Enhancing Student Well-being in Tertiary Education: Primed, Prepped, and Primed

1. Primed, Prepped and Primped: Reflections on enhancing student psychological well-being in Tertiary EducationDonna Jodhan-Gall, Jenni Nowlan, Dr Lisa Matthewman, Nuala Osullivan & Zorica Patel

2. Overview Background to the research - The team Aims Reflective Case Study approach Introduction – The PERMA model Accomplishment/Positive Emotions/Relationship/ Engagement/Meaning Team Coaching – The GROW model Meeting structure Music links Team building Conclusions

3. Background to the Research The team Dr Lisa Matthewman Nuala OSullivan Donna Jodhan-Gall Jenni Nowlan Zorica Patel

4. Aims The primary aim of this research paper was • To inform academic debate on the use of PERMA model within the curriculum as a way of enhancing student well-being • To consider PERMA model as a model of well-being • To critically reflect on teaching practice • To explore the use of team coaching as an approach to journal writing/production

5. Reflective Case Study Approach • A case study is a research method involving an up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of a subject of study (the case), as well as its related contextual conditions • In doing case study research, the "case" being studied may be an individual, organization, event, or action, existing in a specific time and place

6. Introduction

7. Introduction

8. Accomplishment • Placement students and achievement motives • SCARF Model/Self Reflective practice Techniques (Rock 2008) • Critical Incidents Technique • Explored professional identity • Focus on achievement motives • “students moved from appreciating meaning and purposeful existence, towards achieving performance level flow. “Flow” or “the zone”, is the mental state of operation wherein an individual on task is fully immersed in a feeling of energised focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity” (Nakamura & Csikszentmihályi, 2014)”

9. Positive Emotion • Positive Psychology Tools • ‘Applying the Tools of Positive Psychology to Business’ • Lectures and practical activities/Co-coaching tasks • Utilising psychometric tools (Strengths, Wellness and Happiness): • Strengthscope • Wellness Profiling • Happiness@Work

10. Relationships • Coaching and mentoring module • Peer assisted learning and Reciprocal peer coaching (RPC) is term often used in the literature, it can be regarded as a form of peer assisted learning that can encourage individual students to coach each other (Ashgar, 2010 and Ladyshewsky 2014) • Peer coaching lends itself to a much deeper conversation (Ackland 1991) • Problem based learning tasks (Williamson and Haigney, 2009) • Creative learning-based teaching activities (Evans & Steptoe-Warren, 2015)

11. Engagement • An Integrative Cognitive-Behavioural Coaching model (ICBC) • Positive psychology and strengths • Solution-Focused coaching approaches • Mindfulness and self compassion exercises • 8-month period, on a one to one basis and included 3 to 8 sessions with 12 undergraduate personal tutees • Ages ranged from 18 to 25 years and included 6 males and 6 females • Resulting in higher levels of engagement in academic life

12. Meaning • ‘Work and Organisational Psychology within the HR Context’, and through personal tutoring provision • A model of resilience focusing on: confidence, social support, adaptability and purposefulness (Robertson and Cooper, 2016) was compared and contrasted with the PERMA model • ‘Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, in the present moment, to yourself, others and the world around you’ (Chaskalson, 2011) • In 1970s Jon Kabat-Zinn, largely credited as having brought secular Mindfulness to the Western world

13. Team Coaching David Clutterbuck 2013

15. Meeting Structure • Writing contract • Welcome/apologies/rotated leadership • Emotional check in • Mindful moment- mind, body or spirit - Power poses • Team building • Dialogue on process issues • Strengths analysis - Positive Psychology • GROW questions • Writing tasks (Belcher) • AOB • Action planning • Emotional check out • Mindfulness moment

16. Music Links - Examples of emotional check in • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qx2lMaMsl8 Delibe’s Flower Duet • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhGno8oywtA Hans Zimmer - Now We Are Free…it does get uplifting

18. Team Building

20. Conclusions • Mindful that findings are based on small numbers • Inevitable presentation bias • Rudimentary measure (questionnaire) • Future research expand on quantitative data collection

21. Published article Psychology Teaching Review Vol. 24 No. 1, 2018 ‘Primed, prepped and primed: Reflections on enhancing student wellbeing in tertiary education’

22. Contact Details: Donna Jodhan-Gall D.Jodhangall@westminster.ac.uk Jenni Nowlan J.Nowlan@westminster.ac.uk Lisa Matthewman L.J.Matthewman@westminster.ac.uk Nuala OSullivan N.Osullivan@westminster.ac.uk Zorica Patel Z.Patel08@Westminster.ac.uk