You have the opportunity to focus on your own development: whether learning a new skill, getting active, spending time on professional or personal development, or finding out about a different area of the University.

Each session will run for an hour and fifteen minutes between 2pm and 3.15pm.

You can only go to one of these sessions (as they run concurrently). You can select your choice on the registration form.

1 Introduction to coaching

After a brief introduction to the principles of coaching as a learning and development tool, this session will explore the difference between directive and non-directive coaching and will give you the opportunity to experience and reflect on the coaching process. By the end of the session, you'll be familiar with the basic principles of coaching and have had a chance to consider the benefits that coaching can have for individual performance and effective working relationships.

2 MOOCs @ Warwick (a few places remaining)

If you're interested in developing a MOOC (massive online open course) or simply want to know more about what they are, come along to this interactive session. Discussion will focus around our partnership with FutureLearn (the first UK-led MOOC platform) and will showcase our first FutureLearn MOOC, 'The Mind is Flat'. Participants will also get information on support available if you're interested in developing your own MOOC.

3 What's stopping you? Achieving work/life balance (this session is now fully booked)

Most of us want a healthy work/life balance, but how many of us achieve it? What are the factors that get in the way of this and what can we do about them? In this session you will be encouraged to identify the issues that are within your control that you can influence or change to reach a more productive balance between what you want to achieve at work and at home.

4 How to run your conference with confidence (a few places remaining)

Come along to this session to get kitted out with your very own event organisers 'toolkit'. Your takeaway kit will consist of tips, hints, checklists and straighforward technology advice to help enhance your next conference. You'll be supplied with your very own resource guide so you'll know who to call on when you need help with your next event and professional event managers will be on hand to discuss any challenges you're currently facing.

5 Introduction to yoga (this session is now fully booked)

Yoga is a fantastic way to improve your flexibility, strength and balance. It's also a great way to de-stress and relax. This session will introduce you to a flow yoga session with some of the basic yoga postures, correct alignment and breathing techniques. We'll also have some fun trying some of the more challenging postures. Suitable for any level. Please wear comfortable clothing or bring sports style clothing to change into. This session is not suitable for pregnant women or anyone with any serious back, neck or knee injury.

6 Foodies@Warwick (this session is now fully booked)

This fun and interactive session with the University's Executive Chef and his team will give you new cookery skills, plus tips on quick cheats and quirky small touches to impress your dinner guests when time is tight!

7 Career clinic (this session is now fully booked)

What does the word career mean to you? This session will give you the opportunity to stop, think and explore what career means to you as an individual and what your next career steps might be. By the end of the clinic, you'll have had the chance to explore your current strengths, development areas and career aspirations, as well as identify appropriate tools and techniques to help you take your next career steps.

8 Professional networks - from the bottom up (this session is now fully booked)

Based on the experience of establishing and sustaining the Warwick European Projects in Progress –PiPs - network, this session will look at successes and lessons learned from establishing a successful "grass-roots" network within Warwick. Rather than dwelling on the story and continued work of the existing network, the session will seek to use it as a springboard to encourage the development of other networks, how they might be sustained and established and how they can make a valuable contribution to the institution.

9 Mindful moments in the modern world (this session is now fully booked)

Mindfulness meditation is an increasingly popular area of practical application and academic research. The benefits of regular practice can include improved clarity, resilience, recovery, creativity, problem-solving and communication. In this session, you'll have the chance to take part in a mindfulness meditation experience as well as considering the psychological findings, assumptions and processes of mindfulness meditation and how we can actually find the times and places to engage in and benefit from it.

10 Strengths: Know them and 'flow' them (this session is now fully booked)

Flow is a harmonious experience where mind and body are working together effortlessly. This interactive session is designed to help you identify your unique strengths, the things you are both good at and which you enjoy, and to explore how you might harness your strengths to achieve 'flow' at work to maximise both your enjoyment and enable you to realise your potential.

11 Change, the only constant there is… (this session is now fully booked)

'Start with the presumption that in business, now even more than in politics, the only constant is change' (Mickelthwait). This session will consider what it is that’s driving the changes around us and why those changes can make us feel uncomfortable. There'll be discussion on what is it about leading and managing change that challenges both leaders and their staff and how we can lead and manage change more effectively. The session will also provide a brief insight into the University’s change framework.

12 Behind the scenes at Warwick Arts Centre (this session is now fully booked)

Take a tour around some parts of the Arts Centre that you won't be familiar with, including the backstage areas, with the opportunity to find out how the technical aspects of an Arts Centre operate. Owing to performances in the Arts Centre, it is not possible to confirm exactly which areas will be visited in advance, but they'll be plenty of time to explore the areas that are available and ask questions of your session leader.

13 Strictly Circle Dancing (a few places remaining)

Come and dance to amazing folk music from Greece, Macedonia, Israel, Bulgaria, France and beyond. Learn simple steps and dances that have been enjoyed by communities for thousands of years. Circle Dancing can be fun and lively, beautiful, slow and meditative, and always uplifting. It is one of the oldest and most powerful tools for bringing communities together. Perhaps most importantly it will be fun, open to everyone and (unlike Strictly) there will be no judges!

14 'Voices of the University': Warwick's 50th Anniversary and thinking about the University's past (this session is now fully booked)

This session will explore the relationship between the University of Warwick's past and present, particularly in relation to the people who have lived, worked and studied here. Material from the 'Voices of the University: Memories of Warwick, 1965-2015' oral history project will be introduced to help you think about how you can engage with both the institution's past and your own past. They'll also be the chance to share your views on how the University's past could be celebrated for the 50th anniversary.

15 Style tweaks - small changes that make a big difference (this session is now fully booked)

Trying something new doesn't have to be expensive! Style tweaks will reveal to you the secrets of a flexible wardrobe of clothes and demonstrate the difference the right accessories and make up can make. There will be the chance to try on make up so please feel free to bring along your make up so that you can review it and look at the colours.

 Morning breakout sessions