BellTIME
BellTIME
DELIVERING WELL-BEING PROGRAMMES TO SENIOR CYCLE STUDENTS
This 2 day train-the-trainer programme is designed to equip teachers to deliver a 50 hour well-being Programme to senior cycle students.
Context for Programme:
“ Young people learn more effectively if they are happy and feel supported in school. Building resilience and emotional wellbeing is crucial to their school progress and their success in life.”( Department of Education and Skills, 2013).
Young people are living in a world filled with more choice and opportunity than any previous generation. However, this choice and opportunity brings challenges and from time to time unfulfilled expectations for students, which all impacts upon their sense of well-being.
Some recent reports on well-being and young people have identified that:
•“ Between 2009 and 2011, Ireland had the highest rate of female youth suicide and the second highest rate of male youth suicide in the European Union.”( Children’ s Rights Alliance, UN report 2015).
•“ Mental health is a growing health, social and economic issue and it is expected that depressive mental illnesses will be the leading cause of chronic disease in high-income countries by 2030.”( HSE, 2014).
•“ One in every four people will experience mental health problems during his / her lifetime.”( HSE, 2014).
Content of Programme:
The content of the programme is designed around the
five core areas of relationship which affect well-being:
• Life
• Emotions
• Mindset, meaning and purpose
• Past, present and future
• Personality, talent and performance.
In addition teachers are introduced to:
• Methodologies for exploring well-being with students.
• The context for delivering a well-being programme in school exploring some of the stress factors in students’ lives.
Outcomes:
Following the 2-day train-the-trainer well-being programme, teachers:
• Are equipped and feel confident to deliver a well-being programme to senior cycle students.
• Know how to increase students’ self-management, problem-solving, communication, self-esteem and resilience skills.
• Are capable of engaging students in mindfulness practice and activities.
Additional student workbook, Ways to Well-being is available for all students taking the programme.
This programme was developed by John Doran, who has worked as a teacher and now guidance counsellor in the Patrician Secondary School, Newbridge for over 20 years and builds upon his own experience of delivering well-being courses to students.
As part of the training programme teachers are provided with a resource pack which guides them through the effective delivery of the Ways to Well-Being Programme.
Dates and Venues 2017: Galway, March 24th and 25th Dublin, April 18th and 19th Cork, April 20th and 21st
8 johndoran @ thesupergeneration. com