Collaboration is one of the most frequently used words in education and, in some ways, the least taught. Our ability to collaborate and our willingness to engage respectfully with one another matter for the health of the school and the collective well-being of all within it.
How do we stretch ourselves at our learning edges to become the best value-add team members? How do we communicate well with one another in service of our students? This two-day workshop will focus on the inner capacities (emotional regulation, self-awareness, suspension of certainty) as well as external capabilities (responsibility of one’s communications, engaging in value-added team behaviours) that help us all collaborate on whichever teams one sits. Participant Outcomes:
Ability to understand research around relational trust and psychological safety, and how communication affects team culture
Ability to take our ‘knowing’ of value-add team behaviours (listening, pausing, paraphrasing) and create self-created scaffolds so that ‘doing’ those behaviours is consistent
Ability to better name real issues on teams and handle tensions and challenging conversations more humanely and effectively
Ability to suspend certainty in real time — recognise my way is ‘a way not always the’ way
Ability to repair when there is a misstep
Ability to self-regulate more often and access tools to better support the goal to not interrupt, escalate or shut down when triggered
