Teaching Through Connection Workshop
Empowering teachers to lead with calm, compassion, and confidence.
Teaching is heart work — and yet, it can often feel overwhelming to hold space for so many children’s needs while managing your own.
The Teaching Through Connection workshop is designed to help teachers reconnect with themselves and their classrooms through the science of regulation, communication, and mindful presence.
When teachers feel regulated and supported, classrooms become calmer, kinder, and more connected spaces for learning.
What You’ll Learn
In this workshop, teachers and education staff explore how the nervous system and brain development shape behavior, emotions, and learning.
You’ll discover how self-regulation forms the foundation for co-regulation, and how modeling calm, compassionate responses — instead of reactive ones — creates emotionally safe, engaged classrooms where students can thrive.
Through interactive learning, reflection, and group activities, you’ll gain:
A practical understanding of how the brain and body respond to stress and emotions
Strategies to self-regulate under pressure and model calm leadership
Tools to strengthen emotional connection with students and colleagues
Practices to bring more grace, ease, and empathy into your daily teaching
Extend the Learning
Once your staff has experienced Teaching Through Connection, you can build upon the foundation with one or more in-depth workshops:
Pillars of Non-Violent Communication & Empowered Conversations
Nervous System Regulation Deep Dive & Sensory Calming Tools for Teachers
Positive Discipline for the Classroom
Making Sense of Emotional Intelligence
Mastering Mindsight
Promoting Equality in Your Classroom: Ending Gender Stereotypes
Introducing Playful Practices into Your Classroom
Exploring Anger & Healthy Aggression
(Custom workshop topics can also be developed on request.)
Workshop Format
This is not another lecture — it’s an experiential, engaging workshop that invites teachers to reflect, connect, and apply what they learn in real time.
Teaching through Connection – Foundations - $480
This 2-hour immersive workshop dives deep into the neuroscience of regulation and connection — helping teachers learn how to respond rather than react, cultivate calm within chaos, and model emotional intelligence for their students.
Ideal for: Full staff development days or school-wide professional learning sessions (up to 40 participants).
Looking for Something More Specific?
Seeds of Change– Themed Deep Dive – $360
This 75-minute topical workshop offers a focused exploration into key topics such as emotional intelligence, non-violent communication, or positive discipline.
Each session blends neuroscience, behavior insights, and practical tools to help teachers cultivate awareness, connection, and conscious classroom practices.
Ideal for: Smaller teams or departments (up to 25 participants) seeking a tailored, interactive professional learning experience.
Hi! I'm Laura
I’m the founder of Extra Roots Transformational Parenting, a mother of three, and a former educator.
My passion for child development deepened through my own parenting journey — when I realized that books and advice alone weren’t enough to create real change at home.
Training as a transformational parenting coach helped me connect the dots between neuroscience, attachment theory, and nervous system regulation — and understand that to meet children’s needs, we must first meet our own.
As a former teacher, I saw how powerful this work could be in education. Through my Transformational Teaching Workshops, I help teachers gain self-awareness, unpack patterns, and develop evidence-based strategies to bring more calm, confidence, and connection into their classrooms.
Empowered teachers create safe, inclusive, and joyful classrooms — and that benefits everyone: schools, students, and teachers themselves.
If you believe in this too, I’d love to support your school.
Why it matters?
Teachers are role models of emotional intelligence. When they feel supported, grounded, and equipped with the tools to respond instead of react, they create ripple effects — calmer classrooms, happier children, and healthier learning environments.
Investing in your teachers’ emotional and professional growth is one of the most impactful decisions a school can make.
Ready to bring this to your school?
Click below to book a consultation call with Laura to discuss workshop details, pricing, and customization options for your staff.