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Discovering Potential
Supporting self-esteem and wellbeing through adult learning
| Date: | Monday 9 October 2006 |
| Venue: | Homerton College, Cambridge, CB2 2PH |
| Ref: | C1386/10/06 |
| Fee*: | £198 (per person, includes lunch, tea/coffee and a copy of Discovering Potential) |
[Background] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
Building confidence and a sense of wellbeing is increasingly being seen as a means of enabling learners to make the most of their potential and to participate more fully in society. But how do you do it?
Discovering Potential offers practitioners on effective yet simple model for delivering sustainable guidance to their clients or participants.
Discovering Potential is a resource pack that supports practitioners and managers who work with adults with low self-esteem. The pack provides an essential resource for those working on a one-to-one basis with adults who are ‘hard-to-reach’, ‘marginalise’ or ‘socially-excluded’. Crossing different sectors such as health services, voluntary sector, education sectors and social services, it offers valuable advice and strategies for the pivotal role of inter-agency working.
The pack and the training will help you understand what is meant about health, self-esteem, learning and working in partnership, not just in relation to your work with clients, but for yourself and your organisation too.
All participants will receive a copy of Discovering Potential: A practitioner's guide to supporting improved self-esteem and well being through adult learning, and will learn about and experience the Discovering Potential model.
NIACE trainer will support participants through some of the concepts and exercises in the Discovering Potential pack. There will be opportunities to consider how these approaches can be integrated into practice.
Participants will have the opportunity to:
 | Understand the concepts of health, self-esteem and learning. |
| Think about how they work with others. |
| Consider and discuss how health and learning impact on self-esteem. |
| Apply techniques for identifying the strengths and needs of clients themselves as practitioners and of their working organisations. |
| Plan and devise working strategies for working with clients. |
| Determine how they can help clients, themselves and their organisations through the application of the Discovering Potential model. |
| Use the Discovering Potential model for supporting improved self-esteem and well-being through adult learning. |
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Audience
The training courses are for all those practitioners and teachers who help learners and potential learners to make informed decisions about their future learning choices. They will assist practitioners who want to improve their practice and want to work better with partner organisations. The courses will be of interest to practitioners and those responsible for staff development from:
| Adult and Community Education |
| Connexions |
| FE Colleges |
| GP Surgeries |
| Health centres |
| Jobcentre Plus |
| Learning Partnerships |
| Local Educational Authorities |
| New Deal for Communities |
| nextstep |
| Organisations promoting equality of opportunity |
| Prison and Probation Services |
| Sixth Form Colleges |
| Social Services |
| Training Providers |
| Voluntary Groups |
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Programme
| 09:30 | Arrival and Registration (Tea and Coffee available) |
| 10:00 | Welcome and Introduction to the day |
| 10:30 | Introduction to the Discovering Potential Model |
| 10:40 | What is health and wellbeing? |
| 11:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 11:15 | Social capital |
| 11:40 | Learning |
| 12:00 | Self-esteem |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Discovering Potential Model – “Getting and Keeping” |
| 14:00 | Case studies |
| 15:00 | Developing your own potential |
| 15:30 | Evaluation and close (Tea/coffee available) |
Registration and arrival is at 9.30am for a 10.00am start. The course ends at 3.30pm
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