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Graphics academy - for person centred planners
2020-05-25 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC | 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

Masterclass: Safeguarding children Level 3 - NHS Level 4
2020-06-12 09:30 - 17:00 UTC | De Vere West One Conference Centre, 9-10 Portland Place, London, W1B 1PR, United Kingdom
Cost plus VAT with code HCUK20EDPSY
This course will explore child protection conferences, preparing child protection plans and the role of core groups to ensure the best outcomes for children at risk of harm. You will have the opportunity to take part in a simulated Case Conference based on a detailed case study. The aim of the course is that you will have a clear understanding of the assessment and decision-making processes and a sound grasp of the principles and processes for effective collaboration. You will also gain skills in preparing for the Case Conference including how to write a formal report, identifying what is and what isn’t evidence-based information and how to challenge decisions.

Understanding anxiety
2020-06-15 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
In this practical workshop session we will explore ways of including young people of all ages who experience anxiety some of whom may well be 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 as promoting innovative approaches to inclusion through the design of best practice.
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?
Key themes include:
•Movement differences
•Supports and Accommodations for Sensory Sensitivities
•Developing Friendships and Peer Support
•Learning to Listen

Working out sensory sensitivities
2020-06-17 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Sensory super sensitivities are a key area to explore when planning and delivering the inclusion of a child or young person. Sometimes an autistic child may behave in a ways that are hard to understand.
Often this is linked to super sensory sensitivities. A person who struggles to deal with everyday sensory information can experience sensory, or information overload. Too much can cause stress, anxiety, and even physical pain. This can result in withdrawal, shut down, challenging behaviour or meltdown.
‘The human brain receives all of the information that we know about the world and each other through our sensory system. There is no other way for this information to be gathered. People on the autism spectrum describe their experience in this world as that of being overwhelmed by the sensory stimulation they receive from the environments they are forced to deal with. Touch is like a tidal wave, sounds are too loud, language distorted, vision fragmented, focusing on each piece separately rather than the whole, odors often sickening and tastes unbearable. These descriptions have now been validated through research on the specific construction of the brain’. – Gail Gillingham

Contextual safeguarding - applying the approach in practice to child and adolescent safeguarding
2020-06-19 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | De Vere West One Conference Centre, 9-10 Portland Place, London, W1B 1PR, United Kingdom
Cost plus VAT
This conference focuses on Contextual Safeguarding – implementing the approach in practice and ensuring there is support at an operational, strategic and governance level. Through national updates and practical case studies this conference will highlight how using this approach can safeguard children and develop appropriate responses to extra-familial harm.
Follow the conversation on Twitter #contextualsafeguarding
A 20% discount is available to you and your contacts by quoting ref: HCUK20EDPSY when booking. (*Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Full T&Cs available upon request.)

Movement differences and how to accommodate them
2020-06-22 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | 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.

Promoting mental health in learning settings
2020-06-23 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom
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

Building friendships in a neurotypical world
2020-06-24 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
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!
This is an excellent opportunity to learn from Colin Newton and Derek Wilson the educational psychologists who brought this Department of Education endorsed approach (‘Circle of Friends’) to the UK.
The course answers the questions:
•What do you do with the child who is isolated by their aggression and anger, through being different, disabled or new to the school or community?
•Practically how do we go about including high profile children or young people?
•How can we help some children be friends?
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

Reducing the harmful effects of exposure to domestic violence and abuse on children and young people
2020-07-02 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online training
This CPD certified masterclass will consider the role of toxic stress and trauma in the pathway to interpersonal violence between parents, and the climate of violence which harms the mental health and development of children and young people. A trauma-informed model of identification, risk assessment, protection and modular intervention will be outlined to reduce the harmful effects of Domestic Violence and Abuse.

Masterclass: Therapeutic interventions to reduce the harmful effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
2020-07-03 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online training
The programme will outline the increasing evidence of the impact of Adverse Experiences of Childhood (ACEs) on the health and well-being of children and young people extending into adult life. There is a growing demand for interventions to prevent their harmful effects.
Key Learning Points:
•To appreciate current views about the nature and range of ACEs which have developed
•To understand the way in which ACEs are present at a population level, and in particular clinical populations
•The traumatic and stressful nature of ACEs and the impact on development of children and young people into adult life, including an understanding of neurobiological effects -toxic stress.
•To appreciate the range of interventions available and recommended to reduce the harmful impact of ACEs and their limitations
•The development of modular approaches which ‘distils’ effective practice elements from across the field of interventions
•How modular approaches can be utilised as part of a comprehensive holistic approach to establishing a profile of needs, and develop an effective intervention which prevents further ACEs and modify their impacts
•To can be adapted for use across different types of service provision at all stages of the therapeutic process

