Frederika Roberts

Wellbeing for school staff and leadership teams

In a fun and interactive workshop format, school teaching and non-teaching staff, middle- and senior leaders will:

• Understand what mental health is and how to recognise the signs and symptoms of mental ill-health.
• Understand stress and how to manage it.
• Understand the role of positive emotions in supporting their own wellbeing and overcoming negativity bias.
• Apply practical tools and habits to maintain everyday wellbeing and mental health.
• Practise activities to boost their mood and optimistic outlook.

Whole School Wellbeing

i. Taking a whole school approach to wellbeing.

In this lively, interactive workshop, Senior Leadership Team members will explore and focus on practical and strategic ways to increase whole school wellbeing, including:

• Why take a whole school approach? What does it mean?
• Models of whole school wellbeing.
• Promoting enthusiasm and buy-in.
• Systems & policies viewed through a wellbeing lens.
• Recognising the school’s existing strengths and building on them to support the wellbeing of all members of the school community.
• Taking into account the school’s unique cultural context.

ii. Appreciative Inquiry – a school-wide approach to promoting wellbeing.

Frederika is a certified Appreciative Inquiry (the best type of ‘AI’!) Practitioner and is using AI methodology in her doctoral research to help all stakeholders in a school community work together to improve wellbeing.

Whether you wish to run a full AI process, or to integrate some of its powerful tools and methodologies into your school’s everyday practices to improve wellbeing in your school, Frederika can work with you as a facilitator and consultant to guide you through this powerful and unique strengths-based process.

iii. Introduction to Positive Psychology to support wellbeing in school: A 5-workshop course for pastoral and leadership teams.

Workshop 1:

• What is Positive Psychology and why does it matter in a school context?
• Examples of applications in schools.

Workshop 2:

• Positive relationships and positive community.

Workshop 3:

• Introduction to character strengths and their value in supporting positive relationships and learning.
• Introducing character strengths into everyday school language.

Workshop 4:

• The role of optimism and positive emotions to support wellbeing and learning.

Workshop 5:

• Introduction to Flow.
• The role of purpose and goals in supporting wellbeing.

Strengths-based workplaces

In a lively and highly interactive workshop format, your employees will learn to:

• Understand and recognise their own character strengths, including when they are over- or under-using certain strengths and how this affects their workplace performance and relationships.
• Recognise and celebrate their colleagues’ strengths to help them build positive relationships.
• Communicate their own and the organisation’s strengths (e.g. to support client pitches, to produce marketing materials, etc).
• Recognise, understand and communicate the strengths of team members they manage, to support positive performance and career progression conversations.
• Use their character strengths to overcome challenges inside and outside of work.

Positive relationships and teamwork

Building a positive team culture.

In this lively, interactive workshop, staff will learn to:

• Understand the power and importance of positive relationships inside and outside of work.
• Recognise and celebrate their own and their colleagues’ strengths.
• Identify and celebrate the collective strengths within their team and wider organisation.
• Celebrate commonalities and differences between themselves and colleagues.
• Get to know colleagues within their own team and other departments better.