Respectful Relationship Based Practice

This course is for professionals and practitioners working with children and their families individually, and in small groups.

Children require safety, security, and connection in order to be responsive to all other functional goals families may have.
Children need the experience of being seen, heard, and respected for their identities, experiences, and perspectives. This build's collaborative partnerships between children and their parents strengthening the relationship first.  This foundation builds the capacity of parents/carers to be responsive and problem solve with kids, increasing connection and lessening parental overwhelm.

This course is designed to support practitioners working alongside families with neurodiversity, disability, and trauma. Enabling you to connect  with families to support in developing their skills to co-regulate and maintain respectful relationships.  

This is the foundation on which all other developmental skills are built. Our course is grounded in reflective practice and applied skill development. The small group is responsive to the needs of individual participants. 

There are 4 Modules to be explored over 6 weeks together

Social model of disability

In this module we unpack the social model of disability and orient ourselves, not to the deficits of clients but to the responsiveness of society to adapt to the diversity of all people. We will discuss:

- Definitions and applied meaning of the social model of disability
- Following the lead of those of lived experience
- Children as experts in their own lives and the neurodiversity movement
- Encouraging professionals and families to become confident advocates   

Developing an inclusive lens

- Social conditioning and how we come to understand the world the way we do
- Examining perceptions, beliefs and bias  
- Skills and tools for creating inclusive clinics, groups, and sessions   

Emotional intelligence, competence and regulation    

- How these skills develop and are learned
- Understanding styles of responding to emotions
- Reflecting on meta-emotions, activations and triggers
- Emotion coaching steps
- Coaching children
- Coaching parents and other adults   

Emotion coaching and holding space - 3 sessions of reflective practise 

- These three sessions are the applied practise, by reflecting on your client case studies
- Role plays
- Unpacking challenges and developing nuanced strategies  
- Facilitated discussion to integrate other useful models of practise i.e. sensory integration, circle of security, CPS, attachment play and child rights   
 


Options for additional reflective practise sessions are available requested by the group.