CPD for boarding school Chaplains
🏷️ From £175
🎧 Chaplains, Pastoral Leads
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Course outline:
This seminar will consider how the boarding environment is changing and the ways Chaplains and wider pastoral team can support young people through their emotional and spiritual development. It will address the challenges of technology and social media (including current risks and behaviours), promote discussion on how to best support young people and which approaches and strategies might be most effective.
Training topics will include:
The following sessions will all include reflections on the pastoral and spiritual perspectives of the Chaplaincy role:
- How boarding is changing
- The mental and emotional health of young people
- Is social media complicating matters?
- Proactively managing emotional crises
- Supporting young people displaying challenging behaviours.
Learning outcomes:
- To increase awareness of modern-day challenges facing young people
- To consider best practice in relation to pastoral work in schools
- To explore the role of faith in pastoral care work and discuss the interface between pastoral and spiritual responsibilities.
Speaker:
Andrew Lewin, BSA Senior Consultant
Andrew Lewin was International Director at the BSA before moving into a consultant role. His broad remit offers a range of services to boarding schools worldwide. He has considerable experience working with boarding school staff all around the world, as he has lived and worked in boarding schools for much of his life.
Andrew has set up his own company in 2020, Project 1000 Ltd, that focuses on educational consultancy and resilience coaching. He is a WRAW Master Practitioner, trained by the Wellbeing Project, and offers coaching, diagnostic assessments, workshops and seminars. He is currently working as a Director of Development in an independent school and is also Education Development Director for Performance Learning and an IAPS Consultant. Away from the world of education, he is a director of WASP, S&SWGC and TEAM Removals.
