Course Overview: COPD Update Day for Primary Care Practitioners Join us for a comprehensive and enriching COPD Update Day, specifically designed for Registered Healthcare Professionals who are currently practicing in the field of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This course aims to enhance your existing knowledge and skills, keeping you up-to-date with the latest developments in COPD management. During this informative day, you will delve into the essentials of COPD, starting from its fundamental definition and diagnostic criteria to the latest investigative approaches. The course will cover both non-pharmacological and pharmacological management strategies, with a special emphasis on practical inhaler techniques. We will also explore the current GOLD & NICE Guidelines, discussing their implications and practical applications in clinical practice. A significant focus will be on the management of exacerbations and lung attacks, including strategies for prevention and effective management techniques, with a particular emphasis on patient self-management. Understanding the complexities and care requirements of end-stage COPD will also be a key aspect of this course. The day will conclude with interactive case studies, allowing you to apply your refreshed knowledge in real-world scenarios, encouraging the sharing of experiences and best practices among your peers. This course offers a dynamic and supportive environment for professionals seeking to refine their approach to COPD care, combining theoretical learning with practical application Learning Outcomes: Defining and Diagnosing COPD Review and update the definition and understanding of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Refresh knowledge on diagnostic criteria and investigations for COPD. Non-Pharmacological Management Explore various non-pharmacological approaches to managing COPD. Guidelines and Best Practices Delve into the GOLD & NICE Guidelines and their practical applications in COPD management. Pharmacology and Inhaler Techniques Update knowledge on pharmacological treatments for COPD. Master inhaler techniques and understand their critical role in COPD management. Lung Attacks and Exacerbation Management Learn strategies to reduce the risk of lung attacks/exacerbations. Discuss management techniques for exacerbations, including patient self-management. Managing End-Stage Disease Understand the complexities of managing end-stage COPD. Focus on palliative care and improving quality of life for patients with advanced COPD. Case Studies and Practical Application Apply knowledge through interactive case studies. Encourage sharing of experiences and best practices among participants. This COPD Update Day ensures that seasoned primary care practitioners remain up-to-date with the latest advancements in COPD management, fostering an environment of continuous learning, collaboration, and patient-centered care.
Historical Association webinar series: Direct history teaching Presenters: Mike Hill and Jacob Olivey In this third session, Jacob and Mike will argue that a history teacher should always be a sage on the stage – and not a guide on the side. They will share strategies that allow history teachers to drive learning for an entire class, ensuring that all pupils pay attention, take part in the lesson, and feel successful. To use your corporate recording offer on this webinar please fill in this form: https://forms.office.com/e/Qr1PfgRHSS We are able to offer the webinars in this series at a subsidised cost as the presenters' time has been partially funded by their school, Ark Soane Academy. We are open to developing partnerships across schools and trusts. If you are interested in discussing this further, please contact Mel Jones at melanie.jones@history.org.uk
About this Training Course This 4 full-day Maintenance and Reliability Masterclass course will provide Maintenance and Reliability personnel with a full explanation of the Award-winning Model of Excellence for maintenance. This is top tier training that has also been designed to equip participants with practical skills to take back to work. The course enables participants to develop a strategy to achieve outstanding maintenance and reliability performance for their own workplace. This course is aligned with SMRP* best practices and the CMRP exam. It provides an opportunity for participants to sit for an examination+ on the final day of the course. Your facilitator for this course is a fully qualified CMRP professional, an approved SMRP Proctor, authorised to conduct CMRP exams and a globally respected maintenance consultant and best practice trainer. +Exam fees are not inclusive in the course fees. *SMRP refers to Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals. PetroEdge is not affiliated with SMRP. Training Objectives By the end of this course, participants will be able to: Appreciate the content and underlying principles of our maintenance Model of Excellence o How to develop a strategy for outstanding maintenance and reliability performance o Developing reliability methodologies and programmes to drive performance o Options and tools to improve reliability at equipment level o Leadership skills and improving organisation and human performance o Work with management with an overview of the latest practice in planning scheduling and control Describe how maintenance can become a more strategic and influential function Use the Carcharodon model of excellence and class leading methodologies for improving maintenance and reliability Target Audience This course will benefit: Maintenance managers Reliability professionals Experienced supervisors Planners Project engineers Operations managers Functional specialists Course Level Basic or Foundation Training Methods Course methodology of this training course: Other than world-class visuals and slides, this course will include a high level of interaction between the facilitator and participants and group discussion among the participants themselves. There will be a number of case studies to demonstrate key points and also a minimum of one workshop exercise each day to give participants the chance to apply learning and appreciate key aspects of best practice. Participants will also have the chance to share examples from their own experience, discuss real problems they are facing and develop actions for improvement when they return to work. Examples