Staff Wellbeing in the Early Years with Sonia Mainstone-Cotton

Sonia Mainstone-Cotton shares practical ideas and strategies for supporting your own physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. She shares further reading and research, ways that you can support colleagues and a realistic ‘menu of ideas’ for you to choose from.
· October 4, 2022

In this 4-part course, Sonia Mainstone-Cotton shares practical ideas and strategies for supporting your own physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. She shares further reading and research, ways that you can support colleagues and a realistic ‘menu of ideas’ for you to choose from.

In part 1, Physical Wellbeing, you will learn:

  • About the types of foods to eat and how this impacts on your mental as well as physical wellbeing
  • Different types of exercise to help your wellbeing
  • Why sleep and rest are so important to our wellbeing

In part 2, Emotional Wellbeing, you will learn:

  • How to recognise if you are stressed
  • How to practice self-compassion in an easy way
  • About Nature and its ability to support emotional wellbeing

In part 3, Spiritual Wellbeing, you will learn:

  • About the power of silence and mindfulness
  • How to eat mindfully
  • About Gratitude practice

In part 4, Supporting colleagues, you will learn:

  • How our own stress can affect those around us
  • Simple strategies for helping others
  • To set an action plan for your own wellbeing for the future

This training is just over an hour long, with activities for you to try throughout. You’ll get a certificate on completion.

You get lifetime access to the course and you can watch as many times as you want.

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About Your Course Instructor:

Sonia has worked with early years children for over 30 years, currently as a freelance nurture consultant with a small organisation called Brighter Futures in Bath. In this role she works with four year olds with social, emotional and mental health needs, supporting the children and their staff.

During her career, she has worked for a national children’s charity specialising in participation work, working with Children and Young people aged from 0 -19 years.

Sonia is also a trainer with 20 year’s experience, delivering high quality, bespoke training across the country with a variety of sectors, including early years, social services, education, health, the voluntary sector and the church and specialising in children’s wellbeing, staff wellbeing and listening to children. Her training is influenced by her wide experience of excellent practice observed in Reggio Emillia, Sweden and Denmark.

Sonia is the author of 8 books and regularly writes for education magazines. Most of her writing career has focused on supporting wellbeing for staff and children.

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Episode Includes

  • Episode Certificate