About this session:
This masterclass aims to offer participants an opportunity to explore the benefits of self-compassion, and simple everyday ways to cultivate a compassionate approach to softening the impact of personal distress and enhancing personal wellbeing and resilience
What will be covered:
By the end of the masterclass participants will:
- Have an understanding of the evidence and foundational principles of self-compassion and how it can protect people from mental distress and enhance personal wellbeing
- Understand how self-compassion can make you a better leader
- Have practiced simple practical ways to develop self-compassion
- Have explored ways to build self-compassion into everyday practices
- Have identified at least one step they can take be self-compassionate
Who the session is for:
This virtual event is for colleagues working in Primary Care who are NHS staff or staff delivering NHS funded care only.
Session details:
This masterclass will be delivered virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, 26th January 2021, 18:00-19:30.
Technology check/ registration will commence at 17:45 with the masterclass starting at 18:00.
Register:
To read more about the speaker click here
About this session:
We are living through a pandemic that most of us could never have imagined. Many of us are not in the best emotional shape. Emotions matter for health and wellbeing – how we feel influences our bodies, including physical and mental health. Stress and pressure are associated with increased levels of cortisol linked to depression, cardiovascular issues and weight gain. Learning to regulate unpleasant emotions and experience more positive emotions have been shown to have health benefits including greater resilience.
What will be covered:
During the session you will:
• Gain knowledge about Barbara Fredrickson’s research in this area
• Explore the links between psychological wellbeing and physical wellbeing, productivity, engagement and resilience
• Undertake an emotional audit
• Learn how to maximise your positive emotions
• Apply tools and techniques to boost your emotional wellbeing
Who the session is for:
This virtual event is for colleagues working in Primary Care who are NHS staff or staff delivering NHS funded care only.
Session details:
This masterclass will be delivered virtually via Zoom on Wednesday, 9th December, 18:00-19:30.
Technology check/ registration will commence at 17:45 with the masterclass starting at 18:00.
The event is now full.
About the speaker:
Meet Rene Barrett
“Improving organisational and individual performance, resilience and wellbeing”
Rene is an independent development consultant, a fellow of the CIPD, with an MBA. She has extensive understanding of the transformation and devolution agendas and the needs of practitioners across the public, education, police, health and voluntary sectors. She is also an Associate with North West Employers and The NHS North West Leadership Academy and a prime deliverer on current GM Leadership Programmes.
Rene’s previous experience includes being Director of Development at North West Employers, Assistant Director of HR with Salford Council and as Director of Learning for the GMB trade union. She has extensive employee relations experience and is regarded as a leading regional figure in relation to leadership and workforce development.
Rene supports public sector organisations both regionally and nationally in the diverse areas of leadership and management, workforce development, partnership working, action learning, and the development of creative problem solving skills. Increasingly she is working with clients, both individually and organisationally on building resilience and wellbeing.
“Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world – but only with compassion can you heal and build it.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
Join us and Coach-Speaker-Author Rasheed Ogunlaru for this inspiring and empowering leadership and equality, diversity and inclusion and masterclass.
This energising and interactive session invites on a journey of appreciating our individual, interconnected and intersectional selves, teams, organisations and world.
This unique session will take you on a journey through:
· I: embrace your unique gifts, identity and talent and responsibility
· We: appreciating the collective aspirations, need and goals and those of others’
· All: Raising our consciousness and compassion to evoke true transformation
Benefits of attending
You will leave this session with:
· Enriched self-belief, confidence and awareness
· With a deeper compassion and understanding toward yourself and all others
· With a raised consciousness of the human condition, drivers and desires
· A greater appreciation of our individual, group and collective differences and interdependence
· The ability to let go off ideas that no longer serve you and embrace your self
· An enhanced ability to build richer relationships with people of all background
· A greater sense of acceptance and harmony with yourself, others and life itself
“Tomorrow’s leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre – from the heart.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
Please register here for this session.
Meet Our Guest Speaker
Rasheed Ogunlaru is a leading UK-based life coach, motivational speaker
Business and leadership coach. His clients include entertainers, entrepreneurs, Chief Executives, professionals, healers, organisations and the public. His career spans 18 years in coaching, training, media, organisational strategy – and as a singer songwriter. He often appears in the media on life, work, relationship and business issues – including appearances on BBC News and ITV News, He is author of Soul Trader – Putting the Heart Back into Your Business and The Gift of Inner Success and is the life & business coach partner of the British Library. Rasheed’s early career included being a Media Trainer; Communications Manager; Co-Director of Samaritans (Central London) and a singer-songwriter. Today his unique ‘become who you are’ approach enables people of all backgrounds to achieve greater success and happiness – from within. He is widely considered one of the UK’s leading specialists on inner fulfilment and the human condition.
@Rasheed Ogunlaru www.Rasaru.com
We have launched an engagement initiative for the South East Leadership Academy, Listening to Leaders, now that we are a combined team we genuinely want to ensure the offer we create in the South East meets the needs of all of our leaders in the region. Our intention is to start a multi-channel ‘Big Conversation’ with a range of leaders from across the South East over the coming months.
