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Emotion Coaching interest group meeting
2020-03-26 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | The Endeavour Federation, Castlefield Campus, Jackson Crescent, Manchester, M15 5AL, United Kingdom
The aim of the group is to provide professionals with a forum in which to share ideas and good practice about emotion coaching, continue professional development, support each other and reflect together.

UCL Leading Edge Day 2020
2020-03-31 09:00 - 16:30 | Lower Ground Lecture Theatre, 26 Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0AP, United Kingdom
Psychological support following a disaster. The journey of recovery. Long and short term perspectives and responses
Traumatic events such as the Grenfell Tower fire and the Manchester Arena attack devastate communities and put schools at the heart of efforts to provide short-term care and to support recovery. Psychological care in the immediate aftermath generally involves Educational Psychology Services, and schools in an affected community can sometimes need to draw on psychological support and advice for years afterwards.
This Leading Edge Day will bring together psychologists who have worked with the short-term aftermath of trauma and traumatic events as well as taking a longer-term perspective, together with researchers who have looked at the factors that can promote recovery.
The morning will consider responses to large-scale incidents that affect whole communities and will provide an opportunity to hear about research that is extending and refining what we know about psychological growth after trauma. During the afternoon, we will hear from practitioner EPs about their work with schools, both in the immediate aftermath of critical incidents and in supporting students who have experienced trauma. Finally, we will hear about some new research, exploring teacher perceptions of EP support for schools after a crisis.

Understanding anxiety
2020-04-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
In this practical workshop session we will explore ways of including anxious children in mainstream schools and settings. The session will be values based and practical and will aim to allow the sharing of experiences and good practice as well as promoting innovative approaches to inclusion through the design of best practice.
Family perspectives and experiences will also be explored. This is not a ‘medical model’ day on anxiety.
The course answers the questions :
•What is anxiety?
•How do we go about including anxious children?
•Can we understand more deeply what is going on underneath concerning behaviours?

Video Interaction Guidance: Initial Training Course (ITC) run by Bristol Educational Psychology Service
2020-04-08 09:30 - 2020-04-09 16:30 | City Hall, College Green, Bristol, Bristol, BS1 5TR, United Kingdom
This course is the starting place for any practitioner wishing to progress to become an accredited VIG practitioner. Following this training, further supervision from an acccredited supervisor is required to become an accredited VIG practitioner. More information about requirements of VIG training can be found on AVIGuk website.

Movement differences - a fresh view on ADHD and ASC
2020-04-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Understanding movement differences in a non medical way can be key to understanding and including people who otherwise may seem very challenging and difficult. All people with autism, labels of ADHD but also those with labels such as Tourettes have movement differences creating difficulties in:
•Stopping
•Starting
•Switching
•Combining
•Continuing
•Executing complex movements
All of us in the world moving around in human bodies experience difficulties in one or more of these areas. But some people have much greater issues – the volume has been turned up and the difficulty is much greater. In this workshop we will explore and understand these difficulties better… practical strategies can then follow.

Inclusion Facilitation – the ideal follow up to person centred planning
2020-04-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Inclusion Facilitation (IF) is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream community of any child or young person who is experiencing difficulties in the world because of disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. The IF approach works by mobilising the young person’s natural supports to provide support and engage with the person in difficulty.
Inclusion Facilitation is designed to create a better life for an individual by the provision of an intense input designed to bring about social change. This usually entails a series of visits focused on getting the person out and about to increase confidence, social skills and presence in their local community and to pursue goals and dreams. Uniquely, the work is carried out under the close clinical supervision of a practicing psychologist.
Inclusion values underpinning this work
•The Intentional Building of Relationships –‘Inclusion Facilitation’ work as an example
•Not doing it alone – The Importance of Teams in developing inclusive practice
•Practical setting up and running of IF work
•Lessons learned
•Stories of IF work

