is designed to build up the emotional resilience of a child in their unique areas of vulnerability. A child who learns to become unfazed by petty quarrels and non-criminal offenses suffers less and experiences an increase in personal satisfaction and academic achievement.

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.

This training is for mental health providers, school counselors, social workers, psychologists, juvenile and residential care workers, behavior interventionists, student advocates and  other specialized educators. There are no prerequisites.

The cost is $249 per seat on its own or can be included in our school-wide library of resources.

Included in the registration price is a clinical training manual, which contains the core Framework, Resolution System, Assessments, and Role Play Games. You will be awarded a Certificate of Completion from Feeling Strong.

• Professional Training Manual (PDF)

• Feeling Strong Certificate of Completion

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.