PAM Personal Development

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Emotional intelligence is critical to success in all walks of life. Emotional intelligence follows the basic design of our brains.

It is especially needed at this time for students working there way through school college and apprenticeships under the influence of social media. Emotions evolved as an adaptive system to our world, our survival mechanism. Emotions sit in a very privileged position in the brain and help us create meaning and a sense of purpose. However when we are upset and unmanaged they have the power to overc

ome our thinking and drive our behaviour stopping us from thinking clearly and behaving in ways that are inappropriate, disrupting our task focus, distort how we perceive and understand situations/events and take our mind off what’s relevant to what we’re doing. This emotional and social management ability is fundamental to learning, building productive
relationships, and performing at our best with focus. Digital schizophrenia

We are listening to voices out side of our control and outside our-self. We give them more relevance than our own thoughts. We take guidance from them rather than being really present with our own thoughts. There is no pathway for emotions with social media. You don’t have to face the person so it is easy to be negative and not really see the hurt it causes. Its easy to believe that you have lots of ‘friends’ following you - unfortunately its not always for all the right reasons on social media. The scenarios we provide include, simulations of everyday teenage issues around using social media, and the challenges that brings, in maintaining healthy friendships, relationships in the larger community. The learners get the chance to observe life like events and start to develop a commitment values approach which manages impulsive behaviour to what is workable for them and others. The learning journey will allow reflection on the feelings of themselves and others and and what caused the feelings good and bad. Our Impact programme will bring awareness of the critical moments and help students pause and think about their behaviour and consequences. They especially benefit through understanding that emotions drive those thoughts and behaviours and to be mindful before they act. Self awareness is crucial in this progression and we encourage students to find out more about their Emotional Intelligence and behavioural style. This greater self awareness helps them reflect on differences between individuals and gives them the tools to show more understanding in a search for more effective communication on and offline. Integrating our minds

Face to face interaction is on the decline for young people and it is affecting their emotional and social skills. Our brains are designed by evolution to communicate face to face, now due to social media we have less opportunity for that growth and our emotional and social skills are on the decline. At Impact we believe in embedding this emotional and social development in the lessons and making young people aware of the pitfalls and of the emotional and social understanding needed in this virtual and digital world. The future is coming and we are striving to look at how we can embed technology into this virtual and digital world that will allow our young people to develop their emotional and social skills. Skills that will help them to regulate their emotions, stay focused, work through communication challenges with a variety of different personalities. Our future is to make sure that the digital world is full of opportunity to engage with it and in so doing have an opportunity to develop key skills. Imagine going into a game that you can only advance if you show learning in emotional regulation, controlling you hear rate to affective levels, and understanding good emotional communication to get the right team around you within the game to improve your score.

17/11/2022

Personal Development Training for Apprentices
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17/11/2022

New squad interviews and consultation now available. email [email protected]

15/09/2016

Austrian teenager sues parents for 'violating privacy' with childhood Facebook pictures.

In the UK, a recent survey found that the average parent will have posted 1,498 pictures of their children on social media by the time the child turns five.

The survey found that 85 per cent of parents had not reviewed their Facebook privacy settings in more than a year, and 79 per cent wrongly believed strangers could not see pictures of their children.

Austrian teenager sues parents for 'violating privacy' with childhood Facebook pictures A woman in Austria is suing her parents to force them to remove childhood pictures of her from Facebook, in the first case of its kind in the country.

How human behaviour changes online, Today - BBC Radio 4

22/08/2016

"What age should you expose your infant to your screen use" -
Dr Mary Aiken, author of The Cyber Effect examines parent's use of their devices and the affect it has on their children.

IMPACT uses the digital world to teach young people the importance of interacting in the real world.

Go to www.gfgeducation.com to find out more.

How human behaviour changes online, Today - BBC Radio 4 Can the evolution of human behaviour keep up with the way we use the internet?

15/08/2016

The English Premier League – Creating Opportunities for all young people.

As EPL clubs smash through the £1 billion mark in the summer 2016 transfer window, its grip over the world of football and its global audience becomes ever tighter.

The wealth enjoyed by teams has created great advances in sports technologies; companies are now enjoying ground breaking resources in conjunction with world class physiological and psychological expertise.

At GFG Education Ltd, led by our founders who have worked with Leicester City and Southampton FC for over two decades, we have captured the best of this innovation to build fully UK accredited support programmes that enable all young people to benefit from the advances made in the world of elite professional football.

The digital world is helping many young footballers achieve greatness but like all innovation it comes at a price; a price that is seen every day on our streets, in our classrooms and on our playing fields. Equally for other young people the playground is now virtual. Left alone, young people are being exposed to a world that can lead not to success and prosperity but to crime, po*******hy and extreme danger.

Our aim at GFG Education is to maximise the potential of all young people. We develop purposeful ways of learning where individuals understand why technology is both beneficial and dangerous as well as why we socially interact in different ways.

We believe that when given this support young people can thrive and prosper in the digital age and, like the stars of the Premier League, utilise the benefits of technology to achieve outstanding results.

GFG Education Ltd have launched the ‘Impact Social Skills in a Digital World’ programme of learning, designed specifically to help all students, tutors and teachers develop and stay safe in the incredible digital age we have now moved into.

We realise that in this time of rapid change, it is difficult to fully assess and get to grips with the range of online products now on offer. We are therefore embarking on a nationwide tour of Britain offering free tutor training sessions and demonstration lessons for your learners. All sessions will be delivered by one of our team of DBS approved and fully qualified teacher-trained staff.

For further details and to book your session please contact [email protected].

www.gfgeducation.com

14/07/2016

The future of gaming has arrived. Pokémon meets augmented reality and "if executed correctly, can tap into a sense of childhood imagination and wonder that most other games can’t". IMPACT encourages young people to be imaginative and adventurous whilst learning how to remain safe whilst gaming....inside or outside!

Find out more at www.gfgeducation.com

Pokémon Go, explained Everyone is suddenly catching Pokémon fever again. Here’s what’s going on.

Ofsted warning on colleges extremism - BBC News

12/07/2016

IMPACT gives your organisation the tools to educate young people about the dangers of extremism. Find out how your organisation can meet Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework for Personal Development, Behaviour and Welfare by heading to www.gfgeducation.com or email [email protected].

Ofsted warning on colleges extremism - BBC News There are warnings from Ofsted that further education providers are "falling short in protecting learners from risk of extremism".

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