Head Teachers and Senior School Leaders - Supporting Your Resilience and Endurance During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A One Day Online Training Event from Callery Ltd.

Wednesday 27 January 2021: 9.30-3.30

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, inevitably Head Teachers, Senior Staff and all involved in schools across the UK are feeling significant pressures. This online event has been designed specifically to support your wellbeing and help you to manage your current situation. It is created to allow you the space to reflect on the personal and professional challenges you face and to develop methods and strategies to help you make a positive difference for yourself and others. Now is a time for care and compassion, starting with your own self-care.

Why You Should Consider Attending

You often depend on your own network of colleagues for support. This event is for participants across the UK, providing a wide perspective. You are not alone!

• To provide you with concrete strategies and tools for managing your situation, no matters what it is
• To support your own resilience, mindset and health
• To enable positive outcomes as a result of using methods, tools and techniques
• To engage with others in similar positions across the UK and build positive alliances
• To impact positively on you and others, such as pupils and staff
• To create strength in your approaches now and in the future

Maximum of ten participants to enable a balance of discussion and individual involvement. To manage demand, places are allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Event Format

The event follows a mixture of directed approaches, presentation, discussion and workshop activity. Using Zoom as the platform, it provides a structured approach to help you to identify specific issues, understand them better, provide a model for supporting you, practical tools to help you, and opportunities for planning and possible further engagement.

It is a one-day event from 9.30 to 3.30 with breaks and lunch built into the schedule as appropriate.

Following this day, the option to continue to participate in additional one-hour long follow-up group workshop sessions and individual 1-1 coaching sessions is available.

Event Details

Session One

• Welcome/introductions/aims/rules of engagement
• Identifying current challenges and exploring their impact on you and others
• Examining the barriers and the shift in perception needed to grow in resilience

Session Two

• Presenting a model to support your resilience. A way of responding to circumstances when you cannot change the facts!
• Applying the model to your individual circumstances

Session Three

• Exploring the stages of the model in more detail:

- to define and understand your situation

- to be aware of your perceptions of your situation, the impact, and how your response can change

- to understand the impact on your emotions

- to consider how you respond and the actions you take

- to understand how you get the outcomes you do and how to change them.

Importantly, we will explore the cycle of the model and how you can interrupt and change the cycle to make a positive difference to you and others.

Session Four

• Group reflection and discussion
• Some practical additional tools to use
• What do you want to do next?

Following this event, there will be additional workshops on future dates to be agreed(1 hour duration) as well as individual coaching opportunities that are optional to attend.

The purpose of the workshops is to use the methods and learning from the event to explore key areas that are of relevance to you and to continue to benefit from the group discussion. Suggested areas could be:

• Supporting children and parents in a Covid-world
• Running a ‘normal’ school in an 'abnormal' time
• Responding to competing agendas
• Leading and supporting staff
• Empowerment
• Any topics that you identify and agree!

1-1 Coaching is also available for interested individuals, giving you a personal space and time for reflection and taking positive steps.

Prices

This course is £80 per person.

Each subsequent workshop is £30 per person per session (to be arranged separately.)

Individual coaching sessions are available on request at convenient times.

A free 1 hour session is available for anyone considering attending today's event and wanting to find out more. This is at 7pm on Wednesday 20th January.