Course overview

Distress is a prevalent and costly problem in today's workplace with about one-third of workers reporting high levels of stress. Excessive work-related stress can have serious behavioral, physical and psychological consequences. Relations with parents and students, workplace conflicts and deadlines are all potential causes for distress that teachers should learn how to manage.
Participants will learn how to identify the sources of stress, how to prevent and cope with stressful experiences and how to support students deal with stressful and conflictual situations. Through a practical approach participants will acquire concrete methods and will share best practices that enable them to better manage stress and conflict in their job as well as in their personal lives.

​Learning outcomes

This course allows participants to improve their ability to prevent and manage work-related stress by identifying in advance the main sources as well as testing the best strategies to prevent distress and to manage stressful situations.
The general aim of this course is to foster excellence in education by empowering teachers, trainers, headmasters and other education staff to improve their stress and conflict management skills together with other participants and trainers throughout all Europe gaining as well a broader understanding of education in Europe and exchanging best practices and experiences.
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Thanks to this course the participants will:

• Learn about the dynamics and characteristics of stress, its causes and its effects;
• Get an insight into their individual patterns of stress response;
• Practice and acquire concrete stress and conflict management techniques and tools;
• Learn how to apply stress management tools to typical education situations (i.e. parent-teacher relationship, bullying etc.)
• Learn how to lead simple relaxation and visualization activities to ease students’ anxiety;
• Exchange good practices and discuss challenges with fellow colleagues and the course trainers;
• Make contacts with individuals and organizations working in the education field in Europe through everyday cooperation and networking activities.

Courses planned

2024
10/03/2024 - 16/03/2024 (Tenerife)
12/05/2024 - 18/05/2024 (Bologna)
12/05/2024 - 18/05/2024 (Palermo)
25/08/2024 - 31/08/2024 (Palermo)
15/09/2024 - 21/09/2024 (Bologna)
15/09/2024 - 21/09/2024 (Tenerife)
17/11/2024 - 23/11/2024 (Tenerife)

2025
12/01/2025 - 18/01/2025  (Porto) 
04/05/2025 - 10/05/2025 (Bologna)
04/05/2025 - 10/05/2025 (Palermo) 04/05/2025 - 10/05/2025 (Tenerife)
24/08/2025 - 30/08/2025 (Bologna)
24/08/2025 - 30/08/2025 (Tenerife)
28/09/2025 - 04/10/2025 (Porto)
02/11/2025 - 08/11/2025 (Bologna)
02/11/2025 - 08/11/2025 (Palermo)
02/11/2025 - 08/11/2025 (Tenerife)

​If none of these dates suits you please mind that if there are at least 8 participants interested we may organize an additional session ad-hoc for your school.

Target audience

This course is open to: teachers, headmasters, trainers, educational staff, school and education managers, educational and  career counsellors, other school staff, other adult education staff, other higher education staff, other non-governmental organization staff, public servants, policy makers. Please mind that the course may include teachers from different school levels.

Language

The course is held in English. For groups with at least 8 participants, we can organize an ad-hoc session in a different language. 
Please write an email to [email protected] to get more information about it.

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"I strongly recommend this course to anyone. Not only will you acquire various tools on how to lower stress levels, but will also gain skills on how to live on a day-to-day basis. Francesco was absolutely fantastic on delivering the course information, he made it simple."

- Colm Trainor, UK

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"I met really interesting people who helped me to know the relaxing techniques. I learned many things for a good part of stress and many tools to stop the stress."
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​- Ioulia Pentafragka, Greece

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"The best course about stress! It includes the most important knowledge about stress management. A very knowledgeable course leader."
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​- Carita Green Granström, Sweden

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"Francesco explains complicated things in such a clear way so we could really get the point of it. And he is also very knowledgeable and down to earth trainer. Highly recommend!"
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​- Lea Avgustin, Slovenia

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"Very useful course for my work and for my personal life, making priority plan for my life, helping me to be more assertive. It was like a lighthouse for all my questions about communication."
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- Alenka Vodopivec, Slovenia

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Standard daily programme

Please find below the standard indicative daily programme that will be personalized on participants needs and professional profiles.
Our standard program comprises 7 days of course, of which the first one is dedicated to networking, preparation and cultural immersion and the last one to follow up, specific needs and cultural activities. Please note that we always do our best to accommodate the specific needs of our participants in a flexible way, including but not limited to budget restrictions and travel arrangement. Participants can choose to arrive 1 day before the start of the course and/or leave one day after the end of it in order to enjoy a deeper cultural immersion. Upon specific request we can organize longer or shorter versions of this course.

Sunday	-  Participants arrival  - Orientation and information about the venue and the city   - Networking activities  - Walking tour in the venue’s city
Monday	- Course introduction - Teambuilding exercises - Needs and expectations evaluation - Understanding what generates stress: sources, aspects, symptoms and effects - Practical work: understanding my individual pattern of stress response - Positive stress and distress: basic concepts and concrete examples
Tuesday	- Learning a new skill: stress management - Cognitive and behavioral strategies - Simulation exercise: typical stressful situation at school - Practical work: sharing of best practices and peer-review - Understanding how people respond to stress differently -   Cultural activities in the venue’s city
Wednesday	-  Creating resistance to stress - The role of self-esteem and personal attitudes (emotional intelligence, assertiveness, time management) in preventing distress -  Practical work: strengthening my internal potential -  Optional cultural visit outside the venue’s city
Thursday	- Managing conflict: strategies and tools - Practical work: applying conflict management at school - How to support students to manage stressful and conflictual situations - Applying conflict management techniques to real-case examples
Friday	-  Relieving the tensions and building resilience -  Practical work: implementing a relaxation and visualization session -  Practical work: practicing breathing and self-awareness techniques -  Farewell dinner
Saturday	- Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities - Course roundup and final evaluation - Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony - Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional) - Participants departure

Other relevant facts

• Methodology
• Costs and Erasmus+ Funding
• Certification and Validation of learning outcomes

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We tailor the working methods based upon participants’ needs, attitudes and professional profiles in order to ensure high productivity, effectiveness and transferability into practice.
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaboratively working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on learning in an interactive and international environment knowledge applicable to the real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential training, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange. They include visits with local schools and institutions allowing the participants to better understand the local education system as well as exchange ideas and contacts.
Morning Wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure quality of education and to adapt the learning programme to participants' needs better tailoring the education.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know Italy as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional cooperation and links.
The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.

Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course  thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about  how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements. 
TThe most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2025 costs 1405 EUR in Bologna, 1330 EUR in Tenerife and Thessaloniki and 1225 EUR in Palermo, Porto and Rimini and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. The standard option in Bologna, Tenerife and Thessaloniki includes all meals from Sunday lunch to Saturday lunch, while in Palermo, Porto and Rimini includes all breakfasts and three networking meals in local restaurants. Few of our courses include extra services and activities hence having a different pricing option, which will be communicated upon receiving the pre-registration.​
For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. In this way you can have more flexibility in planning your stay and you can enjoy all the cultural activities planned from the first to the last day of course. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding. Shall you have need any help with filling the budget during the application stage or have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to support you.

At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a certificate of attendance, together - if requested - with the Europass Mobility Certificate. The certificate are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and include a short description of the course and its learning outcomes, dates, venues, the name of the course provider and the course instructor(s).
We support the participants in every step of certification and validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.
We experienced that schools and education organizations may require additional documents to certify the competences learned or the presence in the training course. Upon request we can provide additional certification and reporting documents as well as we provide photos of the training course and a sum-up video that can be used for visibility and dissemination purposes.

Videos and photos of previous training courses

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