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We are committed to improving training and professional development opportunities for all involved in developing their inclusive practice around children and young people across the Key Stages of education. We also work extensively with voluntary and other groups that are working towards increasing inclusion in community settings.
All our training is guided by the following principles:
- Inclusion is non-negotiable and “ALL MEANS ALL” – these are not “Tips for Teachers” days. We are not interested in passing on techniques without also making explicit the values that need to underpin them. Anything else is just unsafe and risks becoming another thing we ‘do to’ young people
- Building Relationships lies at the heart of developing inclusive practice – at heart, all of our training is about encouraging connection especially in difficult situations – those where imaginative responses are needed
- Inclusion is more than one person’s work – strong and effective teams with a shared vision are key to delivering new ways of working and they know that “Together We’re Better”
- We want people who attend our training to leave the day with some immediate changes to their practice in mind. Not just ‘good intentions’. It’s the little things (and enough of them) we do differently tomorrow that will make a difference.
- We want people to leave with their eye on the ‘Long View’ – with a stronger sense of what they would love to see happening in their work in 10 or 20 years time
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Tom Kohler and Inclusive Solutions will be providing a Joint day on:
Intentional Invitation to Community
29th September 2008
Themes:
Advocacy- Invitation- Community Circles- Circles of Support- Radical Aproaches to Relationship
Venue: Nottingham
Email us for details
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Scottish Inclusion Training Events
Circle of Friends
A one-day workshop
Led by
Derek Wilson and Colin Newton
Inclusive Solutions, Nottingham
Monday 6th October 2008 9.30am – 3.30 pm
Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living
117-127 Brook Street
Glasgow
G40 3AP
Circle of Friends is an approach to enhancing the inclusion, in a mainstream setting, of any young person who is experiencing difficulties in school because of disability, personal crisis or because of their challenging behaviour towards others. The 'circle of friends' approach works by mobilising the young person's peers to provide support and engage in problem solving with the person in difficulty.
This is an excellent opportunity to learn from, Colin Newton and Derek Wilson, the educational psychologists who brought this DfES endorsed approach to the UK.
OUTCOMES
• To be able to understand the values and wider context of inclusion
• To be able to set up and run a 'circle of friends' to reduce likelihood of a pupil being excluded or segregated
• To understand and be able to maximise the power of the peer group in supporting relationships, achievement and behaviour change
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
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, most recently as Senior and Principal educational psychologists in Nottingham City LEA. Find out more about their work at: www.inclusive-solutions.com
Professionals …..………….... £100+VAT
Voluntary Organisations..….. £80+VAT
Parents …………………...£20 inc. of VAT
Inclusive of refreshments and lunch
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
RESTORATIVE INTERVENTIONS IN SCHOOLS
A one-day workshop
Led by
Derek Wilson and Colin Newton
Inclusive Solutions, Nottingham
Tuesday 7th October 2008 9.30am – 3.30 pm
Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living
117-127 Brook Street
Glasgow, G40 3AP
A “Restorative Intervention” is a non-adversarial approach to conflict resolution where the person who has done something wrong in a given situation becomes accountable to those s/he has harmed. This person is then given the opportunity to “make up” for their harmful behaviour through agreement and reparation. An Intervention can involve a formal conference, or it can be a simple conversation on a corridor or playground. Restorative Interventions work with all ages of young people, and the techniques can be used in parental meetings, can prevent exclusions and challenge poor behaviour. Restorative Interventions in schools are currently being piloted in 3 Scottish Councils as an alternative approach to conflict resolution and discipline.
