Regenerative Educator Training: An Ecosystems Approach To Wellbeing

A 1-day training weaving the personal with the systemic to support educators, youth workers and young people to be healthy, happy and engaged.

"It takes a village to raise a child"

Whether your ‘village’ is a school, a youth centre, alternative youth organisation or family setting, the ecosystem you create around a young person is a huge determinant of their wellbeing.Join us to explore how to create a nurturing culture that supports the youth and adults in your community to thrive and feel a deeper sense of belonging.

The growing mental health crisis amid young people is causing overwhelm – for these young people, and for those of us driven to help them thrive. It’s common for teachers, youth workers and informal educators to leave their working days feeling a sense of helplessness, wishing they knew how to do more.

Yet none of us has this capacity alone. As the saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child”, and it is only when entire organisations, institutions and communities commit to a culture of wellbeing that the mental and social health of their members and beneficiaries can truly be supported.

About the training:

The day will give you space to explore your work within an ecosystemic framework, providing simple ways to weave wellbeing into the everyday culture of your organisation, that anyone can lead, and which can be put into practice immediately.

We’ll provide this though:

• Self and collective enquiry: How do we create a culture of wellbeing? What does it mean to be well individually/collectively? How does tending to our wellbeing have a positive impact in communities we are part of?

• Appreciative Inquiry: Discover what you are already doing well; Dream into what could be; Design what should be; Deliver what you can do and how to do this.

• An introduction to building a holistic wellbeing toolbox: Tools, techniques and resources we’ve been using in our work over the last decade.

This is for you if...

• You work with young people (12-25) in a mainstream or alternative education or youth work setting
• You want wellbeing to be at the heart of what you do each day
• You are a teacher or youth worker on the frontline supporting young people’s wellbeing, but feel unequipped and overwhelmed with the level of need 
• You wish to support your own wellbeing so you can show up fully in your work with young people
• You want to empower young people to be holistically well and thrive
• You want to be more confident when a young person comes to you for help
• You want to understand the deeper systemic causes behind our collective ill health

Your Facilitators

Nikki Levitan

Nikki is the Co-Founder of The Visionaries. Nikki’s passion is youth work, community organising, positive psychology, self-directed learning and most of all creating spaces for young people to feel seen, heard, and empowered. She has worked for over 20 years with young people in both formal and informal settings. She is trained as a professional integral coach, qualified Trauma & Mental Health informed school practitioner and teen yoga teacher and training to be a forest school leader.  She's been a wellbeing practitioner in secondary schools for the last 6 years implementing a whole school approach to wellbeing. 

David Heinemann

David is a Dad, executive coach, group facilitator and differently-abled personal trainer.

Inspired by the Aboriginal message "if the land is sick, you are sick", David is deeply interested in the intersection between health and ecology. He also believes we need less management and more leadership - at all levels - if we are to actually survive the coming decades. 

David has worked with hundreds of schools, educators and social innovators via projects including Roots and Enrol Yourself, was co-founder of Index on Censorship’s global fellowship for Human Rights Defenders and has been a learning partners to clients including Sport England, NESTA and the Young Foundation.

The true cost of this training is £110 per participant. However, we charge on a sliding scale to maximise equity of access. Please read this: Choosing the right ticket for you.