Chairing meetings
2020-04-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Meetings can be dreadful and bad chairing makes them worse.
On this day we look at transformational person-centred approaches to approaching the chairing of meetings. We provide deeper insights into the psychological processes that make this role challenging. ‘Best Saves’ for those really difficult moments when chairing meetings are creatively explored. We provide a practical, skill based and creative approach best delivered over 2 days.
We will cover:
•Setting a Good tone/Exploring the ‘whole elephant’ – story so far of experience in chairing meetings – good and bad meetings – graphiced timeline and highs and lows of story so far
•Meetings I do not want – negative chairing….
•Thinking Hats and Values – linked to role of chair – where are hats when things are going well and where are they when things are not?
•Our shared vision for great meetings and excellent chairing?
•Personal planning for future chairing – what do I need to get better at – what should I manage?
•Specific skill teaching – re when things go wrong – eg tears, personal attacks, talking in side conversations, silent members, lack of contribution, anger and so on…‘best saves’ explored with group – using live role play – with one chair
•Solution Circle demonstration – chairing skills/problem solving modelled – approach when teams stuck…
•Emotional elements of chairing – ‘its not personal’ – splitting, projection, transference explored and ‘handling projections’ activity
•Vision and Road Blocks – small groups chaired and minuted – creative problem solving – Blocks to vision of great meetings creatively removed or worked around

Creating a ‘Welcome Team’ in school
2020-04-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
This is a practical ‘non-medical’ workshop for front line practitioners working with children and young people that will find starting at a new school or setting difficult.
Drawing from international research and literature, reports from inclusive schools and our own experience over many years as educational psychologists of the challenges of children with major social and emotional needs, we will explore together what the best practice can and could look like.
We explore:
1.Creating a welcoming team or ‘committee’ of young people
2.Training the team in effective ‘welcoming’ and supporting
3.Building a support circle around a new child and running this circle effectively
4.Auditing what makes for a successful welcome of any new child at the school
5.Facilitating the involvement of young people in successful welcoming activities and preparation
6.Links between this work and building ‘circles of friends’ and peer mediator training

Resiliency enabling approaches for children and young people with trauma (April 2020 start)
2020-04-23 10:00 - 13:00 | The Pavillion, Hatherley Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 6PN, United Kingdom
Six session:

Thursday 23 April
Thursday 7 May
Thursday 21 May
Thursday 04 June
Thursday 18th June
Thursday 2nd July

Summary
The REACH course is a six session, educational psychologist developed and led training programme delivered in ‘bite-size’ pieces, equipping practitioners with the psychological knowledge and skills they require to embed effective trauma informed, resiliency enabling approaches in their schools.
The REACH programme aims to support school staff to recognise and more effectively respond to students who have had experiences of trauma or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Each aspect of the curriculum is designed to support adults working in schools and other settings to prevent, mitigate and reduce trauma-associated symptoms through evidence-informed practices, leading to improved student academic, behavioural, and socio-emotional outcomes, as well as increased long-term resilience.
Who Would Benefit?
The course is essential learning for any professional working with children and their wider families in schools, nurseries and specialist services, as well as those in social care, health and early help.
This course aims to be a cost-effective way for staff to access the key knowledge and skills they need to become more trauma informed in the way they work and is a must for any setting wishing to enable the resiliency potential of every vulnerable child and young person.
A ‘train the trainer’ option for Educational Psychologists from other counties is available.

Restorative Justice in schools
2020-04-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
A “Restorative Solution” is a non-adversarial approach to conflict resolution where the person who has done something wrong in a given situation becomes accountable to those s/he has harmed. This person is then given the opportunity to “make up” for their inappropriate behaviour through agreement and reparation. An intervention can involve a formal conference, or it can be a simple conversation in a corridor or playground. Restorative Interventions work with all ages of young people, and the techniques can be used in parental meetings, can prevent exclusions and challenge poor behaviour. Our feedback tells us that when problems between young people are addressed in this way, those problems rarely reoccur.
We will cover:
•What are restorative solutions?
•Background and detailed teaching of processes
•Inclusion values underpinning this work
•Processes modelled and opportunities to try process out
•Practical setting up of restorative conferences
•Stories and outcomes

