Enhancing Your Confidence to Empower Your Return to Training (RTT16SEP26)

The course provides an opportunity for you to explore the theme of confidence in a safe environment.

I will highlight key component parts of confidence and how they work, including how you may have been getting in your own way. Once you understand these mechanisms and how to apply them, you will experience increased confidence and, with repetition, can enjoy new defaults.

The course provides opportunities to share, reflect, participate in interactive exercises, and connect with other attendees.

You will be empowered to cultivate more self-acceptance and a positive self-view. You will learn how to centre yourself when anxiety, doubt or agitation arise, creating a stable base from which to think and act. You will develop greater agency and will be more able to relate to events and circumstances in ways that serve your confidence.

Elevating your personal confidence will support your return to training, impact your effectiveness in all of your activities, increase your willingness to engage, and will allow you to bring your unique strengths to your work. You have everything you need within you to experience greater confidence.

Booking courses

Please ensure that you check your availability before booking a place and add the booking to your diary / calendar. Please ensure that you also book the relevant study leave in advance with your employer.

Please refrain from booking multiple instances of the same course or course type to ensure that places are available to your colleagues. If a course is full, please add yourself to the waiting list and you will receive a notification if a place becomes available.

Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

Participants must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

This course is restricted to trainee doctors and dentists who are taking time out of training or who have returned to training within the last 3 months. IMG trainee doctors may also attend within their first 6 months of working within the NHS. (IMG = International Medical Graduate.) Please only book if you meet these criteria.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

This course enables you to feel more confident, comfortable and empowered for your return to training and for your work and life more broadly.

Course objectives: • Grounding and reducing anxiety • Embodying confident physiology • Taking stock, reflecting, identifying what is helpful and where you have agency • Moving from self-doubt to self-belief • Relating to the external world in healthy ways • Recognising your unique value • Taking action and stepping outside of comfort zones

Learning Outcomes: • Recognise some of the main mechanisms of confidence • Identify practical, realistic steps that help you feel more confident • Reduce anxiety and self-doubt • Feel more centred and better able to think and act • Free yourself from limiting thinking • Relate to circumstances, and to challenges, in ways that keep your confidence intact • Relieve pressure • Feel more comfortable to be you; aware of your knowledge, experience, qualities, and strengths • Confidently engage in the different aspects of your work. • Experience increased willingness to step into stretchy actions. • Feel comfortable, confident and empowered.