Recovery, re-introduction and renewal: Free webinar to launch new handbook for schools
2020-07-16 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | Online training
Delivered online.
In this webinar, Nottinghamshire EPS and the AEP will introduce and explore a new resource for schools produced by Whole School SEND and funded by the Department for Education:
Recovery, Re-introduction and Renewal: A Handbook for Schools and Educational Settings Following Critical Incidents
Written by educational psychologists, this resource presents five guiding principles of recovery and a graduated response framework for schools to use in planning the return to school at individual, group and whole-school level. It also includes references to practical resources to share with young people, staff and parents. The webinar will introduce the handbook with particular reference to the return to school in light of the coronavirus pandemic and detail how to access these new resources.

Resiliency Enabling Approaches for Children & Young People (REACH) - online
2020-07-20 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom
This is a ‘Train the Trainer’ REACH Course delivered via Zoom enabling Educational Psychologists to cascade the REACH Course in their area. Non-EPs also welcome to attend the course as practitioners.
Dates / Times
•Module 1: Monday 20th July
•Module 2: Tuesday 21st July
•Module 3: Monday 27th July
•Module 4: Tuesday 28th July
•Module 5: Monday 3rd August
•Module 6: Tuesday 4th August
The REACH Course is an educational psychologist developed and led learning curriculum, delivered in six ‘bite-size’ three-hour modules, equipping practitioners with the psychological knowledge and skills they require to embed effective trauma informed, resiliency enabling approaches in their schools and settings.
REACH teaches 100 different learning objectives relating to the key knowledge and skills needed to develop an awareness not only of adversity and trauma, but also of the approaches that are vital in supporting young people to do well, despite their risk factors.
In particular, the course explores the five ‘Roots of Resilience’ – and numerous associated protective factors – that we can help vulnerable children to tap into, in order to maintain their strength and stability during adverse events, nourishing them from the inside out.

Therapeutic interventions to address children and young people’s anxiety, depression, trauma and disruptive behaviour: A modular approach
2020-07-21 09:30 - 16:30 UTC | Online training
Cost plus VAT
This masterclass will help practitioners working in social care, health, education and youth justice address the complex needs of an increasing number of children and young people presenting with symptoms of anxiety, mood disturbance, trauma and disruptive behaviour. The stressful and traumatic impact on children and young people’s lives of Covid 19 has increased this need.
There are helpful NICE guidelines on evidence-based therapeutic interventions for single forms of a disorder, but these will not for work with children and young people who present with overlapping problems, e.g. disruptive behaviours, associated with significant mood disturbance and self-harming behaviour. This masterclass will present the Hope for Children and Families (HfCF) innovative approach; the development of a common practice elements approach which identifies evidence-based therapeutic procedures and integrates them into a Library of Modules.

Online panel discussion on children's anxiety about going outside
2020-08-13 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online training
Delivered online
During this panel discussion, we will reflect on the supportive script that we created to support children and young people in venturing outside during the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be followed by a 30 minute discussion where you will have the opportunity to present your own questions to the panel.
The panel will consist of Dr Kathryn Gibb (Educational & Child Psychologist), Dr Anisa-Ree Moses (Educational & Child Psychologist) & Dr Amy Such (Educational & Child Psychologist).

Online panel discussion on 'the importance of play'
2020-08-27 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online training
Delivered online
During this Panel Discussion, we will reflect on the importance of play in order to support the development of children and young people. This will be followed by a 30 minute discussion where you will have the opportunity to present your own questions to the panel.
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The panel will consist of Dr Kathryn Gibb (Educational & Child Psychologist), Dr Anisa-Ree Moses (Educational & Child Psychologist) & Dr Amy Such (Educational & Child Psychologist).

Dynamic Assessment CPD (webinars)
2020-09-03 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online training
Online
03/09/20 and 10/09/20
Improving our Dynamic Assessment feels incredibly timely, especially given many concerns over the accuracy and legitimacy of standardised assessments when children return to school following such a long time away from education.
Dr Jane Yeomans is a highly experienced and skilled Dynamic Assessment (DA) trainer and practitioner. In these workshops, she will lead us through a refresher on DA before taking us a step further and breathing new life into our DA practice to achieve the most out of this.
These workshops will develop our DA skills, leaving us confident in using DA in practice and knowing how to get the most from our sessions:
•A refresher of the core principles of DA;
•Test selection and use to expand our repertoire of tools;
•How to master mediation and get the most out of our DA sessions with children (including live modelling);
•Use of commercially produced materials dynamically; and
•Best practice in recording, reporting and feeding back DA to achieve the best outcomes from this.