The wellbeing toolkit for mental health leads: An introductory course
2020-04-24 09:00 - 15:00 | The Ridgeway Centre, Featherstone Road, Wolverton, Milton Keynes, MK12 5TH
£200 (including a copy of the The Wellbeing Toolkit for Mental Health Leads rrp £125)
This course will offer you a wealth of ideas for supporting mental health leads. It will provide you with a toolkit which you can use flexibly to support your schools.
During the course, guest keynote speaker will address some of the key topics of interest regarding mental health in schools, plus delegates will have the opportunity to delve deeper into particular areas of interest through attending two of the following sessions:
– Self-harm: Issues of prevention and safe practice – Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People through Grief & Loss – Understanding & Supporting Children & Young People who are School Phobic – Understanding Attachment Disorders & Creating an Attachment Friendly Classroom – Managing Exam Stress & Developing Study Skills – Using Tools from Positive Psychology to Build Resilience

Building community circles
2020-04-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
The purpose of community circles is to bring people from a local community together to share their skills, talents, gifts and resources. This idea is based upon the premise that ALL of us need three things in our lives to make us happy and fulfilled: these are money, friendship and meaning. We believe that everyone needs community, everyone needs to be heard and everyone needs to have fun.
Community Circles are based upon reciprocity and the assumption that EVERYONE has both gifts and needs – whether these are labelled or not. The circles adopt the fundamental value of inclusion that ‘all means all’, no one is excluded from community circles, instead the circle members work out how to include everyone equally and safely.
Community circles provide a great foundation or starting point from which to explore connections, build relationships, locate resources and share skills. These circles will be a particularly important resource for Brokers and the people that they work for. They provide a safe forum in which people can meet and friendships can start, a natural reservoir of people and relationships where people can be invited to offer their time and capacity.
We will cover:
•Understanding ordinary needs – plus the true dimensions of social inclusion
•Building relationships
•Creating natural circles of support
•Creating a community circle

Improving access and treatment for eating disorders: Towards recovery
2020-04-27 10:00 - 17:00 | De Vere West One Conference Centre, 9-10 Portland Place, London, W1B 1PR, United Kingdom
Cost plus VAT using code HCUK20EDPSY
The NHS Long Term Plan and accompanying Mental Health Implementation Plan has demonstrated a commitment to improve support and treatment for people with eating disorders. This conference focuses on making that plan a reality through developing services for Eating Disorders: improving access, treatment and recovery outcomes, and meeting the national standards for children, young people and adult services.

Follow the conference on Twitter #EatingDisorders2020

Peer mediation in schools
2020-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Peer mediation or peer counselling is an approach to impacting on bullying in primary and secondary schools by training pupils to be ‘Peer Mediators’ or ‘counsellors’. This well proven, highly effective method of impacting on school based bullying is still viewed by some as radical. We can provide training for staff or direct training with students across the age range – typically delivered over 6 short high impact, interactive learning workshops.
For staff training, participants are introduced to the key components of successful schemes. Our trainers have first hand experience of setting up school based schemes and sustaining these over time.
Enjoy participating in a multi media workshop that will challenge, entertain and reach for your emotions. Watch young people doing their stuff!
The course answers the questions :
•What do you do with major bullying problems in school?
•Practically how do we go about recruiting and training pupils as counsellors?
•Will pupils be hurt if we involve them with bullies?

Person Centred mindset – radical change in thinking
2020-04-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Learn how to facilitate a family, a work team or an organisation to think together around their preferred future or about a particular challenge or issue. Here is an opportunity to experience first hand the person centred, futures planning tool – (Pearpoint, Forest et. al. 1989).
This is a process not a training day. Let us facilitate your planning and refocus your story whilst strengthening you and your group.
•Is your team or family stuck?
•Want to move on, but haunted by the past and cannot get any useful dialogue started about the future?
•Facing a challenging transition into a new school or setting?
•Leaving school?
•Bored with annual reviews, transition plans and review meetings?
•Want to find a way of making meetings and planning feel more real and engaging?
•Need an approach, which engages a young person respectfully together with his or her family and friends?
•Want the ultimate visual record of the process of a meeting, which will help everyone, keep track?
•Want to problem solve and plan for the future of a small or large group, service or organisation up to the size of an LA
Drawing on the planning tool (Pearpoint, Forest and OBrien 1997) and other facilitation sources we use both process and graphic facilitation to enable the group to build their picture of what they would love to see happening within their organisation/community in the future and we encourage this to be a positive naming, not just a list of the things they want to avoid.

