INCLUSION WORKSHOPS 2012
4pm - 6pm
Cost: £49 + VAT per session
£10 for parents and unwaged
A SERIES OF TWILIGHT WORKSHOPS LED BY COLIN NEWTON AND DEREK WILSON
TO SUPPORT
THE DEVELOPMENT OF INCLUSIVE PRACTICE AROUND STUDENTS WITH SEN OR DISABILITIES IN YOUR SCHOOL OR SUPPORT SERVICE.
INCLUSION WORKSHOPS
Spring and Summer Terms 2012
Venue – Netherfield Primary School, Chandos Street, Netherfield, Nottingham
4.00 - 6.00pm
Download the flyer for these workshops here.
Fresh Approaches to Challenging Behaviour and Relationships
23rd February 2012
Are your usual approaches to managing behaviour not working with particular individuals? Then join us to think deeper about why children behave as they do and how we can find strategies for bringing about positive behaviour change, and meeting challenging emotional needs.
Visioning in the Early Years
22nd March 2012
There is an old Japanese proverb, "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare"
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about Margaret Wheatley Turning to One Another (2002). Give your team the opportunity to pause and reflect on what matters most to them about the work they do. The act of listening to each other creates relationship and strengthens trust and inclusion within the team - in creating a shared vision, groups of people build a sense of commitment together. They develop images of the future we want to create together, along with the values that will be important in getting there and the goals they want to see achieved along the way. Unfortunately, many people still think vision is the top leaders job. In schools, the vision task usually falls to the Headteacher and/or the governors or it comes in a glossy document from the local authority or the DfES. But visions based on authority are not sustainable. Drawing on the planning tools MAPS and PATH (Pearpoint, Forest and OBrien 1997) and other facilitation sources we use both process and graphic facilitation to enable the group to build their picture of what they would love to see happening within their organisation/community in the future and we encourage this to be a positive naming, not just a list of the things they want to avoid. Let us join you to explore your vision and the roadblocks to your vision.
Including Children with Autism
26th April 2012
In this practical workshop we will explore ways of including pupils who have been labelled as being on the autism spectrum. The session will be values based and practical and will aim to allow the sharing of experiences and good practice as well promoting innovative approaches to inclusion through the design of best practice. Parental perspectives and experiences will be explored. This is not a 'medical model' day on autism; we will not be focussing simply on ‘the triad of impairments’. We will try to build a bridge between typical human experience and what people with autism tell us about their experience. Our motto for the day is 'People do things for a Reason (and the reason isn't autism). We make full use of first hand accounts of the experience of autism - the autobiographies - to deepen participants' understanding of what it means to be labeled 'autistic' and the things we can do on an everyday basis to make school and learning a more comfortable experience for children on the spectrum.
Meeting Boy’s Emotional Needs
31st May 2012
This workshop gives an opportunity to focus on the emotional needs of boys and how to meet these. We lift the lid on an emerging and urgent inclusion issue – recognising and meeting the emotional needs of boys. Everyone knows a boy. They may be pupil, son, brother, parent or partner. Boys when they become adults are over represented in the prison and mental health systems. In the UK the commonest cause of death among males aged 16-35 is suicide. 1 in 4 women experience domestic violence and 2 women a week are killed by a current or ex-partner. So nurturing the emotional life of boys is a major concern. We need to find ways to allow them to unclench their hearts and learn to experience, process, communicate and manage their own emotional lives. Themes to be explored in this workshop will include:
- Cultural and historical expectations of boys in our society
- Shared experiences of teaching and parenting boys
- The ‘Circle of Courage’ as a way of understanding emotional needs
- Fathers and mothers and sons
- Drinking and drugs: filling the emotional void
- Depression and suicide
Anger and violence
Including Children with Attachment Difficulties
14th June 2012
This is a practical 'non medical' session for front line Early Years and school based classroom practitioners working with children and young people with serious attachment issues arising from loss, trauma and abuse.
Drawing from the work of Louise Bomber, (2006) and our own experience over many years as educational psychologists of the challenges of children with major social and emotional needs - we will explore together what the best practice can and could look like. We explore the language of attachment and outline very practical classroom and Early Years setting strategies.
Working to Welcome Hard to Reach Families
12th July 2012
What can we do to build connections with those on the margins of society? How can we reach out, welcome and build relationships with those parents and families that do not seem to want to participate in what we offer as a school or early years setting?
Reaching the hard to reach is now a target for many working in Children's Centres, Education and Social Care. What fresh approaches can we design to enable more access to services and opportunities? The challenge is to get isolated people and families who participate little (and who are often the clients of Services) outside of the world of clients and services
Places, people and activities- what will it take?
Join us in this judgement and jargon-free session to explore how we can move beyond simply labeling and making assumptions about people to building the kinds of relationships that make it more likely people will participate.
This session is for anyone who sees the value of community building but isn't sure how to get started. We recognise that people need 'structures for participation' and know that people are best connected on the basis of mutuality, not neediness; that a person must be an active contributor in order to foster relationships. This session will provide those attending with the tools and processes that enable them to get started on the intentional building of relationships
Who is this training aimed at?
Teachers
Teaching Assistants
Learning Mentors
Behaviour Support Service Workers
Educational Psychologists
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Workers
Youth Offending Team Workers
Local Authority lead officers
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Derek Wilson and Colin Newton are co-founders of Inclusive Solutions. They have combined experience of over 40 years working as educational psychologists across the UK, previously as Senior and Principal educational psychologists in Nottingham City LA.
Find out more on this site.
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Inclusive Solutions, 49 Northcliffe Avenue, Mapperley, Nottingham, NG3 6DA
0115 9567305/9556045
Email: inclusive.solutions@me.com
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