19 Aug Coping Skills – seeing the invisible
In late July, the Australian Council for Adult Literacy (ACAL) hosted a popular workshop-based webinar exploring coping skills – why we use them, how they show up in adult learning and how to help ourselves and others shift away from unhelpful patterns.
The session was led by Linno Rhodes, who unpacked the causes of stress and what “not coping” can look like in adult education settings. Linno then facilitated a rich discussion on how educators can spot signs that learners are relying on coping strategies and some of the activities that we can build into our teaching to help students create more positive coping strategies?
There were many insights from the community of experienced literacy and numeracy teachers with people commenting on how useful they found the webinar.
If you missed it, the recording is available free to all ACAL members – one of the many benefits of joining.
Linno is President of VALBEC and an Associate Lecturer in Adult Vocational Education at Charles Sturt University. She is interested in interpersonal-neurobiology and its application in the adult learning environment.