Workshops 1, 2 ,3 & 4 are available as part of an in-service comprehensive training programme to refine teachers' skills in affective methods in the teaching of literature. Attendance to all four modules leads to SUPPORT LEARNING Certificate of Reading and Writing Facilitator

1. The Reading and Language Arts Workshop
A dynamic framework to promote independent reading and celebrate shared reading in safe and relaxed environments around literacy. Through the Language Arts we also explore creative activities to help lay the foundations of literacy skills.

2. Weaving Literacy through the Arts
 In this workshop we turn to the Arts to help children revisit text and build meaning from a constructivist perspective, as well as strengthen exploratory skills to make connections, synthesize, determine importance and question their reading.

3. NEW! - Values, Literature and NLP
Topic recently moderated at the 7th  English and Fun International ELT Forum
The purpose of this workshop is to explore communication strategies and some material from literary sources to genuinely work on values from an “inward - outward approach”, a way to align conscience, actions and desired outcomes.  NLP, Literature and Values are part of a cauldron where empathetic communication and the inspirational spark of Literature join to generate an important flow of energy- feelings, thoughts and actions- to improve our working environments and help us make a difference in education.

4. The Reading-Writing Connection
In this session we address the need to read and write as part of the same process. We discuss strategies to support struggling readers and writers as well right-brain activities to unleash creativity. We also go into social constructivism to structure literary discussions and facilitate the Writing Process.

5. NEW! - Discussion Group Session: Art, Cognition and NLP
Topic recently presented at Primer Congreso Bilingüe de  Neurolingüistica Programada - August 2008
In this session we address these issues:
Is work in the arts exclusively related to affective learning?
Do the Arts contribute to the development of essential cognitive systems, which include reasoning, creativity, thinking, decision-making and problem-solving?
Can music modulate body’s stress response, and in doing so, can it strengthen our immune system and enhance our wellness?
Can drawing be an expressive tool, complimentary to thinking and writing?
Can kinesthetic arts grow new brain cells?
How can the arts create readiness for more abstract learning to follow?
How can we use and enhance the effect that visual art-making has on the brain?
How can we relate Vygotsky’s concept of mediation to NLP, the latter envisaged as a provider of tools to facilitate thinking?