Ask the children – the power of pupil participation
2020-04-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Local authorities are being encouraged to seek the views of young people in relation to the services they receive. Schools and the whole range of support services (e.g. behaviour support, youth offending teams, social services, CAMHS etc.) are being expected to routinely ask young people for their views. This goes beyond involving young people in plans that concern them e.g care plans, individual education plans, pastoral support plans etc.
This training will focus on how young people can be effectively engaged in giving their views and will present a model for use in evaluating services to young people based on the concept of resilience. This model enables young people to be clear about what has helped and hindered them in being able to overcome difficulties. It also provides a framework for evaluating the extent to which services are reducing risk and increasing protective factors to enable young people to develop the resilience.
The course answers the questions :
•How can we truly involve pupils?
•Practically how do we go about listening to pupils views?
•What if we do not like what they tell us?
•How can we involve our most disaffected young people?

Circle of Friends
2020-04-30 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
‘Circle of Friends’ is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any child or young person who is experiencing difficulties in school because of disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. The ‘circle of friends’ approach works by mobilising the young person’s peers to provide support and engage in problem solving with the person in difficulty.
Over the past 12 years Colin Newton and Derek Wilson have been encouraging the use of ‘circle of friends’ in a wide variety of primary and secondary schools, often with very successful outcomes. Some of these are described in their books ‘Circles of Friends’, (Folens, 1999) and ‘Creating Circles of Friends’ (Inclusive Solutions, 2005). This is an excellent opportunity to learn from the educational psychologists who brought this Department of Education endorsed approach to the UK.
Learn how to build teams around challenging pupils by drawing on a resource which is always there…. other children. Enjoy participating in a multi-media workshop that will challenge, entertain and reach for your emotions. Circles of support are for us all, for life…. and they work!
We will cover:
•The importance of Welcome
•Inclusion values underpinning this work
•The Intentional Building of Relationships – ‘Circle of Friends’ work as an example
•Not doing it alone – The Importance of Teams in developing inclusive practice
•Practical setting up of circles of friends
•Lessons learned
•Stories of circles in primary and secondary mainstream schools

Improving mental health support for asylum seekers and refugees
2020-05-04 10:00 - 17:00 | De Vere West One Conference Centre, 9-10 Portland Place, London, W1B 1PR, United Kingdom
Cost plus VAT with code HCUK20EDPSY
We are pleased to announce that Dr Jane Hunt GP and Lead Medical Advisory Service The Helen Bamber Foundation (supports refugees and asylum seekers) will speak at the Seventh National Summit to focus on improving Mental Health Support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees. You will have the opportunity to network with colleagues who are working to improve mental health support for refugees and asylum seekers, self-assess and reflect on your own practice and gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence.

Follow the conference on Twitter #RefugeeMentalHealth

Understanding sensory sensitivities in autistic children
2020-05-04 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Free/Voluntary Contributions
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
In this practical workshop session we will explore ways of including people who have been labelled as being on the autism spectrum. The session will be values based and practical and will aim to allow the sharing of experiences and good practice as well promoting innovative approaches to inclusion through the design of best practice.
Family perspectives and experiences will also be explored. This is not a ‘medical model’ day on autism. Our motto for the day is ‘People do things for a Reason (and the reason isn’t autism).’ We make full use of first hand accounts of the experience of autism – the autobiographies – to deepen participants’ understanding of what it means to be labelled ‘autistic’
The course answers the questions :
•What is autism?
•How do we go about including people with autism?
•What does autism have to do with me?

Chairing meetings that matter
2020-05-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Free/Voluntary Contributions
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Meetings can be dreadful and bad chairing makes them worse.
On this day we look at transformational person-centred approaches to approaching the chairing of meetings. We provide deeper insights into the psychological processes that make this role challenging. ‘Best Saves’ for those really difficult moments when chairing meetings are creatively explored. We provide a practical, skill based and creative approach.
We will cover:
•Setting a Good tone/Exploring the ‘whole elephant’ – story so far of experience in chairing meetings – good and bad meetings – graphiced timeline and highs and lows of story so far
•Meetings I do not want – negative chairing….
•Thinking Hats and Values – linked to role of chair – where are hats when things are going well and where are they when things are not?
•Our shared vision for great meetings and excellent chairing?
•Personal planning for future chairing – what do I need to get better at – what should I manage?
•Specific skill teaching – re when things go wrong – eg tears, personal attacks, talking in side conversations, silent members, lack of contribution, anger and so on…‘best saves’ explored with group – using live role play – with one chair
•Solution Circle demonstration – chairing skills/problem solving modelled – approach when teams stuck…
•Emotional elements of chairing – ‘its not personal’ – splitting, projection, transference explored and ‘handling projections’ activity
•Vision and Road Blocks – small groups chaired and minuted – creative problem solving – Blocks to vision of great meetings creatively removed or worked around

