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Each of these workshops below can be delivered as a two-hour workshop session. For a half-day inset choose two of the workshops below. For a full day we would recommend choosing three.

We can also include themes and topics you would like to focus on, including reading ideas, communication skills, team work and more. Please contact us to us so we can design a day that is unique and works for you and your team.

School wellbeing awareness inset day workshop

Posted in Teacher Workshop's & Inset Days.

Teacher inset day workshop

WELLBEING IN SCHOOLS - INSET DAY WORKSHOP

This teacher inset day workshop will offer guidance and practical tools for improving emotional wellbeing in schools.

You will learn

  • What helps wellbeing in schools
  • Critical thinking and behavioural techniques
  • How to build resilience in a school
  • Reward and recognition that builds wellbeing
  • Creating healthy working and life habits

You will take away

  • How to focus your mental energy
  • The positive effects of humour and laughter for emotional intelligence
  • How to avoid behaviour and thinking that causes stress
  • Ways to create happiness and positivity in a school team

Diminishing budgets, increased pressure on student attainment, longer hours and more paperwork are just some of challenges in the current educational environment. With so many things going on, wellbeing may be overlooked as a luxury rather than as essential part of a school plan.

However, staff wellbeing is a vital factor for quality, performance and productivity. Demotivated staff are often disengaged, they do not enjoy their jobs and eventually leave.

Research shows that teacher happiness has a knock-on effect for students. It also directly influences greater staff retention, decreases sick leave, and lowers supply teacher costs. Therefore, helping your teaching teams understand how they can help themselves and access behaviours that increase wellbeing, while supporting them through simple school initiatives, will greatly benefit you, your school, pupils and teams.

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The session was excellent, engaging, informative, practical and funny with clear expectations. We have had positive comments from staff. This course will really help planning for wellbeing moving forwards.
Karen Murphy, Deputy Head Teacher The Grange, Runcorn

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Creating happy minds - How to use Mindfulness in classrooms

Posted in Teacher Workshop's & Inset Days.

Teacher inset day workshop

CREATING MINDFULNESS IN THE CLASSROOM

How to use Mindfulness in classrooms

Teacher mindfulness sessions include

  • The neuroscience of mindfulness
  • Developing mindfulness time
  • Sustaining mindful practice in the classroom
  • Mindfulness relaxation exercises
  • Mindfulness relaxation exercise script

Children mindfulness sessions include

  • Thinking techniques for calmness and relaxation
  • Controlling my mind
  • Mindful relaxation exercises
  • Mindful script for kids
The effects of mindfulness have been found to be beneficial in a wide range of settings. Over the past decade, training in mindfulness—the intentional cultivation of moment-by-moment non-judgmental focused attention and awareness—has spread from its initial western applications in medicine to other fields, including education.

The positive effects of mindfulness for learning when implemented over a period of time have been seen to:

  • Increase attention
  • Increase executive function (working memory, planning, organisation, and impulse control)
  • Decrease ADHD behaviours—specifically hyperactivity and impulsivity
  • Reduce conduct and anger management problems
  • Increase emotional regulation
  • Increase self-calming
  • Increase social skills and social compliance
  • Decrease anxiety in general and text anxiety in particular
  • Increase self-esteem
  • Increase quality of sleep

Our mindfulness INSET training sessions can be delivered with teachers and children. We can also ensure teachers are equipped with resources to continue mindfulness practices back in the classroom.>

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Teacher twilight sessions: resilience, feeling good and classroom techniques

Posted in Teacher Workshop's & Inset Days.

Teacher inset day workshop

TEACHER TWILIGHT SESSIONS

Resilience, feeling good and classroom techniques

If you would like a booster session for your team to help with resilience, feeling good, fun techniques for the classroom or a team session we can deliver twighlight sessions.

Twilight sessions can be anything between up to 90 minutes and we can cover whatever topic you like.

Just take a look at the variety of things we cover in our workshops and teacher inset sessions. We can design something that suits your team.

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FLIP for teachers – Skills for resilience, feeling good and getting on

Posted in Teacher Workshop's & Inset Days.

Teacher inset day workshop

F.L.I.P FOR TEACHERS

Resilience & feeling good

You will learn

  • The positive effects of humour and laughter for positive psychology and emotional intelligence
  • Individual triggers for stress and anxiety and how to combat them
  • How to FLIP challenges and be in control and see the positives

You will take away

  • Techniques to focus your mental energy, think positively and be proactive rather than reactive
  • Tools gain knowledge of how to break patterns of behaviour and thinking that cause stress
  • Ideas to develop individual humour and laughter strategies for positive interaction
  • Knowledge of how to help others including children and young people to FLIP their challenges through the FLIP coaching model

We understand the complexities of and challenges of being a great teacher, you need more than just the technical skills to stay on top.

