Self-esteem:
The foundation of wellbeing & achievement
9.00 Introduction: Niall Walshe & SEED
An overview of my 30+ years experience
working with troubled young people
9.15 Session 1: “What’s wrong with kids today!?!”
Examining why low self-esteem is a significant and growing
problem amongst young people
9.40 Session 2: Understanding self-esteem
Outlining the origins, scale and impact of low self-esteem
10.20 BREAK
10.40 Session 3: Causes of low self-esteem
Highlighting home-based, school-based and
socially-based causes of low self-esteem
11.00 Session 4: Healthy eating & self-esteem
"We are what we eat" is more true than may be realised
in relation to self-esteem
11.30 Session 5: Responding to challenging behaviour
Understanding the causes of challenging behaviour
enables an appropriate de-escalating response
12.00 LUNCH
12.45 Session 6: Raising self-esteem
Part 1: SEED Presentation: Strategies to raise self-esteem
1.45 Part 2: Group work: Deciding priority strategies and actual
means of implementation
2.15 Part 3: Sharing of group work. Groups present their findings -
which are later collated by SEED and returned to
Senior Management
3.00 FINISH
NB: 1. Times can be varied to suit each school's particular requirements
2. The INSET for pastoral staff covers the same material in the morning
as the whole school INSET, but the afternoon focuses on the material
in the book, "Teenager, believe in yourself," and training pastoral staff
in how to ensure pupils get the most out of the book.
3. The parents' training event covers the same material in the morning
as the whole school INSET, but the afternoon focuses on a more
detailed look at strategies that can be put in place within the family
home to raise self-esteem.