Twilight Talk: Managing The Emotional Challenges of Working in Schools

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25 Nov 2025

Twilight Talks

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

Once you have finished watching this recording please do complete our short evaluation.

You can read more about our Twilight Talks sessions on our dedicated page.

Suitable for: A parent/carer, Administration Staff, Assistant Head Teacher, Consultant, Deputy Head Teacher, Early Years Practitioner, Educational Psychologist, Governor, Head Teacher, Inclusion Manager/Leader, Newly Qualified Teacher, SENCO, Senior Leader, Student, Support staff, Teacher, Tutor, Young person, Other

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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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Twilight Talk: Nurturing the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Dual and Multiple Exceptional (DME) Learners

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25 Nov 2025

Free

Twilight Talks

This session was delivered by Natalie Jensen

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