A two-year evaluation study reported: “Restorative approaches can be seen to work at all levels of the school, with all students, including those in trouble or conflict… Our evaluation provides evidence of real transformation of thinking and practice in some schools and significant change across all the schools” (Gwynedd Lloyd, Head of Educational Studies, University of Edinburgh 2005)
THEMES FOR THE DAY WILL INCLUDE
• An introduction to the guiding ideas that underpin restorative work
• Restorative interventions in practice across a range of school settings
• How to use everyday restorative conversations/short conferences in schools
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
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, most recently as Senior and Principal educational psychologists in Nottingham City LEA. Find out more about their work at: www.inclusive-solutions.com
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
Email: dnewton123@ntlworld.com
Professionals …..………….... £100+VAT
Voluntary Organisations..…... £80+VAT
Parents ………………..£20 inclusive of VAT
INCLUDING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
IN MAINSTREAM SETTINGS
Greenwood Teachers' Centre, Dreghorn, Irvine,
KA11 4HJ
Wednesday 22 October 2008
(9.30am – 3.30pm)
Led by
Derek Wilson and Colin Newton
Inclusive Solutions, Nottingham
HEADLINE THEMES WILL INCLUDE:
Learning Styles and Curriculum Modifications
Supports and Accommodations for Sensory Sensitivities
Understanding ‘movement differences’
Recognising and dealing with Anxiety build up
Developing Friendships and Peer Support
Developing Schoolwide Supports for Teachers and Students
This one-day workshop will provide participants with state-of the-art information and strategies for including children and young people with Autism in mainstream settings – early years, primary and secondary. The day will involve a mix of presentations and active problem-solving in small groups and will enable participants to develop strategies for supporting students with Autism in their schools and families. Our guiding principle throughout the day will be to understand people with autism first and foremost as individuals with unique strengths and challenges. Our emphasis will be on the accommodations needed in school and other settings to build participation and belonging for individuals with autism.
A Preview of the day is downloadable from http://www.inclusive-solutions.com/Handouts.asp
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Derek Wilson and Colin Newton are co-founders of Inclusive Solutions. They have combined experience of over 35 years working as educational psychologists across the UK, most recently as Senior and Principal educational psychologists in Nottingham City LEA. Find out more about their work at: www.inclusive-solutions.com
COST - £100–Local Authority staff
£80 – Voluntary Organisations
£20 – Parents
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INCLUDES Tea/Coffee/lunch)
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
Fresh Approaches to Relationships and Behaviour
A one-day workshop
Led by
Derek Wilson and Colin Newton
Inclusive Solutions, Nottingham
Thursday 23rd October 2008 - 9.30am-3.30pm
Greenwood Teachers' Centre, Dreghorn, Irvine,
KA11 4HJ
This is our lead workshop/training day on behaviour and relationship work in schools and Early Years settings. It is both a values primer and a practical guide to successful and innovative strategies for improving behaviour and strengthening relationships for challenging children and young people. This is the training day that goes beyond trying to address behaviour by using rewards and sanctions. If your usual approaches to managing behaviour aren’t working with particular individuals then take a tour through this range of cutting edge strategies for bringing about positive behaviour change, and for meeting challenging emotional needs.
THEMES FOR THE DAY WILL INCLUDE
- The importance of ‘Welcome’ – creating a sense of safety and belonging as the first step to building relationships and reducing difficult behaviour
- The ‘Circle of Courage’ – introduction to a model of emotional needs that provides a fresh starting point for thinking about relationships and behaviour
- Problem Solving Processes for teams – an introduction to Solution Circles and the Circle of Adults process
- Separation and Loss – understanding and accommodating to the main drivers of challenging behaviour
- The emotional needs of boys
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
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, most recently as Senior and Principal educational psychologists in Nottingham City LEA. Find out more about their work at: www.inclusive-solutions.com
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
Professionals …..………….... £100+VAT
Voluntary Organisations..….. £80+VAT
Parents …………………...£20 inc. of VAT
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Inclusive Solutions Provide 'On Site' Input
Let us come and work in your setting for 2 or more days.
- We can provide direct staff training
- We will work with pupils
- We will provide hands on coaching in new inclusive practice and much more.....
Ask Jayne, headteacher in a Barnet, London Primary school what she thought of the 2 day experience - head.childshill.barnet@lgfl.net
or Mandy SENCO at Bushill Jones School in Walsall what she thought of her 2 days: Mandy Baggott - mbaggott@busill-jones.walsall.sch.uk
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SEAL Materials
Are you implementing, emebedding or taking forward Primary SEAL?
Are you working on SEAL in secondary?
Would you welcome some additional capacity to support developments in social and emotional aspects of learning?
We can provide skilled and experienced educational psychologists to provide training, consultancy, and to model processes with staff, parents, pupils and communities.
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We provide a range of training opportunities that link
directly into supporting the Governments strategy for SEN.
Specialist Skills - Advanced Skills - Core Skills
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Inclusion
in the Early Years
Making Inclusion Happen!
Need training or development work around Inclusion in
your LEA?
'INCLUSIVE SOLUTIONS' can help featuring the work of Laura
Chapman, Disability Equality Trainer in collaboration
with Inclusive Solutions
We provide inclusive, creative and practical tools that
help everyone to belong.
