What?

We invite colleagues from all career stages and backgrounds to join us for a short retreat on 1st September to:

• Create and hold a generous space for reflecting on your past year's challenges 

• Generatively and collectively design joy and wellbeing into your teaching and learning 

• Share and gently push each other to give ourselves the permission to be playful with enabling constrains 

• Reveal tools and tactics to respond to your emergent challenges

Why?

Over the last few months the education community generated a number of conversations that echoed the same message: Covid happened, it was tough, this is how we coped.

Without denying the pains and gains of these past experiences, we are here to steer the conversation towards our next steps. As we are getting ready for the next term, we are asking ourselves questions about our intentions, constrains, lost joy, collective and individual wellbeing, and innovation when it comes to teaching and learning. 

Sharing the best of our experience and expertise in pedagogy, educational leadership, digital wellbeing, design thinking and co-creation, we invite colleagues from all career stages and backgrounds to join us for a short retreat on 1st September to share practical solutions.

What to expect?

This retreat does not require any preparation. We invite you to bring writing tools and encourage you to join with your video on. The duration of the retreat is 1 hour 45 minutes with a break halfway through and additional time at the end for Q&A and networking.

75% of the income from the retreat will be donated for regenaration efforts after wildfires in Turkey. Additional donations from all attendees are welcome. Doctoral candidates can use the code UNIQORN to attend for free.

Pre term retreat facilitated by Dr Neşe Ceren Tosun and Dr Bo Kelestyn. Collective wisdom, joy and wellbeing generated by YOU!

About facilitators: 

Dr Nese Ceren Tosun is the founder of Uniqorn Academy and a post-academic.

She has fifteen years of interdisciplinary research, award winning creative and innovative teaching, including modules on reinventing education, laughter, food & creativity.

Her portfolio includes workshops for academic & non-academic audiences, using a combined skills & wellbeing approach, with embodied, playful, open-space inspired approaches.

With this spirit, at Uniqorn Academy Nese provides consultancy, training & private coaching sessions, responding to emergent skills & wellbeing challenges.

Among some of her clients are London Interdisciplinary School, University of Warwick, Coventry University. She works with and consults a range of departments and academics across all faculties.

contact@uniqornacademy.com

Dr Bo Kelestyn is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick and Innovation Consultant at Sprint Valley.

As Warwick's lead expert on design thinking, Bo holds an extensive portfolio of teaching design thinking and entrepreneurship modules.

At Sprint Valley, Bo works on projects within global context, helping organisations reimagine innovative services, and bringing innovative education methods into Sprint Valley’s capability building programmes.

She holds the Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, the Fellowship of Enterprise Educators UK, and has won multiple teaching awards.

bo.kelestyn@warwick.ac.uk