Thrive – Online Workshops to Build Resilience

Our workshops are facilitated by experienced psychologists who hold a high level of expertise in mental health and wellbeing. All participants completing a Wellbeing course will receive a certificate and a digital badge from Victoria University.

Each one-day course is delivered on Zoom in two sessions (9am–1pm and 3pm–4.30pm). Two 90-minute follow-up Zoom sessions will support building the knowledge and skills introduced in the workshop. There will be a max of 20 participants in each group.

When you register you will also be able to opt into your school receiving a teacher release day reimbursement.

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Course overview

What does “thriving” and “wellbeing” mean to you? How does it look at work and in life?

This one-day online resilience workshop focuses on the two evidence-based building blocks most of us struggle with – building sustainable habits and emotional agility.

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Thrive is focused on you as an individual. By registering for this workshop participants will be undertaking personal training in the resilience space. Making space to focus on learning skills to boost individual resilience is critical to our personal well-being and ability to then teach and lead others. As this is for your personal development, there will be no expectation for those attending to take forward and present to their school colleagues upon completion of the workshop.

This workshop is a confidential and welcoming space and has been designed to support you with the following:

• Understanding and measuring your own resilience
• Gaining knowledge on stress and how to spot signs (in yourself and others)
• Identifying practical resilience skills to help you to thrive
• Learning how to build habits that will last
• Understanding how emotions work, and how to work with them, rather than against them
• Developing a personal action plan that helps you adapt when facing challenges

Format

This one-day course is delivered on Zoom in two sessions (9am–1pm and 3pm–4.30pm). Two 90-minute follow-up Zoom sessions will support building the knowledge and skills introduced in the workshop. There will be a max of 20 participants in each group. You will also be sent a copy of I’ve Had it Up to Here – From Stress to Strength by Gaynor Parkin and Sarah Boyd.

Course overview

This free course, suitable for secondary teachers at all levels, is designed to provide a confidential and welcoming space to support teachers with the following objectives:

• Understand the key building blocks that enhance resilience
• Establish effective habits for improving physical and mental wellbeing
• Learn flexible thinking skills to help stay solution-focused and hold the big picture – even when under stress
• Boost performance by utilising effective tools to recover from busy workloads, including the best physical and mental recovery strategies
• Review the best tools for maintaining positive wellbeing, and for experiencing more positive emotion
• Learn skills for improving interpersonal relationships
• Connect to motivation, meaning and purpose
• Write a personal action plan for ongoing practice of resilience skills, post workshop

Format

Three two-hour online sessions held at fortnightly intervals, outside school hours (3.30pm – 5.30pm).

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