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Katrin Soidra-Zujev
Training Manager
School of Natural Sciences and Health
How to Live, Lead and Teach with Gratitude
School of Natural Sciences and Health
Join this transformative and energising community of practice, led by Dr. Kerry Howells.
- 10:00 - 17:00
Registration deadline
Katrin Soidra-Zujev
Training Manager
School of Natural Sciences and Health
An online community of practice to support you to live, lead and teach with gratitude
led by Dr Kerry Howells, offered through Tallinn University, Estonia.
In these sessions you will engage in book club discussions around the award-winning text:
Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful?
- Engage with fellow participants from other countries and workplace contexts
- Discover how to enhance your teaching and leadership with gratitude
- Explore the interplay between gratitude and resentment and its impact on relationships
- Adopt highly effective, sustainable, research-based gratitude practices
- Enhance your own personal resilience, relational wellbeing, and creativity
- Gain a certificate of completion for Professional Learning from Tallinn University, Estonia
…Given the concerns with student and staff wellbeing and the plethora of strategies that have been put in place to address this, finally a workable solution. I have been teaching for 37 years and in leadership roles for the past 15 and I have been searching for this... Working with gratitude makes sense. It is a strategy that can be adopted in all schools with minimal effort... Every teacher and educational leader that I have shared this strategy with is interested in learning more.
- Tasmanian school principal on completion of a gratitude course with Kerry.
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Lecturer
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Dr Kerry Howells has spent over 25 years researching, teaching and presenting on gratitude, both nationally and internationally. Kerry is passionate about harnessing the role of gratitude to bring about flourishing relationships, a respectful workplace culture and, ultimately, a more peaceful world. Kerry’s work is underpinned by a deep philosophical exploration of gratitude and focuses on how to apply the research on gratitude, and the strategies she has developed, to life’s challenging situations. She has a particular interest in cross-cultural lenses of gratitude and their implications for communication and has studied this in the context of Australian indigenous and African indigenous cultures. Working worldwide with school leaders and teachers she has embedded gratitude in all levels of education, and her first book, Gratitude in Education: A Radical View has been used widely to guide the development of educational programs and strategic change in universities, schools and Early Childhood education.
Kerry has presented on the topic of gratitude to multi-faceted audiences in the form of keynote addresses, conference presentations, podcasts, radio interviews and a popular TEDx presentation, ‘How thanking awakens our thinking’.
Kerry’s recent book explores the dilemmas of accessing gratitude in difficult relationships, has won three prestigious international awards, and is now available in six languages. Her publication in 2023, Gratitude Practices for Teachers, draws on her extensive experience in education to offer practical strategies when facing everyday challenges. Kerry is based in Hobart, Australia, but offers professional development and presents on her work internationally. She is currently a visiting professor at Tallinn University, Estonia, where she teaches an online postgraduate course – Gratitude in Practice.