Practitioner's Diploma in
'Teaching the Skills of Well-being'

Six days of highly enjoyable training that will equip you with the principles and practical skills so you can nurture all-round well-being in your school or workplace. This course is also suitable for parents wishing to teach their children the skills of life-long well-being.

The diploma is designed, taught and examined by Dr Nick Baylis, supported by a team of superb guest-trainers who are world-leaders in what they do.

• Open to all - no preliminary qualifications required.
• Two long weekends in October 2009 : 9.30am-5.30pm on Fri, Sat, Sun, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th October; and 30th, 31st October, and 1st November 2009.
• Central London, a beautiful location. You will need to arrange your own accommodation, perhaps staying with friends on Friday and Saturday night.
• Rapid skills-building through small-group work, role-plays and case-studies.
• Everyone will have opportunities for hour-long one to one tuition with course-director, Dr Nick Baylis.
• Your own course-handbook and ready-made teaching materials for use in your workplace.
• a Friendship/Peer Support Network year-round via a Website Forum exclusively for the diploma graduates; plus a monthly newsletter of up-to-the-moment ideas that can be shared via workplace noticeboards.
• This is the very first year that this diploma-course is being offered, so your experience will be all the rarer.

The well-being skills you will learn are applicable to all age groups in every aspect of daily life, but more particularly:

If you're in a SCHOOL environment, you will feel able to...

• advise on how to teach well-being skills in the classroom, as a complement to the curriculum, so that pupils can explore for themselves what brings out the best in them.
• engage the support of parents for your school's well-being initiatives.
• advise on the best-proven approaches for effective exam-time revision.
• introduce fellow teachers to the principles and practices of all-round well-being so they can better protect themselves and their loved-ones from stress, depression and burn-out.
• alert staff to the possibility of 'seriously inhibiting emotional trauma' among their pupils, caused by hurtful incidents or damaging relationships, no matter these be recent or long-ago.

If you're in a HEALTHCARE, EDUCATIONAL or EMERGENCY SERVICE environment, you will feel able to...

• motivate your client-group to practice the skills of well-being and personal development.
• suggest to your peers how they can best guard against anxiety, depression, and burn-out.
• alert your peers to the possibility of psychosomatic illnesses (i.e. very real symptoms caused by emotional upset), and to the possibility of chronic emotional trauma (PTSD).
• provide your peers with evidence on the surest routes to developing their own skills and expertise, while maintaining a well-balanced, well-rounded personal and professional life.

If you're in the BUSINESS environment, you will feel able to...

• enhance the training of fellow staff, for creative and satisfying high-performance.
• advise on the reduction of stress, depression and burn-out.
• guide measures for reducing absenteeism and staff turn-over.
• help your company fulfil its legal Duty of Care.
• generate customer-focused well-being initiatives to add something distinctive to your products and services.
• comment on trends in society's 'emotional climate' that might affect your market.

If you're A PARENT, you will feel able to...

• support your child in their healthy all-round development : social, physical, intellectual and emotional.
• teach by the good example of how you lead your own daily life and relationships
• spot the first signs of problems, and know how to find the right help (e.g. what to look for in a therapist or coach).
• encourage and guide your child’s school in enhancing their well-being initiatives for their staff and pupils.

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FURTHER DETAILS

Open to all

All that is required is a friendly phone conversation with Nick Baylis for 20 minutes to help ensure this well-being training will truly suit your needs.

Aim of this training

It is proficiency-of-application that will be taught, practised and assessed, not simply principles, theories and research findings. Your confidence and ability to take pleasure in applying well-being principles in everyday settings, is our essential goal. You will be learning what you can do to introduce these skills into your workplace, through giving your own 'insight lectures' and 'practical workshops'.

Homework and Assignments

There will be a half-a-dozen carefully chosen books and articles that you will need to read before the first weekend; supplemented by material to read in between the two weekends; as well as assignments to carry out that are suitable for the environment in which you intend to use your skills, whether in the workplace or at home.

Camaraderie and Peer Support

On such a training course, we learn a great deal from each other because of the richly colourful variety of backgrounds and the professional experience each individual brings to the group. In respect of which, there will be a complementary dinner-dance with live-music for all participants hosted on Friday evening after the first day of study (Day-1); and there will be a similar celebratory event on the Friday evening on the 2nd weekend of the course i.e. Day-4.

One to One Mentoring over the phone

One hour’s personal mentoring with Nick over the phone at some time between the two weekends; and again an hour's personal mentoring with Nick shortly after the final weekend's training.

Examination and Award of Your Diploma

Examination will be bite-size and on-going throughout the course, and the Practitioner's Diploma will be awarded upon completion of the full six days.

Fees

To receive up-to-date details by email, and to know the cost of these six days of intensive training, please email Nick at