Learning how to apply Laughology's cognitive techniques for developing a positive psychology toolkit using the F.L.I.P model will increase your mental agility and emotional intelligence.

This inset day session will provide a strategic model for building resilient individuals and teams for challenging times and will help with greater enjoyment of both work and life.

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Dave was very engaging and easy to listen to. He had everybody laughing and joining in and thinking about the importance of getting children thinking and engaging in activities that they enjoy.
West Drayton Primary School
Dave's delivery was really engaging and funny - it was lovely to hear staff laughing so much. 
West Drayton Primary School

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Bringing out the best in every child

Posted in Teacher Workshop's & Inset Days.

Teacher inset day workshop

BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN EVERY CHILD

Understanding how to help children believe in themselves as well as the people around them

You will learn

  • The psychology of learning, motivation and memory
  • The power of expectation and its effect on outcomes
  • How developing and encouraging positive beliefs about ability increases capability

You will take away

  • Tips on how increase engagement and learning in the classroom
  • Ideas to aid confidence, and learning success
  • Techniques for  promoting confidence and resilience in pupils and the wider learning community
  • An understanding of the brain and how to increase potential in all children

It can sometimes be the belief that ability and intelligence are set, believing we are born intelligent and we either are or are not. This is not true; intelligence and ability are obtainable by all and generally the only thing stopping us is self-belief.

Understanding how to help children believe in themselves as well as the people around them, will bring out the best in them. This should be the starting point in any child's school life. This teacher inset day training session will be a mix of theory and practical skills to take back to the classroom. It will introduce background knowledge and research into how the brain takes in information and what impacts on how we learn.

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Raising standards with humour, laughter and happiness

Posted in Teacher Workshop's & Inset Days.

Teacher inset day workshop

RAISING STANDARDS WITH HUMOUR, LAUGHTER AND HAPPINESS

This teacher inset day workshop will be a mix of theory and practical skills to take back to the classroom

You will learn

  • The science of humour and laughter as a thinking and development tool
  • The power of laughter for learning and memory
  • How to think using the humour toolkit FLIP to help with feeling calm, in control and positive about challenges
  • Fun ideas to encourage laughter in the classroom
  • How to use humour and laughter in an appropriate, controlled but fun way

You will take away

  • Tips on how to use humour and laughter as a learning and teaching tool
  • Ideas to aid engagement, confidence, memory and learning success
  • Practical techniques for fun in the classroom
  • Techniques for keeping control and using humour and laughter in an appropriate way

Humour laughter and happiness are vital ingredients for engagement. If you get children and young people emotionally involved, if they enjoy what they’re doing, they’re going to want to be there and want to learn.

One of the most important chemicals for learning is dopamine. Dopamine is enhanced when we feel good, connected and positive. Therefore creating a classroom where this happens will enhance learning connections. This teacher inset day workshop will be a mix of theory and practical skills to take back to the classroom and use every day for increasing engagement, learning and motivation.

Teacher inset day pricing

Laughology workshops are delivered in our unique, engaging, energetic style by a team of dynamic, experienced behavioural experts with a background in stand-up comedy.

They drive behaviour change through fun and effective activities. Facilitator costs are based on demand, expertise and experience and you will get a great experience with everyone.

We can deliver to any audience size and encourage schools to work together as clusters to help share the cost. Costs are based on average school sizes, so if you are a small school and your budget is limited, give us a call and we can chat through the possibilities with you

 

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Up to 2 hours   £750 £1000 £1200
Half-day               £950 £1250 £1300
Full day                £1150 £1600 £1725

We do add travel accommodation and VAT, but where possible will try and match a trainer in your area.

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Leading an Excellent School | Head Teacher workshop

Posted in Teacher Workshop's & Inset Days.

Teacher inset day workshop

LEADING AN EXCELLENT SCHOOL

Laughology can help you enhance the range of leadership skills needed to help you and your school achieve excellence

You will learn

  • How developing greater communication skills can enhance team cohesion
  • How to deliver challenging messages in a positive way
  • How to develop your own coping techniques to feel on top every day

You will take away

  • Techniques for communicating with a variety of differently personality types
  • Tips for delivering messages and making them stick
  • Tools for increasing resilience in your team and for you
  • Ideas for engagement, motivation and how to create a happy team

The evolving role of headship means the work of head teachers is ever expanding and demanding. Resilience, creativity and flexible thinking are essential skills to meet targets, manage, create effective teams and lead a school that sets and obtains high standards.

As well as performance management, headship is also about effective relationships and communication. Laughology can help you enhance the range of leadership skills needed to help you and your school achieve excellence. This head teacher inset day session is ideal for head teachers, assistant heads, deputies and anyone in a role in school that involves leading or managing a team, the session will be a mix of practical and theory and introduce techniques to help you manage, lead and communicate better.

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