This seminar is led by Andrea Perry on:
How Reach2Teach AFIT supports adults to enable children and young people in school to trust, settle to learn and flourish: the attachment aware, trauma informed approach
Andrea Perry, Commissioning/Content Editor of Reach2Teach/CourseWeDo/WorthPublishing: integrative relational psychotherapist and published author.
Initially trained as a Dramatherapist, Andrea is an integrative psychotherapist specialising in trauma, attachment and anxiety. She is a former Chair of the British Association of Dramatherapists, worked in adult mental health for 11 years, and was Chair of Conference for the Centre for Child Mental Health for a decade. She co-lead British Council training for school counsellors in Iraq, wrote and delivered mental health and wellbeing training for British Council national staff in Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon. She worked for the British Red Cross in International Family Tracing for 8 years with asylum seekers and refuges, and since 2018, as a BRC psychosocial practitioner training and supporting frontline staff and external agencies including NHS and FCDO staff, as well as supporting individuals and groups going through crises. She is an author, co-founded a publishing company specialising in attachment and trauma, commissioning and editing more than 40 books and creating extensive online content, and has made frequent appearances on BBC radio commenting on psychosocial issues. Passionate about community gardening, walking, languages, art, especially textiles, sculpture, land art, and cooking, particularly with homegrown fruit and vegetables, for and with family and friends.
Abstract:
An opportunity to find out about online tools which allow adults to support children and young people whose life experience to date has adversely impacted their ability to trust adults, or to feel confident exploring the world and learning.
Heather Geddes’ Learning Triangle shows us how early attachment experiences can affect what happens at school and in the outside world. When any of us are feeling safe, valued, relaxed, we can trust, enjoy our relationships and our gifts and interests, feel optimistic, relaxed and generous. But if we don’t feel safe, we may find relationships more challenging, or lose confidence and self-esteem, and our behaviour may change too, further complicating things.
Reach2Teach evidence-based tools provide a way of reflecting on what might behaviour may be communicating about relational and learning needs: consider what can help, and then track what really works to help children and young people feel safe, learn and grow in confidence and hope.
The following questions are discussed:
How can the Reach2Teach and Reach4Care attachment aware, trauma informed online tools help children and young people and the adults living and working with them? What are the main benefits? How can the tools help make the home-school partnership really effective ?
Learning outcomes:
- understand how behaviour communicates relational and learning needs
- understand how Reach2Teach tools provides a wide range of practical things to meet these needs, reinforcing the secure base and creating a springboard for children and young people
- develop a consideration of what makes an effective home-school partnership
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