Wellbeing in the Workplace (WiW): Emotions, Behaviour and Communication

About the course

This half day CPD introduces staff to wellbeing psychoeducation and practices, along with compassionate communication skills that are essential for effective team working.

In brief, attendees are provided with the opportunity to understand how stressful situations affect our brain and behaviour. This includes exploring how emotions impact brain and body physiological responses, and why ‘threat’ and ‘drive’ emotions often dominate. Techniques enabling individuals to down-regulate threat and stress by switching from ‘sympathetic’ to ‘parasympathetic’ physiologic activity are also introduced. The CPD further includes how we can be more compassionate when communicating with others and how this can be of benefit in employment situations.

Practices and techniques to understand what we can do to support both ourselves and others to communicate more effectively are then introduced and discussed.

Thus, this half day CPD includes core content from Compassionate Mind Training for Teachers, Staff and Educators and Compassionate Mind Training for Further Education and Higher Education Students.

What To Expect

This short CPD is aimed at enhancing psychological and physiological wellbeing and prosocial behaviours through, firstly, a combination of psychoeducation, and practices, to aid emotion-regulation; and, secondly, understanding as to the motives and emotions underlying communication styles, with practices introduced to enhance communication for the benefit of all. Thus, content will cover

• Theory of emotions and how emotions can be understood in the broader sense of “drive”, “threat” and “soothing” motivation systems
• The concept of “tricky brains” and how this impacts our threat, drive and soothing systems
• Practices that can be used to regulate emotions and down-regulate stress, threat and anxiety
• Understanding as to the motives and emotions underlying various communication styles
• Exploration of communication techniques to support effective communication across employment situations

Course Prices

The Wellbeing in the Workplace CPD course is costed and £175.00 for in-person delivery at University of Derby.

Please note: Refreshments and a light lunch are provided.

For bespoke school/academy/university delivery please contact Professor Frances Maratos to discuss prices.