How to give feedback that creates change
2025-04-15 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | SLCC Members webinar
Feedback can be uncomfortable and not everyone deals with it well. Yet it is a great gift for growth and without successful feedback, an organisation can get stuck with repeating issues. In this webinar, Becky discusses the power of good feedback and how to deliver the perfect filling to your ‘sandwich’.

How to use ChatGPT: Use AI to do Council Tasks Faster
2025-04-15 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-22 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-06-17 10:00 - 10:30, 2025-07-22 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-09-02 14:00 - 14:30 | SLCC Members webinar
You might have heard about ChatGPT and thought it sounds scary and isn’t for you.
The truth is this new technology is here to stay and can be a very useful tool. The chatbot AI can do a surprising amount of tasks, and Becky Walsh has been exploring what it can do for the kinds of tasks we do as councils.
Don’t worry, it’s not about to take away your job, but it could make your working day a whole lot easier. Come along to this short webinar to learn how to use it and what it can be used for.

Implementing Professional Boundaries When Pushed
2025-04-17 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-07-24 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
In the workplace, maintaining professionalism can sometimes be challenging—especially when faced with inappropriate jokes, sexist comments, or uncomfortable situations. This webinar is here to help.
Join us for a dynamic session focused on practical strategies for recognising and asserting professional boundaries when they’re being tested, ensuring you can respond confidently and maintain your self-respect and authority.
What You’ll Learn:

Spotting the Signs: Identifying behaviours that cross professional boundaries.
Immediate Responses: Practical techniques to address uncomfortable comments or jokes in the moment.
The Power of Assertive Communication: Setting boundaries clearly and respectfully while maintaining professionalism.
Managing Emotional Impact: Staying calm and composed under pressure.
Building a Resilient Workplace Culture: Encouraging respect and accountability in your team.

How to bring fresh air to toxic situations
2025-04-29 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-07-24 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Humans are hardwired to connect to each other. And sometimes the desire for connection can lead to drama as our fears create defences. It’s an art form to be able to not have your own fears triggered in toxic situations. This talk leans into human psychology and some spiritual (not religious) principles to support how we change toxic spaces and group dynamics.

Creating a Strategic Vision for Shaping the Future
2025-05-27 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-08-07 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
A Parish, Town, or Community Council strategy should be aspirational, but it can be inspirational too.
When a team and a town understand the values of the council we can make powerful collaborations.
The Council strategy is key to this, it needs to be a developing living document. In addition it needs to have feelings, in the form of values.
Finding out what people care about and how those values can become pillars that pin the strategy together, build teamwork plans and form the council’s unique brand.
A strategy isn’t a document that sits on a shelf gathering dust whilst you get on with other things. It is the backbone of the organisation that focuses all projects and staff’s way of thinking, creating the council’s voice in every conversation. Pulling councillors and officers together as one and who knows, maybe the whole town can have a mission to get behind.
In this webinar, Becky will provide you with information and ideas to help you write your own council strategy.

Dynamic Public Speaking
2025-05-29 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-02 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
How you deliver your words and the words you use, can make you a person of influence and positive change. Becky Walsh is a senior speaker curator and speaker coach for the second largest TEDx conference in Europe. Creating dynamic talk scripts and presentation skills for stage and camera. Not the normal ‘get over your nerves’ speaker coaching. This is ‘standing ovation,’ powerful impact.

Toss Bag - A comedy show about dealing with 'challenging' people.
2025-05-31 19:30 - 20:30 | The Theatre Shop, Unit 5 Queens Square, Clevedon, BS21 6HX
By unpacking the ‘Toss Bag’ Becky Walsh dives into human psychology, neuroscience and power dynamics to reveal what triggers people to behave from the worst of themselves.

You may know one, you may work with one and you may even be one. This show is a stress reliever for those annoyances called other people!

Synopsis of the show: “Toss Bag – A comedy show about dealing with ‘challenging’ people ” centres around Becky Walsh’s humorous and insightful exploration of dealing with difficult individuals in life. The host introduces the audience to the concept of the “Toss Bag,” a metaphorical bag where people can figuratively toss the negative emotions associated with the challenging people they encounter. The show covers various types of challenging people, including friends who are rude and unsupportive, bullies at work, toxic bosses, and troublesome relatives.
Throughout the show, the host uses witty anecdotes and relatable examples to highlight the reasons why people become difficult to deal with, delving into the psychology behind their behaviour. The audience is entertained with funny stories of encounters with different types of challenging individuals, which they can undoubtedly relate to in their own lives.
The show touches upon the insecurity and powerlessness that underlie some people’s challenging behaviour, which often leads to gossip, drama, and attention-seeking. The host hilariously describes the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and how individuals often create stories and perceptions about others based on their insecurities and past experiences.
Audience participation is encouraged as people identify themselves or others they know in the various challenging person archetypes described by the host. As the show progresses, the audience realises that everyone has encountered challenging people at some point in their lives, making the experience all the more relatable and humorous.
In the end, the host emphasises the importance of protecting one’s energy, and the how healing compassion and kindness can be. The audience leaves the show with a renewed sense of empowerment and is armed with a figurative “Toss Bag” to toss away the negativity associated with challenging people.
Overall, “Toss Bag” is a comedic and enlightening show that not only makes the audience laugh but also offers valuable insights into dealing with challenging people in a lighthearted and relatable manner.

