Leading through community trauma: Your role, your wellbeing, your community’s plan - Group 1

Group 1  
Part 1 –Thursday 8 August 11am-12.15pm 
Part 2 – Thursday 5 September 11am-12.15pm 
Part 3 – Thursday 3 October 11am-12.15pm  

Register now to participate in this crisis support workshop series for ECEC leaders and educators. 

The NSW Department of Education is offering these free workshops with partner, Be You.  

Be You will support participating services to build capacity and skills to prepare for and respond to natural disasters and critical incidents and other events that result in community trauma.  

The leaders of early learning services play an important role in guiding their learning community through stressful and uncertain times. Leaders provide continuity, connection, stability and structure.  

Over the course of their 3-partworkshop series, which will be delivered online, we will explore your role as a leader when responding to natural disasters, critical incidents and other events that can result in community trauma, as well as building on your existing skills to respond to and lead through community trauma.  

The sessions will support you to:  

• appreciate your role as a leader in supporting learning communities before, during and after natural disasters, critical incidents and other events that can result in community trauma 

• understand the potential impacts of natural disasters and other events that result in community trauma, and how learning communities can support children, young people and educators’ resilience and recovery  

• recognise the impacts on your own mental health and take action to support wellbeing  

• use your leadership role to support your learning community in preparing for and recovering from natural disasters, critical incidents and other events that can result in community trauma 

• explore the 4-part framework for supporting resilience and recovery (educator wellbeing, daily approaches, monitoring progress and activating support) and the 3 key responsibilities for leaders: partnerships, operations and advocacy. 
  

Together, we will share our knowledge and begin building practical and actionable plans to support preparedness, resilience, capacity building, recovery, healing and growth through healthy and responsive leadership.   

Up to 25 places are available in this 3-part online workshop series, including up to 2 educators per service.  

Each session runs for 75 minutes and includes a 45 minute presentation and a 30 minute action-planning workshop.  

You must attend all 3 sessions to complete the training.