Understanding young people who hear voices
2020-09-04 13:30 - 16:30 UTC | Online training
Delivered online.
This half day workshop presents a fresh approach to voice-hearing. Founded in lived experience and the work of the Voice Collective project, it includes:
• Exploring what it feels like to hear voices as a young person
• The impact voice-hearing can have on a young person’s home, school & social life
• An introduction to the Hearing Voices Network ethos & approach to unusual sensory experiences
• Ways to open up conversations about voices, helping young people to feel heard
• Simple youth-friendly coping strategies

Acknowledging your racism (webinar)
2020-09-08 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Online training
In this course, we deepen participants understanding of systemic racism and the spectrum of privilege. It challenges the participants to examine their behaviours and take close looks at some of the views they have held since a very young age, e.g. this area is a “bad” area, because it has a high proportion of black/brown people living in it, or that young black men in tracksuits are “thugs”. We think about where these messages come from and how people are indoctrinated by the media.
Participants will:

Confront their own racism and unconscious biases
Become aware of the ways they treat people differently based on race
Think about practical changes they can make in their workplaces

Solution circles (webinar)
2020-09-15 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Online training
In this course we explore how we have attempted to build inclusive circles of support around individuals and contrast this with a radical approach to problem solving with parents – the Parent Solutions Circle. Parent Solutions is a brand new approach to problem solving with parents based on our live group work in schools. A focus on challenging behaviour brings interest, energy and commitment.
Learning Objectives

For participants to learn how to set up a Parent Solutions Circle
For participants to understand the underlying rationale and ethos of this way of working
To learn the facilitation process and stages of the Circle process

EP reach out webinar - An introduction to dynamic assessment & mediated learning (part 1)
2020-09-17 16:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Online training
This webinar provides an overview of how and why Educational Psychologists use Dynamic Assessment and Mediated Learning to explore the learning potential of children & young people.

Insight and solution circles (webinar)
2020-09-22 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Online training
We will provide background context for this approach and will directly model the process with real live issues facing participants. So bring your most challenging concerns to this training.
The course answers the questions:

Can we find an alternative to permanent exclusion or special unit or school placement?
Cannot understand why a child is behaving as they do?
Struggling with a child for whom praise is ineffective?
Feeling isolated in your responses to a child’s needs?
Worried about where your instinctive reactions are leading you?
Cannot seem to get any consensus view of a young person’s behaviour/needs amongst all the family and professionals involved – is everyone pulling in different directions?

Learning Objectives

Deeper understanding of what is actually happening underneath the presenting behaviour
Increased confidence in managing and building relationships with challenging pupils in mainstream schools
Learn process for locating richer and wider range of practical strategies to impact on behaviour problems
Deeper understanding of yourself and the psychodynamic processes happening between pupils, staff and pupils and families
Opportunity to reflect on professional practice
Mutual support established with other front line practitioners

Supporting ASD Girls in the Early Years (webinar)
2020-09-23 17:00 - 18:30 UTC | Online training
Delivered online
This is a second chance to access the training that Dr Amy Such provided at the Early Years Conference in Kent, back in February 2020. This webinar focuses on the presentation of autism within the female population, how this may differ to the presentation of autism in the male population and how this may present within an Early Years setting. The webinar also addresses strategies for supporting ASD girls within an Early Years setting.

Breath-Body-Mind for stress resilience, emotion regulation, and well-being with Patricia Gerbarg MD, Jyoti Manuel and Richard Brown MD
2020-09-24 16:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Online training
The creators of BREATH-BODY-MIND™ share how the healing power of breath can enhance physical and mental health.

Babywatching UK group leader online training
2020-09-28 15:40 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | Online training
Delivered online via zoom over three 3 hour sessions: 28th September, 5th October and 12th October.
Attendance at all three sessions is mandatory to qualify for Part 1 of the Group Leader certificate.
Every session gives plenty of time to discuss and see how theory actually relates to our own settings and the children we work with.
Session 1 – Introduction, Attachment, Qualities of a Group Leader
•Attachment theory as it relates to Babywatching
•Considering presenting behaviours in the classroom
•Considering the qualities of a good Group Leader – PACE model
20 minutes of watching videos for home-study needed to prepare for Session 2.
Session 2 – Empathic Listening and Reflecting and Introduction of skills. How does Babywatching work?
•Introduction of core skills – empathic listening and reflecting within a Babywatching context.
•Introduction to the Babywatching model.
20 minutes of watching videos for home-study needed to prepare for Session 3.
Session 3 – Getting started and problem solving
•Practicing Questioning technique
•Practicalities of starting a group
•Post session resources

Circle of Adults (webinar)
2020-09-29 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Online training
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