How to use Graphic Design Software – Canva
2025-06-05 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-19 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Without an in-house graphic designer, creating presentations, eye-catching social media posts, posters, flyers, business cards and even online videos feels impossible, unless you have discovered Canva.com. Canva makes creating eye-catching, engaging marketing easy.
In this webinar, Becky will share her screen and teach you how to use Canva from the basics to advanced tips. Perfect for anyone who doesn’t have a dedicated communication and marketing officer.

Tunbridge Wells Fringe Festival Burn-out - A comedy show about emotional exhaustion and how to avoid it
2025-06-28 16:00 - 17:00 | The Claremont, 18 Grove Hill Rd, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1RZ
Tunbridge Wells Fringe Festival

The Claremont – 28th June at 4.00pm
Green Duck – 29th June at 5.00pm
www.twfringe.com

We’re all feeling some level of emotional exhaustion with everything going on. In this show, Becky Walsh brings you into her comedy kitchen to cook up some vibrant life force.
Explaining how you can create spoonfuls of energy, avoid the stress juice cocktail and how to know when the spinning plates need smashing.

Tunbridge Wells Fringe Festival Burn-out - A comedy show about emotional exhaustion and how to avoid it
2025-06-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Green Duck, 53 Grosvenor Rd, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 2AY

Powerful Confidence – How people with big hearts can stop playing small
2025-07-03 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
If you’ve ever had the stuffing knocked out of you by circumstance, other people or traumatic events, you may wonder when you’ll get back to ‘being yourself’.
When you’re feeling in a low mental state, you know those days when your brain says ‘you’ll never amount to much’, self-doubt creeps in uninvited and gets right in the way of being productive. What’s needed is a shift in perception. This webinar gives you skills in self-reflection that comes from a basis of positive psychology, without the need for unauthentic ‘positive thinking’.
Learn how to make an authentic, self-caring, confident inner voice that is louder than your doubt.
This is deep work and following the one hour talk, there will be an extra half an hour for discussion and questions (which is optional to take part in).

The Psychology of community engagement
2025-07-10 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
In councils we talk about hard-to-reach communities, however, often councils feel hard to reach for community members. In this webinar, we look into the human psychology of how we can best get the community to care about something they don’t see to be inclusive of them.

How to Create a Listening Communications Plan
2025-07-17 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
We are often concerned with the messages we send out and how they land.
However, these messages need the influence of the voice of the people you are communicating with.
This 1-hour webinar is about how to create a listening strategy for your community and teams.

Navigating Cultural Change in Town and Parish Councils
2025-07-21 11:00 - 12:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Change is inevitable—but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
Whether it’s new responsibilities being passed down from District Councils, the arrival of a new team member, or an office relocation, cultural shifts can impact every aspect of council operations and community engagement. This webinar will provide strategies to manage these transitions with confidence and clarity.

Durham Fridge Festival. Burn-out - A comedy show about emotional exhaustion and how to avoid it
2025-07-25 17:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-27 17:00 - 18:00 | Fabios Bar, 66 Saddler St, Durham, DH1 3NP
Durham Fringe Festival returns

Wednesday 23 July to Sunday 27 July 2025

We’re all feeling some level of emotional exhaustion with everything going on. In this show, Becky Walsh brings you into her comedy kitchen to cook up some vibrant life force.
Explaining how you can create spoonfuls of energy, avoid the stress juice cocktail and how to know when the spinning plates need smashing.

Video Editing with Canva
2025-07-29 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Create engaging, professional-looking videos. This webinar will show you how to use Canva’s powerful video editing tools to enhance your council’s communications.
Edited brand videos for social media & websites
Add text, music & animations to make content more dynamic
Create engaging video updates for your community

Make Your Writing Grab Attention
2025-08-05 10:00 - 23:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Ever get frustrated and feel that your councillors don’t even look at your papers? You’re not the only one. Professionally researched documents take time to prepare and what’s more important, decisions balance on the accuracy of those documents. Little point if they are not being read. When life is busy and time is divided in so many ways, how can you grab the attention of your councillors? This webinar gives you tips in ‘psychology for communications’ to grab the attention of any reader.

Advanced Prompt Writing for AI – A 30-Minute Webinar
2025-08-05 14:00 - 14:30 | SLCC Members webinar
Want to get the most out of AI tools like ChatGPT? In just 30 minutes, this webinar will show you how to craft better prompts for clearer, smarter, and more effective AI-generated content.
Write prompts that get accurate, useful responses
Save time on council communications & admin
Boost accuracy with AI-powered content creation

Civility and respect – Uncovering the issues for public sector
2025-09-09 14:00 - 15:00 | SLCC Members webinar
Condescending comments, demeaning emails, disrupting meetings, reprimanding someone publicly, talking behind someone’s back, giving someone the silent treatment, not giving credit where credit is due, rolling eyes, and being yelled at, is a regular occurrence for many councils. In this webinar, we talk about the issues we face in our council roles. We will then talk about the impact this has on the individuals involved and the organisation as a whole.
Each of the webinars will give real situation scenarios and what to do in each of them, including:

Meetings
Councillors with Councillors
Dealing with members of the public who may be vexatious
Staff having issues with other staff

How to Market Your Parish / Town / Community to Attract Visitors
2025-09-11 10:00 - 11:00 | SLCC Members webinar
In this 1-hour webinar, you will learn how to market something you’re not selling!
Becky will discuss how to make your parish, town or community an attractive destination choice for visitors.
This will be a practical session so you may wish to have a pen and paper at the ready!
