Course Information

Coaching Skills // Friday 6 December 2024 // 1000 - 1700
This comprehensive day long workshop aims to give participants a broad range of coaching skills with an equal focus on theory and knowledge sharing and applied practice. As well as covering the foundations of coaching including active listening, quality open questions, building rapport and goal setting - the session will also cover a range of techniques drawn from the fields of behaviour change and positive psychology. These include empowering people, building agency and self-efficacy, decisional balance and strengths identification and application.

This session will focus on workplace conversations and include trauma informed listening and effective signposting will also be covered to ensure participants are confident they can safeguard should any mental health or sensitive disclosures be shared. Lastly there will be a focus throughout on boundaries, ethical approaches and the well-being of the participants.

Key Topics Covered:
  • Building Trust and Rapport
  • Active Listening
  • Open Questions
  • Techniques to empower and build self-agency
  • Strengths Coaching approaches
  • Trauma Informed Listening and Signposting
  • Ethics and boundaries

Who is this course for?
This course is aimed at crew members who are in or soon to be in managerial/supervisory roles.

Tutor:
This course is delivered by Michelle White, an experienced and qualified Positive Psychologist and member of British Psychological Society (BPS) and founder of 6ft from the Spotlight, the industry body leading on mental health and wellbeing within the film and television industry.
Eligibility:
This session is specifically for established film and television practitioners based in Scotland. Please only apply if you meet this criteria. BECTU opportunities for those in other areas of the UK can be found here:
England, Wales.
  • Applicants should be based and working freelance in film and television in Scotland.
  • We're targeting practitioners working in scripted production for this course.
  • Students are not eligible for this training.

Selection:
  • As this is a workshop style course, there are a limited number of spaces available to allow participants the opportunity to interact and ask questions.
  • Priority for spaces will be given to eligible BECTU members.
  • If more BECTU members apply than spaces available, places will be given to those who demonstrate the greatest professional need for this training.
  • If we receive more eligible applications than spaces available, we will endeavour to schedule additional training sessions at a later date (subject to funding).
  • Places are provided free of charge but are worth a considerable amount. Please only apply if you can commit to attending the session.
The deadline to apply is
9AM, MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2024

This course is being delivered with support from Scottish Union Learning and is
funded by The Scottish Government.

If you have any queries please email vision@bectu.org.uk

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