For Educators
We offer tailor-made workshops for educational settings focused on creating trust, safety and connection with those we teach and work with.
Coaching skills taster workshop
This interactive workshop equips staff with key coaching skills to enrich conversations with students and nurture our learning communities. It can be delivered in a half-day or full-day format, in-person or online.
Coaching is, at its heart, a conversation in which two, or more, people think deeply together with the aim of improving someone’s situation or experience. Coaches do not seek to impose solutions on the people they work with. Rather, they facilitate learning by creating a safe space for people to find their own solutions, enabling individuals to identify the skills and resources they can draw on to move forward.
Through practical and interactive exercises, this workshop introduces teaching staff to key coaching concepts such as active listening, reflection, and unconditional positive regard.
The first part of the workshop explores the power of listening, empathy, and compassionate silence as a means of acknowledging individual experience. We look at the role of curiosity and questioning to invite thinking, autonomy, and self-led learning in our students.
In the second part of the workshop,we invite participants to practice these skills with each other. We conclude by reflecting on this experience, sharing existing practice, and identifying how these skills may be put into practice in the classroom.
Holding Space: How to have Transformational Conversations as a Personal Tutor
This online programme trains academic staff in key coaching skills to enrich student pastoral care. Delivered as two half-day seminars, this programme invites staff to consider how, and when, the role of the coach -- as opposed to that of the advisor, mentor, or teacher -- can be helpful in supporting student wellbeing.
Through practical and interactive exercises, the programme introduces concepts such as active listening, reflection, and unconditional positive regard.
Encouraging a mindset of curiosity and possibility, the programme will give staff the confidence to support students in ways that are authentic to them, enhancing the wellbeing and satisfaction of staff and students alike.
Cultivating Trust, Safety and Belonging in the Classroom
An interactive, online programme that equips university staff with key coaching skills to enrich conversations with students and nurture our learning communities.
Coaching skills are an invaluable resource for the establishment of trust, safety and belonging in a variety of classroom settings, and yet few academic staff are trained in this way of working. This programme aims to bridge the gap between teaching and coaching in order to enhance the learning experience for all members of the academic community.
The programme is delivered via 2 x 2-hour workshops or 1 x 4-hour session. Through practical and interactive exercises, the first workshop will introduce colleagues to key coaching skills that support empathetic and non-judgemental communication with students. Participants are invited to practice these skills with each other and to reflect on how and why creating a culture of safety, dignity and belonging in the classroom is important for learning.
Cultivating Trust, Safety and Belonging in the Classroom
This is a group coaching programme for educators. Drawing on key coaching concepts and positive psychology, it has three aims:
To develop understanding of core human emotional needs and the role of belonging in creating the conditions for learning
To increase staff wellbeing through self-leadership, compassion, and psychological flexibility
To empower educators to forge new routes to building a culture of belonging, collaboration and community within their organisation.
Through group learning and personal reflection, the programme invites participants to explore their current situation, consider where they would like to be, and to craft the lives and careers they desire.
The programme consists of six 2-hour online sessions and culminates in an Away Day or Half-Day co-created by programme participants for the entire organisation.
The programme supports participants to:
Develop self-leadership Increase resilience and psychological flexibility
Enhance belonging and identify routes to collaboration
Learn practical interpersonal skills to lead a new community of practice
It supports educational settings through:
Increased staff wellbeing, resilience and motivation
Training staff in active listening and reflective conversations to promote connection with others
Growing community and connections across the organisation