Open Cultura Spanish Workshop: Stories with feeling. Educating emotions

Stories with feeling Instituto Cervantes New York

Educating emotions

New York, September 19th, 2015

Open Cultura Program

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Open Culture offers creative workshops and seminars.

A workspace that multiplies our experiences, improves our Spanish and widens our knowledge: an open space that stimulates creativity and better learning.

This 4-hour workshop is divided in two sections: Theory: Discussion of the emotional competencies that children need to develop in order to have an appropriate level of wellbeing and happiness.

Practice: Practical application of stories used in the process of emotional education.

Methodology The workshop is designed to be flexible and open to the needs of the participants, drawing from their personal experience and collaborative work. We will work from stories selected by the author for their demonstrated utility in developing practical abilities.

The workshop Cuentos para sentir (Stories with feeling) uses stories to teach children to develop the emotional competencies and abilities needed to achieve wellbeing and happiness.

Research shows the importance of understanding a person’s emotional world in order to nurture an appropriate level of physical and mental wellbeing.

Reading helps us to understand our most intense emotions as well as the emotional worlds of others, providing strong support for emotional education.

Objectives Emotional education is centered on the development of four areas of competence: emotional awareness, emotional control, emotional autonomy and social competency.

Workshop coordinator BegoĂąa Ibarrola is a psychologist and writer. She worked for 19 years as a music therapist with children and adolescents with mental disabilities in Madrid.

At present she dedicates herself to writing, researching, teaching courses and lecturing on music therapy, emotional intelligence and emotional education in educational institutions and other organizations.

For 38 years she has been a trainer of teachers and families.

She is co-author of the two emotional intelligence programs Sentir y Pensar from the publisher SM and has published 185 short stories that have been translated into six languages.

Certificates Certificates of attendance and participation will be offered upon completion.

KEY INFORMATION - Date: September 19th.

Organizers

- Place: ICNY E211 49 Street New York, NY

NYS Language RBERN

- Schedule: 9am - 1pm

The mission of the New York State Language and Bilingual Resources Center, NYS Language RBERN, at New York University, is to support the professional development of teachers with a specific and concerted focus on pedagogical practices for bilingual, English as new language, and foreign language classes. The role of the Language RBERN is guided by the Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages (NYSED OBE & WL) of the New York State Education Department.

Audience: educators, parents, special education specialists, guidance counselors, bilingual Spanish classroom teachers, parent coordinators, community schools administrators, directors of community-based organizations, librarians in charge of Spanish language collections, school literacy coaches, individuals in charge of cultural and family involvement activities.

Instituto Cervantes Instituto Cervantes is a not for profit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. Its mission is to promote the Spanish language and to contribute to the advancement of the cultures of all Spanish speaking countries and communities.

Price: general $40, ICNY Members receive a 25% discount.

211 East 49th Street, New York NY 10017 | T.: 212 308 7720 www.newyork.cervantes.org | cenny@cervantes.org