Pricing for each workshop: R195.00 per delegate per workshop.

Workshop 1: Tuesday 11 March 2025

THE WORKSHOP: “FROM BURNT OUT TO LIT UP! – DEALING WITH THE TOXIC SLUDGE IN OUR LIVES”

Following some of the most difficult years ever experienced, let me workshop your academic and support team to ensure that they are motivated to face any of the challenges that they may encounter, with confidence, commitment and dedication.
Within a few months of the start of the academic year, staff often feel burnt out, empty and powerless. As performance decreases, emotional exhaustion and a fear of failure increase. Those affected feel completely overwhelmed and buried under a wealth of expectations from other people. They can no longer meet their own demands either. Let’s equip your most valuable assets to deal with and prevent this happening to them.

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Workshop 2: Thursday 13 March 2025)

Creating a Vape-Free school environment. A workshop for your School Management Team.

Electronic cigarette usage amongst Primary and High School Learners has become a national crisis. Findings in a recent research article published in The Lancet, indicated that 16, 83% of Primary School Learners and 36, 83% of High School Learners vaped on a weekly basis.
This workshop provides school managers with the tools to eradicate the culture of vaping by understanding the addiction levels, the cognitive factors and implementing current legislation, utilising the schools code of conduct and disciplinary measures. This is a school-wide approach.

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Workshop 3: Tuesday 13 May 2025)

A Workshop on the Development of a Strategy and the Implementation of Policy for the Prevention and Management of Bullying Behaviour

Effective, evidence-based approaches to preventing and addressing school bullying use a holistic model, known as the whole-school approach. Such a holistic approach incorporates a range of complementary actions and necessitates the engagement of different stakeholders both within and outside of the school setting.
Teachers play a critical role within the holistic approach: Teachers are essential in creating psychologically and physically safe school and classroom environments and their relationship with students is key in preventing and addressing school bullying. They can model caring and respectful relationships and guide students in taking action themselves through student-led initiatives and peer approaches. Teachers are also in a unique position to recognize and respond to incidents of bullying and connect students with referral services when needed. In addition, teachers provide a link between school and community through their relationship with parents. Last but not least, teachers are an important resource in generating evidence and assessing what works at the school level.
However, teachers need training and support to play this critical role.

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Workshop 4: Thursday 15 May 2025)

“There’s a Monster in my Classroom” – A Workshop on Creating a Positive Discipline Environment for the Z and Alpha Generation.

Millennial Parents and their Gen Z and Alpha Children, think, act, interoperate and process everything very differently. It is critical, as an educator, to understand the psychology behind these generations if we have any chance of fighting the ongoing battle against ill-discipline in the classroom.
One of the key elements that affect the health of the school’s environment is the issue of managing learner behaviour through the disciplinary processes of a school. Management, educators and other staff are dealing with problematic behaviour from the learners on a daily basis.
We live in a time where there appears to be a real decline in the area of discipline in general. The result of this decline is seen and felt by educators and school management who deal with the learner. Learners are lacking some basic character elements, such as a good work ethic, taking responsibility for their actions, self-control, open disrespect, defiance to name a few.
There are many factors that contribute to this, such as family life, rights based thinking without responsibility, exposure to violence, learners influence on one another, poverty and/or wealth, conduct of our countries leaders and learners’ developmental difficulties.

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Workshop 5: Tuesday 20 May 2025)

Cyber – Proof your School. An essential workshop for every member of your academic Staff “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and few minutes of cyber incident to ruin it.”

In today’s digital age, technology has become an integral part of our daily lives, as much as it has bought us countless benefits, it also poses several threats and dangers both to the learners of South Africa and the educators teaching them.
South Africa’s cybercrime rate has risen by 7.8% from 2021 to 2022, resulting in the country being ranked fifth on the global index of countries hit by cybercrimes. This has created major exposure for learners, parents, and educators to some of the worst cyber-crimes dangers since the Covid-19 lockdown. Recent studies have shown that cyber-attacks and online fraud scams had increased by 600% since the lockdown in 2020. 62% of South Africa’s children have been exposed to at least one cyber risk, 55% of children were victims of cyber bullying (over 90% have seen cyber bullying occurring online), 11% have chatted to a stranger online and 18% had engaged in online sexual behavior.
In our new cyber safety workshop, we aim to educate and equip both students and educators with the necessary knowledge and skills to navigate the online world safely and responsibly. Using highly interactive and engaging multimedia presentation and real-life scenarios. We will cover topics such as: dangers and safety tips of apps on your device, the dangers of cyber predators, the pitfall of pornography and taking nude selfies, netiquette and the threats of online scammers and geo-location apps.

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Workshop 6: Thursday 22 May 2025)

Child Safeguarding Staff Development Workshop

MY RIGHTS AND LEGAL OBLIGATIONS AS AN EDUCATOR IN SOUTH AFRICA
One of the biggest challenges facing education in South Africa today is the lack of training provided to teachers when it comes to issues of child protection, abuse reporting protocols and the responsibilities that teachers have in their in loco parentis relationship with learners. The sad truth is that teachers are not normally trained to deal with the real issues that they face in the classroom, recent negative media has proven that schools are ill equipped to deal with the real issues at hand, physical and sexual abuse, depression, suicide, self-mutilation, self-made pornography and reporting obligations.
A number of teachers have recently faced the might of the criminal justice system due to the fact that they failed to report cases of sexual or physical abuse to the correct authorities after a direct disclosure from a child.
We are thrilled to announce that we have produced a series of short training videos to be utilised for staff development, each workshop is presented by Dr John Buswell and comes with a comprehensive protocol and procedure reference guide that should be made available to each member of staff for future reference when required.

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Workshop 7: Tuesday 27 May 2025)

A Workshop on Dealing with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Issues, Basic Counselling and facilitating a Trauma-debriefing.

Recent studies have found that 24% of South African youngsters surveyed between Grade 5 to Grade 11 had experienced feelings of depression, hopelessness and sadness, while a further 21% had attempted suicide at least once. These studies also state that among school-attendees aged 10 to 15, showed that adolescents experienced a high prevalence of depression (41%), anxiety (16%) and PTSD (21%).
Educators are expected to deal with many of these issues with very little formal counselling or trauma training. A caring Educator can transform the school experience, especially for learners who face enormous home difficulties. The basic ability to counsel, listen, guide and refer when necessary, can transform a learners life forever.
This workshop presented John Buswell will empower Educators to understand how anxiety, depression and trauma effects learners, identify the presenting symptoms and be able to provide basic counselling to both learners and colleagues. An educator with counselling and communication skills enhances the schools professionalism, affirms a learner’s dignity and helps develop trusting relationships in times of crises.

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Workshop 8: Tuesday 22 April 2025

THE WORKSHOP: “FROM BURNT OUT TO LIT UP! – DEALING WITH THE TOXIC SLUDGE IN OUR LIVES”

Following some of the most difficult years ever experienced, let me workshop your academic and support team to ensure that they are motivated to face any of the challenges that they may encounter, with confidence, commitment and dedication.
Within a few months of the start of the academic year, staff often feel burnt out, empty and powerless. As performance decreases, emotional exhaustion and a fear of failure increase. Those affected feel completely overwhelmed and buried under a wealth of expectations from other people. They can no longer meet their own demands either. Let’s equip your most valuable assets to deal with and prevent this happening to them.

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