Professional Development for Educators

When the classroom feels overwhelming…
there is another way.

A practical, body-based approach to supporting your nervous system in real time so you can respond with clarity, not react under pressure.

  • 45 minute group sessions

  • Practical & experiential

  • For teachers & school leaders

"Teaching holds more than learning. It holds behaviour, emotion, and constant demand."

WHAT IS SAT?

Somatic Acupoint Technique (SAT) is a gentle, body-based approach that helps you regulate from the inside out not just after the moment has passed, but in it.

Your body and brain are in constant conversation.

SAT works with that connection not against it..

When we experience stress or difficult emotions, our nervous system responds before our thinking brain can catch up. Understanding this and having a physical way to interrupt it is the foundation of both somatic therapy and acupoint work.

When we experience stress or a difficult moment, our autonomic nervous system responds before our thinking brain can catch up triggering fight, flight, or freeze automatically.

Somatic therapy recognises that stress and emotion are not just mental events; they are held in the body as physical sensation, tension, and posture. By learning to notice and work with these bodily signals, we can begin to regulate from the inside out.

Acupoint tapping builds on this by stimulating specific points on the body used in traditional Chinese medicine points that, as modern neuroscience confirms, send direct calming signals to the amygdala, the brain's threat-detection centre.

Together, these two approaches interrupt the stress-response loop at a physiological level: the body receives a signal of safety, cortisol drops, and the nervous system is able to settle quickly, and without needing to wait for the moment to pass.

Together, they create something practical.

SAT combines somatic body-awareness with acupoint tapping into a simple, in-the-moment technique anyone can use no prior experience needed.

A tool you can reach for in real time, not just in reflection afterward.

43%

average cortisol reduction in EFT studies after a single session

90 sec

time for an emotion to biochemically peak and begin to pass in the body

45 min - 90 min

per group session practical tools you'll use from day one

IN PERSON OR ONLINE ZOOM, NO SCHOOL TOO FAR AWAY

WHAT YOU WILL TAKE AWAY

  • Regulate in the moment

    Simple tapping tools for stress, overwhelm, and triggers

  • Understand your body's signals

    Recognise early signs of dysregulation before they escalate

  • Create space before responding

    Shift from reaction to grounded, conscious response

  • Support challenging situations

    Meet difficult behaviour with calm, clarity, and capacity

When you feel safe in your body…

your responses change.
your capacity expands.
your classroom shifts.

This is for the teacher behind the teaching.

Register your interest and we'll be in touch with session dates, locations, and more detail.