Training

TaMHS training - ​2020 to 2021

Due to the current and ongoing public health crisis, TaMHS and Northamptonshire Educational Psychology Service have decided to make all training opportuities virtual for this academic year. 

​Date​Thursday 12 November 2020
​Time​9:30 to 12:30
​Location​Virtual online training
​Cost​£49
​Details

​This online training aims to enable participants to become aware of:

  • The importance of co-regulating emotions with children, as in a healthy attachment
  • The relationship between the brain, feelings and the body
  • The importance of labelling feelings and recognising when children don’t feel safe
  • Techniques to help regulate feelings with children using the 7 points of Relax Kids
  • Ways of helping those children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences

  • Mindfulness and other techniques to use with children

​Book on this training
​DatesWednesdays ​25 November and 9 December 2020
​Time​9:30 to 11:00
​Location​Virtual online training
​Cost​£49

 Or

​DatesWednesdays ​3 March and 17 March 2021
​Time​9:30 to 11:00
​Location​Virtual online training
​Cost​£49
​Details

​This online introduction of 2 x 90 minute sessions will give participants an awareness of:

  • What Protective Behaviours is
  • Who Protective Behaviours is for and how it has been used
  • Feeling safe and what this means, especially during COVID-19
  • The two themes of protective behaviours and early warning signs
  • How Protective Behaviours can be used with children in their setting, networks and strategies
  • Some resources to use in school
  • The benefits of the foundation training course and how to access it online
​Book on Protective Behaviours
​Date​Thursday 21 January 2021
​Time​9:30 to 12:00
​LocationVirtual webinar
​Cost​£41
​Details

​This webinar will introduce participants to:

  • Guidance materials which consider the need for addressing necessary organisational structures, communication issues, and need for psychological support for those experiencing distress
  • The focus of interventions that help the school to cope with the impact of a critical incident
  • Strategies and approaches which help to bring the school back to normal routines and functioning as quickly as possible
​Book on this training
​Date​Tuesday 20 April 2021
​Time​10:00 to 11:30
​Location​Virtual webinar
​Cost​£33
​Details

​This webinar aims to enable school staff to:

  • Understand that anxiety can be adaptive and part of the normal development of children and young people
  • Know that anxiety has cognitive, physiological and behavioural components
  • Be aware of ways to support children experiencing higher levels of anxiety and where further help and resources can be accessed
​Book on this training
​Date​Wednesdays 21 April and 12 May 2020
​TIme​9:30 to 12:30
​LocationVirtual online training
​Cost​£60
​Details

​This online training over two sessions aims to enable school staff to:

  • Identify early signs that could suggest a child is being exposed to domestic abuse
  • Understand the psychological, social and emotional impact of domestic abuse on children and parents
  • Know about best practice in supporting children and their families and gain information about agencies offering support for domestic abuse
​Book on this training

​​A cognitive behavioural approaches programme to promote resilience and coping skills in children and young people.

​Date​Tuesdays 23 February and 9 March 2021
​Time​9:30 to 12:30
​LocationVirtual online training
​Cost​£75
​Details

​​This online training over two sessions aims to enable school staff to:

  • Facilitate the ARC programme within their educational settings
  • Understand the theoretical underpinnings of the programme including the cognitive behavioural therapy model and the relationship between risk and preventative factors and resilience
  • Identify the skills needed to run the programme within their setting
​Book on this training

​Due to the impact of Covid-19, Northamptonshire Educational Psychology Service will not be offering any Solihull Training this year. If you would like to access this training please visit the Solihull Approach website.

They will be offering the following training virtually:

2 Day Foundation training

  • 7 and 21 October 2020
  • 5 and 19 November 2020
  • 1 and 15 December 2020

A resource pack will be needed for this training, which delegates would need to order depending upon the age group that they work with:

  • Antenatal Resource pack: £75.00
  • First Five Years book: £77.00
  • School Years book: £76.00

Parenting Group Facilitator training

  • 20 October 2020
  • 25 November 2020

A Parenting group Facilitator Manual, which costs £91.00, will be needed for each delegate.

Due to the impact of Covid-19, Northamptonshire Educational Psychology Service will not be offering any in-person local ‘drawing and talking’ training this year. If you would like to access this training on-line, then please visit the Drawing and Talking website.

Foundation training

‘Drawing and talking’ is an experiential rather than theory based training programme designed for anyone working with children, young people or adults who may be suffering from trauma or poor mental health. Participants learn how to put this simple technique into practice including how to get started, how to run a session and how to deal with common problems which can arise. The training also aims to enable participants to:

  • Understand the importance of giving pupils time and space to draw and talk in the presence of a supportive and attentive adult
  • Know how to use the process to help children who are struggling to process difficult emotions and possibly displaying worrying behaviour
  • Know where further help and resources can be accessed
  • Experience on the training day how to deliver a session online

Upon completion of your online training day, you will have everything you need to implement drawing and talking within your school setting, online and offline.

Advanced training

This training enables adults to gain a greater understanding of the therapeutic nature of the work involved and to be able to apply it in a variety of situations, including groups and sand play. Questions can be asked about current work you are doing 1:1 with children, building and affirming the skills already learnt in foundation training.

The advanced training also aims to enable participants to:

  • Review the process of Drawing and Talking (Foundation Level)
  • Learn how to use Drawing and Talking with small groups of children
  • Evaluate the progress of pupils using this process
  • Access support/advice in running group interventions

Upon completion of your online training day, you will have everything you need to implement drawing and talking within your school setting, online and offline.

Professionals must have completed the foundation training in order to access the advanced training.

​Date​Wednesday 18 November 2020 Or Wednesday 27 January 2021
​Time​1:30 to 2:45 pm
​LocationWebinar via Zoom
​Cost​Free
​Details

​This seminar is to enable practitioners who have completed the 2 day foundation course:

  • To consider any challenges arising in their day to day role (including from Covid 19)
  • To revise and apply the Solihull Approach model
  • To engage in a confidentially facilitated group process that utilises the perspectives of the group to find ways forward
​Book on this webinar

Booking a course

To access centralised training in any of the virtual courses above, please visit:

See our TaMHS conference page for more information on how to book onto this school years event.

Please email us at the following email address if you need any further assistance or information:

 tamhs@childrenfirstnorthamptonshire.co.uk