CLASS Network Conference 2017

The CLASS Network Co-ordinating Group consists of:Bev Haggis; Gillian Burns; Maria Dominguez; Nadia Ezzedine; Laura Hill; Sashi Palaniswamy; Louise Twelvetrees

CLASS Network Co-ordinating Group

BACK this year - CLASS Network Conference 2017. Half-day networking meeting for all PSS. Places on the workshops are limited, so don't delay, register today!
This year's event will be opened by our guest speaker  Davina Whitnall, who will deliver a session on Confidence Development. <A HREF="http://www.davinawhitnall.co.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.davinawhitnall.co.uk</A> Davina Whitnall enjoys working closely with postgraduate researchers and developing training for them. She uses coaching and confidence building techniques to help researchers realise their full potential.
Timetable 12:00-13:00 Lunch & Registration 12:15-13:00 Optional during lunch: University Estates Presentation on Capital Projects – Paul Maccabee 13:05-13:10 Introduction 13:10-14:10 60 minute confidence - enhance and improve your confidence in an hour - Davina Whitnall 14:10-14:30 Tea/Coffee Break 14:30-15:30 Parallel Sessions – Workshop 1 15:30-16:30 Parallel Sessions – Workshop 2
You can take part in your choice of TWO exciting workshops.
Workshop Options
Workshop 1: Alexander Technique - Bryan Stephens The Alexander Technique is primarily known as a way to improve posture.  Many of us feel we do not have good posture or even postural problems.  The workshop would explore what good posture can look like, how we can move with greater poise and ease and how this will feed into a greater sense of wellbeing and effortless daily activities. The workshop will be very practical and will explore sitting, standing and walking and how some of our habitual ways of doing things contribute to tightness and tension.  There will be an opportunity of looking at how we can do things differently to help ourselves. Bryan Stephens trained as an Alexander Technique teacher at the Cumbria Alexander Technique School in Kendal.  Since 2010 he has worked as an AT teacher at Bodywise, an alternate health centre based at the Manchester Buddhist Centre.  Prior to training as an AT teacher he became interested in Mindfulness having practiced meditation for several years.  He has also been ordained as a Buddhist minister since 1999. Before moving back to Manchester, he trained with Breathworks, a charity based at the Buddhist centre who deliver mindfulness courses for people with chronic health problems or those suffering from stress.  He is now an Accredited Mindfulness trainer based at Breathworks and teaches people interested in delivering health and stress courses. He combines his AT passion with mindfulness work to help people become more aware of their experience, get to know themselves more fully and deeply and then feel they have a choice in how to act /respond to life’s challenges.
Workshop 2: Managing Stress/Wellbeing – Susan Field FCIPD, MSc Practical implications of how an understanding of wellbeing and stress management can benefit in everyday working life, utilising the University’s “Manchester Six Way to Wellbeing” and the Health and Safety Executive Management Standards. Susan Field has more than 20 years’ experience working in senior positions within Human Resources in the Higher Education sector.  Currently on a career break she is a Head of Human Resources at the University with responsibility for strategy as well as for an operational team.  Susan’s particular expertise is in Employee Engagement and Wellbeing in support of organisational effectiveness.  Susan is also an Accredited Mediator, Executive Coach and is party way through training in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy.
Workshop 3: Relax with Tai Chi – Colin Hughes Most people practice tai chi as a form of gentle holistic exercise which coordinates body, mind and breath to promote health, wellbeing and vitality.  This class is meditative, calming and relaxing, aiming to relieve stress improve postural awareness and gently mobilise all parts of the body.  Continued practice of tai chi promotes physical, mental and emotional balance, develops the ability to concentrate, encourages improved coordination and overall health promoting fitness without strain.  Although originally a traditional Chinese martial art, tai chi is proven to help with many chronic health conditions and this class is designed to be accessible, safe and effective for most people. Colin Hughes has been instructing exercise for health classes for over 30 years and for the past 15 years has focused on teaching tai chi and related exercise for health and wellbeing in university and community settings.  He is also a professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University.
Workshop 4: Mindfulness – Kate Williams Mindfulness is more popular, more widely used and accepted in western society than ever before.  The evidence suggests that mindfulness and mindfulness-based approaches can reduce anxiety, worry, depressive symptoms and rumination along with improvements in life satisfaction, wellbeing and self-esteem.  There is an increasing evidence base for more structured mindfulness-based programme such as Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) which ultimately has led to MBCT being recommended in NHS guidelines for preventing relapse into depression. With such hype surrounding mindfulness it is easy to lose sight of what it actually is.  In the workshop Kate and Kelly will introduce you to the practice of mindfulness meditation by leading you through a few guided meditations.  The workshop is designed to be a gentle introduction for those who would like to experience mindfulness first hand and to learn how to incorporate the practices better into their daily lives. Kate Williams has been practising mindfulness for about six years and has undergone mindfulness teacher training with Bangor University’s Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice.  Kate is currently completing her PhD researching how MBCT works for people who have experienced depression in the past.

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