2 Day Foundation training with 4 Work Discussion sessions (Generic) [... *Pre-requisite training: none]

2 Days, plus four follow-up sessions

For everyone who works with families and children

No pre-requisite training

2 Day Foundation Training with Four Work Discussion Sessions

Togetherness Foundation Training for professionals is designed to support and enhance emotional health and wellbeing. It looks at the Solihull Approach model as integrative theories and applies to practical examples to consider the importance of relationships and nurturing connected, sensitive and responsive interactions.

This package includes four Work Discussion sessions as follow-up to the training, supporting teams to embed the principles of the training and realise the full value by considering real case studies in a supported environment. Each session is two hours, at three to four weekly intervals.

Developed by psychologists, child psychotherapists, and practitioners, the Foundation Training is evidence-based and highly rated across sectors. It introduces a way of thinking and working with families, groups or in one-to-one interactions that transcends professions and communities.

The Approach helps practitioners to understand more about brain development to read and shape behaviour, communication, and emotional health.

What difference will it make?

The Foundation Training is designed to equip practitioners with an effective approach to supporting families and improving emotional health and wellbeing for children and their parents or carers. The training explains the fundamentals of early brain development in accessible, relevant terms to support a range of professions. Equipped with this knowledge and working through a series of real-life case studies both in the two days and the Work Discussion sessions prepares practitioners to engage families and young people with confidence and to make a real and lasting impact.

The Work Discussion sessions provide practitioners with further opportunities to reflect on the model and its application in their workplace with peers.

The Togetherness team are passionate about early intervention and responsive relationships supporting mental health and wellbeing. The Solihull Approach model at the heart of all our training and resources has a significant evidence base both quantitative and qualitative showing the improvements for:

• the parent-child relationship

• child prosocial behaviour

• behaviour difficulties

• parental anxiety and stress

• practitioner satisfaction

Course content

• Introduction to infant, early childhood and adolescent brain development

• Understanding behaviour as a communication

• The Solihull Approach (psychoanalytic theory): Containment, Reciprocity, Behaviour Management

• Development milestones

• Emotional wellbeing

• Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

• Parent-child relationships

• Practitioner support for parent child relationships

• Applying the model to real world contexts in the four Work Discussion sessions

Delivery

The 2 Day Foundation Training with Four Work Discussion Sessions is designed for any practitioner working with babies, young children and school-aged children, young people and their families.

‘Open training’ is delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of 12 delegates.

‘Closed’ training is bespoke delivered for teams of staff of between 6-12 individuals within an organisation.

The Foundation Training can be delivered as ‘live virtual’ training or face-to-face training by Togetherness trainers, as required.

There are 14 days between Day One and Day Two of the training to enhance theory into practice.

Book now

Book an individual place here.

For ‘closed’ training, please contact us to discuss a bespoke order.

0121 296 4448

togetherness@uhb.nhs.uk

Resources

Delegates will require a supporting Resource Pack (age-appropriate depending on profession) which includes a comprehensive summary of the Solihull Approach theoretical model, case studies, and a series of frameworks and guides for parents on various issues in the first five years : for example, sleeping, eating, toileting, playing, emotional and physical development. In the school years, it also covers an introduction to specific issues such as depression, phobias, and eating disorders.