Upcoming Events

Welcome to the Wellbeing Café: a series of bi-weekly community conversations via Zoom, facilitated by CreatePositive. All over the world, cafés are welcoming places to pause, gather, exchange news and views, and to be refreshed and inspired.   LEADING WELL (EVEN WHEN YOU'RE TIRED): 21 APRIL This week: What leaders need, particularly when depleted themselves, is not an if...then plan, but behaviors and mindsets that enable decision-making with buy-in and confidence from your team. In this session we will explore how…

Embracing Crisis as a Catalyst for Change: A Fireside Chat with Executive Director Kam Chohan and Dr Kynan Robinson. After nearly a year living and teaching through a global pandemic, we all have a new appreciation for what it means to survive a major crisis. But we also have an opportunity to embrace a new understanding of “crisis” as an invitation for change. Certainly, we all learned a lot about ourselves, our schools and how we need to change to…

The Powerful Role of Mindfulness in Improving International School Communities’ Mental Health and Wellbeing. For a learning ecosystem to be truly effective, it needs to prioritise student and staff wellbeing alongside academic achievement and quality teaching.  In this webinar, Pearson's Mindfulness Lead, Ashley Lodge and his co-teacher Lisa Wren will explain: the role of mindfulness in improving student and staff mental health and wellbeing, the neuroscience and psychology underpinning it provide a basic practice/meditation so you can experience directly how mindfulness works…

ECIS/ICMEC: Healthcare Professional Practice Group: 11 MAY 2021 Intended Audience: Medical professionals, their supervisors, and child protection designates/deputies. Join us for a healthcare professional discussion group.  This meeting will enable healthcare professionals working in schools to discuss challenges, model practice, and anonymized cases with Dr. Jordan Greenbaum, child abuse physician with the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC). The size of this event will be restricted to enable discussion and participation We intend to offer ongoing discussion groups…