Stanley King Institute East - Virginia

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For more than 60 years, teachers from independent schools across the United States and beyond have gathered for intensive, week-long residential workshops led by experienced mental health and counseling professionals familiar with the independent school world to learn how to listen in a new way.

Navigating one’s way through adolescence has never been easy, and never harder than it is today. As concerns grow about the emotional and physical well-being of adolescents, study after study shows the central importance of a relationship with a caring adult to a young person's development. Parents and students seek out independent schools, with their small classes and involved faculty, to offer these relationships.

The Stanley King Institute offers training in deep listening skills for teachers, advisors, administrators, and other non-clinical, student-facing school personnel. Our goal is not to train professional counselors, but to help teachers strengthen and deepen their relationships with students. Participants learn to help students with the range of developmental issues, as well as to recognize serious psychological difficulty and seek appropriate help.

Learning How to…