Courses for Schools

Typical Staff Course Content

Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Literacy and EQ

• What is EI and EL and what are the related competencies desirable to develop amongst staff?
• Emotions: why are they so important and what part do they play in relationships?
• Understanding the influence of empathy on physiological and psychological development and on behaviour
• Developing the ability to listen closely

What is Personality?

• Understanding the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and the impact of this on how we communicate
• Using Attachment Theory to understand the impact of the early years on personality, behaviour, relationships and communication styles
• Examining the impact of non-verbal Communication

How does Experience affect us?

• The brain, neuroscience and biochemistry: the impact of relational experience on physiology, the developing brain, and the ability to learn
• Stress: how it affects our biochemistry and thinking
• Promoting clear and transparent communication styles

Boys/Girls and their distinctive needs

• What is special about their development and needs?
• Managing their emotional vulnerability
• Reading their emotional world – masked feelings (e.g sadness expressed as anger)
• Helping boys/girls to better calibrate the pressure to achieve and succeed

Behaviour Management of Teenagers

• Understanding how teenagers experience the world
• Social and Generational Change and the impact of this on teenagers and staff
• Keeping up with the material world: brand and peer pressure on teenagers
• Negotiated rules and effective boundary setting
• Strategies to manage teenage behaviour: what is helpful and what is not with boundaries, discipline and punishment
• Clear communication: contained censure versus lingering disapproval

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