Emotional Validation Training for Trainers: Overview & Implementation

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This “training for trainers” session is for anyone from your board’s team that will be delivering training on emotional validation.

A Training for Trainers session that provides an opportunity to experience key elements of the training, examine delivery options and intended audiences within your board context, and plan for implementation as you prepare to deliver the training.

This “training for trainers” session is for mental health leaders, managers/leaders of student support staff (e.g., child and youth workers, graduation coaches), and anyone else from your board’s team that will be delivering training on emotional validation.

Key updates for delivery teams:

emotional validation training materials have been broadened for use with all school stafftraining on emotional validation can be offered as a “stand-alone” workshop or integrated into other professional learning within your boardmaterials have been updated to deepen connections to cultural humility and identity-affirming practices

In this webinar, participants will:

experience aspects of the training to support familiarity and confidence with the approachbe introduced to a suite of materials that have been created to support board-level trainingexplore implementation strategies and delivery options across a wide range of audiences and settings

Note: While an overview of emotional validation will be provided during this session, the focus is primarily on preparing participants to deliver the training at their boards.

Date

November 12, 2026 | 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Audience

Managers of student support staff

Mental health leaders (Managers of clinical or mental health services, Managers of psychology services, Managers of social work services, Mental health leaders, Other)

Language

This session will be delivered in English. Materials, breakout rooms, etc. will be available in French and English.