Em tions for Life
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helping children & adults name, understand, and manage feelings
Emotional Literacy Tools &
Facilitator Training
A trauma-informed emotional literacy toolkit and online course, designed to support regulation, not force emotional disclosure.
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Emotions for Life™ helps children and adults build emotional awareness, language, and regulation in ways that feel safe, respectful, and developmentally appropriate for homes, schools, therapy, and wellbeing settings.
Introduction​​
Emotions for Life™ is an educational emotion-literacy system designed to help people recognise what they feel, understand emotional intensity & respond with greater regulation over time.
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It is grounded in trauma-informed principles and recognises that emotional capacity varies widely, across age, neurodivergence, life experiences, and nervous system state.
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This approach allows emotional literacy to be developed gradually and safely, without pressure to disclose, analyse, or explain emotions before someone is ready. ​​​​​
Why Emotional Literacy Matters
Emotional literacy is not about controlling emotions, being calm all the time, or encouraging people to talk before they are ready.
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At its core, emotional literacy is the ability to recognise what is happening internally, understand emotional intensity, and respond in ways that support regulation rather than escalation.
When emotional literacy is limited, emotions do not disappear, they are more likely to show up as behaviour, withdrawal, overwhelm, or physical tension. This is often misunderstood as defiance, lack of resilience, or poor coping, when in reality it reflects a lack of emotional language, safety, or support.​
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Across homes, schools, and wellbeing settings, this often shows up as overwhelm during transitions, escalation under pressure, shutdown when words are not accessible, or difficulty naming and differentiating emotions under stress.
​​​Emotional literacy offers a different starting point. When people can recognise emotions earlier and understand differences in intensity, they are less likely to become overwhelmed and more able to access regulation over time.
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This is particularly important for:
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neurodivergent individuals
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non-verbal or minimal verbal users
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children whose emotional development does not match their chronological age
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adults who were never supported to develop emotional language​
Emotions for Life™ approaches emotional literacy as a development and nervous-system-aware process, not a cognitive task.
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Visual tools, simple language, and optional reflection reduce pressure and make emotional understanding more accessible, especially when verbal processing is limited. Importantly, emotional literacy does not aim to eliminate emotions or prevent distress. It supports earlier awareness, clearer communication, and more compassionate responses, from others and from ourselves.​ Over time, this creates the conditions for:
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Reduced emotional escalation
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Improved emotional awareness
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Greater tolerance of feelings
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Safer emotional conversations
​Emotional literacy is not about emotional perfection. It is about emotional understanding, built gradually, safely, and respectfully.
This understanding reflects what has been observed repeatedly across real-world emotional support settings, where safety and regulation consistently come before insight.
What Makes Emotions for Life™ Different
Emotions for Life is built on the understanding that emotional literacy develops through safety, not pressure.
Many emotional literacy tools focus on naming feelings or encouraging expression, without considering emotional readiness or nervous system state. When emotions are intense, language and reasoning are often unavailable. Pushing reflection or explanation at this stage ca increase distress rather than reduce it.​
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This approach prioritises regulation before reflection. Visual tools, simple language, and choice reduce cognitive load and support engagement when verbal processing is limited.
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The tools are intentionally flexible. There is no fixed sequence, script, or expected outcome. Emotional capacity varies day to day, and emotional literacy does not develop in a straight line.
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Some moments call for words. Some moments call for pointing or choosing. Some moments call for no engagement at all.
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This approach protects emotional safety and avoids turning emotional literacy into a task, performance, or behaviour management strategy.
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By adapting emotional readiness, Emotions for Life supports understanding gradually and respectfully, without turning emotional literacy into a task, performance, or behaviour management strategy.
Emotions for Life™ Toolkit
A Practical, Visual Resource
for Emotional Awareness
What's Inside the Toolkit
Our toolkit is available as both a printable digital download and a professionally printed physical set.
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48 Emotion Cards
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a visual emotion illustration
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a calming affirmation or reflective prompt
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a coping or regulation strategy
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a clear explanation of the emotion
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Visual Emotion Poster
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a colourful reference tool for emotional recognition, suitable for daily check-ins​ and discussion
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Bonus Support Sheets:
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How to Use Guide
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Emotional Hierarchy Chart
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Comparison of Similar Emotions
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Emotion Wheel
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All resources are designed with accessibility in mind, supporting neurodivergent, non-verbal, multilingual, and emotionally sensitive users.​
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Who is the Toolkit For?