Prevention and management of violence and aggression (PMVA) masterclass
2020-05-12 09:30 - 16:30 | The Studio Conference Centre, 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham, B2 5EP, United Kingdom
Cost plus VAT
Facilitated by Eric Baskind Senior Lecturer in Law, Liverpool John Moores University; Consultant and Expert Witness in Violence Reduction and the Safer Use of Force. This Masterclass will explore the key issues in the prevention and management of violence and aggression (PMVA) to ensure that your service remains ahead of its game; is providing the best approach to all matters relating to PMVA; and is protected as much as possible against adverse findings from regulators and claims by both staff and service users.
A 20% discount is available by quoting ref: HCUK20EDPSY when booking. (*Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Full T&Cs available upon request.)

Circle of Adults - in depth problem solving - online demo
2020-05-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Free/Voluntary Contributions
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Circle of Adults: Teams reflecting and problem solving about emotional and behavioural needs at a deeper level.
Learn a deeper approach to problem solving which will provide you with a new and richer approach to developing inclusive strategies for dealing with the most difficult to reach children and young people. Reflect on your own emotional responses to individuals you work with, explore relationships and generate richer hypotheses about what is really going on.
Outcomes:
•Deeper understanding of what is actually happening underneath a child’s behaviour
•Increased confidence in managing challenging pupils in mainstream schools
•Learn about a process for locating richer and wider range of practical strategies to impact on behaviour problems
•Deeper understanding of inclusion of challenging pupils
•Opportunity to reflect on professional practice
•Watch ‘front line’ practitioners making sense of a complex situation

Restorative Justice
2020-05-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Free/Voluntary Contributions
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
A “Restorative Solution” is a non-adversarial approach to conflict resolution where the person who has done something wrong in a given situation becomes accountable to those s/he has harmed. This person is then given the opportunity to “make up” for their inappropriate behaviour through agreement and reparation. An intervention can involve a formal conference, or it can be a simple conversation in a corridor or playground. Restorative Interventions work with all ages of young people, and the techniques can be used in parental meetings, can prevent exclusions and challenge poor behaviour. Our feedback tells us that when problems between young people are addressed in this way, those problems rarely reoccur.
We will cover:
•What are restorative solutions?
•Background and detailed teaching of processes
•Inclusion values underpinning this work
•Processes modelled and opportunities to try process out
•Practical setting up of restorative conferences
•Stories and outcomes

CAMHS National Summit 2020: Transforming mental health services for children & young adults
2020-05-22 10:00 - 17:00 | De Vere West One Conference Centre, 9-10 Portland Place, London, W1B 1PR, United Kingdom
Cost plus VAT with code HCUK20EDPSY
This national conference focuses on transforming mental health services for children and young people, ensuring early intervention, and developing integrated services with clear care pathways from first intervention to crisis and inpatient care. The conference will also look at national developments in monitoring outcomes in CYP Mental Health including the development of a National CYP Mental Health Outcomes Metric.

