An Introduction to Trauma Awareness for Teachers and Leaders

This session enhances trauma awareness for teachers, leaders, and teams by focusing on their roles as individuals, educators, and colleagues. In today's challenging educational landscape, this awareness is especially vital. Educators are facing increasing levels of SEND and inclusion needs, rising accountability and workload pressures, and complex safeguarding responsibilities, while supporting families who are navigating significant challenges themselves.

In this online session, we will explore the concept of trauma, how to identify and understand some of our own trauma as adults, and the effects trauma can have on both the body and mind. We will examine how our brains function using research-based models and neuroscience, and begin to develop self-awareness, improve self-regulation strategies, and foster effective collaboration with colleagues in school-based roles.

Participants will leave the session with:

• Increased knowledge and understanding of themselves and their experiences.
• Developing strategies for recognition, reflection and forward motion, working within a school setting.
• Awareness and strategies which will support their interactions with, and support for colleagues.

Trainer

Emma Lewry is an experienced school leader, she has been Headteacher of three Schools, Acting Headteacher of another, and School Improvement Officer for a Primary MAT. Emma is an Early Years specialist, she is passionate about developing teams, through a trauma informed lens, and supporting schools to develop autonomy, independence and play for both children and staff. Emma is fascinated by the power of reflective supervision, and somatic and trauma informed coaching in transforming the well-being, engagement and retention of leaders in the education sector.

She offers supervision and coaching for School Leaders including supervision training and implementation support. Emma also works with Leaders offering EYFS and Continuous Provision consultancy, coaching and training support. She is a mentor for the Embedding Formative Assessment programme with SSAT.

Emma has a Masters in Educational Leadership and Management with a Level 7 Apprenticeship with the Chartered Management Institute. She is experienced in leadership coaching and facilitating training across a range of specialisms including Early Years, Leadership and Curriculum development. Emma is currently completing a L7 somatic and trauma informed coaching and leadership qualification (ICF and CMi accredited).

In her work Emma brings her values of kindness, connection, creativity and commitment along with a dose of humour and fun!

Cost

£35 per person for SWIFT member schools | £55 per person for non-member schools

Please note: Payment is by INVOICE ONLY. Please select invoice as the payment method at check out.

You will receive a confirmation of booking from Eventbrite. All further correspondence will come from Robin.Scott@sw-ift.org.uk; please ensure you check your junk mail box and approve the email to ensure you receive important event details.

If you are unable to attend on the day, or are sending someone else in your place, please let us know. Please be aware that failure to cancel your space can incur your school a cost. Full Terms and Conditions are available HERE.

SWIFT Partner providing course (including invoicing) is Exeter Consortium Schools’ Alliance (invoiced by Exeter Consortium)

Non-chargeable Courses (Sessions that are part of the ‘no additional charge’ elements of the SWIFT membership)

• If the place you are cancelling is for a ‘no additional charge’ event under the SWIFT Offer to Schools, you may withdraw, without penalty, provided a minimum notice of 24 hours before the start time of the event is given.
• If less than 24 hours’ notice is given, for each date of a course for which there is no additional charge, then the following charges will apply per applicant: £25.00

Should a training course recruit insufficient numbers to make it viable, we reserve the right to cancel the course, without penalty, giving a minimum notice of 24 hours.