Compassion Focussed Coaching - Training for Supervisors in Education [June]

Compassion Focussed Coaching (CFC) is a peer-reviewed, manualised and evidence-based group supervision model. This training offer is for practitioners delivering supervision in education, to provide the knowledge, skills and supervision they need to offer CFC to their schools.

CFC is shown to:

• Increase resilience
• Increase ability to understand complex student behaviour
• Increase the ability to give/receive compassion
  
  (Heriot-Maitland & Taylor, 2024)

How Compassion Helps

Life and work can be hard. Compassion Focussed Approaches help us to understand day-to-day trickiness and provides a range of benefits for individuals navigating high stakes, fast paced environments.

Constellations Psychology has created a simple resource to provide an introduction to benefits with introductory references, to help you access the hundreds of scientific studies which have been done in the area. The resource also highlights how CFC helps supervisees to experience the impact that compassion focussed approaches can offer. Benefits include:

• Reduced stress response.
• Improved ability to manage and recover from stress.
• Improved access to higher order thinking skills and executive function skills.
• Reduced self-criticism.
• Improved accuracy of self-evaluation.
• Increased self improvement motivation.
• Increased feelings of safeness.
• Increased ability to give and receive compassion.
  

CFC training is useful if you:

• Want to offer consistent and high quality reflective spaces to educators.
• Are developing your “experts at hand” offer to provide systemic support to schools.
• Support schools to cultivate employee wellbeing and retention.
• Care deeply about leadership systems and processes.
• Want to use a supervision model which was developed with over 50 senior leaders in schools, nationwide.

As part of this training you get:

• Two days of specialist training.
• A supervision manual to guide practice.
• Six sessions of supervision, to support fidelity and provide ongoing CPD.

The Details:

• Dates: Thursday 10th and Friday 11th June 2027
• Times: 09.30 - 16.00
• Location: Online, via Zoom
  • Price:
    • Single ticket: £700
    • 20% discount for 3 or more tickets
    • Your ticket includes 6 sessions of supervision after the training

About your host:

Dr Jo Taylor is a Child & Educational Psychologist and Director of Constellations Psychology. He is pioneering the use of compassion focused approaches in EP practice and regularly consults, trains and speaks on the topic. He is an Honorary Lecturer at University of Manchester, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is currently completing a Churchill Fellowship into compassion as a facilitator of caregiving.