We are the InvestED Wellbeing team, nicknamed the ‘educational game changers’.
We coach, mentor and support all educators with an abundance of passion, commitment, focus and inspiration.
Our electric approach to education and self investment radiates throughout our programmes, workshops and lectures.
Our training and strategies are educational game changers.
We are passionate about building knowledge and strategies to unlock your own and your students academic and emotional potential. We are here to give you the results you need. embedding effective, time efficient wellbeing strategies throughout daily life and classes.
Training and Consultancy for Inspiring Staff Development
Jackie Beere is a leading educational trainer and consultant, a former Headteacher, School Improvement Partner, Advanced Skills Teacher, AST Assessor, life coach and NLP Master Practitioner. She is also a successful author of many books including The Perfect Teacher and The Perfect (Ofsted) Lesson. You can see these and her other books by clicking here.
The Well-Being and Health for Learning Programme provides a structured framework and process to help improve the well-being and health of the whole school community, thereby enhancing learning and achievement.
It is owned and managed by The Well-Being and Health for Learning Partnership (Jan Lever and Joanna Feast).
The premise is that a positive and healthy community is best placed to afford a wealth of learning opportunities for children and young people.
Individual Coaching for Teaching Staff offers 1:1 coaching sessions with a strong focus on well-being, career progression and time management, amongst many other areas. The coaching sessions offer dedicated time to stop in such a busy lifestyle, which is crucial to allowing us to take stock of what’s happening and re-evaluate what needs to be done.
As part of your teaching career, do you want:
Reduced stress levels
Work- life balance
To be more effective with your time
To plan your career steps
A new confidence
More motivation
And if you were to have all of these, how would your career and life be different to how it is now? If you would like to implement all of these, and much more into your current way of working, then Coaching for Teaching Staff is for you! Coaching provides the dedicated time and space you need to work on yourself, gain new ideas and create a plan of action for success. Sessions also provide complete confidentiality and detachment, to ensure you are in a neutral environment, gaining the constructive feedback you require to move forward.
Group Coaching for Teaching Staff
Alternative to 1:1 Coaching Sessions, Group Coaching for Teaching Staff can be another highly effective way of supporting teaching staff in a variety of areas such as:
Professional Development
Fulfilling the School Vision
Supervision
Adjusting to Change
Support and Progression
Workshops offer the opportunity to share ideas, understand direction and listen to how things are for other members of staff. They provide the clarity needed to enhance performance and still provide that vital time for ourselves to stop and reflect on how we see the world. Group coaching workshops are offered as an alternative, to move away from the 1:1 format and can reduce cost, whilst still gaining the great benefits of coaching. It allows all group members to feel ‘on the same page’ and gain peer support whilst still focusing on what current obstacles are in place, how to overcome these and planning the next steps you may need to take as a group and/or individually. Group size can vary upon your needs; however, we suggest a maximum of 12 people in a room at a time to keep within time frames. Workshops have proven great outcomes when delivered half termly; this allows us to review progress of goals regularly and to focus on the impact of immediate action.
Your rights to ask for flexible working, i.e. a change in your terms and conditions relating to the hours you work, the times you work or whether you work at home for all or part of the week. You are encouraged to take informal steps before using the statutory procedure.
Advice from the National Education Union
Inspiring your pupils and staff to create a better, kinder world!
Your pupils will learn how to re-examine their choices, consciously choosing kindness in their interactions with fellow pupils as well as staff to build positive, long-lasting relationships. Together, we can make education a kinder place for all!
In a world of increasing intolerance – share a little kindness and give a lot of love.
Are you feeling exhausted or overwhelmed?
Do you feel alone and like no one understands?
and breathe… is a monthly membership which supports you on your journey every day.
When you join “and breathe…” you will get:
A daily message of encouragement, relaxation techniques, a weekly mantra and strategies to help you start your day with a smile and help you through the day, and build a personal mindfulness practise.
Access to a supportive, members only, Facebook group where you can safely share your current struggles and be supported by both me and other teachers who understand
Regular Facebook Live videos to address any issues which have come up in discussions in the group
A growing library of relaxation resources you can dip into whenever you need a little more support.
Access to me when you need that extra bit of support
To be part of this brand new community and help me to make it whatever you need it to be!
All this and little extra gifts at random intervals to put a smile on your face for just £10 a month!
I know what it feels like to wake up and not want to get out of bed. To be on the brink of tears from morning til night, and to be so overwhelmed by emotions that you feel like you are drowning. I battled with depression very early on in my teaching career and managed to find strategies to overcome it. I can help.
It’s time to make a change. You deserve more.
Sign up and take control of your life now!
If you want to feel valued, supported, cared for, uplifted, positive, and generally calmer and happier, “and breathe…” is for you.
Leadercoach Life Coaching supports and encourages Headteachers and school leaders to reach for further success and fulfilment in their personal, or professional life through one to one coaching.
Life Coaching is a proven way to help you to attain greater motivation, success and enjoyment from life.
Motivation is the key to success for us all. A life coach will help you to become more successful, attain achievable goals, and clarify what you actually do want from life. With full support, help and guidance, a life coach can help you to be successful in those challenging times of uncertainty, anxiety or loss of confidence.
A Headteacher or senior leader role in schools is one of the most challenging roles today. The sessions will provide you with support, help you become focused, stay committed to your goals, achieve them, and fight off distractions that are hindering your continued success as a Headteacher.
Building on 30 years experience in education, I am passionate about leadership development in schools and the wider education system. That is why I have set up Leadership Matters.
Mission
Leadership Matters aims to improve the educational outcomes for children through working alongside educational leaders in national, regional and local contexts through offering high quality support in the following areas:
Senior team development programme - an in-depth and diagnostic approach to enabling senior teams in organisations and schools to work together more effectively as a team or to solve a collective challenge. Find out more here.
Tailored executive coaching - confidential one-to-one performance coaching for policy-makers, CEOs, headteachers or senior leaders, designed specifically around the needs of the individual. I have been fully trained in executive coaching through a programme (ILM7) validated by the Institute of Leadership and Management.
Bespoke leadership keynotes and training - bespoke inputs for policymakers, groups of middle and/or senior leaders on leadership development, tailored to meet the needs of particular audiences, partnerships or schools. I also run training for whole-staff groups on the culture and climate that supports schools to become and remain outstanding. This can, if required, include input on how a clear whole-school approach to pedagogy can support this. Find out about the detail of sessions I have run here.
What would change if your whole school prioritised and practised mental and emotional wellbeing everyday?…
…If you chose to embed moments of settling, reflection and kindness into your curriculum?
…If instead of worrying about supporting the mental and emotional health of your children and staff,
you felt confident because you were doing it.
…If your children and staff were well-equipped to notice and nurture their own well-being needs and were
empowered to take responsible action to help themselves?
…If you’re anxious, stressed and unhappy children (and families) had strategies that worked for them?
…If your staff felt less pressure, more confidence and a deeper connection with pupils on how to
communicate and manage mental and emotional health issues?
…If more children recognised their own barriers to learning and chose to overcome them?
…If you influenced positive well-being for life
…If you ALL had a fully equipped toolbox of tools and strategies to use
that help you when you’re stressed, tired, anxious or frustrated? (Yes, teachers too!)
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