Training & Events

This course is designed to equip teachers to support themselves, their colleagues and their students through challenging times. Through this course, participants will also be empowered to attend more effectively to themselves, colleagues and students should they be facing mental or emotional distress.

The first part of the course focuses on helping participants to identify and recognize symptoms of the two most common mental and emotional health challenges - depression and anxiety, as well as to deepen their understanding of what may cause these mental and emotional health challenges, and how it may show up in school.

The second part of the course focuses on equipping participants with skills to support themselves and others mentally and emotionally. Using various modes of experiential learning such as role-play, reflection and various interactive activities, participants will also learn how to hold space for their teammates, to ask appropriate check-in questions and direct them to relevant help if necessary.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will learn:

1. To lookout for symptoms of mental health challenges, specifically depression and anxiety
2. An introduction to the psychology of mental illness vs mental wellbeing (traditional psychology vs positive psychology)
3. Science-based skills and tools to support others who are facing emotional and mental health challenges.
4. Research-based techniques to practise effective stress management and emotional regulation and how to share them effectively with others
5. Assessment of suicide risk and intervention
6. How to set healhy boundaries

The Peer Mentoring for Key Personnel and Senior/Lead Teachers programme is for clusters or schools planning to enrich the mentoring process among KPs.

This workshop will enable KPs to understand

• The philosophy behind peer mentoring.
• The difference between different types of mentoring and coaching.
• Various mentoring models.
• The model that the sponsoring body will be adopting.

Target Audience: Key Personnel, Admin Managers and Senior/Lead Teachers

Good takeaways from this workshop

• Better awareness of mentoring approaches, applicable in my work as KP.
• Exposed me to different models of mentoring.
• Mrs Charles has been superb. She is very clear in her delivery with a whole wealth of rich experience. Love to listen to her stories.
• Good pace. Workshop peppered with authentic experiences of the trainers, making it relevant and engaging.
• Very helpful tips & insightful info about mentoring & leadership. Enjoyed myself very much in this fulfilling workshop conducted by Mrs Charles. Honour to learn from you!
• I like how the presenter was candid with her examples. I could easily relate to them.

Communication is an important part of leadership. The course aims to equip participants with the tools of communication to bring their message effectively to their audience.

The workshop will enable participants to:

1. Develop their educational philosophy
2. Articulate their thinking on educational issues
3. Hone their communication and interview skills

Target Audience: Key Personnel, Admin Managers and Senior/Lead Teachers

Good takeaways from this workshop

• The insight on adapting leadership styles to situations and which positions to take when we speak to people.
• Learning about our own mindset and how it can affect the way we talk.
• Being a reflective practitioner.
• Relevant tips to manage different types of stakeholders especially in clarifying personal and other beliefs.
• Good reminder to hold on to our beliefs and do not assume when we communicate with our stakeholders.

This is a course to equip teachers with the EQ skills which will give them an understanding of both self and others. It will enrich their teacher-student relationship, give them tools to teach character education, and help them create a productive workplace.

This course will enable teachers to:

• Identify and understand emotions and the patterns they take
• Navigate a path between conflicting emotions while strengthening values
• Connect daily choices with their overarching sense of purpose

This course will also give teachers practical tips on how to:

• Conduct a debrief
• Facilitate a discussion
• Respond to difficult questions

Good takeaways from this workshop:

• Understanding EQ from different perspectives
• The sharing and experiences of Mrs Belinda Charles
• Use language intentionally. It's about managing your emotions rather than emotions managing you
• The different ways we can develop empathy in students

Teachers find it difficult to know how to respond to parents positively and constructively.

This course will help school staff

• See parents in the big picture of the school
• Know their own educational philosophy
• Identify some life principles
• Develop some techniques for engagement

Target Audience: Key Personnel, Admin Managers, Year Heads and Assistant Year Heads

Good takeaways from this workshop

• Learn to see the parents' perspectives and work on common interests.
• Learn to turn parents from weakness to opportunities/strengths. Tips and strategies from Ms Charles and fellow colleagues on engaging parents for the various common scenarios.
• The workshop is well-paced and had an appropriate number of interactive activities. Mrs Charles was able to relate to our feelings as teachers and was able to address our questions to her level best.
• Mastery of engaging parents and handling difficult parents.
• Parents are our partners, our comrades, not our nemesis. So keep our hearts at peace when working with them.