This toolkit was created to:
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Support emotional literacy in class, including PSHE
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Help clients explore feelings safely when working with therapists and counsellors
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Offer guidance to parents & carers wanting to build calm, connected homes
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Simple enough for children.
Insightful enough for professionals.​
Our Resources are Suitable For:
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Children and adults developing emotional awareness
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Neurodivergent individuals
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Minimally or non-verbal communicators
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EAL learners
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Parents and carers
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SEN teachers and TAs
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Speech and language therapists (SLTs)
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Play therapists, OTs, and counsellors
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Youth workers and mental health professionals
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Home educators and schools
Emotions for Life™ Toolkit is a collection of visual emotional literacy tools designed to support emotional awareness, language, and regulation across a range of settings.
The tools provide accessible ways for children and adults to recognise emotions, understand differences in intensity, and communicate how they feel, particularly when verbal expression is limited or emotions feel overwhelming.​​​​
Understanding the Scope of Emotions for Life
Emotions for Life™ is and educational emotional literacy toolkit designed to support emotional awareness, language, and regulation in everyday settings.
It is intended to be used in homes, schools, therapy, and wellbeing environments by people supporting emotional development in others.
Emotions for Life is not therapy, counselling, or a diagnostic tool.
It does not aim to treat, process, or resolve trauma, and it does not replace professional mental health care, safeguarding procedures, or specialist intervention where these are required.
The toolkit does not require emotional disclosure, analysis, or verbal explanation. Participation is always optional, and responses may be verbal, non-verbal, or observational.
Emotions for Life provides supportive tools and frameworks within clear ethical boundaries, allowing emotional literacy to be developed safely and appropriately within each user's role and responsibility.
The Origins of Emotions for Life™
Emotions for Life™ was developed in response to a gap I saw repeatedly across homes, schools,aand wellbeing settings.
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Many people, children and adults alike, were experiencing emotional distress, but lacked accessible, non-pressured ways to understand what they were feeling. Emotional support often focused on behaviour, solutions, or insight before emotional safety and regulation were in place.
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At the same time, many well-intentioned adults wanted to help, but felt unsure how to support emotions safely without pushing, analysing, or overstepping their role.
Emotions for Life™ was designed to offer a different starting point: one that prioritieses emotional safety, visual support, and gradual understanding, and that can be used ethically by borth professionals and non-clinicians. The tools are designed to meet people where they are emotionally, and to support emotional literacy without expectation, urgency, or pressure.
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The approach reflects practical experience across a range of real-world settings, combine dwith trauma-informed and developmentally appropriate principles.
Using the Toolkit Safely and Confidently
The Emotions for Life Toolkit is designed to be used flexibly and intuitively. Many people begin using it immediately in everyday settings.
At the same time, supporting emotional literacy, particularly with children or vulnerable individuals, can raise questions. People often wonder how to introduce the tool gently, how to respond when emotions intensify, or how to recognise when it's time to pause rather than explore further.
For those who would like deeper guidance, the Emotions for Life™ Facilitator Training offers step-by-step support on using the toolkit safely, ethically, and with confidence. It explores emotional literacy across the lifespan, trauma-informed facilitation, and practical application in real-world contexts.
The course is not about doing things perfectly. It is about understanding your role, recognising boundaries, and feeling supported as you build emotional literacy over time.
Emotions for Life™
Facilitator Training
Build emotional literacy, regulation skills, and confidence for yourself and others.
Online • Self-paced • Trauma-informed
based on the Emotions for Life™ Toolkit.
The Emotions for Life™ Facilitator Training is an online course offers a clear, structured framework to support confident use of the toolkit across a range of settings.
It focuses on supporting emotions in ways that are emotionally safe, ethically grounded, and appropriate to supportive, non-clinical contexts.
This course is not about becoming a therapist. It is about learning how to notice, name and respond to emotions without rushing, fixing, or overwhelming, while remaining aware of boundaries, responsibility, and scope.
The training is delivered in a gentle, self-paced format, allowing participants to move at their own rhythm, pause when needed, and return to material as their understanding deepens.​​​​
What the Training Explores
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The course explores:
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Emotional literacy and development
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How emotions are experienced and expressed in the body, from an awareness-based perspective
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Nervous system responses and emotional regulation
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Emotional safety, and co-regulation
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Using Emotions for Life™ Toolkit with clarity and care
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Boundaries, scope, and knowing when additional support or referral may be appropriate.
