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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
Visioning
Autism

and...

Fresh Approaches to Behaviour
Person Centred Planning
Creative Team Building

Why not let Inclusive Solutions work with you to provide bespoke training that will promote equality of opportunity and support you in effectively tackling discrimination. (See New OFSTED Framework of Inspection 2009). Contact us for more details.

‘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)

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

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

Early Years

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.

Open Events

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

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 2010/11. 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

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.

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!

Contact Us For all training enquiries

Call us on 0115 9567305, 0115 9556045 or 01473 437590

or email us