Join the journey to discovering what ‘Innovation in Training’ could look like through sharing positive stories, guidance and learning points from delegate journeys, as well as pitfalls and highs for others to learn from. Through exploring these elements and working in partnership with each other, what do we see as the vision for the future?

Learning Outcomes:
1) Sharing good practice and journeys to support your own educator practice
2) Create a vision for the future that works for you and your learners

Session by:
Liz Leggott – Project Manager: Technology Enhanced Learning Tools

Providing you with real-time insights and personal identity, join our focussed, impactful, and creative  workshop using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® materials and methodology. Get ready to go on a fun and hands-on journey of self-discovery with our trained facilitators in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® materials and methodology. Backed by extensive research and with theory at its core, in this scientifically developed SERIOUS PLAY® workshop, you will use LEGO® bricks to explore complex issues in a practical way that brings possibilities to life!

Learning Outcomes:
• Recognise and value that play is powerful and always serves a purpose
• Use metaphors to construct stories through imagination, play and serious play
• Visualise and reflect, exploring complex meaning through metaphors and storytelling
• A tool to explain things about ourselves

Session by:
Karen Vella – Learning & Staff Development Director & Lisa Dransfield – Head of Medical Education

What does Emotional Intellegence (EI) mean to you? EI is concerned with how people manage themselves; their personality, potential and innate resources to be both personally and interpersonally effective. How well they do this is largely determined by their attitudes. In this workshop we will explore how attitudes influence feelings that fuel thinking and drive behaviour, and consider how you can apply EI as an educator.
This will primarily be a knowledge sharing session where participants will be introduced to Emotional Intelligence as a construct but with a promise that EI can be developed and used to support the learning of others.

Learning Outcomes:
• Programmes to develop emotional intelligence to develop self and others
• How we respond to change
• Emotional resilience in teaching and every day!

Session by:
Carole Bain – Executive Education Fellow UoS

In this crazy world of change and opportunities, we need genius ideas more than ever. This workshop will show you how to create genius ideas, and how to validate and communicate them to support your educational practice, whilst gathering the help of supporters and not saboteurs. Practical, informative and fun.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Know how to access unconscious processes to find the ideas and validate their efficacy, whilst gathering supporters at the same time
2. Be effective in the way you communicate thoughts to support others’ learning
3. Utilise the ideas to better teach others

Session by:
Dr Lynda Shaw – Neuroscientist, leadership psychologist & business person

Embrace the power of a fresh perspective in healthcare and education with our Beginner’s Mind workshop. This session encourages educators and learners to question routine practices and rediscover their roles through the eyes of a newcomer. Participants will engage in reflective exercises to identify outdated practices and brainstorm innovative solutions that can be implemented in their daily roles, supporting lifelong learning. This approach is designed to enhance adaptability and foster continuous improvement in patient care.

Learning Outcomes:
1) Take away tools for educators and learners to deliver a fresh perspective, revealing new insights and opportunities
2) Consider innovative solutions to outdated practices

Session by:
Creative Huddle

This workshop will allow educators to explore the exciting possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolutionising healthcare. We’ll delve into its potential to enhance diagnostics, personalise medicine, streamline workflows, and accelerate drug discovery, for your own and others’ learning. This interactive workshop explores two key areas where AI is revolutionising healthcare:
1. Personalised Medicine with AI Chatbots
2. Streamlining Workflows for Admin Professionals with AI
Harness the power of AI to personalise patient care and to educate and empower your staff!

Learning Outcomes:
1. Ability to explain to others how AI Chatbots can be used to personalise patient care and improve patient engagement
2. Ability to identify and share knoweldge on the several ways AI can automate administrative tasks and improve workflow efficiency for healthcare staff
3. Discuss the benefits and challenges of implementing AI solutions in healthcare settings, to support and empower others. 

Session by:
Ronald Dyer – Academic Lead: Digital Innovation & Senior University Teacher in Complex Project Management, UoS Management School

A practical introduction to reasonable adjustments including their purpose, scope and impact on learners and staff, by providing insight into the barriers that may be experienced and how these have been overcome to better support learners and staff within South Yorkshire and beyond.

Learning Outcomes:
1) Understanding the Equality Act 2010 and an organisation’s legal and moral responsibilities
2) Understanding what reasonable adjustments are, who is entitled to them and who is responsible
3) Break down the barriers for educators, learners and staff in accessing reasonable adjustments and external supports through Access to Work and other organisations
4) Understanding the challenges of providing reasonable adjustments and how these can be overcome to support others

Session by:
Liz Johnson – Head of Equality & Inclusion, SHSC & Sally Edwards – Associate Director of EDI, STH. 

We use metaphors in our everyday language; so let’s understand how we can use metaphors as a starting point to support a positive psyche at work.

