Key Information

Delivery: TBC
Duration: 1-day face-to-face workshop
Next Intake: TBC
Registrations close: TBC

About this course

The practice of gratitude can be applied to any situation and can have a ripple effect across all aspects of your life. This practical short course will explore the philosophy, science and practice of gratitude to provide you with strategies you can use both personally and professionally.   

Drawing upon contemporary research, and its particular relevance to education and learning, you will investigate how gratitude can address and overcome some of the most common challenges in our lives.

What you will learn

  • A deeper understanding of the concept of gratitude and its place in our contemporary world

  • How gratitude can enhance our thinking and learning processes

  • How gratitude can assist in building and maintaining flourishing relationships at work and at home

  • Ways of practicing gratitude to resolve conflict and build resilience

  • Practical skills and strategies that can be put into practice immediately

Dr Kerry Howells

Dr Kerry Howells is an academic and teacher educator in the University of Tasmania (UTAS) Faculty of Education, teaching in the areas of gratitude, professional studies, and teacher leadership. Her book Gratitude in Education: A Radical View has been hailed by reviewers around the world as groundbreaking and her work has been used to guide approaches to teaching and learning in many different educational contexts. Kerry has been invited to speak at several national and international forums, including a TEDx presentation, How thanking awakens our thinking.

Course topics

  • What gratitude is, what it isn’t and why it is important?

  • How thanking awakens our thinking

  • Moving from resentment towards gratitude

  • Gratitude as a practice in our professional and personal lives