Do you remember the mix of excitement and pure nerves before your very first class? Or are you experiencing these moments right now? Maybe you are an aspiring teacher and you want to get a new teacher’s perspective on stepping into that role.
Join us for a live, heartfelt conversation with Chelsea Springer, a recent Teacher Training graduate from Washington state, as she shares the real story of becoming a new teacher. We'll talk about whether you're ever truly ready for your first class, learning to teach the students in front of you instead of just your lesson plan, the power of community, and all the things no one tells you when you're starting out. Honest, encouraging, and full of the moments every teacher recognizes.
This one is for everyone: the brand-new teacher, the aspiring teacher still dreaming about it, and the experienced teacher who remembers exactly how it felt to begin. Because no matter how long you've been at this, we all started somewhere.
And because we're live, you're part of the conversation. Bring your questions, share your own stories in the chat, and let's remind each other that you don't have to feel fully ready to begin. You just have to show up.
Set a reminder, grab your tea, and join us live on our YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
About Chelsea:
Chelsea Springer is an FCBD® Style dancer, Certified Teacher, and co-founder of Project HipSlingers in Spokane, Washington. Outside of the dance world, she works in finance and business operations—a career built around understanding complex systems, creating structure, and translating information in ways that make it easier for others to understand.
After completing FCBD® Teacher Training in November 2025, Chelsea began discovering how differently those skills show up when the "system" you're trying to understand is a dance form and the people you're teaching don't necessarily learn the same way you do.
Through Project HipSlingers and her FCBD® Foundations classes, Chelsea is currently navigating the transition from dancer and student to teacher: developing her own teaching voice, learning how to meet students where they are, and figuring out how to communicate not only the movements and vocabulary of FCBD® Style, but the connection, trust, and nonverbal communication that make the format work.
At the heart of Chelsea's love for FCBD® Style is that connection—the experience of creating something collectively in real time without choreography. As a new teacher, she is learning that helping someone else discover that experience requires its own set of skills, plenty of experimentation, and a willingness to remain a student herself.
Chelsea continues to dance, teach, learn, occasionally second-guess herself, and build community through Project HipSlingers in the Inland Northwest.