Wellbeing
SHIFT - Self-Healing, Insight & Future Thinking for Educators
6 days
SHIFT is a transformative professional development course designed for educators who are ready to step back, reflect deeply, and consciously design their professional future. Drawing on life-coaching methodology (ICF framework), positive psychology, and somatic awareness, SHIFT guides participants through a structured journey of self-assessment, values clarification, and intentional goal-setting.
Unlike generic resilience courses, SHIFT combines the analytical rigour of professional coaching with embodied practices to produce real, lasting change. Participants leave with a concrete personal renewal plan and a practical coaching toolkit to support their students and colleagues.
Learning Outcomes
Participants to the course will learn to:
Apply core ICF coaching principles to support personal and professional transformation
Conduct structured self-assessment using evidence-based values and strengths inventories
Design a personalised Future Self roadmap with measurable milestones
Use solution-focused questioning techniques to unlock potential in themselves and their students
Facilitate brief coaching conversations within the school community
Build sustainable daily practices that sustain long-term professional renewal
Programme
SHIFT - Self-Healing, Insight & Future Thinking for Educators
Monday
Welcome, community-building and psychological safety.
Values Clarification Inventory: identifying core personal and professional values.
Strengths mapping using VIA Character Strengths framework.
Reflective journaling: the gap between current self and desired self.
Tuesday
Introduction to ICF coaching principles and ethics.
Active listening and powerful questioning: practical workshop.
Pair coaching practice: 20-minute structured sessions.
Group debrief: what makes a question transformative?
Solo reflection: who do I want to coach myself to become?
Wednesday
Future Self visualisation and embodied projection exercise.
Goal-setting frameworks: SMART vs GROW vs Ikigai.
Mapping obstacles: inner critic, limiting beliefs, and systemic barriers.
Workshop: participants draft their 12-month professional renewal plan.
Peer feedback rounds on plans.
Thursday
Solution-focused brief coaching (SFBC): theory and practice.
Motivational interviewing techniques for educator contexts.
Using coaching tools with students: adapting methods for the classroom.
Live coaching demos and supervised practice triads.
Integration session: connecting coaching skills to school leadership.
Friday
Body as a coaching instrument: somatic cues and self-regulation.
Breathwork and grounding practices for high-pressure moments.
Movement-based goal anchoring: embodying intentions physically.
Afternoon: walking coaching session (outdoor, local context).
Closing integration: connecting body, mind and professional purpose.
Saturday
Morning: final personal coaching presentation to the group.
Peer appreciation and accountability partnerships established.
Certificate ceremony: Erasmus+ KA1 completion.
Group reflection: letters to our future selves (opened in 6 months).
Celebration and farewell.
Materials, digital tools & other learning resources
Course participants will receive training and engage in exercises designed to develop their skills as trainers. The provision of additional materials or resources will be determined based on the course structure and the instructor’s approach to meeting the learning objectives
Course package content:
Services and activities included in the course package are those described above. Please note that accommodation, transport, and meals are not provided.
Cancellation & changes:
Common sense prevails when it comes to cancellations, which are analyzed on a case-by-case basis.