- Date: February 05, 2024
- Time: 11:00 – 13:00
- Cost: BAISIS/BSA member – £135, BSA Affiliate Member – £170, Non-member – £270
- Audience: TBC
- Platform: Zoom (online) – seminar
Course Outline:
Schools with international students, have a unique opportunity to champion cultural diversity, equipping all students with essential life skills and enriching their educational experience. This 2-hour workshop will empower educators to navigate cultural differences, fostering genuine curiosity and effective communication with those studying and living within the community. Participants will learn to apply coaching techniques, including Graydin’s Start with Heart model, to facilitate meaningful conversations and promote student engagement.
Through this workshop, educators will develop strategies to build rapport with students from diverse backgrounds, creating a harmonious and supportive environment. They will learn to identify and reflect on personal biases that may impact interactions, navigate conflicting values, and formulate Effective Questions. These skills will enable educators to have empowering conversations with students, ultimately creating a harmonious and supportive environment for them to thrive within.
Training topics will include:
- Understanding the importance of cultural diversity
- Promoting cultural curiosity amongst students
- Empowering staff for cultural engagement
- Overcoming potential challenges.
Learning outcomes:
- Identify and reflect on personal biases that may impact interactions
- Navigate conflicting values and cultural differences
- Implement the Start with Heart coaching model
- Formulate and ask Effective Questions to promote student engagement and understanding.
- Develop strategies to build rapport with students from diverse backgrounds
- Promoting cultural curiosity amongst students
Speaker:
McKenzie Cerri, co-founder of Graydin
McKenzie Cerri is a co-founder of Graydin, an organisation working to revolutionise the ways we support, empower and connect with our next generations through coaching skills. Together with more than 250 schools and thousands of educators world-wide, Graydin has been at the forefront of the coaching movement in education since 2011.
McKenzie has over 20 years of experience in coaching and teacher training, having delivered hundreds of coaching courses and workshops to thousands of educators. She is a Co-active Coach, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, a Certificated Practitioner of NLP, and is trained in somatic coaching. Prior to Graydin, she worked as a youth coach within the public sector and partnered closely with Maudsley Hospital eating disorder unit to bring a coaching approach to carer support. Inspired by the impact coaching made on her formative years, combined with a desire to enhance the lives of young people, McKenzie partnered with Quinn Simpson more than a decade ago to form Graydin.
