Promoting mental health in learning settings

Delivered via Zoom Webinar

Featuring Marnie Aston and her Mental Health Audit Tool

Not just another day on ‘Behaviour Management’ – Our Mental Health Day goes well beyond a rewards and sanctions approach to ‘behaviour’. We will be focused on those young people for whom rewards and punishments do not always work and who confuse the adults who work with them. We aim to take a relationships-based approach and to give those attending an opportunity to think more deeply about why young people do the things they do and what our part as adults is in creating, sustaining and changing these behaviours.

•Circle of Courage – belonging-achievement-generosity – independence – model for understanding mental health

•Compass of Anxiety – understanding and going deeper

•Active listening – Listening to the person underneath the behaviour

•Involving other children and young people in solutions and interventions - Circles of friends: peer support, counselling and mediation

•Team Problem Solving – Solution Circles: a 30 minute group problem solving process to get Teams ‘unstuck’ and to generate positive first action steps

•Restorative justice and restitution: principles and practice of this approach to repairing harm and restoring relationships without reliance on punishment

•Understanding the effects of Separation, Loss, Trauma and Neglect on children’s learning and relationships in school and what adults can do to reach and support these children