Whole School Training

Training

1-2 Days

For everyone who works within a school

No pre-requisite training

What is the Solihull Approach Whole School Training?

Solihull Approach Whole School Training is all about supporting emotional health and wellbeing with a focus on relationships and nurturing connected, sensitive and responsive interactions.

The Solihull Approach was founded in practice and all of our training is evidence-based, developed by psychologists, child psychotherapists, and practitioners. It is a way of thinking and working with families, groups or one-to-one that transcends professions and communities.

The Solihull Approach is also about understanding brain development to understand behaviour, communication and emotional health.

What difference will it make?

Solihull Approach Whole School 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 brain development in accessible, relevant terms to support practitioners in a range of professions. Equipped with this knowledge and working through a series of real-life case studies prepares all school staff to engage families and young people with confidence to make a real and lasting impact.

The Solihull Approach and our network of trained practitioners are passionate about early intervention and responsive relationships supporting mental health and wellbeing. The Solihull Approach has a significant evidence base both quantitative and qualitative showing the improvements in the parent-child relationship, child prosocial behaviour, behaviour difficulties, parental anxiety and stress, and 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

How is it delivered?

The Solihull Approach Whole School Training is designed for teachers and governors to reception and support staff to support the use of the Solihull Approach in any school.

Group bookings are delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of 10-50 delegates.

One day’s training and the shorter one-hour check-in session can be delivered as ‘live virtual’ training or face-to-face training by Solihull Approach trainers, as required.

There are fourteen 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

solihull.approach@uhb.nhs.uk

Fees

Live Virtual (Group)

£994 for one day plus follow-up session

Face-to-face (Group)

£1294 for one day plus follow-up session

Resources

Supporting Information Booklet £5 per person

First Five Years £77

School Years £76

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.

Delegates will require a Supporting Infomation Booklet if they do not have a Resource Pack. It means that they do not need any photocopies of handouts and have information after the training to move theory into practice.

Further training

Work Discussion Sessions

Solihull Approach Advanced Training includes:

Other Whole School Training

School Course for Young People

Key Facts

Duration:
6 + 1.5 hour(s)
Course level:
Training