SEL Certification · For Teachers
You already know your students. Learn what to do next.
A six-week online certification in social and emotional learning. Four live weekend workshops, two weeks to practise in your own classroom and a final live session. Built to fit around a full teaching week.
6 weeks · Fully online · Certified. Fees and cohort timings shared on contact.
Why this matters now
The classroom has changed. Teaching has to change with it.
Today you are expected to hold far more than the lesson in front of you.
Manage
Behaviour, conflict and a room full of different temperaments.
Connect
Trust, empathy and relationships with every child.
Engage
Motivation and real participation, not just compliance.
Support
Wellbeing and resilience, especially when things go wrong.
Adapt
Different needs, different paces and genuine inclusion.
Social and emotional skill is now part of the job, whether or not it was part of your training. Teachers who have it describe calmer rooms and a more sustainable working week.
The evidence
Why social and emotional learning, and why now
1 in 7
adolescents worldwide, around 166 million, live with a mental health condition. World Health Organization
Where the field is going
These patterns start younger than the numbers suggest. Anxiety, low frustration tolerance and difficulty with transitions often show up first in early years classrooms, and the habits formed there are carried forward. Schools across curricula are now planning for social and emotional wellbeing alongside academic success, and looking for teachers who already have the skill.
Where this fits
Your training already gives you a lot. This adds the tools for the hard moments.
What your training already gives you
- Subject knowledge
- Lesson planning
- Classroom routines
- Observing your students
What this certification adds
- Explicit, teachable tools for helping a child regulate
- Words for naming a feeling in the moment, at the child’s level
- A way to steady a dysregulated child without disrupting the room
- Tools for your own steadiness, so a hard day does not become a hard week
- The language schools and parents now use, and a credential that shows you have it
For teachers across IB, Cambridge, British, American and national or regional curricula.
The gap
Awareness is not ability
What most SEL training gives you
An understanding of what emotions are, why regulation matters and what the research says. Frameworks, diagrams and vocabulary, useful, and things you could explain in a staff meeting.
What it usually does not
What to actually do mid-morning, when a child is on the floor, the room is watching and you have about ten seconds to decide. Or how to stay steady yourself the third time that day.
This certification is built around being able to: practical tools you use in the room the next morning, practised until they hold under pressure.
What changes for you
What you will be able to do
Read what drives a behaviour
Not only the behaviour itself: so fewer moments spiral.
Settle a child, and a room
In the moment it happens, with calmer transitions and quicker recovery.
Hold difficult conversations
Without escalating them, so children begin to name what they feel.
Look after your own steadiness
Through a long term, in a room that feels safer to everyone in it.
Recognise when to refer
Notice sooner when a child needs specialist support, and give parents a clearer picture.
Independent research
What happens when teachers are trained in this
A 2021 meta-analysis of 43 studies, covering 3,004 teachers from preschool to Class 12, found three consistent shifts: teachers’ own social and emotional competence improved, wellbeing improved, and psychological distress fell. Calmer, steadier adults are the starting point for calmer rooms, which is why this certification trains you first. These are research findings across interventions, not outcomes claimed for Alchemi-E.
Oliveira et al., 2021 · Frontiers in PsychologyThe format · nine hours live in total
How the six weeks run
Week 1
Workshop 1
Live, weekend
Week 2
Workshop 2
Live, weekend
Week 3
Workshop 3
Live, weekend
Week 4
Workshop 4
Live, weekend
Week 5
Your own practice
In your own classroom
Week 6
Practice + final Q&A
One hour live
4
live workshops, one each weekend
2 hrs
per workshop: 90 minutes teaching, 30 minutes live Q&A
2 wks
to finish the material and try the tools in your own classroom
1 hr
final live Q&A to close the course
What you learn
What you will come to understand
About yourself
Your own state comes first. Children learn to settle by watching an adult settle.
- How a thought becomes a feeling, and a feeling an experience that stays
- Where attention goes, energy flows
- Fight, flight and freeze, noticed in yourself first
- Self-awareness that begins in the body
- Gratitude, and what it does for a tired mind
About the child
What sits underneath a behaviour, read before you react to it.
- Recognising a feeling a child cannot yet name
- How a child forms, from watching adults to finding their own way
- How the mind shows up in the body
- The difference between awareness and focus
- What is not yours to hold, and who it goes to
In the room
Small things you can use every day, with any child, at any age.
- Word, image, feeling: how one word lands on a child
- Affirmation felt in the body, not repeated by rote
- Breath as the quickest way back to steady
- Working with a difficult thought instead of fighting it
What is included
Four live workshops
Two hours each, on weekends: ninety minutes of teaching and thirty minutes of live questions.
Time to practise
Two weeks to finish the course material at your own pace and try the tools in your own classroom, before the final session.
Final live Q&A
One hour at the end of week six to bring back what worked and what you want to take further.
Recorded sessions
Every workshop is recorded, so you can catch up or go back over it.
Certificate
Issued when you complete the workshops, two weeks of practice and final session.
Built for the adults in the room
No prior SEL training needed.
Lead teachers and guides
Lead teachers of any board or method who want practical tools for the hardest classroom moments.
Assistants and co-teachers
Adults who share the room and the hard moments, and want the same language and tools.
Teachers in training
Completing or recently finished a qualification, adding an SEL credential from the start.
Heads and coordinators
Responsible for a team and wanting a shared approach to regulation and wellbeing.
Cohorts and fees
A programme that fits your teaching week
Fees and dates for the next cohort will be listed here. Contact us to hear first. We confirm the dates, workshop times, time zone and written terms before you decide to enrol.
This is the same training schools receive, compressed into six weeks for individual teachers. Certification teachers apply the tools in their own classrooms; no school portal access is included.
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Your certificate
Certificate of Completion in Social and Emotional Learning
Issued after completing four workshops, two weeks of practice and the final session. Completion based, with no exam. This is an Alchemi-E certificate, not an external accreditation or teaching licence.
Sanjeev Verma · Founder
The person behind the training
Sanjeev Verma · Founder
Twenty-five years of practice. Based in Canada, delivering live online.
About us“Sanjeev masterfully expands perspectives that are often overlooked in traditional psychology programs.”
“Sanjeev's work artfully connects the dots between Vedic and Yogic psychologies, and modern Western psychology..”
Before you decide
What if I miss a workshop?
Recordings are included. Your cohort information will confirm how to access them and any completion requirements.
Do I need specific prior training?
No prior SEL training is needed. The programme sits alongside your existing teaching method.
Is there an exam?
No. The certificate is completion based.
What are the dates and time zone?
We confirm dates and workshop times with you before enrolment.
Can a school enrol several teachers?
Yes. Contact us to discuss your setting and group requirements.
What is the refund policy?
Proposed policy: cancel at least 7 calendar days before the first workshop for a full refund. Within 7 days, request a transfer to a future cohort before the first workshop. After the programme starts, fees are non-refundable except where required by law. If Alchemi-E cancels a cohort, participants may choose a full refund or a transfer. Final terms will be provided in writing before payment.
Six weeks. A skill you keep for every class you teach.
Contact us to discuss the programme, fees and your next cohort.
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