Helping young people navigate emotions, communication, and digital life.

This 5-day course offers teachers practical strategies to support pre-adolescents in a world where uncertainty, digital influence, and emotional challenges are part of daily life. Drawing on evidence-based methods, the programme combines emotional literacy, communication skills, authenticity, role modelling, critical thinking, and the concept of “onlife” – the blended reality where offline and online worlds meet.

Teachers will learn how to create classrooms that strengthen young people’s resilience, foster empathy, and develop responsible digital citizens. The course moves step by step from understanding the self, through building healthy relationships, to navigating the complex digital environment.

This course is designed for primary, secondary, and VET teachers who want to:

• Support pre-adolescents’ social and emotional development,
• Address challenges of social media and digital identity,
• Strengthen their own communication and facilitation skills,
• Create a more resilient, empathetic, and reflective learning environment.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Help students recognise, express, and regulate emotions in healthy ways
• Strengthen classroom relationships through active listening, empathy, and assertive communication
• Encourage students to explore authentic self-expression and reflect on personal values
• Use powerful questions to promote curiosity, reflection, and deeper understanding.
• Integrate positive role models into learning to inspire motivation and critical evaluation of influences
• Guide students in managing their onlife reality, balancing digital and offline life, and protecting their well-being.

The programme covers six interconnected areas of pre-adolescent development, and includes ready-to-use classroom activities reflective exercises and dialogue methods. In this way, the programme prepares teachers for challenges that students face in today’s digital and uncertain world, and helps teachers feel confident when guiding discussions about emotions, values, and online behaviours. 

The structure of the programme consists of the following topics

• Day 1: Emotions – Building Emotional Literacy. Workshop examples include Recognising Emotions, Empathy Mapping, Regulating Stress and Frustration.
• Day 2:  Communication – Listening and expressing with respect. Workshop examples include Active Listening Circles, Assertive Communication, Conflict Resolution.
• Day 3: Authenticity & Power of Questions – Self-awareness and reflection. Workshop examples include Exploring Personal Values, Authentic Self-Expression, Using “Powerful Questions” to Deepen Dialogue.
• Day 4: Role Models – Inspiration and critical evaluation. Workshop examples include Identifying Role Models, Analysing Positive and Negative Influences, Linking Role Models to Sustainable Choices. 
• Day 5: Onlife – Balancing digital and offline life. Understanding “Onlife”, Digital Identity and Privacy, Strategies for Healthy Digital Habits.   

Duration: 40 teaching hours – spread into 5 days.

Learning methods: workshops, active involvement of the learners, learning-by-doing, group learning, facilitation.

Location: České Budějovice and/or Prague.

Language: The course will be held in English language.

Term open for registration: Upon request – please fill in a contact form and we will get back to you.

Travel days: one day before and after the course term or according to the mutual agreement with the sending organisation.

Course fee: The price includes the course fee and all training materials. 

Individual subsistence costs: The price includes accommodation for the duration of the course (full board), all transportation within the Czech Republic, and any selected cultural activities.

Please note, the price does not include flight tickets to and from Prague. 

Our pricing follows Erasmus+ regulations, but we will provide a tailored quote once we receive your enquiry.