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This workshop focuses on emotional intelligence as a driver of personal wellbeing and professional effectiveness, and is designed for caring professionals working with children and/or families. Growing our own emotional intelligence creates a reservoir of inner resources we can draw from to boost well-being, face challenging moments, and better support the emotional growth and learning of others. 

Drawing on brain science behind social and emotional development and some well-established emotional intelligence frameworks, this interactive 6-hour workshop (delivered over two 3-hour sessions) provides useful information and practical tools for understanding and growing our emotional intelligence, so we can find greater effectiveness, ease, and well-being in the work of supporting children and families.  

Learning Objectives

• Learn about emotional intelligence (EI) and how it promotes mental health, resilience and success at work and relationships.
• Apply key EI frameworks to their personal and professional development
• Identify their emotional patterns, and strengths and growth areas
• Practice tools to grow self-awareness and emotional regulation
• Explore strategies for building empathy and greater connection with others
• Learn about social and emotional development across the lifespan, and understand the relevance of adult EI development to supporting children's emotional growth and learning
• Create an action plan for ongoing EI development for personal and professional well-being and growth

Together we will build our understanding and a toolkit for growing EI through learning, stories, activities, discussions, reflection exercises and small group practice sessions.

Who Should Attend

Educators, counselors, social workers, youth development professionals, childcare providers, family support specialists, and anyone working to support the well-being of children and families.

Dates and Times

Tuesday, November 25 and Wednesday, November 26, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PST. 

About the Facilitator 

Dr. Angela Low, PhD, is an expert in emotional intelligence committed to fostering resilience and social and emotional competence in children and the adults around them. As a research geek with a love for human connection and stories, Angela translates emotion and child development research into useful nuggets of information and practical strategies that participants can use right away to enhance their personal and professional effectiveness and well-being. 

An adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia and a researcher at Simon Fraser University, Angela focuses on social and emotional development and mental health promotion. As an educator and mother of two school-aged kids, she is passionate about helping to transform education, healthcare and community practices to better support educators and parents in the hard work of raising resilient kids in this rapidly changing world.

The price of this training is per person. 

This workshop is not guaranteed to run. We need a minimum number of participants. 

This training will be taking place online via Zoom, and registered participants will be emailed a meeting link.