TRAINING
ENGAGING AND EXPERIENTIAL TRAINING
All of our training includes a combination of PowerPoint presentation, video clips, group discussion, reflection, and role-play. We strive to make it as engaging and as experiential as possible.
Attachment and Developmental Trauma
This one-day workshop is designed to support parents and professionals caring for children with attachment-based needs. Research tells us that the brain does more growing in the first 2 years of life than at any other time. This workshop aims to support delegates in their understanding of the importance of developing secure attachment relationships with parents in early childhood and their significance in healthy development and the growth of a fully integrated brain.
Course overview:
– Understanding what constitutes ‘good enough’ care and how secure attachment relationships develop
– Understanding the impact of trauma and adversity on the developing brain
– The impact of trauma on the nervous system and the vagus nerve
– Understanding the impact of ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) on social, emotional, and mental health and the longer-term outcomes for young people
– Exploring the difference between secure and insecure attachment and how young people can present (at home and in the classroom) with an avoidant, ambivalent and disorganised attachment style.
Introduction to PACE
This 3-hour introduction to ‘Parenting with PACE’ gives parents and professionals a brief introduction to the principles of Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy and how we can apply these in our interactions with children and young people to help them feel safe and better connected.
This training is suitable for parents, teachers, foster and adoptive parents and other professionals.
Therapeutic Parenting (PACE) Training
Based on Kim Golding’s ‘Foundations for Attachment, this 3-day training aims to help parents, carers and professionals caring for children whose capacity to connect emotionally has been compromised in response to adverse early childhood experiences.
Course overview:
– Understanding the need for a different approach
– Development of trust and mistrust
– Intersubjectivity and the role of connection
– Understanding shame
– Understanding the principles of Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy
– Developing an attitude of PACE and the therapeutic approach
– Recognised (unconscious) invitations from the child to replicate early care experiences
– Exploring alternatives to commonly used parenting strategies
– Relationship repair
– Looking after myself and supporting me to remain calm and regulated.
This training is suitable for parents, teachers, foster and adoptive parents and other professionals.
Autism Training
This training can be delivered over 1 or 2 days and is aimed at supporting parents, carers and professionals better understand and support children and young people with ASD. This training is also suitable for teaching staff supporting pupils with ASD in school.
We also offer ASD assessments for adults and children. Click here for more information.
Course overview:
– History and prevalence of ASD
– Areas of difficulty
– Theory of mind, central coherence, executive functioning
– Anxiety in ASD
– Gender differences
– Strategies to support, at home and in the classroom
– Sensory difficulties and ASD
Bespoke Training
We are also able to work closely with parents, schools, and other agencies (such as social care, adoption and foster agencies, and local authorities) to create bespoke packages of training to meet individual and group needs.
These can include more structured training sessions where teaching material is delivered to the individual or group, in addition to follow-up workshops/reflective practice sessions aimed at helping delegates embed what they have learned.
We also offer more general support to individuals, groups and services directly caring for children.
Please get in touch for more information.