Comprehensive Training, Planning and Consultation Opportunities
for Early Years Teams and Partnerships across the UK from
Psychologists who specialise in inclusion
We are training with Early Years providers in many LEAs
including Nottingham City, Oxfordshire and the London
Borough of Southwark
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OF ADULTS
Teams Reflecting and Problem Solving Around
Emotional Needs and Challenging Behaviour
Circle of Adults

We are now seeking
a host organisation who would like to collaborate in hosting
a further series of coaching sessions in 2009. Let us
know if your team are interested.
These 10 monthly sessions will model an in-depth problem
solving process for use by teams working around the inclusion
of a challenging individual. Using both process and graphic
facilitation the group is guided through a set of key questions
to reach a shared and deeper understanding of the young
person's challenging behaviours, unmet emotional needs and
to develop fresh strategies to support change. Participants
will be expected to develop facilitation skills as well
as to bring the stories of the most challenging young people
they are involved with to the group sessions as the problem
presenter in the Circles of Adults process.
Participants will receive direct feedback and supportive
coaching as they learn the process skills involved.
By the end of the 10 sessions participants will feel able
to lead the process within their own work settings. Read
more about Circles of Adults
Comments on earlier courses:
'Wow! Every single minute of this course has been inspiring.
I have learnt so much! My mission now is to bring it back
to into school. (teacher)
You guys do magic! (educational psychologist)
The session have developed my thinking in so many different
areas - lots of projects for future reference. Many thanks.(Head
of Unit, Behaviour Support Team)'
Brent /North London training began in March 2008: Contact us for details. Email us |
Training around the World
Most of our training is provided around the UK including England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
but
we also provide
training internationally when invited if the work is likely to impact
upon
inclusion!
We were in Boston USA in December 2002, Stamford and Ontario
in November 2003, Chicago in 2004. We were in Ottawa,Ontario in
October 2004!
We were at the ASCD conference in Chicago, April 2006 and at an
Anti Bullying Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada the
same month.
We would love to work in New Zealand and Australia so let us know if this works for you.
We were in Greece and Southern Ireland in March 2007.
We will be at the Toronto Summer Institute in July 2007.
We are currently scoping work for the President of Panama who is keen to develop inclusion in his country.
Let us know if we can work directly with
your team, community or organisation wherever you are in the world.
We travel!

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the trainers
THE ACCESSIBILITY STRATEGY
Proposed Training and Support Package
Building Capacity for Inclusion
Planning for Inclusion
Staff Development and Training
This training would be aimed at developing the skills and
knowledge of a locally based core group of trainers who
would then in turn be able to offer accessibility training
in line with recent legislative changes . The presumption
toward mainstream would be explored at both the level of
underpinning values and of practical implications.
ASLO: NEW TO OUR TRAINING MENU
"CREATING TRAINING SESSIONS THAT ARE INCLUSIVE AND INVITE PARTICIPATION - HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
TRAINING THE TRAINERS"
Come backstage! - this day will explore the processes underlying our inclusive training. We are often asked how we do what we do on our training days and in response we have put together this new training day. If you are looking to reinvigorate your approach to training this is the day for you...
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Live Visioning and Problem Solving
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)
Description
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 leader’s 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 O’Brien 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.
Testimonials
Thank you so much for the work you did with us yesterday – I have since been in 2 schools today and have spoken to an number of other colleagues who were present – all were totally overwhelmed by the session – they loved it. Comments included “ I was totally blown away, when I realised how passionate people were about SEAL”…………. “So nice to reflect and realise what a long way we have come”…………..” That was so powerful and motivational”.
Aims and Objectives of the Session
- To create a far reaching and shared vision of the future for the team/group you are working with and ensure that each person present contributes to this
- To create a visual representation (a graphic) of the vision and use this to plan future actions
- To facilitate the group in thinking through what some of the barriers to achieving their vision are and to begin work on how these can be removed
- To build a sense of commitment, common purpose and trust within the team/group
Who Is It For?
