Gratitude in Practice
Led by Dr Kerry Howells, offered through Tallinn University, Estonia
An online community of practice course for living, learning, leading and teaching with gratitude, led by Dr Kerry Howells, offered through Tallinn University, Estonia.
In this six-week course you will engage in weekly live online sessions and interactive book club discussions around the award-winning text: Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful?
Topics covered include:
- What is gratitude and why is it important?
- What does it mean to ‘practise’ gratitude?
- How to identify resentment and its underlying causes?
- How can we choose an inner attitude of gratitude when we are in the midst of adversity?
- How can we practise self-gratitude?
- How does an understanding of the cross-cultural dimensions of gratitude enhance our communication?
- How can you develop your own community of gratitude practice?
During the course you will:
- 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
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About Dr Kerry Howells
Dr Kerry Howells has spent over 25 years researching, teaching and presenting on gratitude. 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 recent book Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful? has won three prestigious international awards and is being translated into Estonian, Russian, Arabic, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and now in Indonesian. Kerry is based in 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.
What others have said
“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.
“When reflecting on what I have studied and experienced about gratitude practices, I find that most of the practices are linked closely to one another. For instance, it is only human that before we can be grateful to others, we need to learn to let go of self-resentment and become friends with ourselves first. Also, it seems to be much easier to move away from resentment, choose an inner attitude of gratitude and give back to those from whom we have received once we have counted and reflected on our blessings (e.g. keeping a regular gratitude journal).”
Masters of Health Sciences student on completion of the Gratitude in Practice course at Tallinn University, 2023
Untangling you: How can I be grateful when I feel so resentful?
This book explores the interplay between gratitude and resentment to help us untangle difficult relationships and to live a more fulfilling and creative life.
‘Howells deftly empowers readers not just with the skills to reframe difficult feelings of inferiority, of being unappreciated, being excluded or treated unfairly, but also with the skills of inviting gratitude, healing and growth back into their lives so that they can live a truly joyful and optimal life.’
