All sessions are for one hour unless stated or requested to be longer. These can be delivered during a staff meeting or as part of a training day and can be 1-2 hours or half a day.
How Attachment Impacts on Behaviour and Relationships in EYFS
This course enables EYFS staff to:
- Identify children’s different attachment styles
- Understand how these can impact on behaviour and relationships in a positive or negative way
- Develop strategies to implement to promote positive experiences
Using Reflective Language in the EYFS setting (part 1)
This course enables EYFS staff to:
- Understand the concept of reflective language and explore the benefits of using it as a behaviour management technique
- Recognise the importance of EYFS staff developing awareness of and acknowledging their own feelings
- Identify how to implement it during the day
Using Reflective Language to Strengthen Attachment Relationships (part 2)
This course enables EYFS staff to:
- Identify children’s different attachment styles
- Understand how these impact on relationships
- Practice using appropriate reflective responses for children’s different attachment styles
How External Circumstances Impact on Children’s Behaviour and Relationships
This course enables EYFS staff to:
- Explore the impact of home and parenting on children’s behaviour
- Understand how these impact on children’s ability to develop healthy relationships in the EYFS setting
- Develop strategies to promote more positive relational experiences
Understanding Feelings and Frustrations in the Foundation Stage
This course will enable EYFS staff to:
- Identify the potential barriers to children settling in nursery
- Understand the impact of external circumstances and trauma
- Learn strategies to implement to manage behaviour, especially tantrums
Positive Approaches and Strategies to Managing Children’s Behaviour
This course will enable EYFS staff to:
- Understand the links between brain development and behaviour in young children
- Identify circumstances that activate rage in young children
- Understand the impact of external circumstances and trauma
- Learn strategies to implement to manage behaviour, especially tantrums
The Practice of Therapeutic Play
This course enables EYFS staff to:
- Identify and use therapeutic ways of working with children
- Understand how to use reflective language
- Practice using therapeutic play skills
- Identify safe and unsafe practices in working with children
Understanding how trauma impacts on children’s relationships and behaviour
This course enables EYFS staff to:
- Identify experiences that may cause trauma in children
- Explore how children may express trauma by their behaviour
- Develop strategies to implement to promote positive experiences and improved behaviour