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 - Fri, Sat, Sun.
• 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.