Through the use of various creative methods, we will dive into how the use of metaphors can help us pinpoint our current challenges and how we might start to step across or hurdle over them, to help support ourselves and others. Participants will explore and understand how their use in education, learning and everyday life can be an invaluable resource to increase a positive psyche in the workplace.

Learning Outcome:
1) Learn how using metaphors can increase your own and others’ positive psyche, through connections in the work place and learning space

Session by:
Jana Kennedy

In this crazy world of change and opportunities, we need genius ideas more than ever. This workshop will show you how to create genius ideas, and how to validate and communicate them to support your educational practice, whilst gathering the help of supporters and not saboteurs. Practical, informative and fun.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Know how to access unconscious processes to find the ideas and validate their efficacy, whilst gathering supporters at the same time
2. Be effective in the way you communicate thoughts to support others’ learning
3. Utilise the ideas to better teach others”

Session by:
Dr Lynda Shaw – Neuroscientist, leadership psychologist & business person

This workshop is designed to deepen healthcare professionals’ understanding of the patient experience. Using Empathy Mapping, participants will develop patient personas specific to their healthcare and educational settings. Includes role-play activities from a patient’s perspective and group discussions to analyse these personas in depth, focusing on patients’ emotional and physical needs, supporting your development as educators. This insight will equip participants to make more empathetic and informed decisions both in your own practice and in supporting others’ practice, ultimately enhancing patient satisfaction and outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:
1) Consider what’s really going on in the minds of your patients
2) Understand what really drives your patients, to fully focus on their needs
3) Consider how to apply this as an educator, when working with and/or educating others

Session by:
Creative Huddle

This workshop will allow educators to explore the exciting possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolutionising healthcare. We’ll delve into its potential to enhance diagnostics, personalise medicine, streamline workflows, and accelerate drug discovery, for your own and others’ learning. This interactive workshop explores two key areas where AI is revolutionising healthcare:
1. Personalised Medicine with AI Chatbots
2. Streamlining Workflows for Admin Professionals with AI
Harness the power of AI to personalise patient care and to educate and empower your staff!

Learning Outcomes:
1. Abilty to explain to others how AI Chatbots can be used to personalise patient care and improve patient engagement
2. Ability to identify and share knoweldge on the several ways AI can automate administrative tasks and improve workflow efficiency for healthcare staff
3. Discuss the benefits and challenges of implementing AI solutions in healthcare settings, to support and empower others. 

Session by:
Ronald Dyer – Academic Lead: Digital Innovation & Senior University Teacher in Complex Project Management, UoS Management School

As early adopters of the NHSE Safe Learning Environment Charter (SLEC), Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) have taken an all encompassing, inclusive and multidisciplinary approach aligned to the People Strategy, Clinical Quality Strategy and Education Quality Framework.

In adopting the Charter early, DBTH recognise that learners all need to feel safe to learn and are supported by compassionate, positive role models, every day and everywhere.

In this workshop we will share our approach, resources and learning, as well as next steps to embed the Charter throughout your Trust. Discussion and questions will be welcomed and facilitaited, to inform and support those considering adoption or adaptation of the charter in their organisation.
Learing Outcome: to discuss and explore the operational and strategic adoption of the Safe Learning Environment Charter in an acute NHS Trust.

Session by:

Ann-Marie Steele – Deputy Director of Education, DBTH

Loathe ice-breakers? Cringe at warm-ups? Then this is the session for you! Led by Coach and Facilitator Jana Kennedy – an expert in creativity & innovation, fun & play, community building and making time fly – you will experience ice-breakers like never before. Skill up your educator tool kit and positively empower others!

Learning Outcomes:
1) How research underlines the power of fun and play to build effective connections
2) How you can use fun to positively empower your workforce and/or learners
3) Specific ideas to take away and implement when working with and educating others

Session by:
Jana Kennedy

In this workshop we will look at our preferences for our work and learning environment, information processing and decision making. A short practical exercise will help us to understand Jungian theory and how it could be considered within our teaching and teamworking strategies.

Learning Outcomes:
1) Curiosity about Jungian personality preferences and their application in multiple contexts, informing a wide range of topics such as:
• Insights discovery
• How we respond to change
• Using Jungian Typology as a holistic teaching strategy

Session by:
Carole Bain – Executive Education Fellow UoS

This workshop aims to dismantle silos within healthcare organisations and promote interdisciplinary collaboration that you can apply as an educator. Engage in role-playing scenarios to experience various healthcare team dynamics. The session will facilitate discussions around common conflicts and offer strategies for conflict resolution, making you more effective in supporting the learning of others and ensuring a cohesive approach to patient care. We’ll explore how achieving a win-win situation improves patient outcomes, supports effective teaching and learning, and overall staff satisfaction.

Learning Outcomes:
1) Understand how to create a win-win situation
2) Build and strengthen relationships to support your own and others’ development
3) How to achieve success as an individual and as an educator, to a more frequent and greater scale

Session by:
Creative Huddle