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Embracing Autonomy: How Unschooling Supports and Empowers PDA Children
By LivePlayLearn
Join Heidi Steel for an insightful webinar, "Embracing Autonomy: How Unschooling Supports and Empowers PDA Children," where she will delve into the world of unschooling and its profound impact on children with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). In this webinar, you will learn how unschooling can provide an ideal environment for PDA children by honouring their autonomy, interests, and individual needs. She will explore how unschooling principles can help reduce anxiety and foster a sense of empowerment in PDA children. Heidi will share practical strategies and real-life examples of how unschooling can support the unique strengths and challenges of PDA children. During the webinar, we will cover topics such as: Understanding the unique needs and characteristics of PDA children How unschooling can create a supportive environment for PDA children Implementing unschooling strategies for PDA children A recording of this webinar is included and available for two weeks after the live event. These webinars are FREE for Unschooling Village Hub Members along with a back catalogue of Unschooling Webinars, regular live coaching sessions, and discounts on coaching and mentoring services. Sign up for just £20 per month. Yes! I want to join the LPL Unschooling Village Hub
MENTAL HEALTH – UNDERSTANDING AND MEETING NEEDS
By Inclusive Solutions
In this course we explore Mental Health and address how such needs can be met in mainstream classrooms. Course Category Behaviour and Relationships Meeting Emotional Needs Description This is our lead workshop/training day on understanding mental health, behaviour and relationship work in schools other settings and is both a values primer and a practical guide to successful innovative strategies for improving behaviour and strengthening relationships for challenging children and young people of all ages. Not just another day on ‘Behaviour Management’ – Our Mental Health Day goes well beyond a rewards and sanctions approach to ‘behaviour’. We will be focused on those young people for whom rewards and punishments do not always work and who confuse the adults who work with them. We aim to take a relationships-based approach and to give those attending an opportunity to think more deeply about why young people do the things they do and what our part as adults is in creating, sustaining and changing these behaviours. The day gives those present opportunities to reflect on their attitudes and practice in relation to children’s behaviour and relationship building. If your usual approaches to managing tackling mental health needs aren’t working with particular individuals then take a tour through this range of cutting edge strategies for bringing about positive behaviour change, and for meeting challenging emotional needs Learning Objectives reinforce and affirm good practice re-energise, stimulate and challenge thinking about inclusion of challenging pupils and children increased understanding of mental health increased confidence in managing challenging pupils in mainstream schools access to a wider range of practical strategies to impact on behaviour problems opportunity to reflect on professional attitudes and behaviour towards mental health in families and pupils Who Is It For ? Anyone concerned with understanding and meeting emotional and mental health needs Course Content Circle of Courage – belonging-achievement-generosity – independence – model for understanding mental health Compass of Anxiety – understanding and going deeper Active listening – Listening to the person underneath the behaviour Involving other children and young people in solutions and interventions - Circles of friends: peer support, counselling and mediation Team Problem Solving – Solution Circles: a 30 minute group problem solving process to get Teams ‘unstuck’ and to generate positive first action steps Restorative justice and restitution: principles and practice of this approach to repairing harm and restoring relationships without reliance on punishment Understanding the effects of Separation, Loss, Trauma and Neglect on children’s learning and relationships in school and what adults can do to reach and support these children
PATH – PERSON CENTRED PLANNING IN ACTION
By Inclusive Solutions
Need a PATH? A person-centred plan? This is a planning process not a training day. Let us facilitate your planning and refocus your story whilst strengthening you and your group, team, family, staff or organisation. This tool uses both process and graphic facilitation to help any group develop a shared vision and then to make a start on working out what they will need to do together to move towards that vision. Is your team or family stuck? Want to move on, but haunted by the past and cannot get any useful dialogue started about the future? Facing a challenging transition into a new school or setting? Leaving school? Bored with annual reviews, transition plans and review meetings? Want to find a way of making meetings and planning feel more real and engaging? Need an approach, which engages a young person respectfully together with his or her family and friends? Want the ultimate visual record of the process of a meeting, which will help everyone, keep track? Want to problem solve and plan for the future of a small or large group, service or organisation up to the size of an LA Give your team the opportunity to pause and reflect on what matters most to them about the work they do. The act of listening to each other creates relationship and strengthens trust and inclusion within the team – in creating a shared vision, groups of people build a sense of commitment together. They develop images of the future we want to create together, along with the values that will be important in getting there and the goals they want to see achieved along the way. Unfortunately, many people still think vision is the top leader’s job. In schools, the vision task usually falls to the Headteacher and/or the governors or it comes in a glossy document from the local authority or the DfES. But visions based on authority are not sustainable. Using the planning tool PATH (Pearpoint, Forest and OBrien 1997) and other facilitation sources we use both process and graphic facilitation to enable the group to build their picture of what they would love to see happening within their organisation/community in the future and we encourage this to be a positive naming, not just a list of the things they want to avoid. Outcomes To create a shared vision To name shared goals To enrol others To strengthen the group To explore connections and needs To specify an Action Plan To create a visual graphic record of the whole event Process Content PATH is a creative planning tool that utilises graphic facilitation to collect information and develop positive future plans. PATH goes directly to the future and implements backwards planning to create a step by step path to a desirable future. (Inclusion Press, 2000). These tools were developed by Jack Pearpoint, Marsha Forest and John O’Brien to help marginalised people be included in society and to enable people to develop a shared vision for the future. PATH can be used with individuals and their circle of support, families teams and organisations. Both MAP and PATH are facilitated by two trained facilitators – one process facilitator who guides people through the stages and ensures that the person is at the centre and one graphic facilitator who develops a graphic record of the conversations taking place in the room. Follow the link below to read a detailed thesis by Dr Margo Bristow on the use of PATH by educational Psychologists in the UK. AN EXPLORATION OF THE USE OF PATH (A PERSON-CENTRED PLANNING TOOL) BY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS WITH VULNERABLE AND CHALLENGING PUPILS The findings indicate that PATH impacted positively and pupils attributed increased confidence and motivation to achieve their goals to their PATH. Parents and young people felt they had contributed to the process as equal partners, feeling their voices were heard. Improved pupil- parent relationships and parent-school relationships were reported and the importance of having skilled facilitators was highlighted. Although participants were generally positive about the process, many felt daunted beforehand, possibly due to a lack of preparation. Pre-PATHplanning and post-PATH review were highlighted as areas requiring further consideration by PATH organisers. Recommendations to shape and improve the delivery of PATH are outlined together with future research directions.
