This course is designed for all teaching professionals. It will help you to engage openly and honestly with all of your stakeholders. You will learn how to communicate withempathy and respect and develop genuine and trusting relationships. This will enable you to resolve issues and areas of conflict quickly and develop a culture of collaboration and cooperation
Aims
This is an opportunity to explore how counselling skills can be used to develop and improve communication to make your leadership and followership more effective
You will learn some invaluable skillsto make your interactions with children, young people, parents and colleagues more positive and empathic
You will consider what you can do to listen better and what you need to avoid...knowing and understanding your own ‘blocks’ to listening is a really powerful tool.
You will talk about the challenges of ‘charged’ emotional exchanges and how you can respond in a helpful way that doesn’t make things worse
You will explore both effective and ineffective listening skills so that you can experience the difference and consider how you can improve your own skills set
Counselling skills will help you to respond appropriately to children and young people’s needs improving learning outcomes; engage with parents and other stakeholders openly and honestly and listen to and support colleagues congruently and confidently
The day is fun and interactive. The skills you learn will be beneficial in both your personal and professional relationships
Audience:This training day is for Senior leaders, teachers (Key Stage 1 -4), Teaching Assistants, Learning Mentors, Parent Support Advisors, governors…..
Trainer:
The course facilitator is Sharon Lawrence. Sharon started her working life in the British Army at 17 years old where she served in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. ‘I realised that it wasn't enough to fix bodies and that I needed skills to help people with the way they felt emotionally too. I left the Army in 1997 and began a basic counselling course...and I've never looked back’. Sharon is a senior accredited counsellor with the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). She has been qualified as a counsellor since 2002 and as a teacher since 2004.
Venue: Chapters Counselling, Block 2, First Floor, St Cuthbert’s House, St Cuthbert’s Way, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6DX
Date:Tuesday 28thNovember 2017
Time:10 a.m until 4 p.m
Cost: £95.00per person includes course materials and a certificate of attendance. Hot and cold drinks provided
How to Book: To book a place on this course contact Joe Sonnenfeld
Email:Tel: 01388 451278you will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. Please provide your name, school name and an email contact address
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