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Ripple Effect:
Social and Emotional Mastery Certification

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Guided certification course to recognize emotions, manage responses, and communicate clearly

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Foundational Certification

(Introductory Level)

Duration

6 - 10 Hours

Ideal For:

​✔ Educators

✔ Parents

✔ Professionals

Meeting

Practitioner Certification

(Intermediate/Applied Level)

Duration

20 - 30 Hours

Ideal For:

​✔ Coaches

✔ Teachers

✔ School Leaders

✔ HR Professionals

Meeting

Mastery Certification

(Advanced Level)

Duration

40 - 60 Hours

Ideal For:

​✔ Trainers

✔ Consultants

✔ School Leaders

✔ Wellness Professionals

FoundationalCert

Professional Certificate - 10 Core Skills

Emotional Self-Awareness

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Identify and accurately name emotions and their intensity in real time.

  • Differentiate primary vs. secondary emotions and common emotional “mixes.”

  • Map personal triggers and early cues to prevent reactive behaviors.

Emotional Regulation

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Apply evidence-based strategies (breathwork, reappraisal, grounding) to manage arousal.

  • Build pause–plan–proceed routines for high-stakes moments.

  • Create personal regulation plans for before, during, and after stress.

Empathic Listening

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Use attending skills (presence, paraphrase, reflect feelings) to convey understanding.

  • Ask open, non-leading questions that deepen clarity.

  • Recognize and reduce listening blockers (fixing, judging, rehearsing).

Social Awareness

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Read group dynamics and unspoken norms across diverse settings.

  • Distinguish intent vs. impact and adjust for cultural/contextual differences.

  • Practice perspective-taking to reduce bias in decisions.

Authentic Communication

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Express needs and boundaries with “clear + kind” I-statements.

  • Give and receive feedback using behavior–impact–next step frameworks.

  • Match message, tone, and channel to audience and goal.

Relationship Building

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Establish psychological safety through consistency, follow-through, and micro-affirmations.

  • Build trust using credibility, reliability, and care (“know–show–grow”).

  • Strengthen networks through purposeful check-ins and reciprocity.

Conflict Navigation

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Diagnose root issues (interests, expectations, resources, values) before proposing fixes.

  • Use collaborative problem-solving: define, brainstorm, decide, and commit.

  • Take responsibility for one’s part and craft repair statements when harm occurs.

Growth Mindset

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Reframe setbacks into learning goals and next experiments.

  • Use process-focused praise and task-specific feedback to foster persistence.

  • Design stretch-practice loops: plan → attempt → reflect → iterate.

Mind–Body Awareness

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Track physiological signals (breath, posture, heart rate, tension) linked to emotions.

  • Use somatic resets (box breathing, progressive relaxation, posture shifts).

  • Align daily routines (sleep, movement, nutrition) to support emotional balance.

Self-Reflection

1 Hour

What you'll learn

  • Run weekly reviews: wins, misses, patterns, and one improvement target.

  • Journal with prompts that connect values to actions and outcomes.

  • Translate insights into micro-habits and measurable commitments for growth.

PractitionerCert

Professional Certificate - 10 Core Skills

Advanced Emotional Self-Awareness

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Map patterns of trigger, feeling, and behavior across contexts and quantify their impacts.

  • Distinguish primary from secondary emotions and detect stacking before escalation.

  • Build an early signal dashboard of cues, thoughts, and body markers to interrupt autopilot.

Applied Emotional Regulation

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Select and sequence tailored strategies such as reappraisal, pacing, breathwork, and reset rituals to fit different situations.

  • Use nervous system tools such as downregulation, upregulation, and recovery windows to maintain resilience throughout the day.

  • Create prebrief, in the moment, and debrief protocols for high stakes conversations.

Deep Empathic Listening

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Demonstrate presence with layered paraphrases, feeling reflections, and accurate inferences of needs.

  • Ask bias reducing open questions that surface meaning without leading.

  • Validate divergent perspectives while keeping boundaries and role clarity.

