Personal Resilience for Professional Competence: Working with habitual thinking patterns – thoughts are not facts

Course Code
50117710

Course has already taken place

Provider
OD&PL

Tutor(s):
Nicola Neath,Sally Rose

Suitability
All staff.

If this date is full, then please register on our waiting list by
emailing your details to peopledev@leeds.ac.uk.

Date(s)
Monday, June 27, 2016, 14:00 to 16:00

Max Places:
30

Description
Pre-requisites: None

Pre-work requirements: None

Overall aim of course
The workshop aims to help participants to recognise common thinking
patterns and develop the capacity for flexible and balanced thinking.

Intended outcomes and benefits from attending:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Have learned about common thinking habits and the part they play in
how we make sense of our experience
2. Have explored how our experience at work is influenced by thinking
patterns and the stories that we make.
3. Understand that habitual thinking patterns are most problematic when
they distort our perspective and are believed to be true – thoughts are
not facts.
4. Have been introduced to some personal action ideas to work with
thinking habits.

Indicative content: what the session will cover:
Participants will be introduced to the function of thinking habits, how
we over rely on thinking and tend to distort our experience in unhelpful
ways. An opportunity to explore a number of common universal thinking
patterns and recognise examples of your own and others thinking patterns
at work. Explore ways of stepping back and seeing the bigger picture and
different perspectives. A chance to learn how flexible and balanced
thinking can play a key part in our wellbeing and effectiveness. This
workshop will also help you develop your strategic and creative
competence.

Learning and teaching methods: An interactive workshop.

Tutor:
Sally Rose; University of Leeds Staff Counselling service – Service
Manager and Staff Counsellor – Sally is a Registered Psychotherapist, a
member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy.

Related courses
Resilience is our ability to manage and restore balance and performance.
Resilience skills help us through times of change and uncertainty,
following adversity, set-backs and times when things are, or were, too
much. These workshops support self-development. They are opportunities
to gain ideas and tools that can have a positive effect on you, your
work and your impact with others.

Positive models and individual strategies are covered to resource work,
life and organisational change, maintain creativity and support positive
relationships with others, and prepare for the future. The workshops
dovetail together and can be done in any order. They can also be taken
individually by participants who may have identified specific areas
where they would benefit from some guidance.

• Values and direction – knowing what matters personally and
professionally
• Working with stress and emotion
• Mindfulness and attention skills to steady and focus your mind
• Understanding grief, loss and setbacks in everyday life
• Switching off – relaxation and sleep
• Active approaches to worry, meeting things head on
• Working with change and uncertainty
• Understanding and managing anxiety and panic
• Knowing your head and heart for effective decision making
• Developing assertiveness and working with confidence
• Positive skills for wellbeing at work

Attendance at other workshops in the series may be beneficial