Twilight Talk: Managing The Emotional Challenges of Working in Schools
- Online
- 27 Jan 2026 (16:00 - 17:00)
The emotional challenges of working in schools can be overwhelming. If not processed, this can have a serious impact on staff’s mental, emotional, and physical health which can compromise their ability to perform their roles and detrimentally impinge on their lives outside of work.
At Healthymindsatwork we provide schools and trusts with supervision, coaching, workshops and leadership development to help manage the emotional burden of their roles to reduce burn out, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
In this workshop we will cover key principles, tools and techniques routed in psychotherapy to improve the wellbeing, productivity and resilience of educators.
Agenda:
- The emotional challenges of working with in schools and with SEN students
- The sponge effect, projection and how we carry feelings for our client group
- Improving wellbeing by spotting the signs when we are struggling, knowing how to get support and filling our tanks to increase resilience
You can read more about our Twilight Talks sessions on our dedicated page.
Online
Suitable for: A parent/carer, Administration Staff, Assistant Head Teacher, Consultant, Deputy Head Teacher, Early Years Practitioner, Inclusion Manager/Leader, Newly Qualified Teacher, SENCO, Student, Support staff, Teacher, Young person, Other
Meet your trainer
Leanne Hoffman
Leanne is a cofounder and partner at HealthyMinds@Work. She is also an executive coach, trainer and consultant, specialising in leadership, employee and organisational development, with twenty five years’ experience working in management consultancy and organisational development, for Andersen, Tesco Limited and SAGE Publications, and as a freelancer for a range of companies. Leanne runs many supervision, reflective practice and coaching sessions plus workshops in Education. She has been a governor for 8 years leading the Pay, Personnel and Resources Committee.
She has a deep knowledge of how to motivate, engage and develop people so they can perform to their best and contribute significantly to the organisations they work for.
In addition, Leanne is a registered and accredited psychotherapist with 20 years’ experience and has a private practice in central London. This has enabled her to gain a deeper understanding of people’s emotional world and how this influences their behaviour, performance and development. She uses this to inform her work and often includes therapeutic tools to help build self-awareness, manage emotional responses like stress, and increase emotional intelligence and resilience, enabling people to thrive.
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