21/11/2018 TRADITIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY SUPPORTING STUDENT AND STAFF WELLBEING PLAN OF THE DAY COMMON SENSE?

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1 SUPPORTING STUDENT AND STAFF PLAN OF THE DAY First sessio: Traditioal psychology ad positive psychology What is wellbeig ad why does it matter? Lookig after ourselves Secod sessio: Lookig after each other. ASPIRE as a framework for healthy relatioships - persoal ad iterpersoal wellbeig. Third sessio: teacher wellbeig how ca EPs support teachers i times of challege, stress, ucertaity ad overload. The relevace of maitaiig a sese of meaig. TRADITIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COMMON SENSE? You already kow most of what we will be talkig about Traditioal Although everythig is based i research evidece people do ot do thigs o the basis of evidece but o belief Belief chages with mediated experiece, culture ad coversatio Positive Diagoses difficulties Respods/reacts to problems Addresses deficit, difficulty or pathology Provides therapy, treatmet ad support Looks ofte to elicitig chage i the idividual Focuses o what eables people to flourish Pro-active Idetifies ad builds stregths Solutio focused Not oly idividuals but also commuity ad systems POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ASKING DIFFERENT QUESTIONS What people eed for wellbeig? What do we all eed for a happy, healthy ad civil society? How are we promotig wellbeig? How ca we itervee i egative cycles so they become positive spirals? What works, what are we already doig well ad how ca build o this? COREY KEYES AND JONATHAN HAIDT (2003) Wellbeig is ot simply a absece of metal illess but the presece of positive levels of feeligs ad psychosocial fuctioig. It is about FLOURISHING rather tha laguishig. We are flourishig whe: we accept ad like most parts of ourselves we see ourselves developig ito better people we have warm ad trustig relatioships we have a degree of self-determiatio, ca choose what happes to us ad ca shape our eviromet to meet our eeds (also see the work of Deci ad Rya ad Carol Ryff o this topic) 1

2 PRILLELTENSKY S DEFINITION (2006) Well-beig is a positive state of affairs, brought about by the simultaeous satisfactio of persoal, orgaizatioal, ad collective eeds of idividuals ad commuities Hedoia subjective wellbeig the happy idividual Eudaimoia meaig ad virtue doig good for all SELIGMAN (2011) IN FLOURISH PERMA : Pillars of Authetic Happiess Positive feeligs ad attitudes Egagemet Relatioships Meaig ad purpose Acheivemet / Attaimet NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION Doig well positive psycho-social fuctioig Feelig good about yourself, the world 5 WAYS TO Coect Be active Doig good the moral dimesio of wellbeig Keep learig Feelig well good health Notice Give #teacher5aday AND WELFARE IN SCHOOL A DIFFERENT FOCUS BEGINS WITH WE Wellbeig is NOT just subjective happiess It is beig resiliet, coected with others, havig healthy relatioships ad a positive approach to life s opportuities ad challeges. Idividual ad commuity wellbeig are symbiotic ad iseparable A focus o wellbeig is i everyoe s iterests Social justice, equity ad ethics are part of wellbeig WELFARE All studets UNIVERSAL Pro-active Pickig up pieces Fidig the time Experts ad professioals Idividual studets Reactive Specific, add-o Part of school life Builds positive relatioships ad resiliece Plaig time Everyoe is a teacher for wellbeig 2