​​The emphasis throughout is on understanding, reflection, and safe-facilitation, rather than interpretation, diagnosis, or treatment.​​
Who This Course Is For​
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Educators, teaching staff and SENCOs
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Therapists, counsellors, and wellbeing practitioners
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Carers and support workers
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Parents and guardians
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Anyone supporting other emotionally
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Individuals seeking self-awareness and personal growth​.​
​​The course is particularly supportive for those who value trauma-informed approaches, reflective practice, and practical tools that can be used in everyday and professional settings.
No prior therapeutic training is required.
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Simple enough for beginners.
Transformative enough for professionals.
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When we understand our emotions,
we reclaim our power to respond instead of reacting.
What You Will Gain
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By completing the Emotions for Life™ Facilitator Training, you will:
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Understand emotional literacy more clearly
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Respond to emotions with more confidence and safety
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Understand emotional development across the lifespan
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Recognise nervous system responses and regulation
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Use the Emotions for Life Toolkit confidently
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Work within boundaries, scope, and referral
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Feel more grounded when holding emotional space.
How the Training Works​
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The course is delivered through:
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Short, pre-recorded video lessons
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Visual slide with spoken guidance
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reflective pauses for integration
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downloadable worksheets and reflection sheets.
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​teaching videos are streamed and cannot be downloaded
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worksheets and reflection sheets are downloadable
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the course is self-paced
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content can be revisited during your access period.
Course Content
Each module builds confidence and insight, taking you from awareness to action:
​​1. Introduction & The Why
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Why emotional literacy matters and how it shapes wellbeing and behaviour
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2. Emotional Literacy & Trauma
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Understanding emotional processing and the impact of trauma
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3. Emotions Across the Lifespan
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How emotional expression and needs change over time.
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4. Nervous System & Emotional Safety
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Regulation, co-regulation, and safety
​5. The Emotions for Life™ Toolkit
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Using the tools with confidence & clarity
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6. Facilitating Emotional Awareness
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Holding emotional space without fixing
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7. Ethics, Boundaries and Scope
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Professional responsibility and referral
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8. Integration and Application
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Using the work in real world settings
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9. Reflection and Next Steps
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Consolidation and moving forward​
Safety, Trauma-Informed Practice & Safeguarding
Emotional safety is central to the Emotions for Life approach.
The toolkit and online course are grounded in trauma-informed principles, recognising that emotional readiness varies and that regulation always comes before reflection. Participation is voluntary, and emotional exploration is never forced.
Emotions for Life is designed to support emotional literacy within clear ethical boundaries, It does not replace safeguarding procedures, professional judgment or specialist support where these are required.
When using the toolkit or course materials with children or vulnerable adults, users are expected to follow their own organisational safeguarding policies, professional codes of conduct, and legal responsibilies at all times.
A Safeguarding Quick Reference is included to support safe, ethical use in real-world settings and to reinforce when to pause, stop, or seek additional support.
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Licensing & Use
When you purchase Emotions for Life (physical or digital), you are granted a non-exclusive, non-trasnfable licence to use the materials:
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for personal and family use
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within your own classroom, therapy, coaching, or wellbeing sessions
The materials may not be copied, shared, uploaded, resold, or used to train other without express written permission.
For organisational use, group licensing, or facilitator permissions beyon individual use, please contact us to discuss appropriate options.
Full tms are available in the otions for life Terms and Conditions here.
Package Options and Pricing
You can choose the option that best suits how you would like to work with Emotions for Life™. The toolkit and training can be accessed separately or together, depending on your need
Option 1 £29
Emotions for Life™ Toolkit
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Includes:
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Emotions for Life™ Toolkit
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Available as a printable digital download
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Please enquire about printed physical set
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Personal use
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Families and carers
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Informal or everyday emotional support
Training not included.
Option 3 £319 (instalments available)
Complete Facilitator Package
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Emotions for Life™ Toolkit
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Emotions for Life™ Facilitator Training
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All worksheets & reflection materials
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Certificate on completion
This option is recommended for those who wish to use the tools with greater confidence, clarity, and professional grounding.
Option 2 £295 (instalments available)
Emotions for Life™ Facilitator Training
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Includes:
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Emotions for Life™ Facilitator Training
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All streamed video modules
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Downloadable worksheets
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Certificate of completion
Suitable for:
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Educators
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Therapists & wellbeing practitioners
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Carers & support workers
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Parents & guardians wanting deeper understanding.
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Toolkit not included.
Important Information
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The training is educational & reflective in nature
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It does not replace therapy or clinical treatment
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Certification confirms completion of training, not a regulated qualification
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Teaching videos are streamed and not downloadable
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Worksheets & reflection sheets are downloadable