Workshops for Educators

Burnout to Brilliance. The What, the Why and the How to Keep your Flame Burning in ELT.

Teacher burnout is increasing and it’s an international epidemic (Rankin 2016). Based on Positive Psychology and Wellbeing interventions and tools supported by research, this workshop introduces teachers to strategies to help them take steps in going from Burnout to Brilliance. The What, the Why and the How of burnout is explored and through an experiential approach, teachers leave the workshop with practical tools to apply in their own life.

Developing a Healthy Sense of Self in the Secondary School Classroom:  ELT for Life’s Purposes 

This teacher-training workshop presents a taster of the ELT for Life’s Purposes programme with a dual-focus objective –  personal growth and language development. Helping any learner reach their highest potential. Meaningful activities aim to support and develop personal growth, wellbeing and success and can be used by both teachers and learners alike. Though at first language tasks appear unassuming, they have the creative potential to reach deeper. Linguistically, they are so simple they can be used with almost any level and teaching context including adults, teens and young learners.

Pathways to Success – Discovering your Creativity and Purpose in ELT

What professional goal do you want to accomplish? What’s stopping you from discovering and achieving it? As teachers, often consumed by the routine of our profession, we sometimes allow opportunities for growth to pass us by. This workshop shares effective tools and techniques which, when creatively applied, support you towards realising your professional and/or personal goals.

Creating our Visions – Using Vision Boards in the Secondary School Classroom to Promote Wellbeing

This 2-hour teacher training workshop presents an English and arts lesson in which a class of secondary school learners created vision boards, a creative visualisation tool that uses words and pictures to represent goals and dreams.  We briefly outline the benefits of this inspirational and creative tool and providing clear steps into creating a vision board, you will have an opportunity to experience creating your own in the second part of the workshop, leaving inspired to try out this important visualisation tool with your learners.

Creativity – The Ingredient to Spicing up your Coursebook

What does a jar of ready-made curry sauce and a coursebook have in common? Using this paradox, I explore how a ready-made curry sauce is comparable to a coursebook. Specifically, a sauce is enhanced when extra ingredients are added. Equally, coursebook activities and tasks can also be spiced up, enriched, personalised and made more meaningful with the help of a distinct ingredient – creativity.

Workshops for Schools

ELT for Life’s Purposes – Pathways to Success

Through inspirational and creatively empowering language-learning tools, I directly teach your learners with tools that support them to setting and achieving their goals. Part of the ELT for Life’s Purposes programme, this 90’ minute lesson meaningfully engages learners, providing a rich and personalised language learning experience that supports their language development and personal growth, well-being and success.

Creating our Visions – Using Vision Boards in the Secondary School Classroom to promote Wellbeing

This exciting content-based lesson, which integrates English and arts introduces the concept of vision boards and why it is useful to create one. Thinking about their desires and then using a range of art materials and magazines, learners create vision boards. At the end of the session learners share their creations and visions with their peers.

Workshops for Women

Free Your Inner Leader

Women need courage to embrace the essence of who we are and to be able to acknowledge and express our own needs, wants and desires. Indeed, for many of us, in order to become the leader we were born to be, we need to shatter long-held limiting beliefs about what we can or can’t do as women. Based on my chapter in the best-selling book she co-authored entitled Success University for Women in Leadership, I demonstrate that freeing our inner leader requires belief, patience, faith, wisdom, strength and courage. In this workshop, I share 6 core success strategies she personally used on her own journey to freedom and shows that once free, we have the grace and capacity to authentically lead ourselves and others to becoming the person they are destined to be.

Fortified & Fabulous

Are you feeling stuck or unfulfilled? Have you reached a point in your life where you want to make changes? Are there professional and personal goals you want to accomplish, but need support towards taking that first step? As women, we sometimes allow opportunities for growth to pass us by. Well, not any longer! This introductory workshop presents effective tools and techniques to support you to get from where you are to where you want to be.

OWN YOUR POWER with Fizza Hussain

Your deep cleanse, tone and moisturizer to Self-Empowerment and Success. Just like a daily facial cleansing routine, ‘Own your Power’ is a step-by-step inner cleansing routine that gently exfoliates your negative beliefs, cleanses away what no longer serves you, tones and moisturizes your self-esteem and beliefs about what you can achieve. In this 1-day interactive transformational seminar:

• Uncover your true passion and purpose.
• Use timeless and proven tools and techniques to achieve your goals.
• Reach your highest potential
• Get from where you are to where you WANT to be!

Own your Power is aimed at all women of all ages who are looking to refresh their lives, gain clarity and focus and set real targets to move forward on a new and more empowered life.

Workshops for Corporations

From Burnout to Brilliance Workshop

Ever wondered – What is burnout?  What are the stages of burnout? Who does it affect? And how do we know if we personally, or someone we know is burning out and what can we do about it?   

Exploring burnout as a catalyst for change, the aim of this interactive talk is to identify and demystify burnout. We start by exploring what burnout is, who it affects and how we can identify it. Following this, participants are introduced to some of the prevention tools and strategies Dina personally applies in her own life and implements with her 1:1 mentoring clients, group training and workshops.

Burnout happens for a reason – together, we will discover why.