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Course Title

Making Wellbeing Visible in Your School: Equipping Your Entire Staff to Build Wellbeing Every Day

Course Number

ISCA 505

Course Overview

How Can We Build Something We Cannot See?

Student wellbeing has become a focus of international education policy for global organizations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).


With the challenge for schools to turn wellbeing policy into practice, schools need a scientific approach that enables them to build wellbeing in students, staff, parents and their community.

Designed by Dr. Lea Waters (AM, PhD), research professor and world expert in positive psychology, Visible Wellbeing™ (VWB) combines the science of wellbeing with the science of learning and teaching to make wellbeing visible in all classes and across co-curricular activities.

In this workshop, participants will learn how to apply the Visible Wellbeing approach to equip their entire faculty and staff with a common wellbeing language and evidence-based techniques they can use to boost school-wide wellbeing every day.


B.2. Responsibilities to the School

  • a. Develop and maintain professional relationships and systems of communication with faculty, staff and administrators to support students.

  • d. Provide leadership to create systemic change to enhance the school.

Intended Audience

School Counselors and Psychologists, Wellbeing Team Members, Directors of Professional Development, Directors of Student Services

Essential Questions

How might we equip our entire faculty and staff with a common wellbeing language and evidence-based techniques they can use to boost school-wide wellbeing every day?


Knowledge

Skills

Participants will have knowledge about:

Participants will be able to:

  • The research supporting a schoolwide-approach to building wellbeing

  • The 6 wellbeing pathways in the evidence-based SEARCH framework

  • The 3 core elements to the practice of making wellbeing visible

  • Advocate for a strategic, practice-based approach to building schoolwide wellbeing 

  • Discuss wellbeing as a set of internal resources that can be proactively built by all school staff members (not just counselors)

  • Evaluate your school’s existing assets and growth opportunities along the six SEARCH wellbeing pathways

About the Facilitator

Kristin Lowe is a former international school teacher now working as an Positive Education Consultant and Certified Positive Psychology/Solutions-Focused Coach. 

She helps international school educators build a positive school culture through strengths-based personal and team development, positive peer coach training, and schoolwide Positive Education programs. 

Kristin is the Visible Wellbeing Program Leader at American School of The Hague, and she is the founder of the Positivity Playground, a global peer coaching network supporting adult wellbeing in international schools around the world.


Dates and times of offerings

November 22, 2022 @ 11:00 - 13:00 GMT 

Contact hours

Three (2) Professional Development Hours

Time commitment between sessions

NA

Required Resource(s)

NA

References

Relevant research and recommended resources will be provided in the course workbook.


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