3 MAIN POINTS OF THE GOVERNMENT S APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH Additioal 1.4 billio for childre ad youg people s metal health over five years Is NOT Recruit 1,700 more therapists ad trai 3,400 staff to deliver evidece based treatmets A program Somethig you do oce a week 70,000 more youg people per year to receive support from MHS Somethig for kids at risk Desigated seior lead i each school to oversea MH ad WB Metal Health support teams liked to groups of schools Every member of staff receives metal health awareess traiig Whole school approach About everythig that happes i a school Ad how it happes Wellbeig is ecapsulated ot just i policy but i the everyday micromomets of iteractio It is very largely about relatioships ad school culture PERSONAL HELPING OURSELVES. Is Physical wellbeig sleep, food, exercise, relaxatio Social wellbeig beig with frieds: establishig ad maitaiig good relatioships ad repairig broke oes Emotioal wellbeig positive feeligs, havig fu, cotetmet Cogitive wellbeig how we thik about thigs, uderstadig differet ways of seeig thigs, a sese of perspective Psychological wellbeig self acceptace, autoomy, mastery, persoal growth WHAT MAKES LIFE WORTHWHILE? Harvard Study Logitudial study 268 Harvard sophomores i Bosto ier-city residets 1970s Now icludes the participats wives ad childre Robert Waldiger is the curret director of this study Spiritual wellbeig what gives life meaig Here is his Ted Talk. od_life_lessos_from_the_logest_study_o_happiess?laguag e=e EVERYDAY MAGIC CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE Ordiary magic eeds ordiary magicias : The power ad practice of positive relatioships for youth resiliece ad wellbeig Published i Kogitio&Paedagogik (2017) No You ca dowload the Eglish versio from ide.com/publicatios orwww.sueroffey.com UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS TOXIC ENVIRONMENT Domiat egative voices Both subtle ad overt bullyig behaviours itimidatio Silece ad silet collusio Bad mouthig Labellig, blamig ad scapegoatig Cliques i-crowds ad losers Battles for power - competitio rather tha collaboratio Focus o rules rather tha relatioships 3

4 THE OPPOSITE OF A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT IS ONE WITH HIGH SOCIAL CAPITAL Oe defiitio of high social capital is the quality of relatioships - ca be withi a orgaisatio, commuity, family or school HOW WE CAN SUPPORT EACH OTHER They eable people to be more emotioally expressive ad commuicate more opely SAFETY: Acceptace, icludig of imperfectios, ot itimidated POSITIVITY: Warmth, stregth focus, people feelig good INCLUSION: Everyoe matters ad has somethig to offer RESPECT: Listeig, ackowledgemet, ot pre-judgig They eable resolutio of differece ad are more flexible ad resposive They make people more eergized ad more relaxed More vulerable but also more resiliet. EVERY OPPORTUNITY video from Atlata Speech School: ASPIRE: Positive psychologist Jae Dutto refers to high quality coectios relatioal micro-momets that promote trust, respect ad safety that eable people to reach mutually agreed goals AGENCY: Not cotrollig but empowerig, workig with what is meaigful withi your ow value system EQUITY: Beig flexible to promote equal opportuities, flat hierarchical structure. WHAT MAY TEACHERS BE DEALING WITH? THE MICRO MOMENTS THAT MATTER Traumatised childre those who have experieced thigs out of the ordiary ad who may be hard to maage Greetig Listeig without judgmet Noticig ad sayig Rememberig Ivitig, icludig Beig flexible Ackowledgig Owig mistakes Kids i poverty Offerig, givig, supportig Beig the first to apologise Pressure for high test scores ad academic excellece Trustig beig trustworthy Courtesy Toxic eviromets Radom acts of kidess Choosig ot to say... Pupils who have experieced loss ad/or rejectio ad who feel badly about themselves ad their world WHOLE SCHOOL ISSUES THAT UNDERMINE TEACHER From Bruzell T. (2018) 1) teachers reported they had limited cotrol whe it came to decisio makig ad school policy 2) their moral values were o loger validated withi the workplace 3) their madates of care ad their desire to form strog teacher/studet relatioships were o loger hooured or facilitated by their schools (Maslach, C. 1999: Progress i uderstadig teacher burout. I R. Vadeburghe ad A.M. Huberma (eds) Uderstadig ad prevetig teacher burout, (pp ) Cambridge UP. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IN THE CLASSROOM? Teacher positive values uder threat Reduced sese of meaigful work Vicarious trauma Lack of cofidece i maagig challegig situatios Isolatio Metal ad physical health issues Compassio burout Vicarious post-traumatic stress 4

5 WHAT DO TEACHERS NEED TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IMPACT OF MEANING ON Positive coceptual strategies beliefs, thoughts, costructs. Optimal pedagogical strategies what you do ad how you do it Collaborative ad collegial support Agecy Autheticity - (coherece with values ad world view) Self-efficacy seeig positive differeces Self-esteem feelig good about what you are doig Purpose believig it matters Belogigess part of a team/movemet/etwork Trascedece keepig hold of the bigger picture Cultural ad iterpersoal sese makig CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE FURTHER INFORMATION sue@sueroffey.com or for may relevat academic articles 5