Staff training - face to face or online

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 Working with children's emotional needs and challenging behaviours can often be as overwhelming as it is rewarding. 

Professional supervision is essential for staff to help regulate their emotions as well as offering an opportunity to reflect, share and develop practices. 

Our qualified and experienced supervisor, who is trained in PRICE, Emotion Coaching and Trauma Informed Schools (and was a Team Teach tutor and THRIVE tutor), can offer one to one supervision sessions or small groups sessions. These can be face to face or online, offering an opportunity to discuss cases that are more challenging and problem solve new strategies through a different perspective. 

A safe space to ‘pause, reflect and press re-set.’ 

The opportunity to explore the emotional elements to the role. 

Set clear goals, to enabled staff the time and space to discuss their own professional strengths and areas for development as well as understand the needs of those they work with better.

Supervision sessions would be led more by the supervisee with the opportunity to talk through and enable them to find answers through guidance, reassurance and advice where necessary. To develop feeling supported but at the same time challenged. 

6 x 1 hour sessions - £90 or £15 per session (these can be individual or up to 4 in a group)

With CAPH discount 5%

 We will work alongside a staff member in the classroom with focus on agreed area, role modelling, offering practical solutions to situations as they arise, prompting strategies...

Access some lessons via video and working through lesson with staff member to highlight strengths or focus areas.

Providing training in agreed focus 

Key areas of focus possible ideas – 

Use of language with pupils (looking at positive language, emotion coaching...)

Use of de-escalation strategies to reduce conflict

Use of PACE approach to help build relationships

What is resilience and why is it important? We will look at why it is important to build children's resilience, especially in a pandemic. We will look at practical ideas ans strategies as well as the science behind why children may not be as resilient . 

the training will focus on 3 main areas of resilience -

Embodied resilience, developing a positive sense of self and a feeling of safety.

Emotional resilience, the ability to cope with the big emotions.

Cognitive resilience, self-awareness, self-acceptance and trusting your inner capabilities and taking risks to learn. 

Sensitive issues such as loss, change and family breakdown can be difficult to know how to support. This training will help you to understand the loss, grief and change cycle and suggest practical and safe ways to support children through difficult periods. 

This training will look brain science behind anxiety, why some children may be more anxious due to life experiences. We will identify the sorts of behaviours that may be exhibited when a child becomes anxious, and practical strategies to support a child manage their anxiety. 

What is mindfulness and why use it with children? This training will help you to understand its importance in everyday life and how to introduce it to children. We will look at practical activities to help develop breathing techniques,  relaxation scripts, paying attention to detail, body focus and gratitude. 

This training looks at attachment needs of children in the classroom, identify the sort of behaviours that may be exhibited and provide possible strategies to support around these behaviours.

What is emotion coaching? How can we use this effectively in a classroom to support children's emotional responses?

As an endorsed Emotion Coaching practitioner trainer we can look at ways to embed this approach with staff through staff training and coaching. 

After missing school for a period of time and returning back to socialising with friends this is an excellent resource to support re-engaging back with peers. 

R-Time focuses on social, emotional and behaviour skills. It is a whole school approach for Primary aged pupils which fits into the recovery, re-connect curriculum as well as PHSE. 

Many school have the R Time resources in the cupboard. Sample sessions are provided and further resources are available from www.rtime.info 

The more we can understand and recognise factors in challenging behaviours the more we can manage and approach the situations effectively. This training looks at how we can manage our own feelings and responses as well as supporting children to recognise and begin to manage they feelings and responses.