Navigating the playground and other transitions

Posted: 30/09/2022

Overview: Transitioning from one year to another, school to home, classroom to playground or within the playground, can be challenging. Children are expected to move from one activity to another, one setting to another and one relationship to another. For example, there can be…

Challenging conversations and how to handle them

Posted: 09/05/2022

Overview: Have you had conversations that didn’t go the way you’d hoped? Do you regularly encounter challenging situations where you have to choose your words carefully? We would all like to think that we remain calm and rational when facing a challenging situation or…

Strengths approach to practice

Posted: 20/09/2019

Everyone has strengths. Our qualities, capacities, relationships, values, stories, experiences, skills and material resources can all be strengths. But ‘The Problem’ can easily be experienced as all-consuming, keeping clients and services alike stuck and creating barriers to change. Strengths-based practice focusses squarely on identifying, mobilising and celebrating…

Tools for building social & emotional literacy in the early years

Posted: 30/05/2019

In this highly-engaging workshop, delivered over four 90 minute sessions (or timed to suit), we explore diverse range of original resources developed especially for building social and emotional literacy in children. The resources are tools for generating change and strategies to encourage children to…

Strengths approach to challenging conversations 

Posted: 14/05/2019

Social workers, teachers, counsellors, and other human service workers often support individuals or families who are facing very difficult circumstances—and challenging conversations can be part of the work. Have you ever had a conversation that didn’t go the way you’d hoped? Ever wished you’d…