Keep your Wednesday’s free for our Life Long Learning opportunity.
During the pandemic we have almost all been drawn into the wonderful world of webinars, video conferencing and online learning. We realised that not everyone has this opportunity and started to think of ways to raise money to support those who don’t. So, here is our story of how we are using webinars to both offer Lifelong Learning and raise money to support others.
Our focus as an organisation is providing access to education for all children everywhere. To do this we need to share knowledge and learning, and raise funds too, and we’ve been developing ways to do both at the same time.
The partners and teachers we work with are doing amazing work across the globe, and we are trialling ways to share some of this learning so it’s available to an ever-widening audience.
Our partners are giving their time to share educational webinars on useful topics for a wide range of people, and offer a percentage of any subsequent course sales to support the project work of the Foundation so that we can achieve Education for All children everywhere.
The webinars are carefully selected to support teaching and learning and they may also support building business skills, creativity and wellbeing.
We need to raise enough funds to provide technology and network connectivity to ensure teachers and students across the world can access the same learning opportunities in a safe way that we may take for granted. We also know that in today’s climate many people can’t offer the support they could before. So, we are offering these useful, educational webinars on a ‘donate what you can’ basis so that all of our supporters gain something, and can help change the world at the same time.
As this story unfolds, we are finding that new people are discovering the Steve Sinnott Foundation through these webinars, and we are raising vital funds through the ‘Suggested Donation Tickets’.
Please have a look at the webinars coming up soon on the link below, they are almost always held on a Wednesday afternoon or evening, so keep your diary free and come and learn something invaluable, whilst helping others around the globe have access to the same opportunities.
You can see some of our past webinars here too:
Trauma Informed Coaching with Will Thomas - Wednesday 9th September 2020
In this webinar Will shared some very useful information about recognising trauma and understanding the grief cycle. We got to understand how this affects learning and the ability to relate to others. Knowing more about trauma helps us to understand the children in our classrooms and their ability to learn. Children affected by adverse childhood events, are at higher risk of trauma. This needs to be treated as there is a higher chance of adverse effects later in life too. To learn more, you can watch the video of the webinar here:
Zoom Basics with Mike Fleetham, Thinking Classrooms – Wednesday 16th September 2020
Mike Fleetham shared some Zoom basics knowhow in this webinar. Even those of us who have been using Zoom for some time learnt about extra features that we didn’t know about. But the session wasn’t just about features. It was a chance to discuss creative ways that Zoom can be used as a teaching tool, with many teachers on the call sharing ideas and ways to make lessons more fun and engaging too. Watch the video here:
The Power of Intuitive Art with Heather Lillieth – Wednesday 30th September
2020
Intuitive Art is a great way into, or back into, art and creative practice both for adults and children. For some reason many of us are are often put off art, thinking that we are not good enough but we can let go of all that in sessions like this. Intuitive art is about letting go of all the worry, and all the stresses of your day. It’s a time for play and having fun, and in so doing it recharges your batteries. For artists its great to loosen up. For others it’s a chance to play. For all of us it’s a chance to reconnect with ourselves.
Storytelling with Impact for Business with B&G – Wednesday 7th October
2020
In this webinar we explored the importance of stories for organisations. Stories have an emotional impact, they create connection and empathy, we remember them and it’s how we learn. They describe stories as “packaged wisdom”, the very definition of a story is that it is about change. They shared many stories about projects they have done to illustrate this idea. Personally, I will remember the story about the Children’s Republic of Shoreditch!
Communicating Through Quiet Mind Poetry – Wednesday 14th October 2020
This interactive webinar created the opportunity to work together to create two poems. Each participant brough a piece of nature to the webinar, where we explored the qualities of each piece and then worked together to combine ideas and create a poem. It was refreshing to break rules, work together and combine different things and ideas together.
Business Impact with Professional Audio – Wednesday 21st October 2020
Sound quality is often overlooked in digital productions. But with more of us now attending all business meetings online in video conferences bad sound quality can make the difference between a bad meeting experience and a great one. During the pandemic many organisations started to look at what they could create online to serve their communities. Podcasts, Webinars, Videos and Zoom workshops sprouted up everywhere, and the sound quality was often overlooked. We invited Pierre-Nicolas Schmitt of Sonata Academy to share his knowledge with us to help us all get better quality sound.
