"In a world where you can be anything, be kind." Caroline Flack
Our next Course starts 14th January 1:00- 2:00pm Via Zoom
Session 1 - 14 January 2025
Session 2 - 21 January 2025
Session 3 - 28 January 2025
Session 4 - 4 February 2025
Session 5 - 25 February 2025
Session 6 - 4 March 2025
What one of our participants said about our online course...
"The sessions were fun and thought provoking with activities you can apply in everyday life. I enjoyed looking at the language we use and what that triggers with others as well as learning about the physiology of the brain to understand behaviour. A great online course where you meet people in breakout rooms and realise we are all in the same boat."
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Our online course will help you to improve communication, resolve arguments in a calmer more effective way, and see behaviour as something to be understood rather than simply 'dealt with' or managed'.
Course One Session Content
Session 1 - Introduction to Restorative Practice
Restorative practice is all about relationships. This session introduces the key themes of restorative practice. It outlines the difference between restorative practice and restorative justice and introduces some norms and shared goals for working together online using all of the tools available to us in Zoom.
Session 2 - Left Brain Right Brain - Connect and Redirect
This session is an adaptation of Dr Dan Seigel and Tine Payne Bryson's theory of the connect and redirect strategy. It encourages us to look beyond 'inconvenient behaviour' and to start to shift our focus from 'managing' behaviour to understanding it. It gives a practical strategy that aligns really well with restorative practice.
Session 3 - The Affective Questions
Using case studies of familiar family situations, this session looks in depth at how we can use the restorative questions to resolve conflict, express need and repair harm. We use breakout rooms to role play asking the questions:
What happened? What were you thinking at the time? What have your thoughts been since? How do you feel about what has happened? Who has been affected by what happened and how? What can we do to put things right?
Session 4 - The Social Discipline Window
This is one of my favourite sessions to deliver. It's the one that had the biggest impact on me as a teacher and instantly reduced conflict in my classroom. The session teaches us about human interaction. It looks at how we respond to support and challenge and what our behaviour triggers in others. It will help you to recognise the importance or boundaries help you to establish them in a nurturing and supportive way using the restorative questions.
Session 5 - Shame and Its Impact on Behaviour
Shame – is not the same as feeling ashamed. It is the interruption of something that was making us feel good and its interruption is a HUGE driver for reactionary behaviour. This session helps us to understand our behaviour and our children’s behaviour and focusses on the impact of shame in neurotypical and neurodiverse young people and adults.
Session 6 - Planning for the Developing Child
The final session is the time when we will make a plan for implementation and focus on some of the key issues we are going to address. This is done by breaking out into groups of other adults with similar aged children and sharing ideas. You will leave the course with a clear focus on what your priorities are.
Course Two Session Content
Course 2
Session 1 - Fair Process and Developing Emotional Language
How many times do you hear the words "That's not fair!" This session aims to provide caregivers with a tool for reflection when they hear this phrase. It also provides practical activities to help develop a richer emotional vocabulary. The more we can support our young people and ourselves to express thoughts and feeling using words as opposed to their behaviour, the calmer the household.
Session 2 - Values, Needs and Behaviour
We talk a LOT about values and needs in restorative practice as unmet needs and offended values can cause a huge behavioural response. Knowing what our values are and having a shared understanding of each others can help to reduce conflict and to develop a greater understanding of our reactions.
Session 3 - Deep Listening
How often do we really fully listen to someone? How often are we half listening whilst juggling a million other things? If you're anything like me it's daily. This session explores the process of deep listening as a means to developing problem solving skills in ourselves and our young people.
Session 4 - Mindsight and The Restorative Questions
This is another session adapted from Dr Dan Seigel and Tina Payne Bryon's book 'The Whole Brain Child' which aligns closely with restorative practice. The restorative questions encourage the development of empathy or 'mindsight' that is an essential skill to develop for conflict resolution.
Session 5 - Needs After Conflict
Through the telling of a story about two boys who fall out, all of the session's theory is brought together and revisited. I love this session as it allows us to see how far we have come and just how much more of an understanding we have gained about behaviour. It also provides a good way of introducing restorative practice in the home.
Session 6 - Planning for the Developing Child
The final session is the time when we will make a plan for implementation and focus on some of the key issues we are going to address. This is done by breaking out into groups of other adults with similar aged children and sharing ideas. You will leave the course with a clear focus on what your priorities are.
Additional Support for Families
What will the support look like?
The support can be tailored to meet the needs of each individual family. From 1:1 consultations and sessions with parents or children, to a ‘Super Nanny’ style whole day family interaction and feedback session. Each families’ approach will depend on their needs. A family in crisis might start with a conference whereas families wanting to communicate better might start with a family session on The Teenage Brain or the impact of brain development on the early years.
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Understanding Key Periods in your Child's Development
Understanding Key Periods in your Child's Development
Understanding Key Periods in your Child's Development
This session teaches about the role of the amygdala during the teenage years and how we can use that knowledge to have calmer responses. It also combines restorative theory to help us understand what our behaviour triggers in others. Young people love this session as it helps them to understand themselves and gives them tips for taming the amygdala.
Communicating Better – Rewriting Our Scripts
Understanding Key Periods in your Child's Development
Understanding Key Periods in your Child's Development
A really helpful session for reducing conflict in the home by providing a format for communication based on our interpretation of the work of Marshall B. Rosenberg and the Center for Nonviolent Communication” Non-violent communicating teaches how to speak about something that has happened without triggering a reaction in others.
Restorative Conference
Understanding Key Periods in your Child's Development
Restorative Conference
This session starts with a case study to introduce the format of conference and when both/all parties are prepped and ready is moved to a ‘live’ home situation to resolve conflict and plan how things can be done differently in the future. N.B. This process will require preparation sessions for all parties involved.
What other families say after our sessions
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