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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.
A range of training opportunities can be brought direct to you or can be designed to meet your specific needs. Phone or email us and tell us what you really want!
Our most popular courses are...
Keys to Inclusion
Fresh Approaches to Behaviour
Visioning
Autism
Person Centred Planning
Creative Team Building
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‘I think everyone working with children should go
to Colin and Derek's presentation, their ideas
and the way they present them are amazing'
(Feedback via Frances Taylor, Parent Partnership Coordinator,Southwark LEA)
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Training We Offer...
Let us come and work in your setting . We can provide direct staff training, we will work with pupils and we will provide hands on coaching in new inclusive practice and much more.....
Click on the below links to see more information about the training we offer...
Full Training List
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Autism and Communication
Behaviour and Relationships
Inclusion
Meeting emotional needs
Parents and Carers
Peer Support |
Person Centred Planning
Strategic Work
Teaching and Learning
Team Building and Leadership
Visioning and Problem Solving
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Ask us to bring any of these courses to you as a full day, half day or even better as 2 or more days. We always encourage anyone interested in booking an event from us to seriously consider a follow up review session of at least a half day to strengthen learning.
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Open Events
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What Kind of Assistance would make it Possible for All Young People to Learn Together?
East Midlands Inclusion Alliance, 27th June, 11-4pm.
East Midlands Inclusion Alliance welcomes you to a ‘get together’ to share experience, watch a DVD and discuss the above question.
Find out more here
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 Creating Community Circles
Tuesday 9th June 2009, 10.00am – 3.30pm, Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living
Led by
Derek Wilson & Colin Newton
Inclusive Solutions, Nottingham
The purpose of community circles is to bring people from a local community together to share their skills, talents, gifts and resources. This idea is based upon the premise that ALL of us need three things in our lives to make us happy and fulfilled: these are money, friendship and meaning. We believe that everyone needs community, everyone needs to be heard and everyone needs to have fun.
Community Circles are based upon reciprocity and the assumption that EVERYONE has both gifts and needs – whether these are labeled or not. The circles adopt the fundamental value of inclusion that ‘all means all’, no one is excluded from community circles, and instead the circle members work out how to include everyone equally and safely.
Community circles provide a great foundation or starting point from which to explore connections, build relationships, locate resources and share skills. These circles will be a particularly important resource for Brokers and the people that they work for. They provide a safe forum in which people can meet and friendships can start, a natural reservoir of people and relationships where people can be invited to offer their time and capacity. For more information on Community Circles click here.
Who should attend? Support Brokers, Support Providers, Community Activists, Local Area Co-coordinators, Community Health partners, Councilors, politicians, community leaders and individuals who are trying to workout how to make our communities better places for us all to live.
Download booking form here
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1st Scottish Institute on Inclusion
22nd 23rd 24th September, Seamill Hydro
Seamill, Ayrshire.
Confirmed so far...
Tom Kholer, Savannah Citizen Advocacy,
Patti Scott, Neighbours Inc
Lois Smit Beyond Welfare
Derek Wilson and Colin Newton –inclusive Solutions.
Heather Anderson and Pete Ritchie
Jaynie Mitchell Inspiring inclusion
Themes covered...
Citizen advocacy and the intentional invitation
Support Brokerage
Community circles
Circles in Schools
Person centred Planning
Creating Sustainable Communities
Family and individual leadership
Inclusive education
Individual Budgets and in Control Scotland
£350 per person some reduced rate places £110 for individuals/family members / unwaged.
Teas coffees and lunch included.
Participants if requiring accommodation are responsible for their own arrangements, but a reduced rate of £67 pppn b & b has been negotiated.
To find out more contact inspiringinc@btinternet.com.
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Our Values
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, 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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Training News |
Circles of Adults
Teams Reflecting and Problem Solving Around Emotional Needs and Challenging Behaviour
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 here...
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)
Contact us for details: Email us
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Past Events
Day Zero
Inclusion Day, May 2009
700 pupils and full staff team worked with us at Whitton School - a large Richmond high school.Great strategic work made possible by the imaginative Head of The Whitton Gateway (which is the borough centre for inclusion of students on the autistic spectrum)
Sarah Bright and her Senior Management team. Extremely well received by all involved! 'The general feedback has been excellent and it is set to become an annual event in some form. Robert, who is visually impaired, said it was the very best day he has had at Whitton. We set up a Circle of Friends around him this morning, which also made he really happy.'
A Day with Paula Kluth: Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom
31st March 2009
This was a very successful day with excellent feedback. Paula Kluth was very well received combining practical input with inspiration.
Inclusive Solutions in collaboration with Lewisham Council.
Download a presentation by Paula here.
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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!
2002: Boston USA
2003: Stamford and Ontario
2004: Chicago and Ottawa
2006: We were at the ASCD conference in Chicago, April
Anti Bullying Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2007: Greece
Southern Ireland
The Toronto Summer Institute
2008: Galway, Southern Ireland
2009: Northern Ireland
Greece
We have been involved in scoping work for the President of Panama who is keen to develop inclusion in his country as his own child is disabled.
We would love to work in New Zealand and Australia so let us know if this works for you.
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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Contact Us For all training enquiries |
 Call us on 0115 9567305, 0115 9556045 or 01473 437590
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 or email us
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WARNING !! Our training can seriously change the way you think and feel about inclusion. |
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