• Training Room

    Keeping Well, Teaching Well - Mindfulness in Learning and Teaching
    Provider   Organisational and Staff Development Unit

    This is session 7 of a 10 week programme consisting of 1.5h Zoom sessions each week.

Duration 1 half day

Course Type Webinar

Booking Status Archived

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Target Audience: This course will be of interest to anyone involved in learning and teaching

 

 Course Content

It has been a stressful period for colleagues and students over the past months so it is appropriate going forward into 2021 to use this opportunity to explore how as staff you can sustain and support your wellbeing in your teaching and wider lives, and to explore potential resources and ideas for supporting student wellbeing as well as their learning.

This webinar focuses particularly on what you can do as staff perspective in addressing wellbeing. It offers you a space to reflect on the challenge of wellbeing for the lecturer (academic) as a professional who is managing their own emotional and physical wellbeing as well as that of their students. I suggest health and wellbeing starts with appreciating the practice environment, the individual’s needs and what we do as professionals in shaping our own and others wellbeing.

And I will share some resources for you to explore if you choose over the coming months.

I will explore with you:

  • Some simple techniques you can apply quickly and easily to care for yourself and create space to recharge yourselves in times of stress
  • How to engage with ‘agency’ as HE practitioners using the simple idea of ‘Me PLC’

This session is delivered by Dr Ruth Pilkington (NTF, SFSEDA, PFHEA). She is an educational consultant and Visiting Professor at Ulster University. Ruth received National Teaching Fellowship for her work on dialogic assessment for professional recognition in HE, academic development, and supporting an organisational approach to (staff) professional learning from entry through to professional doctorate. Her publications address professional learning, CPD, dialogic



Delivered By: Dr Ruth Pilkington

Prerequisites

None

Related Materials

How to be Healthy at work – (online, free)Morag Thow Mindfulness – a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Mark Williams & Danny Penman Mindfulness for Health – a practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing by Vidyamala Burch & Danny Penman Mindfulness for Women- declutter your mind, simplify your life, find time to ‘be’ by Vidyamala Burch and Claire Irving Mindful Coaching – Liz Hall Full Catastrophe Living – Jon Kabat-Zinn

Cancellation Policy

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* to your department if you cancel within 5** working days or you do not attend, and a £25 charge for cancellations/ non-attendance between 6 and 10 working days. There will be no charge for cancellation made 10 or more working days before the event. Notifications should be made to OSDU@strath.ac.uk

A department is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary pre-requisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you must attend ALL parts of the course. If you fail to attend any part you will be charged as outlined above.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of course of 1 days duration or less. For some courses there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.

**Any bookings made within 10 days of the event will incur the charges as specified.