- Public and voluntary sector leaders who want to hold meaningful consultations with the groups they serve
- Headteachers and school managers who want to bring staff/parents/governors and young people together around a shared vision of their future work
- Local Authority teams who have come together to deliver national initiatives in their local context
- Any group of people who want to articulate their common purposes, name the roadblocks to achieving these and start to chart actions which move past the perceived barriers
Course Content
The facilitation of a shared vision can be delivered as a full or a half day but, unlike the other days described in this ‘Available Training’ section of our website, the detail of the day depends on your and your team’s needs and the time you have available. We will always begin the session with a range of activities and reflections designed to set the tone for the work to be done. And we will typically follow this up with a session lasting at least an hour where we ask all present to reflect on what matters most to them about their work, what they would love to see happening if there were no constraints on time, people, resources etc. We then ask individuals in twos and threes to share their thinking first with each other then with the whole group. We encourage participants to use their imaginations to the fullest and to stretch their thinking as far as they can as they describe what they would love to see happening in the future - even if they have no idea of how they could get there. This part of the process is not about being realistic – it is about establishing the direction of travel. We facilitate the group to become more grounded as the session progresses. As people give voice to their thinking the essence of what they say is captured on a large and colourful graphic mounted at the front of the room – similar to the image at the start of this section.
Creating the vision is the heart of the session and depending on your needs we can add some or all of the following activities to strengthen the vision and clarify what actions the team will take in moving towards it.
- The Story So Far – a valuable activity for new or re-organised teams where trust levels may not be high – this activity can last for up to an hour and asks team members to describe their professional journeys so far, the high and low points, the key changes. The end graphic poster typically captures the complexity of the past and the ever-changing territory the team works within. For some teams this process is key to allowing them to take the step into the future that building a shared vision requires.
- Headline Themes – a 15 – 20 minute activity which asks the group to capture the essence of their vision in 3 or 4 memorable ‘headline’ summary phrases
- Naming the Nightmare – no more than 5 to 10 minutes is needed for this activity. Here we ask people to name their ‘nightmares’ - the things they would hate to see happening in their organisation or community. We don’t dwell on this nor do we encourage the same level of detailed description that we expect in the vision. However we have learned that some teams/individuals need the extra energy that is released by naming and working to avoid the nightmare.
- A Year from Now – a 30 – 45 minute activity which asks the team to imagine they have traveled in time and are now a year ahead from today and are looking back at what they have achieved. The rule is that the events they remember must be ‘positive and possible’ This is a more ‘playful’ activity and often releases energy and creativity in the team
- Naming Roadblocks and Barriers – a 45-minute activity which asks the team to name what they see as the important barriers that stand in the way of achieving their vision. We encourage the group to be as specific as they can about these roadblocks as they write them onto cards, which are then posted over the vision graphic. The team then problem solves together in twos and threes devising ways of going round, removing or reducing the roadblocks until a point is reached where most of the vision is uncovered again. This is an energising activity for teams that feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of issues confronting them
- Who will we need to take with us on the Journey towards the Vision – a 20 minute activity that asks the team to name key people who will need to be fully on board before work on the vision can begin in earnest. This activity begins with the people in the room who are invited to sign up to the vision there and then. It also asks the team to create a (small) list of people that the vision needs to be shared with and seek their support. With the creation of this list the team begin to chart some their first actions from the day
- Who are we? – Gifts, Strengths and Talents – a 30 minute activity which encourages the team to take explicit stock of their capacities and what they already have going for them as they begin working towards the vision. We do this in various ways – by asking individuals to talk about a time in their professional lives (or beyond) when they felt they were at their best, by asking the group as a whole to notice and name each others gifts and talents. This is a strong reminder for teams of the wealth of knowledge and experience that is already and always in the room
- Charting Specific Actions – a 30 to 40 minute activity done initially in pairs and then in groups of four. The team members are asking to start naming a sample of actions they can do in the next few days/week/month and how these actions relate to the vision. We actively coach the group to name actions that they themselves are going to do - not simply a good idea for someone else to do and which are more than just ‘good intentions’
Seneca said, “Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” |
'Thank
you so much on behalf of the Link Steering Group
( Tracey, Vanessa, Paris, Eric, Janet, Diane, and ME!)
for your brilliant presentation yesterday.
If I had my way all the schools
in Norfolk would spend a day with you
and the lovely policy makers at the FE Everyone seemed to be really
impressed by the quality of the presentation and by the thought-
provoking
content. To have had you all day would have been superb ......
Sue Harradine
Mohawk Prayer
Because we’re human, we’re going to mess up,we’re going to make
errors and omissions - So we are asking for your forgiveness in advance....
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Courage by Bob Blue
on The Best of Bob Blue by Bob Blue
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