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. |
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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: |
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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. |