S2E14 - POD-CACHE goes to WellFEst Part 4 - Stephen Mordue and Damion Wonfor

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Constance Mulvaney - Editor of www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 

In this special episode of POD-CACHE, recorded as part of the WellFEst event in summer 2020, Stephen and Damion talk Mindfulness and Resilience. 

Damion is an experienced executive coach, mindfulness trainer, coach supervisor and facilitator and is passionate about building strong relationships with clients. Damion has built a business helping individuals and teams explore their personal authenticity and emotional intelligence to make sustainable changes to their leadership behaviour. Damion brings a high degree of calm presence, support and challenge, enabling clients to fully accept and embrace change.

Stephen Mordue is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Sunderland. As well as teaching about Adult Care on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes he is Practice Learning Coordinator and Programme Leader for the Best Interests Assessment in Practice Programme. He was a social work practitioner and manager for 12 years working mainly with older people and their families. His areas of special interest are effective communication, working with people with dementia, the Mental Capacity Act, and self care and productivity for professionals. 

If you'd like to skip to (or skip) Damion's guided mindfulness exercise at the end of the podcast, you can find this at 36:29. 

Thanks to WYLP for all of their support with this special four part series from WellFEst 2020. 

WYLP are a regional network established to support and advocate all providers and colleges in the FE and Skills sector. In addition, providing a unique provider support service to support providers on their journey to outstanding. You can find their website at www.wylp.org.uk for more information on how they can support you. 

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