Compassionate Communication – Further and Higher Education (CC-FE/HE) Training

This 7.5-hour CPD course is designed to provide you will the knowledge and materials to enable you to deliver the Compassionate Communication - Further and Higher Education (CC-FE/HE) programme with your students.

This course draws on our experience of delivering the CC-FE/HE programme to over 1000 students, with evidence demonstrating that the approach improves inclusivity, develops a more compassionate approach to group work, and enables students to become more reflective about their own communication style.

Content

During this training course, you will cover the following: 

• Understanding compassion and how this might apply in FE and HE settings
• Exploring ways to enhance inclusivity and reduce the impact of cliques
• Exploring helpful and unhelpful group behaviours
• Using video examples to explore unhelpful group behaviours
• Consider the impact of non-verbal communication
• Learn about techniques to address unhelpful communicative behaviours

Who is this course for

This course is suitable for educators working in Further and Higher Education wanting to support their students to work more effectively as part of a group.

Example testimonials

Thank you for the excellent training… I believe it is really important to focus on qualities in HE! - Lecturer, 2024

I really enjoyed the training... and can't wait to get started with our new Stage One's - Clinical Lecturer, 2024

The shy people in my group had some benefit, I saw some real differences, every week - Lecturer Trial Data, 2020

I am always thinking about it... even in normal conversations now I find that I don't want to be like, overtaking the conversations or being too quiet” - Student Trial Data, 2020

Participants must have completed the Wellbeing in the Workplace – Emotions, Behaviour and Communication CPD to enrol on this training.

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Additional information about your studies

Minimum numbers

Please note that this course is subject to minimum numbers in order to run.

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