The next International English Webinar will be organised on Wednesday 16 March between 13:00 – 15:00 CET by the Czech Prison Service Academy.

Fourteen prison professionals representing Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia are getting ready for the International English Webinar coordinated by Iva Prudlová, the Czech Prison Service Academy, and facilitated by Peter Schulte, Lower Saxony.

The topic, the participants will discuss, is “Leadership Role in Psychosocial Emergency Care”.

When individuals or teams find themselves in stressful situations during their professional practice, which may lead to various disorders, it helps to acknowledge or explain in understandable words what is happening to the mind and the body. These changes are considered to be normal reactions to extraordinary events that will remain for a several days, and in most cases will recover back to the norm. This knowledge is useful for all persons, working in the prison service, in order to understand themselves, but also to help and understand others.

To prepare for this seminar, the participants are asked to remember of a stressful situation they have experienced or observed and describe it according a given scheme. Each situation will be shortly analysed by the facilitator. The participants can also ask for a feedback on their English language skills.

For more information, please contact Iva Prudlová at: iprudlova@avs.justice.cz

Biography

Peter Schulte (Psychologist and teacher)

Peter Schulte Born in 1963 in Germany (Leverkusen), works as a psychologist at the Prison Service Training Center in Lower Saxony. In the training center, he is responsible for the staff recruitment of correction officers in Lower Saxony. Besides that, he teaches psychology during the vocational training of correction officers; he is responsible for the advanced trainings of prison staff in Lower Saxony and is in charge of the communication between the Training Center and its international contacts. Since 2013 he works in the Prison Service, as a psychologist in several prisons. This includes work as a forensic expert, carrying out communication and management trainings as well as de-escalation techniques in conflict situations. Before working in the Prison Service, he worked with disadvantaged young people at the Chamber of Handicrafts (Handwerkskammer) Braunschweig, where his former profession as a locksmith was very useful. Alongside his Job he gains several qualifications such as Master in Suggestopedia and as NLP-Master.