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This innovative eight week Mindfulness course offers new ways to support your resilience and thrive in busy and challenging work settings. Over the last twenty years, the way we work has changed enormously while workloads have simultaneously increased. Our bodies and brains aren’t designed to sit at desks, read screens, and keep up 24/7 with messages. Mindfulness moves us out of the Twitter-sphere by focussing on our bodies and breath, which act as a barometer to signal the initial signs of stress and distress. If we catch stress signatures early enough, we can make choices to act in ways beneficial to ourselves, our clients, and the service we work for.

The course involves learning a range of meditation practices, participating in reflective exercises and a small amount of teaching from neuroscience and cognitive psychology. It is first and foremost an experiential course and not an academic course. We learn through practising mindfulness together, finding ways to acknowledge how things actually are as opposed to how we would prefer things to be - this can be challenging, but also opens up a choice on how best respond to stress and difficulty.

The approach works through its practice and benefits are usually felt by those who are able to commit to all sessions of the course including daily meditation and other activities during the course.

Please return your completed attached form via email by 21 December 2018 to: gooch8@gmail.com

This course is designed to help you produce effective agendas and minutes, also to identify solutions to the difficulties you may have encountered in preparing either type of document.

This course aims to provide new Finance Assistants, Bursars and Business Managers an understanding of FMS and how to apply this to daily procedures, i.e. purchase orders, processing deliveries, recording and paying invoices with BACs or cheques, etc. We recommend that new Bursars and Business Managers attend both day 1 and day 2.

This course will provide you with lots of information on a wide range of topics relating to the County.

This course raises awareness of the political environment and decision making processes in East Sussex County Council. It explores the broader political environment in which we work and live. Interactive exercises focus on the varied roles of elected Councillors (Members) and explore the relationship between Members and officers.

This course aims to provide Bursars and Business Managers an more detailed understanding of FMS. This course covers the accounts structure, fund and budget allocations, Bank Processes, Journals, VAT and audit reports. We recommend that Bursars and Business Managers attend both day 1 and day 2.

It is essential that you print the attached course booklet prior to attending this workshop and bring with you on the day

This course covers general report writing and letter writing skills. You will learn about the structure and layout of reports and letters as well as understand the development steps you will use to write a report or letter. The course also covers how to use the correct tone in report and letter writing as well as identifying common grammar, spelling and punctuation errors and finally takes a look at how to proofread your writing effectively.

The summer school business leads forums are a great opportunity to network with your colleagues and gain the latest information about current issues which may affect your role.

As usual we will work with you to build an agenda that meets your needs. This is a really informative session and enables you to ask key services directly any queries you may have as well as getting the most up to date information.

The summer school business leads forums are a great opportunity to network with your colleagues and gain the latest information about current issues which may affect your role.

As usual we will work with you to build an agenda that meets your needs. This is a really informative session and enables you to ask key services directly any queries you may have as well as getting the most up to date information.

The summer school business leads forums are a great opportunity to network with your colleagues and gain the latest information about current issues which may affect your role.

As usual we will work with you to build an agenda that meets your needs. This is a really informative session and enables you to ask key services directly any queries you may have as well as getting the most up to date information.