of the exercises that are used in this course are as follows: Exercise: Understanding the challenges and seeing the opportunities Exercise: Developing a strategy Group Exercise: Selecting maintenance plans Group exercise: Case study failure Group exercise: Planning work Trainer Your expert course leader is an award-winning consultant and trainer with 30 years' experience in maintenance and reliability improvement. He has worked across five continents, in a wide variety of environments from the world's largest oil refinery to a small drinks production line. He has 10 years of maintenance management experience in the process industry, so he brings a very practical approach to training. He moved into consulting with ABB Eutech as their global maintenance specialist where he led maintenance and reliability best practice panels, delivered a wide range of maintenance improvement projects and trained other consultants. He is a fully qualified CMRP professional, an approved SMRP* Proctor, authorised to conduct CMRP exams and a globally respected maintenance consultant and best practice trainer. He founded his consultancy and training business in 2002 to focus on maintenance and reliability improvement. As part of this, he developed a range of maintenance 'models of excellence' with inputs from authors, international lecturers and some of the world's leading consultants and operators. His work has been recognised as being at the leading edge of industry best practice, winning independent awards such as the UK Chemical Industries Association 'Excellence in Engineering' award. He remains close to the industry as a respected specialist helping operating companies to achieve changes in performance. This ongoing field work enables him to continue to refine and extend best practice and the learning from this is continually fed into his training. His unique experience of facilitating two major turnarounds when the Coronavirus escalated into lockdown have given him a unique insight into how events of this type can disrupt maintenance. Moreover, his involvement in developing management processes and leading a Coronavirus response on a major industrial asset means he can talk with direct experience about how to cope and innovate in this global pandemic. He is also the expert course leader for the following courses offered by PetroEdge: Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Effective Plant Turnaround Management POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL) To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized 'One to One' coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster. Request for further information post training support and fees applicable Accreditions And Affliations
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🌟 Hypnotherapists’ Workshop Day: The Eazzy Slim System & The Hypnotic Gastric Band 🌟 Date: 21st of June | Location: Online (Zoom) | Time: 10 am till 4 pm Are you ready to expand your weight-loss toolkit with powerful, non-invasive techniques that create real and lasting change? Join us for an immersive one-day workshop where we’ll explore the full potential of the Eazzy Slim Programme — a structured, proven system designed specifically for hypnotherapists to help clients achieve sustainable weight loss without the need for medication or surgery. 🔍 What You'll Learn: The Hypno-No-Jab Approach: Discover how to offer clients a highly effective hypnotic alternative to pharmaceutical weight-loss injections like Mounjaro or Ozempic especially important given rising concerns over side effects, long-term use, and the controversial decision to make these drugs available to children. Hypnotic Gastric Band: Learn how to safely and ethically guide clients through a hypnotic gastric band process, mimicking the physical sensation and psychological impact of surgery without any of the risks. The Psychology of Sustainable Change: Explore how to leverage hypnotherapy to reshape beliefs, habits, and identity around eating, self-worth, and health. 🧠 Why It Matters: While medications like Mounjaro can offer temporary results, they often come with side effects, dependency risks, and rebound weight gain once stopped. Likewise, gastric band surgery, once a popular bariatric option, has seen a sharp decline due to its high rate of complications, reoperations, and limited long-term success. Our clients are looking for something different. Something safe. Natural. Sustainable. Empowering. That’s where you come in. 💼 Leave with a Complete Toolkit: Whether you’re working in-person, online, or offering remote packages, this workshop will give you everything you need to start delivering Eazzy Slim straight away, including: Session structure & protocols Client scripts and resources Marketing guidance for positioning your service as a credible alternative to jabs and surgery Q&A and practitioner support 👥 Who This Is For: Qualified hypnotherapists looking to specialise in weight management Practitioners concerned about the long-term health impact of pharmacological weight loss Therapists passionate about offering clients empowering mind-body solutions 🎟️ Secure your place today and become part of the solution. Places are limited to ensure an interactive, high-value experience.
Aims of the Course The module supports anyone who is not a physical activity specialist by supplying high quality and evidence based physical activity training that develops knowledge, skills and confidence to integrate relevant physical activity messages and interventions into everyday conversations. On completion you will have awareness of: The MECC approach and how this can be applied in your setting. What is meant by physical activity (including awareness of the latest Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines). How to deliver healthy lifestyle messages linked to physical activity, to encourage people to change their behaviour. Where suitable resources for signposting can be found. Who is the course aimed at? The course is aimed at anybody interested in looking to support physical activity conversations in the workplace or community. It is particularly useful for workplace health champions, and those who are responsible for workplace health and wellbeing strategies. No previous knowledge is required in order to obtain the content of this course. How long is the course? The course is delivered over a 2.5 hour online session.
