Mad, Bad, Sad or Glad?
How to Help Children with Everyday Feelings Through Arts and Play
This course will help you.....
- Deliver the EHWB, SEAL, PSHE and Healthy Schools Agenda in your School or Children's Setting with a practical and creative approach through this inspirational course.
- Take away a tool kit of ideas and strategies that are possible to implement immediately with either your whole class, in small groups or alongside pupils with emotional difficulties and behavioural challenges.
Do you find many children, not only the 'troubled souls' in our classrooms, playgrounds and various settings, struggle to find meaningful and appropriate ways to manage and express their everyday feelings? Would you like to be better equipped to help the quiet lonely child who aches for a friend, or the boisterous lively child who flies off the handle all too easily?
This course will help you help them.
- To consider children's emotional vocabulary and ways to extend and enrich these (and which remain suitable for the classroom!) thereby enhancing their skills in managing their emotions and relationships with others.
- To explore the four big feelings of human nature and develop a better understanding of how, when and why these feelings occur, and what children need to know about expressing these.
- To update our knowledge in neuroscience, and appreciate how brain chemistry shapes emotional reactions and what children need from us to help them build the capacity to think through feeling.
- To consider the difference for boy and girl children and their developing emotional competence, and how best to provide for the diversity of need. Nature versus nurture?
- To allow participants to experience a therapeutic play approach that can be adapted for use outside of a therapeutic setting.
- To refresh our ability to be an 'Emotionally Calming Adult' for children(more often than not) through attunement, empathy and 'interactive repair.'
Participants will be able to engage in a variety of fun and creative approaches to support children in better handling their emotional worlds. They will also be aware of the brain chemistry at work when a child is distressed or out of control, and how best to respond to this.
Learning methods will include:
Case presentation with children’s drawing and writing, pair work, facilitation practice, group work and active learning methods using art materials. Plus plenty of fun!
- Anyone in a position to nurture the emotional wellbeing of children, particularly outside of the ‘therapeutic’ space.
- Early Year Practitioners and Child Minders, Primary Teachers and Teaching Assistants, Learning Mentors, SENCO’s, PSHE Coordinators, Behavioural Lead Personnel, Educational Psychologists, School Nurses, Children's Counsellors or Therapists wanting to work more creatively.
- Secondary Staff with responsibility for Year 7 Transition.
- Foster Parents, Children's Homes Staff and Parents.
This one day course costs £120.00 and includes:
- all tuition from 9.30am-4.30pm (check times on booking form)
- a free copy of Anna-Michele's book 'How to nurture and enhance childrens emotional development'
- further handout material
- a certificate of attendance
- refreshments
- a light lunch to share
- a door prize for the lucky winner!
If the one organistion is sending a second particpant we offer a discounted rate at 2 places for only £200.00. Further discounts can be negotiated if wanting to take up more than two places.
Contact Anna-Michele on 0191 580 1111.
All fees must be paid and cleared 2 weeks prior to the course unless otherwise arranged.
Comments from in house training commissioned by Morag Stead, manager of early intervention teams, Northumberland
What did you enjoy most about the day?
"A great day – practical ideas that I am sure I will use."
"I enjoyed the content and the ideas learning more about the brain."
"Storytime, I really enjoyed it and can appreciate how much a child would enjoy this."
“As a parent Emotional Intelligence section was invaluable”
“The whole day was fab – you have given me so many new ideas”
"Practicing facilitation technique – Having a go!"
Comments about Anna-Michele's training style
"Kept us interested all day. Good mix of activities."
"Extremely professional and encouraging"
"Relaxed, approachable, fair, respectful, knowledgeable, enthusiastic, lovely frock."
“Brilliant, open and friendly presenter, very aware at other’s feelings and the option to opt out if necessary”
“Very relaxed and able to give the theory behind the practice which was very helpful”
Dr. Margot Sunderland
Esteemed author Dr. Margot Sunderland, founder of the Centre for Child Mental Health, wrote the foreword for Anna-Michele's book, and highly commends her style as "truly delightful!"