Social Awareness with an Equity Lens

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify systemic factors such as policies, power, and norms that shape behavior and outcomes.

  • Practice intent and impact checks and use bias interruption routines in real decisions.

  • Apply perspective taking to redesign routines for psychological safety and fairness.

Authentic and Compassionate Communication

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Deliver clear and kind messages using behavior, impact, need, and request structures.

  • Match channel, tone, and timing to the goal and the relationship stage.

  • Receive feedback without defensiveness and extract the actionable request.

Conflict Transformation

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Diagnose conflicts by separating positions, interests, and values and choose the right pathway.

  • Facilitate joint problem solving by defining the issue, generating options, deciding, committing, and following up.

  • Convert rupture to repair with accountability statements and agreements that prevent repeat problems.

Relationship Building and Maintenance

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Strengthen trust through credibility, reliability, and care while keeping words and actions aligned.

  • Hold space by balancing talk time, self regulating, and reflecting emotions back.

  • Use curiosity loops of notice, name, and explore to deepen connection and learning.

Boundary Setting and Repair Skills

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Script proactive boundaries about capacity, scope, and time and communicate them early.

  • Enforce limits with calm follow through while offering workable alternatives.

  • Repair after boundary breaches using acknowledgement, impact statements, and reset plans.

Somatic Awareness Practices

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Read internal body cues such as breath, muscle tone, and posture to guide choices.

  • Apply quick somatic resets such as box breathing, orienting, and progressive release before responding.

  • Build daily micro practices that stabilize energy and attention during demanding days.

Reflective Practice for Growth

2 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Run brief after action reviews to understand what happened, why it happened, and what to change.

  • Translate feedback into small experiments with clear success metrics and timelines.

  • Maintain a personal learning dashboard that tracks habits, outcomes, and next steps.

MasteryCert

Professional Certificate - 8 Core Skills

Embodied Social-Emotional Leadership

6.5 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Model emotional intelligence in words, tone, and decisions during routine and high-pressure moments.

  • Align behavior with stated values to set norms for trust, accountability, and care.

  • Build a climate of psychological safety through consistent follow-through and micro-affirmations.

Organizational Emotional Climate Assessment

6.5 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Design a measurement plan using surveys, focus groups, and observation to capture individual and collective well-being.

  • Analyze patterns across teams, roles, and timelines to locate hot spots and strengths.

  • Prioritize interventions and establish feedback loops to track impact over time.

Systems Thinking for Well-Being

6.5 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Map stakeholders, processes, and causal loops to see how issues propagate.

  • Identify leverage points and unintended consequences before intervening.

  • Prototype, test, and scale interventions while monitoring second- and third-order effects.

Strategic Communication & Influence

6.5 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Craft clear narratives that connect purpose, data, and desired actions for diverse audiences.

  • Select channels, timing, and messengers to maximize alignment and collaboration.

  • Build influence ethically by listening for concerns, integrating feedback, and reinforcing wins.

High-Stakes Conflict Mediation

6.5 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Prepare structured processes with roles, ground rules, and shared goals.

  • Facilitate interest-based dialogue that surfaces needs, options, and workable agreements.

  • Document commitments and establish follow-ups to sustain repair and learning.

Change Management with Emotional Intelligence

6.5 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Assess readiness, risks, and supports across teams before launching change.

  • Sequence milestones, quick wins, and learning cycles to reduce resistance.

  • Provide coaching, regulation tools, and clear rationale to help people move through uncertainty.

Equity-Driven Leadership

6.5 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Conduct equity audits to examine access, outcomes, policies, and power dynamics.

  • Embed inclusive decision protocols and bias-interruption routines in daily operations.

  • Track equity indicators and adjust practices to ensure fair, dignifying experiences.

Legacy & Ripple Impact Design

6.5 Hours

What you'll learn

  • Codify effective practices into playbooks, SOPs, and onboarding assets.

  • Build capacity through train-the-trainer models, peer coaching, and shared ownership.

  • Establish governance, handoff plans, and sustainability metrics so impact endures beyond the leader.

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