Improving Communications UK offers an Advanced Presentation Skills course designed to enhance public speaking abilities and improve the use of presentation software. This course provides delegates with the opportunity to refine their skills in a supportive environment. As delegates deliver their presentations, they are coached on key areas such as body language, posture, word choice, confidence, eye contact, volume, and reducing verbal tics and filler words. This comprehensive approach ensures that delegates can effectively engage their audience and convey their message with clarity and confidence. The course also focuses on enhancing content and visual aids, typically using software like PowerPoint. Delegates learn how to: Clearly state their purpose Reduce text on slides Create user-friendly messages Select impactful graphics to support their message By the end of the course, delegates will be able to deliver organised and engaging presentations that motivate audiences, craft streamlined messages, enhance their stage presence, and convince listeners with compelling evidence in speech and visuals. This course is ideal for those seeking to improve their presentation skills and make a lasting impact. The Advanced Presentation Skills course is a 4-hour interactive virtual class for up to six delegates. Upon registration, delegates will receive online login instructions prior to the class date. This format allows for a personal and interactive learning experience from the comfort of one's own home.
In this live course, I share my insights from my experience as a school librarian and governors’ clerk, into how teachers use children's books in the classroom, what they are looking for in school visits and how to prepare for them. I will be joined by voice coach, Cat Clancy, and confidence coach, Vie Portland.
I want to discuss the existential-phenomenological challenges of viewing the human condition and explore alternatives for openness. We aim to explore the lived experiences on irregular perceptions of reality with an open mind. Each Saturday includes: a live dialogue between Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and an International Existential Therapist; a moment to share your thoughts and feelings with the teachers; and a final integration facilitated by Bárbara Godoy. This series of ten dialogues set out to explore the multifaceted dimentions and complexities associated with Existential Therapies. It attempts to engage with various interpretations of insanity through the lens of patients often painful, confounding, and deeply unsettling life experiences. Opening- between Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Dr. Yaqui Martinez “From my early days studying psychology, I never felt comfortable with psychopathological nosologies. They seemed exaggerated to me and demonstrated the intense human desire to classify all possible expressions of our existence. Likewise, I have not been comfortable with the tendency to promote dualistic perspectives that compartmentalize our reality into separate aspects where one is not only different from the other but even in opposition, such as the sane/insane dichotomy. During this dialogue, I want to talk with Ernesto about the difficulties involved, from an existential-phenomenological perspective, in viewing the human condition from this position. Perhaps we can ask ourselves together what advantages they offer and what alternatives for openness we can propose.” Dr. Yaqui Martinez. Dr. Yaqui A. Martínez-Robles is a psychologist with Masters, PhD and PsyD in Psychotherapy. He has training in Gestalt Therapy; Music Therapy; Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork (with the Grof Transpersonal Training Association); Narrative and postmodern therapies and Social Constructionism; and in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (with the Integrative Psychiatry Institute and MAPS-Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies). He is the author of four books, and co-author of another two, focused on the existential perspective. He has participated with chapters in several books and with articles in several journals. Yaqui is the founder of the Circle of Studies in Existential Therapy, in Mexico City and in Medellin, Colombia,. He teaches existential-phenomenological psychology and therapy in Mexico and different countries of South America. He is the current president of the Latin American Association of Existential Psychotherapy (ALPE). He works in private practice as an existential-phenomenological therapist and coach, in modalities one-on-one, couples and groups. Prof. Ernesto Spinelli was Chair of the Society for Existential Analysis between 1993 and 1999 and is a Life Member of the Society. His writings, lectures and seminars focus on the application of existential phenomenology to the arenas of therapy, supervision, psychology, and executive coaching. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) as well as an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 2000, he was the Recipient of BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. And in 2019, Ernesto received the BPS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. His most recent book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World 2nd edition (Sage, 2015) has been widely praised as a major contribution to the advancement of existential theory and practice. Living up to the existential dictum that life is absurd, Ernesto is also the author of an on-going series of Private Eye novels. Date and Time: Saturday 19 June from 2 pm to 3 pm – (UK time) Individual Dialogue Fee: £70 Venue: Online Zoom FULL PROGRAMME 2025: 25 January “Knots” with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Bárbara Godoy 22 February “Healing” with Dr. Michael Guy Thompson and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 22 March “Difference” with Prof. Tod DuBose and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 12 April “Polarisation” with Prof. Kirk Schneider and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 3 May “Character” with Prof. Robert Romanyshyn and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 21 June “Opening” with Dr. Yaqui Martinez and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 19 July “Meaning” with Dr. Jan Resnick and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 25 October “Invention” with Dr. Betty Cannon and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 15 November “Hallucination” with Prof. Simon du Plock and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 13 December “Hysteria” with Bárbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli Read the full programme here > Course Organised by: