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Tekla Johnson LLC

Tekla Johnson LLC

Training, Professional Development, Mentorship & Reflective Practice

Expect More from Professional Development!

Your time is valuable and your contribution in the field of
early childhood is invaluable. Engage in learning that is joyful!

Your time is valuable and your contribution in the field of early childhood is invaluable. Engage in learning that is joyful!

What sets our Professional Development apart?

  • It’s relevant and practical. Participants learn easy-to-implement strategies, relevant to current challenges, that can be brought into your work immediately.
  • We intentionally design training to promote learning practical skills and increasing inspiration and joy in the work. We live the early childhood saying “Because how you are is as important as what you do.” Learning takes place in an environment that is intentionally-created to promote conversation, experimentation, relaxation, rejuvenation, and play.
  • We teach to the whole person. Many professionals in early childhood are also parents, or caregivers in some capacity outside their professional role, and life-long learners. We facilitate professional development activities and skill-building relevant to being a professional, parent, and continually-evolving human.

Training and professional services:

  • Are available in-person or via Zoom
  • Range from 60-minutes to full-day events, and can be one-time experiences, or an ongoing, regular sessions
  • Are tailored to your unique situation, involving a mixture of practicing presence, teaching that incorporates activities, discussion and experiential-learning

Services include:

  • Values Clarity: Team-Building and Inspiration Through Identifying and Aligning with Core Values
  • Introduction to Resilience: How Resilience is Developed and How We Can Help Build this Skill Through Intentional Daily Interactions
  • Being With: Brain Research and Practices for Attunement and Connection (With Ourselves and Others)
  • Transforming Common Classroom Challenges into Opportunities
  • Calm Teams, Calm Kids: Practical Strategies to Promote Regulation Through Relationship
  • Adding to Our Resilience Toolkit: Values and Stories
  • Supporting Executive Functioning Skill Development in the Classroom
Let’s talk about your vision for an ideal training for your team!

New to Reflective Practice? Learn more about how ongoing opportunities to reflect and learn supports employee retention, and well-being, while promoting best-practice services for families in this article from the Wisconsin Association for Infant Mental Health Demystifying Reflective Practice.

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"This training has definitely been different. The amount of work Tekla has poured into teaching us to stay calm and self-reflect is a totally higher level of education then ever expected. I feel super lucky that I got to take this training and learn so much for myself and others.”
~ Early Childhood Professional, New Mexico
“My staff still talk about your training, mentioning the strategies and ideas they learned, even now over two months after you spent the morning with us.”
~ Childcare Director, Southern Minnesota

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