Our half-day Staff Wellbeing Workshop provides teachers and school staff opportunity to explore their own wellbeing and gain strategies and solutions to develop positive mental health and reduce stress.

Staff wellbeing workshop

This positive, empowering session takes a proactive and preventative approach to addressing stress within teaching and school staff. Staff will develop a clear understanding of wellbeing and how to build it in themselves and as a team. The workshop covers strategies that help prevent burnout, improve work life balance and build positive peer support. . Empowering your school staff team build resilience. Supporting them to be able to cope with the demands of teaching or working in the school environment.

Through learning from the field of Positive Psychology and Work Psychology, the training allows participants to experience and practise wellbeing interventions that can be applied personally, within a staff team and across the whole school.

What will the workshop cover?

By the end of the workshop your staff will:

• Develop an understanding of personal wellbeing and how to build it.
• Explore thinking strategies that impact on stress levels and personal wellbeing.
• Learn and practice effective tools and strategies for wellbeing that are practical and versatile.
• Gain strategies that help prevent burnout and improve work life balance.
• Develop an action plan to improve their own wellbeing.

What difference will it make?

• Have a helpful understanding of stress and have tools to manage stress effectively
• Know how to challenge negative perspectives that contribute to poor wellbeing
• Gain understanding of wellbeing and be able to apply techniques to build it in themselves and others
• Have planned strategies that are sustainable and can immediately start making a difference to wellbeing levels

Underpinning Evidence

This workshop draws upon research and evidence from the fields of Occupational Psychology, Positive Psychology, and Evidence-based Coaching. These approaches have been empirically proven to develop wellbeing and reduce stress in workplaces. This workshop draws on both primary and secondary Occupational Psychology research and approaches that reduce stress. This workshop is designed to provide a psychosocial primary intervention that develops team peer to peer support. While also introducing secondary approaches to managing stress through changing staff's perception and reaction towards stressors through cognitive behavioral coaching techniques.

The workshop also draws on Positive Psychology wellbeing interventions to equip staff with wellbeing strategies to protect against stress. Practically applying evidence which includes ways to cultivate flourishing, positive affect, positive relationships and wellbeing.

Duration
Half-day (3 hours) or full school day

Suitable for
- Teachers and school staff
- Schools
- Multi-Academy Trusts/Groups of schools
- Teacher Training Providers, school direct and PGCE

Cost
Dependent on delegate numbers - request a quote below

We regularly develop tailored training to meet the specific needs of individual organisations.