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Weekend courses in Wales -- Weekend courses at my beautiful centre in Wales. In a delightful spot on a hillside above the sea, with the mountains all around. Weekend workshops Basic - Becoming Emotional Intelligent- October 10 to 12 2008 and April 10 to 12 2009 Advanced -Becoming...... (read more)

Remembering Your Joy Living Your Joy -- Basic course-Remembering Your Joy- Please contact for details Advance course Living your Joy- June 6 to 8 2008 For more information contact Catherine for a brochure.... (read more)

Mother and Daughter Bringing up emotionally intelligent children/young people -- Two courses Basic- Bringing up emotionally intelligent children/young people November 16 to 18 2007 and April 4 to 6 2008 Advanced- Mother and Daughter..June 20 to 22 2008 and June 12-14 2009 For more information contact Catherine for a brochure....... (read more)

New Web Site -- The new web site for Catherine Corrie is now live. The site features a resource archive of articles and information. Web site for the centre in Wales is also live http://www.wisechild.co.uk/... (read more)
"Catherine Corrie first came to my attention when I bought her book Becoming Emotionally Intelligent. The school had already introduced training over a period of time on thinking skills and accelerated learning and staff were using strategies to support more effective learning and teaching in the school.

One of our key core values relates to raising pupils self esteem and when I read the first two pages in the first chapter of Cath's book I knew immediately that she was the person who could provide the next piece of the learning jigsaw for myself and my staff.

Cath provided a days training for staff last September and later that month an evening for parents. Around 50 parents turned up for the evening and they were so impressed that they have asked Cath to return for another session in the summer term.

Cath showed a profound and practical knowledge of emotional intelligence, combined with an intellectual rigour which left us all feeling we had been challenged in our own thinking. She was a catalyst for change and improvement in our understanding and practice.

I believe that Cath's work has been both beneficial for my staff and for the children we teach, as well as their parents. Importantly it has reinforced and supported our own commitment to our core values and helped to strengthen the ethos of our school. This was evidenced in our recent OfSTED in January 2004 were one of the main contributory factors to high standards in the school was the spiritual, moral and social development of the pupils, which OfSTED believes encourages confidence and high self esteem thereby sustaining positive approaches to learning."

P A MONK
Headteacher
ST AGATHA’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey

Catherine Corrie provides a range of excellent training programs to assist teachers, students, and individuals to fully live, gracefully learn and flourish:

Supporting the Development of a Whole-School approach to Secondary SEAL -- This course prepares senior managers to support the development of a whole school approach to SEAL where staff are being asked to model, demonstrate and teach these skill to pupils at all times. The course will look at the effects of stress and how......

Preparing for Change -- This course is designed to support staff where schools are amalgamating, closing, or changing building. It can also focus on Preparing pupils and parents for the changes between year six and year seven....

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Every Child Matters -- What Matters to Every Child? If you want to create a school in which every child matters then Catherine will design a course specifically for you. Taking into account where you are now and where you want to be. See flyer for more details...

Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Organisation -- Introduction: This course is an opportunity to develop a joint vision for the organisation one which will inspire each person to fully contribute. It will allow each participant to discover their vision for themselves and their own development. Each person......

Becoming Emotionally Intelligent Part One -- Introduction: A weekend course for adults. this course gives you an opportunity to improve your realionships with family, partners, children, and friends. Create your life to be the life you choose by being the person you choose to be. Outcomes: On the......

Becoming an Emotinally Intelligent Parent -- Introduction: This course has been run as a set of evenings set up by individual schools or it can be carried out as a two day workshop. The course looks at the parent you would choose to be and the parent you think you are, it will allow you to choose......

Six Day Lead Learner Training -- Introduction: Covered in two day blocks with a month between. This course allows two or three adults from each school to be trained to lead the development of Emotional Intelligence in their school. This is a training which requires a strong committment......

Working together to Create an Emotionally Intelligent School -- Introduction: One/two day training for schools. This course allows you to take time to really discover the sucessful use of emotional intelligence which is already happening, to build on this and to understand some of the theory behind why it works.......

"On 26th and 27th of June this year I was fortunate enough to attend an Emotional Intelligence training course which had been set up by the EAZ.

I say fortunate, because it turned out to be an incredible and uplifting experience that, for once, had nothing to do with the catering at Saltwells.

The course was led by Catherine Corrie and in her wonderful style she explained and illustrated EI. She taught us about:

  • How to improve your own EI.
  • The effect of internal and external environments.
  • Understanding and managing behaviour.
  • Fear and love.
  • Grief.
  • Motivation.
  • Self-esteem.
  • Identity.

'Of course!'&Mac226; I kept shouting in my head, 'I knew that!'&Mac226; and she made all sorts of sense.

So what did I learn about Emotional Intelligence? It's about how we think, feel and act with our emotional, mental and physical bodies and about how each factor can affect the others. It's about treating children at school exactly how we would wish our own children to be treated. To see them as whole people who are affected by whatever may be going on around them or inside them. It's about stopping and thinking about why a child is not behaving well or not reaching their full potential. Very few children choose to fail and therefore there is usually a reason why they do.

Everyone should learn more about EI. Everyone in the world should do this course. It was that good, I bought the book!

I would like to finish with a few words by William J Crocker. Does this sound like your school?

A People Place

If this is not the place where tears are understood, where do I go to cry?

If this is not a place where my spirits can take wing, where do I go to fly?

If this is not a place where my questions can be asked, where do I go to seek?

If this is not a place where my feelings can be heard, where do I go to speak?

If this is not a place where you&Mac226;ll accept me as I am, where can I go to be?

If this is not a place where I can try to and learn to grow, where can I just be me?"

Joe Hill
Learning Link Worker
Jesson’s CE Primary School


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