Workshops · For Educators & Studios
Teaching is the practice. You are the curriculum.
Workshops for dance educators, studio directors, and arts organizations ready to teach from the inside out. Grounded in nervous-system science and ICF-aligned coaching methodology.
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The art lives in the artist.
The practice lives in the practitioner.
You are the curriculum.
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“Gina’s gift is working with teachers, developing a progression of skills for any dance class and focusing on the verbal cues that create immediate shifts. Her understanding of brain science makes her approach relevant to teachers of any genre.”
Jeanine Collins · Dance Educator
Seven Workshops
Tools you bring into your classroom the very next day.
Each session is available stand-alone, as a half-day intensive, or as a multi-session series, ICF-aligned and grounded in the Teaching for Transformation methodology.
Nervous System Secrets
The science every educator needs, and the key to the room.
The nervous system is the first teacher in any room. This foundational workshop gives educators a working knowledge of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses as they show up in the studio every day.
- ✦Identify the four stress responses as they appear in your classroom
- ✦Learn co-regulation tools that signal safety to student nervous systems
- ✦Discover environment shifts you can bring into your very next class
Words That Transform
The language inside the room becomes the language inside the dancer.
Every cue a teacher gives shapes technique and the neural pathways students use to understand themselves. This workshop introduces the SSS method, SPA framework, and feedforward language.
- ✦Identify word patterns that trigger threat vs. growth at the brain level
- ✦Learn the SSS and SPA frameworks for confidence-based instruction
- ✦Walk away with a word-swap toolkit ready for your very next class
Championing Your Students
There is a difference between cheering and championing.
This workshop teaches the four-part coaching methodology, Acknowledging, Championing, Celebrating, Appreciating, and how each activates a distinct neurological response in students.
- ✦Identify the four championing tools and when to use each
- ✦Learn how appreciation differs from praise at the level of the brain
- ✦Walk away with a studio culture audit you complete and own on the day
Lead, Regulate, Rise
For the educator who gives everything, and wants to keep going.
The body of the teacher is the environment of the student. This workshop addresses the nervous-system cost of teaching and practical regulation tools that let educators lead from a full place.
- ✦Identify your own stress-response patterns in the teaching room
- ✦Learn real-time regulation tools you can use between classes
- ✦Discover the empathy-fixing distinction that protects your energy
Wired to Learn
The way we learn matters as much as what we learn.
This session breaks down the Learn, Integrate, Retain framework and gives educators a strategy for teaching in alignment with how the brain actually works.
- ✦Identify how the Learn, Integrate, Retain cycle shows up in your studio
- ✦Learn why a regulated brain learns, and how to create that state
- ✦Discover how left and right-brain learning styles show up in your room
Reclaiming Joy
The educator who fell in love with dance gets to stay in love with it.
Teacher burnout is a nervous-system event that begins long before the resignation. Using a personal SWOT, educators reconnect with the joy that brought them into the studio.
- ✦Complete a personal SWOT to name what fuels and what depletes you
- ✦Learn the boundaries that protect both teacher and student
- ✦Leave with a sustainability plan for the season ahead
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“Our dance educators left Gina’s session with tools they were using in class the very next day. That is the mark of a trainer who truly understands this community.”
Stephanie Williams · Studio Director
Teaching for Transformation
The first ICF-aligned coaching program built for dance educators.
TFT is more than a set of tools, it’s a leadership pathway. Fusing ICF coaching, neuroscience, and somatic practice, it trains educators to lead from presence rather than pressure.
It’s the framework Gina has spent 15+ years refining, now the foundation of a full TFT Certification through the 5678 Coaching Academy.
Learn About TFT CertificationWhat Certification Includes
Every workshop, your format.
Available as stand-alone sessions, half-day intensives, or a multi-session series. Custom combinations for conventions, studio PD days, and organizational retreats.
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Stand-Alone Session
A single workshop, 60 to 90 minutes. Ideal for convention programming or guest training days.
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Half-Day Intensive
Two to three workshops woven into a half-day experience. Deep integration, immediate application.
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Multi-Session Series
A full curriculum across a season, retreat, or conference. Custom sequencing around your goals.
Go Deeper
The 5678 Coaching Academy
Founded by Gina, the 5678 Coaching Academy trains the next generation of dance educators and coaches, taking the tools in these workshops and building them into a full professional practice.
Something brought you here.
Trust that.
Ready to teach from the version of you that’s still growing?
Every workshop is tailored to your audience and available as a stand-alone session, half-day intensive, or full series.