11 Plus (11+) Reading Club
By PiAcademy
Consistent 11+ Reading is vital to build an extensive vocabulary for all aspects of the 11+ English Exams. Excellent vocabulary is what ultimately brings 11+ English Exam Success and top results.
Cooking Course
By KEMP CENTER
A Complete Cooking Course with Certification Do you want to be a good chef? Cooking is an art and a demanding skill that can make you an independent earner or a highly paid professional chef. It is a diverse skill covering lots of factors and techniques. Learning different cooking methods with tools and techniques may be hard and confusing. This cooking course will teach you everything from A to Z to become a professional chef. Learn cooking, chopping, backing, and preserving techniques. Know how to cook grains, rice, meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, desserts, and more. Understand how to garnish, decorate, and present food in mouth-watering ways. Learn to work with kitchen tools. Explore the career paths, trends, customer segments, and demands in the food and hotel industry. Earn a verified completion certificate at the end of this course and use it to start a new career in hotel and restaurant industry. Join the communication course and get the benefits: Learning from a professional instructor24/7 access from any devicePractical exercisesTests, quizzes and recapsCertificate of completionExtra materials and downloadable bonuses100% satisfaction guarantee Your Singing Instructor: Angela Geor Cooking and Culinary Expert Angela Geor is a professionally trained chef with more than ten years of cooking and kitchen management experience in international standard hotels. He has been training people in the kitchen, cooking, and presentation domains for the last five years. He has conducted several successful training workshops for professional chefs and beginners and is now working as an instructor for several cooking schools and diploma cooking course platforms. He knows the art of injecting taste into foods and loves to share her expertise and techniques with others. Overview of the course: What will you learn from this course? How professional chief use knives, kitchen tools, and ingredients How to prepare food before cooking How to add commercial standard flavors to foods How to present foods professionally How to cook foods from different regions What are the entrepreneurship opportunities for cooks and chefs? What is inside the course? 15 hours of training tutorials Downloadable course material Lifetime access to course material on multiple devices Certificate upon completion Recipes, techniques, manuals, and tips from expert chefs Who is this course for? Anyone who loves cooking and wants to become a professional cook People connected with restaurants, hotels, and the hospitability industry Housewives, girls, and other people who casually cook for their families Whether you are looking for a professional cooking course or a cooking course for beginners, this certified cooking course is a complete package for you to learn cooking techniques, plating, cooking instrument usage, flavors, and much more. Experience Beginner-IntermediateLanguage English, German, French, Polish, Portuguese A letter from your expert instructor: Cooking is not an optional but a must-have skill for everyone. Whether you are a student, a professional, or a housewife, at a certain time of your life, you will need to cook something for yourself.This urge to cook has further increased in the last few years, due to COVID where restaurants and hotels were completely closed and people were forced to stay in and cook for themselves. Most youngsters and those who lost jobs adopted cooking as a new career and survived the pandemic by backing, cooking, and selling unique homemade food items.50% of the Americans searched for cooking courses during the pandemic and 59% of the videos watched on YouTube are about recipes.For many people cooking is still the main source of income and now, when the world has opened its doors after the pandemic, the need for chefs and kitchen experts has surged dramatically. The job market for cooking-related professionals is widely open.Learning cooking at this stage may earn you an awesome job in an international hotel or may enhance your home-based cooking business to a pro-level.But cooking is a very vast subject covering lots of sub-domains. While searching for an cooking course you will be confused with the courses like vegan cooking courses, Italian cooking courses, Indian cooking courses, culinary courses, and much more.This cooking course is a complete package that provides multiple cooking and culinary courses in a single package. You do not need to search for any other cooking course after completing this one. From knife usage to food preserving, it covers all aspects of professional cooking.Angela GeorCooking and Culinary Expert
