The key components to social and emotional learning (SEL) are:

-Self Awareness: Students can identify their own emotions and thoughts and recognize how they influence behavior and mood.

-Emotional Processing: The ability to make space for our emotions rather than suppressing them. This includes recognizing and labeling emotions as they arise, managing stressful emotions, controlling impulses, and motivating oneself to work towards goals. 

-Social Awareness and Empathy: Understanding social and ethical behavioral norms, recognizing your support system, and being able to empathize and take the perspective of others regardless of differences. 

-Relationship Skills: The ability to establish and maintain healthy relationships. This includes cooperating with others, communicating effectively, actively listening, setting and respecting boundaries, negotiating conflict in a constructive manner, and giving and receiving help and support when needed.

-Responsible Decision Making: Making healthy choices involving personal behavior and social interactions through realistic evaluation of consequences, consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social norms, and the health and wellbeing of self and others. 

I am a 200-hour registered yoga teacher and certified Yoga EQ (Yoga for Emotional Intelligence) leader. I hold a Master of Arts in Transpersonal Psychology degree and have more than 3 years experience working as a school-based mental health therapist for Pre-K-12 students.