presentations and workshops
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Each of our sessions features our unique combination of comedy, storytelling, games, discussion, and video - all grounded in the latest research into:
- Choices - Employability - Learning - Wellbeing We can help you meet your Gatsby benchmarks and help prevent the possible risks identified in the OfS Risk Register. All our sessions are adapted to suit the audience. If you can't find the answers you're looking for here, talk to us at ask@push.co.uk |
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choices
With a plethora of pathways to take to reach a career goal, Push gives students sound and informed advice on how they can make their next steps right for them.
University Options
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An impartial guide to higher education, advice on choosing a uni and course that's right for you and tips to help you through the application process.
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A fulfilling Career
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Interactive session run by professional comedians/performers to help students understand what it means to make proactive and informed choices in life via an exploration of rewards, how people need different mixes, and how we go about making a career more than just a job.
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The University Experience
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A stand-up comedy themed around the performer’s personal journey through university with advice on making the most of the university experience.
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Highlights of Higher Education
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A comedy event designed to highlight the benefits of higher education. Professional comedians perform short sets based on their own university experiences in an interactive panel style game show with a broader connection to university life
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Aiming for Employability
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This session looks at students current worries and their motivations for school life and beyond, alongside student wellbeing, physical and mental. We look into employability, something that Push calls ‘roundness’, how they can achieve such and develop it to make a living.
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Alternatives to University
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This session helps support students to consider alternatives (or simply gain perspectives) to university at 18 - even if they are already considering a degree. We explore the reasons why we make choices, what our own barriers might be, and the alternative routes to the employability we each need to build.
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Getting Into University
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Push offers wider tips on how to not only understand the UCAS process, but also go around the system, and ensure you are selling yourself well for any course/university before you even apply.
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Student Finance
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We help students understand the three 'money in' strands: money borrowed, money earned, money free. We explore wider budgeting tips for and help students feel confident on how the graduate tax system of repayments works.
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Employability
Our one of a kind sessions don’t just cover CVs and interviews, they delve into the art of self-improvement and personal skill recognition.
Understanding Employability
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This interactive session is run by professional comedians/performers and involves games and fun activities to explore what employability is, why you might want it, and how to get it.
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application and Interview Skills
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An interactive session run by professional comedians/performers to help students improve their ability to gain a job or university place by getting a better idea of what it means to sell yourself effectively. Through looking at the techniques of advertising and marketing, the students will learn how to match what they can offer to someone else's needs.
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Transferable SKILLs
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Interactive session to help students understand the difference between hard and soft skills, the mix they might need for different careers and the mix of rewards they are looking for in life, in return for their efforts in a workplace.
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public speaking skills
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This session, run by a professional actor, explores how students can boost their delivery via stagecraft. The techniques are designed to be transferable to employer and university interviews, as well as boosting soft skills in presentation giving and debate.
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learning
We centre our study skills sessions around pedagogies that can benefit all students regardless of aspirations, learning styles and location.
Exam Preparation
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Session uses research led revision techniques to help students study effectively at home in preparation for their exams.
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Learning Methodology
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An interactive session run by professional comedians/performers to help students understand how the brain learns, why we learn and how it benefits us, plus some wider holistic approaches we can take to forming effective memories and coming back to them under pressure.
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Wellbeing
We cover mindfulness, personal health and methods of reducing anxiety to ensure all students can maintain their physical and mental wellbeing whilst learning.
Understanding Failure and Building Confidence
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An Interactive session that teaches students how to successfully reframe failure as an opportunity for growth, to build confidence and implement daily practice to reach their goals.
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Stress Management
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An interactive webinar that discusses a list of wellbeing worries, school and learning related, to ease the stress brought on by the pandemic and how it has affected our education and wider lives.
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Enhancing Learning and Memory
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An interactive session that teaches how marginal gains in mindset and lifestyles can enhance learning and memory.
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Making People Laugh, and Getting your Stories Across
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A comedy and storytelling workshop, run by a professional comedian and writer, aims to boost students' confidence and ability to engage an audience. The techniques are designed to be transferable to writing cover letters and personal statements.
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Parents, Guardians & Carers
While any of our sessions can be adapted as advise for parents, guardians & carers or teachers, these are a few of the most popular that we offer.
Enhancing Learning Environments
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An interactive webinar discussing and promoting simple memory and brain-training techniques parents/guardians can teach/use when homeschooling/leading remote learning to improve memory retention for tests, assessments and exams.
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The University Experience
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A stand-up comedy themed around the performer’s personal journey through university with advice on supporting your child with their choices around higher education.
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FORMING POSITIVE MEMORIES
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An in-school session for parents and guardians regarding opening a positive dialogue with your children on learning and how to form healthy memories.
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