Psychological Safety and Emotional Wellbeing

Course information

Course title

Psychological Safety and Emotional Wellbeing Strategies To Increase Your Competence as a Trainer

Duration of the course

9 hours

Course Content

Learn how to incorporate psychological safety and psychological wellbeing into your personal and professional life as a trainer. In this course, we’ll review some of the concepts around psychological safety, understanding what it is, its relationship to vulnerability, why it’s important for learning and innovation, and how to increase it in yourself and others. We’ll also review concepts around psychological wellbeing, exploring different strategies Positive Psychology can offer a trainer in order to better prepare for and manage sessions, lead your emotional experience to lead others’, increase your ability to adapt to change through resilience and optimism, prevent burnout and deal with Impostor Syndrome and Survivor’s Guilt.

We will explore these concepts through experiential learning and practice strategies that you can apply in your personal life and when working as a trainer or a consultant in a wide variety of contexts.

Takeaways

• Develop a deeper understanding of the concept and strategies around Psychological Safety. What it is, why it is important to learning and innovation, it’s relationship to vulnerability and how to increase it in yourself and others.
• Learn how to incorporate concepts and strategies around Emotional Wellbeing to your personal and professional life as a trainer: increasing your self-awareness, leading your emotional experience, managing anxiety and dealing with psychological barriers like impostor syndrome and survivor’s guilt.
• Develop Emotional Wellbeing practices based on Positive Psychology that can increase your competence as a trainer or consultant in a variety of contexts, boosting your authenticity, resilience, optimism and relationship building skills.

Training methods

• Experiential learning based on Kolb’s wheel on deep learning. Come prepared to experience, reflect, conceptualize, and apply what you’ve learned.
• Training methods will include readings, self-awareness questionnaires, journaling, discussions and individual and group exercises.