Professional Development
Our teacher professional learning programs provide practical and interactive accredited training, designed to equip teachers with strategies for managing their own wellbeing and the tools to implement and measure whole-school wellbeing into the classroom.
Building Emotional Literacy and self-regulation in our young people. Teacher PD
As well as learning about the science behind emotional intelligence, you will have the opportunity to use innovative and engaging strategies to engage your students in learning how to identify their own emotions in this PL.
This will help students to lay the foundations needed for the regulation of their own thinking, behaviour and learning. Self-confidence and self-efficacy will also be developed, which as we know are essential ingredients for health, happiness and successful learning.
Objectives and outcomes:
- Increased ability to lay the foundations your students need to build confidence, self-regulation, self-management, agency and positive relationships
- Support students to identify, communicate and manage their emotions.
- Understand that behaviors are usually a student trying to express a need that they don’t know how to communicate.
- Tools and techniques to build trust and report with a young person
- Tools and techniques on how to work with a dysregulated young person
- High impact learning for students combining explicit instruction, experiential learning, and higher-order thinking
- Tools to empower your students with life skills of wellbeing
- Develop a toolkit to address emotional triggers and practice self-compassion
- Develop collaboration, respect and teamwork through effective communication strategies
Curriculum links
This masterclass will support you in delivering content in the following strands of the Health and Physical Education Australian Curriculum:
- Personal, Social and Community Health
- Movement and Physical Activity
The curriculum focus area of Mental Health and Wellbeing will also be addressed.
“The session instilled an awareness of how mental, social and physical wellbeing of teaching staff correlates to teaching performance and the flow on to student learning. We were given some practical advice and strategies that could be implemented.”
Wellbeing: It’s Not Just a Policy Whole School Staff Wellbeing
We believe that every teacher is the leader of our future generation of leaders.
This is a highly interactive workshop designed to integrate the key building blocks for staff wellbeing and leadership. Outcomes will include:
- Understanding of mindfulness-based emotional intelligence
- Enhanced self-awareness
- Strategies for mental and emotional resilience
- Deeper professional engagement.
Wellbeing: It’s not just a policy may be logged as 6 hours of NESA Elective PD.
Suggested descriptors: 1.1.2, 3.2.2, 4.1.2, 4.3.2 and 6.2.2.
Building Healthy Communities Team Collaboration
Based on neuroscience, emotional intelligence, mindfulness and behavioural research, this interactive program offers practical training to improve team collaboration and a sense of belonging. This training will help you and your executive team to:
- Deepen self-awareness and learn how out thoughts and behaviours impact team dynamics
- Expand awareness of self and others
- Build effective and non-reactive communication skills
- Generate a culture of trust and inclusion
- Cultivate a prosocial mindset of humility and curiosity
- Promote team interactions that create a learning community
- Optimise team engagement, wellbeing, and collaboration
Rebuilding and Refocusing
Leadership Teams
Principles and tools for leaders to lead with impact in the midst of rebuilding, refocusing, uncertainty, complexity and disruption. Based on neuroscience, mindfulness and emotional intelligence, this program offers practical solutions to help leaders:
- Cultivate mental focus, clarity, and resilience
- Improve relationships and a sense of belonging
- Communicate effectively with authenticity, confidence, and empathy
- Enable leadership and organisational renewal in challenging times
“Nikki recently presented at our Women in Educational Leadership Conference. The experience, knowledge and energy she brought to the room motivated and inspired our attendees.”
Our Impact
“My understanding of the intentions of the professional development course was to instill an awareness of the importance of mental, social and physical wellbeing of teaching staff. How our physical and mental health correlates to teaching performance and the flow on to student learning. We were given some practical advice and strategies that could be implemented in an effort to optimize the outcomes for all key stakeholders involved in contributing to student learning..”
“The session reminded me of the importance of teacher wellbeing and how we need to manage our emotions (always in the classroom) so we’ll deal more effectively with students.”
“Practical and interactive skills that will build positive relationships between school and community. A positive mindset with resilience encouraged.”
“A welcomed reminder of the importance of both in maintaining positive health and well being of school staff, students and the community. Built on my own personal experiences practicing yoga and meditation and also tapped into a previous incursion held at our school in 2016, Breathe Project – teaching students and teachers the technique of deep breathing.”
I have gained a more thorough understanding of what mindfulness is about and that it will benefit our school and students.*