Follow the conference on Twitter #CAMHS2020

Graphics academy - for person centred planners
2020-05-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Free/Voluntary Contributions
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
This day will introduce you to the basic techniques and skills involved in doing graphic facilitation. Learn how to use a BIG piece of paper and a handful of pens to create a memorable summary of your training day, team meeting or your work with young people and families. Learn how to harvest the essence of an event in a visual representation. This is a ‘hands on’ interactive day built around demonstrations of graphic facilitation, coaching and the chance to try things out. Ideal for teams who can then go on together to practice, practice, practice.
The day will introduce you to the fundamentals of graphic facilitation and will include the following topics:
•Pens, Pastels and Paper – what you will need to get started
•The basic ‘grammar’ of graphic facilitation; the essential shapes, using colour, images, lettering, words, creating connection
•How to listen for the essence of what is being said and translate this into visual language
•A chance to do it live – with coaching

Introduction to Attachment
2020-06-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
This is a practical ‘non medical’ day for front line practitioners working with children and young people with serious attachment issues arising from loss, trauma and abuse. We look at what Psychology may help us in our understanding of children who have faced issues with love and attachment. Splitting, handling projected feelings, constancy and permanence are explored.
The course explores the questions :
•How can we start to develop an understanding of children with attachment needs?
•What is the true impact of loss, trauma and abuse?
•What else can we do to go about including high profile children or young people with challenging emotional needs?
•What useful psychological constructs can we use to guide us?
This course also explores practical strategies and language for key adults rebuilding relationships with individual pupils.
This is a participative day that aims to be explorative and practical. Opportunities to develop empathy with the children of concern will be created.

Impact of trauma on returning children’s inclusion
2020-06-03 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
This is a practical ‘non-medical’ day for front line practitioners working with children and young people who have experienced serious trauma in their life. We work to strengthen understanding of children who have faced issues of trauma emerging from abuse, violence, loss and family breakdown.
The course explores the questions:
•What does it take for a child to:
•Feel safe and secure
•Mourn the past trauma
•Reconnect with ordinary relationships with children and adults?
•How can we start to develop an understanding of traumatised children?
•What is the true impact of trauma?
•What else can we do to go about including high profile children or young people with challenging emotional needs?
•What useful psychological constructs can we use to guide us?
This course also explores practical strategies, concepts and language for key adults rebuilding relationships with individual pupils.
This is a participative day that aims to be explorative and practical. Opportunities to develop empathy with the children of concern will be created.

Resiliency enabling approaches for children and young people with trauma (June 2020 start)
2020-06-04 09:30 - 13:00 | The Parish Rooms, Highnam Community Centre, Highnam Community Centre Trust, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL2 8DG, United Kingdom
Six sessions: 04/06/20, 11/06/20, 18/06/20, 25/06/20, 09/07/20, 16/07/20
The REACH course is a six session, educational psychologist developed and led training programme delivered in ‘bite-size’ pieces, equipping practitioners with the psychological knowledge and skills they require to embed effective trauma informed, resiliency enabling approaches in their schools.
The REACH programme aims to support school staff to recognize and more effectively respond to students who have had experiences of trauma or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Each aspect of the curriculum is designed to support adults working in schools and other settings to prevent, mitigate and reduce trauma-associated symptoms through evidence-informed practices, leading to improved student academic, behavioural, and socio-emotional outcomes, as well as increased long-term resilience.
Who Would Benefit?
The course is essential learning for any professional working with children and their wider families in schools, nurseries and specialist services, as well as those in social care, health and early help.
This course aims to be a cost-effective way for staff to access the key knowledge and skills they need to become more trauma informed in the way they work and is a must for any setting wishing to enable the resiliency potential of every vulnerable child and young person.
A ‘train the trainer’ option for Educational Psychologists from other counties is also available.

APS workshop: Coaching for resilience
2020-06-05 09:30 - 16:30 | Novotel Hotel, Victoria Street, Bristol, BS1 6HY, United Kingdom
Learn psychology-informed coaching methods/tools that can be used to support adult (and young adult) resilience and wellbeing.

Understanding children’s emotional needs
2020-06-08 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
This workshop gives an opportunity to focus on the emotional needs of children and how to meet these. We lift the lid on meeting the emotional needs of both boys and girls. Everyone has been a child at some point. We may know other children in the form of pupils, offspring and other relatives.
The course explores the questions :
•Is there a problem with boys/girls?
•What can we do to meet the emotional needs of them?
•What helps?
•What should our priority be with boys/girls?
This workshop will explore:
•Cultural and historical expectations of boys/girls in our society
•Shared experiences of teaching and parenting boys/girls
•Circle of Courage as away of understanding emotional needs
•Fathers, mothers and children
•Solution Circle Problem Solving around a child’s needs
•What children really need
