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Bedfordshire Schools Trust

For Staff

We are offering all BEST staff the opportunity to attend a brand new 5-session online mini-course and a series of one-off wellbeing workshops.

‘Mindful Essentials’ mini-course (5 online sessions)

REGISTER HERE FOR MINDFUL ESSENTIALS

 

This accessible programme helps busy school staff to improve their personal wellbeing, resilience and performance. The weekly sessions explore core practices and teach you how to manage your mind more skilfully – regulating your attention, thoughts and emotions, increasing present-moment awareness, developing self-compassion and improving your capacity to handle challenges. Past participants have described: 

  • Feeling calmer and more relaxed

  • Navigating workplace challenges effectively and managing stress and anxiety 

  • Being kinder to themselves and more connected with family and students

  • Living life more intentionally and less reactively

Completing this course allows you to apply for BEST funding for the 1-day ‘breathe’ training to teach classroom mindfulness with MiSP. If you have previously attended an 8-week course you are welcome to attend this course as a refresher.

Watch a 5-min introductory video: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XoMQJoYMJ39Kpyu0U9e0y6Tx7zor5a36/view?usp=share_link

Dates: TBC (5x weekly sessions of 75 mins)

 

Wellbeing Workshops

REGISTER HERE FOR WELLBEING WORKSHOPS

These 75-minute sessions cover a variety of real-world themes, supporting ‘whole-person wellbeing’ for educators and support staff:

  1. Burnout: Recognise the signs of exhaustion and create your own plan to restore emotional and physical balance in your life. 

  2. Challenging Communication: Learn to practice challenging interpersonal relationships (with students/parents) and manage the impact of stress

  3. Digital wellbeing: Reclaim your attention, find a more intentional way to use tech and bring balance to your digital life

  4. Self-compassion: Learn the practice of self-kindness and how it improves emotional wellbeing and personal confidence 

  5. Sleep and self-care: Improve your mental and physical energy with better sleep hygiene and learn key healthier lifestyle habits

  6. Guest speaker: Watch this space…

Workshops are offered as standalone sessions, and you may attend as many as you like. You do not need to have attended a mindfulness course to attend. However, these sessions will complement both courses.

Dates: (TBC) One workshop every half-term

Register here: https://forms.gle/LmEgBWE5NpcWseWA7

 

.b Foundations 8-week mindfulness course

REGISTER HERE FOR .b foundations

 

The comprehensive 8-week programme, completed by 180+ BEST staff, develops foundational skills for managing your mind, building resilience and improving wellbeing by learning to practice mindfulness and apply it in everyday life – at school and at home. 

Weekly 90-minute sessions explore a wide range of themes: calming the mind and body, stepping out of auto-pilot to become present, training attention and focus, increasing positive emotion and gratitude, moving mindfully, managing thought patterns and emotional reactions, communicating mindfully, cultivating self-compassion and self-care and restoring life balance. Home practice is supported by weekly audio resources.

Staff have described significant benefits to their mental wellbeing and enjoyment of everyday life, their ability to manage stress and enjoy better quality sleep. Many report feeling more effective and engaged at work with improved relationships. 

Those completing this course are eligible to apply for BEST and school funding to train to teach all MiSP mindfulness classroom curricula from ages 3–18 (contact wgeorge@bestacademies.org.uk for details).

Dates: January 2027, day/time TBC

Register here: https://forms.gle/mYHNiPeQSsEqVdKx5

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