We are inviting leaders and emerging leaders from across all parts of the NHS as well as our colleagues and partners in hospices, care homes, social care and the voluntary sector, to join the big conversation and share their insights, challenges, successes and needs as leaders within the NHS and the wider care sector. Our aspiration is to synthesise a range of views which will feed into the South East Leadership Academy 21/22 business planning cycle – ensuring we act on what we hear from you.
This session is aimed at those leaders who have recently taken on their first line management responsibility or are aspiring to move into their first leadership role in the near future, for example alumni of GMTS, Edward Jenner, Mary Seacole or similar leadership development programmes. This is an opportunity to share experiences and to build a network of peers at a similar point in their leadership journey. To book your place click here.
We will also be inviting senior leaders from across the South East system to participate in our Big Conversation to gain their perspectives and insights.
In return for your participation we hope to give you an opportunity for reflection and learning within this initiative – some welcome time to connect and network with peers and explore the unique experiences we are sharing as leaders during this unprecedented period in health and care.
If you have any questions about these opportunities please email [email protected]
Gaining the attention of an audience and having the communicative skills to persuade people with clarity and conviction are essential skills of leadership. They are critical when we find ourselves working with others and seeking to attract people to work collaboratively with us.
An additional complication has now appeared as we have all become forced to rely – both professionally, personally and socially – on platforms such as Zoom and MS Teams over recent months. They have been invaluable in helping us all to stay connected – and, after years of discussion about the future of telemedicine, we have seen a significant increase in e-consultations in Primary Care.
This event will explore the issue of voice and presence in all communication contexts – including, of course, the virtual spaces in which we find ourselves more and more at this time – by helping those taking part to appreciate how to transcend the barriers to effective exchange. Additionally, it will offer insights into how to use these platforms more effectively in terms of getting the most from them and getting your messages across.
What will be covered
During this masterclass, we will:
- Learn easy to use tools and techniques to ensure that our voice and presence is confident, convincing and persuasive, both in person and online.
- Look at the basics in respect to managing nerves before and during online speaking so that our message is properly heard and expressed in a way that supports us to engage with others.
- Appreciate body language and how to appear your best most engaged and relaxed self, both in person and – increasingly – on screen.
- Explore voice and how to sound credible, confident and clear, both in person and in a virtual setting, in order to express thoughts, ideas and proposals in a way to which people can comfortably relate.
The facilitator will use her extensive experience and rich expertise to explore the contrasts that exist between the sort of business communication to which we are most used and the ways in which we are working with and alongside people at this time. She will also introduce the Five Power Tools that she promotes for effectiveness in terms of voice and presence, each considered in light of the range of contexts in which we find ourselves.
This masterclass will be delivered virtually via Zoom.
To book your place click here. To read more about the facilitator click here.
“Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magic.” Rasheed Ogunlaru
Join us and coach-speaker-author Rasheed Ogunlaru for inspiring and empowering masterclass and discussion.
As we celebrate Black History Month, during our Life, Leadership, Legacy event we will share the inspiration and learn the lessons from our individual and collective history. We will look at how these apply in our life, careers and organisations. Join us on a journey of:
- Past: Reflect on your unique journey, inspirations and life learning
- Present: Re-connect to your unique passion, purpose and potential
- Future: Face, embrace and shape and change today through your life and work
This event will give you a powerful opportunity to deeply consider: who has inspired you throughout history – and what it reveals about your journey; your own history and identity; your purpose and mission as a leader; how to live and lead from your values; and to utilise the passion, vision, courage to develop yourself, others and your service to play your part in shaping the future – today.
You will leave this session:
- With a clearer sense of your vision, mission, direction, purpose and calling
- With greater self-awareness and insight into your strengths, path and possibilities
- Able to access the passion and purposefulness essential to shape change
- More strategic, values centred and resourceful
- With a greater ability to understand, inspire and motivate others
- Focused, inspired, energised and motivated.
Rasheed says the “The tragedy about history – personally and globally – is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.” He continues “The key is to shift from head to heart to truly embody transformation, compassion, connection in every aspect of our lives and work.”
To read more about the speaker click here.
We have launched an engagement initiative for the South East Leadership Academy, Listening to Leaders, now that we are a combined team we genuinely want to ensure the offer we create in the South East meets the needs of all of our leaders in the region. Our intention is to start a multi-channel ‘Big Conversation’ with a range of leaders from across the South East over the coming months.
We are inviting leaders and emerging leaders from across all parts of the NHS as well as our colleagues and partners in hospices, care homes, social care and the voluntary sector, to join the big conversation and share their insights, challenges, successes and needs as leaders within the NHS and the wider care sector. Our aspiration is to synthesise a range of views which will feed into the South East Leadership Academy 21/22 business planning cycle – ensuring we act on what we hear from you.
This session is focused on those working in frontline positions with responsibilities for patients, people and/or services, whether they are from a clinical or non-clinical background. We would also love to hear from other you if you are from a non-NHS environment, such as hospices, care homes, social care and the voluntary sector. To book your place click here.