Forever Juggling?

This course will help you...

Support staff to be their best each and every day and foster a positive ethos within the work environment. Boost staff morale and energy whereby they easily epitomise the ‘Emotionally Calming Adult’ more often than not! Share the opportunity to reflect, troubleshoot and form action plans which harness positive mental, emotional and physical wellbeing and keep a healthy check on work/life balance.
 

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Course aims:

Participants will be given the opportunity to take a whole school or setting approach to:

  • Working together to achieve increased staff cohesion and respect
  • Prioritising staff morale and self esteem to create a calm, positive ethos
  • Understand the neuroscience and the impact of brain chemistry on our ability to be an emotionally calming presence
  • Value and appreciate staff contributions and tolerate differences
  • Handle challenges and conflict amongst team members with respect
  • Improve listening skills and turn taking amongst the team
  • Utilise rituals from the ‘Quality Circle Time’ model to problem solve
  • Re-energise individual and collective team care plans to boost wellness
  • Improve listening skills and the ability to ask for help
  • Employ time management techniques to reduce stress
  • Safeguard against staff absenteeism and high turnover
  • Tick boxes for SEAL and TaMHS by looking after staff mental health
  • Have fun together in spite of ourselves!
     

“Emotional contagion....[How] our moods come to us via our interactions with others. Positively resonant relationships give us a daily dose of emotional vitamins, sustaining and nourishing us. Research shows that just by fashioning the face into a smile we can lift moods and start serotonin flowing. Start the day with a smile - it’s truly infectious!” Anna-Michele Hantler, ‘How to Nurture and Enhance Emotional Development in Children’

 

Learning outcomes:

Participants will have in place a number of fun, purposeful and energy boosting tactics to help manage their own work/life balance.  As a team, you will have a number of shared strategies to aid problem solving and maintain positive mental health.

Learning methods will include:

Inclusion of stress, time management , NLP and Neuroscience Theory, active group work, pair activities, Quality Circle Time rituals, energisers, individual action planning and relaxation techniques.

“Resilient health depends in part on how well the high road has learned to manage the low road” - Goleman
 

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Who would benefit:

This course is ideal for Staff Teams or Management Groups working within the Children’s Services Workforce Sector and Care Professions including Schools, Early Year’s Settings, Social Services, Child Protection and Health.
 

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Course provision includes:

  • Tailored Agenda
  • Facilitation
  • Handy Hints Checklist
  • Master Handouts
  • Certificate of Attendance

Training day 9.00am-3.00pm, or 9.30am-3.30pm.

Cost of course:

  • UK and elsewhere -  please enquire about rates for in house training investment.

 

“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. These balls are called work, family, health, friends and integrity and you are keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball; if you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls: family, health, friends and integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls, you will have the beginnings of balance in your life.”

Patterson (2000) ‘I beg your understanding’


 

Who Delivers and Why Book Us for Your Staff Development Day?

The Trainer:

Anna-Michele draws on her extensive 30 years experience in and around Schools and Children’s Services and her fervid interest in the emotional health of children and adults who work with them. With valuable experience as an Educationalist, Psychotherapist and Group Facilitator, Anna-Michele has created a course that integrates good practice including:

  • Group Theory and Dynamics
  • Neuroscience of Stress Management
  • Neuro Linguistic Programming
  • Quality Circle Time Model/Rituals
  • Emotional Intelligence Theory
  • SEAL/SEAD for Staff and Families
  • Massage in Schools Movement
  • Fun and Team Building Games

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Feedback from the attendees of Forever Juggling.

"Thanks for a great day. Really interesting sessions & lots of good ideas. You are knowledgable & confident & your relaxed delivery & humour helps to put the info across so it will be remembered."

"Thank you Anna-Michele, great day & thoroughly enjoyed your training style." Cathy Hirst, Admin Assistant

"Fantastic, the ideal mix of patience & enthusiasm." Karen Morgan, Parental Support Advisor

 


Girl, aged 8.

"If I wasn’t angry before, I am now with you!"

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Jill Wood, Acting Head Teacher, Yarm Primary School, Stockton-On-Tees, UK

"If you need someone to motivate and inspire your staff, Anna-Michele delivers!"


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