 Behaviour
and Emotional Well-Being
Do you need new strategies to help include a child
or young person with behavioural, emotional and social
difficulties? Do you want to promote the emotional
wellbeing of children in school and prevent mental
health difficulties?
We provide a range of training days that teach staff
specific strategies as well as promoting staff team’s
understanding of why a child is acting as they are.
Attachment Difficulties & Behaviour
Many children and young people who have
experienced disrupted childhoods display anxious and
angry behaviour in school, which has a risk of
resulting in mental health difficulties in the
future. This session will enable staff to recognize
different styles of attachment behaviour in children
with whom they work, and plan ways to help children
cope and reduce the impact in school.
The session includes:
- Attachment styles
- How insecure attachments impact on
behaviour
- Strategies to manage the different
insecure attachment styles in school
 Solution
Circles: getting ‘unstuck’ together
Meeting the needs of a challenging person can
often make us feel ‘stuck’, and staff need a way of
working together to find answers.
A solution circle is a simple problem-solving
process in which a group of people can quickly
generate ideas for solutions for a specific problem
within half an hour, developed by Jack Pearpoint and
Marsha Forrest in Canada. The meeting is run by a
facilitator and recorded on a large visual graphic.
The session includes:
- Experience of a solution circle
process
- Training in graphics
- Opportunity to practice in a safe
setting
- Planning as a staff team regarding
it’s use in your organization
Engaging ‘hard to reach’ young people: Creative
Tools
This day will equip you with a range of creative
strategies that help engage learners who are
struggling to succeed in school and the community.
Strategies include:
- Identifying what underlies young
people’s disengagement
- Creating personalised visual plans
- Training in graphics
- Visual Annual Reviews
- Solution Focussed brief therapy
techniques
 Circles of Friends: A practical introduction
Learn how to establish peer problem-solving
groups for children who are socially isolated in
class in this practical session. The “Circle of
Friends” process can help children and young people
learn to build relationships with peers and increase
their overall sense of belonging and positive
participation in their school or club.
The session includes:
- Introduction to inclusion and importance of
social groups
- Thorough grounding in steps involved
- Practice different steps of the
process
- Knowledge of different kinds that have
been developed
Raising Aspirations and Revision techniques
Aimed at young people who are in Years 10 – 13,
this engaging session will encourage young people to
name their ‘dream future’ in a safe setting, and
help them to identify the best revision techniques
for their learning style.
The session will include:
- What would be a dream life?
- Learning styles
- Revision techniques
- Preparation for the day and unforeseen
events
Circles of Adults
This powerful multi-agency approach created by
Newton & Wilson (2007), brings together people who
are struggling to include and engage with an
individual child or young person, often at risk of
permanent exclusion from school.
Through looking at
their story, relationships and situation the group
deepen their understanding of the young person and
the reasons for their behaviour, which in turn leads
to strategies to address the hidden needs. The
process is captured using a large visual graphic,
which helps the group to make sense of the complex
situation.
We can work with your team around an individual
child or train a group in this technique, including
teaching them graphic skills.
We are happy to provide a bespoke training day to
meet the needs of your staff team, should you
require a mix of the above.
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