Emergent Learning Center - California

ACT CAMP! 🏕️

🎉💙 Big emotions and special memories at our Central Coast centers this week! We celebrated birthdays, shared lots of smiles, and even had some furry stuffed friends join in on the fun 🧸✨ We also took time to celebrate friends on their last day with us at ELC, making every moment meaningful together.

Moments like these remind us how important it is to recognize, understand, and support emotions in all forms - something we value deeply through approaches like our Squares of Emotion curriculum. From excitement and joy to bittersweet goodbyes, every feeling plays a role in connection, growth, and learning. 🌊☀️

💙✨ While many of our team members are representing ELC at the 52nd Annual ABAI Convention, we want to take a moment to honor the incredible staff members behind the scenes who helped make these research projects possible. Their support, collaboration, and dedication played a critical role in bringing these presentations to life, and we truly could not have done it without them. 👏📚

To this amazing group - thank you for your hard work, passion, and commitment to advancing behavior science. Your contributions are deeply valued and appreciated every single day! 🌟

Help us celebrate these incredible ELC team members in the comments below! 💙

🔗 Learn more about the ABAI Convention:
https://www.abainternational.org/events/annual/sanfrancisco2026/convention-home.aspx

🌊✨ Emergent Learning Center - Central Coast California is looking for a motivated BCBA to join our growing team! At ELC, you’re not just stepping into an existing model - you’re helping build the future of behavior analysis. Our innovative clinical culture blends play, nature, ACT, and experiential learning while focusing on meaningful behavior change for kids and families.

We offer autonomy, opportunities for growth, research and publication support, collaboration with industry leaders, and the chance to create impactful programs within a supportive, values-driven environment.🩵

🟦 Rethink the way emotion is understood and taught. 🟦

Join Dr. Mark R. Dixon LIVE on Zoom for Squares of Emotion, an innovative training designed to bring greater clarity, precision, and compassion to emotional learning and assessment. Rooted in behavior science, neuroscience, and ACT principles, this training will explore practical ways to better understand emotional experience across clinical, educational, and home settings.💙

📅 June 1, 2026
⏰ 12pm–6pm CST
📚 6 BACB CEUs

Whether you’re a BCBA, educator, therapist, or helping professional, this is a training you won’t want to miss! ✨

Register Here: https://emergentlearning.teachable.com/p/wave-prosocial-curriculum-training

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🎉💙 ONE YEAR OF IMPACT 💙🎉

Yesterday, we celebrated the 1st birthday of our Central Coast California center, and our hearts are so full reflecting on this incredible journey. Over the past year, we’ve seen meaningful growth, joyful moments, powerful connections, and truly life-changing progress for the children and families we serve. ✨

A huge thank you to our amazing staff for the compassion and dedication they bring each day, and to our incredible Director, Jenn Posey, for helping create such a supportive and inspiring community. 🌊☀️

We are forever grateful for everyone who has been part of this first year, and we can’t wait to see all the future holds. Cheers to continued growth, impact, and many more memories ahead! 🥂✨