When our most traumatised young people suffering from toxic stress,you are not going to solve the behaviour by punishing them into a better way of being. This only exacerbates the trauma,dosing up the stress response & adding more pain to people who have already suffered.🧠🌱

Brilliant days training with Dr.Suzanne Triggs 🤩 thank you!

The Window of Tolerance ✍️🏼 #psychology #mentalhealth

There was quite a lot to take away from the new Inside Out 2 movie. I love this graphic using the original characters: 💛Joy 💙Sadness 💚Disgust 💜Fear ❤️Anger

THURSDAY TRAINING Emotion Coaching is a techniques to help CYP develop healthy ways to understand, express & manage their emotions. It is a collaborative process and we LOVE IT! If you want to learn more drop us a DM or email 📧 #TwitterEPS #NorfolkSchools #EmotionCoaching

Week in the life of an assistant 🧠 🧩 PATH work 💬 Supervision 🧠 Direct work focusing on resilience 📚 Research on permanent exclusions 💻 Psychology interest dialogue 🥳 Completing my first WASI 📝 Lots of thinking & admin time #twittereps

I liked this thoughtful, grounding visual from PJ Milani | Visual Teacher💡... at a brisk point in the academic year, where demands for EP services feel as high as they ever do, amiright #twitterEPs 😅🤗

This is the first of several weekly posts showcasing infographics we have created around key theories or interventions EPs commonly use. On page 2, we have aimed to answer 3 key questions. What is it? Why is it important? and How do we do it? First is Emotion Coaching:

Delivering town wide training for Anxiety, Stress and Low mood to support staff discussing our early intervention packs with Jessica Oswald 🧠🌱📚 #twittereps

"Go back to the Department for Education & rip up the behaviourist approach to education. It creates a world where neurodiverse children, those with anxiety, mental health and even the timid cannot survive." Absolutely agree 💙Rachael Maskell MP 👏 Square Peg Not Fine in School

Our 2nd infographic is the Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity & Empathy (PACE) model developed by Dan Hughes (2006). PACE is a way of being, thinking, feeling & communicating that aims to make the child feel safe & support their self-awareness, emotional literacy and resilience.

Attended a powerful learning event today, discussing permanent exclusions within the North East & LA, and how we can all drive change moving forward. We had the opportunity to share our team's research exploring Y7 PEXs 🙌🏼 James Weetman Jessica Oswald #twittereps

Our 3rd infographic covers the Window of Tolerance (Siegel, 1999). When we feel safe in our emotions, relationships, body & our environment, we enter our optimal arousal zone; our ‘Window of Tolerance (WoT). Here we can best function, engage with others & thrive.

Next is our infographic on Intensive Interaction (Nind & Hewett, 1994). It is used to encourage social communication by teaching the basic skills needed for communication, such as eye contact, shared attention, turn-taking & using vocalisations with intent.

Last week I attended a talk by Dr Megan Klabunde at Teesside University to discuss how trauma affects the body. This supported my current knowledge and gave me further ideas to use and apply within the Virtual School supporting vulnerable learners 🧠👥📝 #twittereps

Throughout September we showcased five infographics created by our service, which covered some key theories and interventions commonly used by EPs. We resume the series this week with a focus on Executive Functioning, a set of skills that shape how we learn and how we behave.

Next in our infographic series, we turn to the Hand Model of the Brain developed by Dan Siegel (2010). The model can help us understand how different parts of our brain work together to protect us.

The Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) developed by Johnstone & Boyle (2018) helps us to understand emotional and mental distress. By considering social, psychological, and biological factors, we can create a ‘story’ to help explain somebody’s presenting needs.

After our basic needs have been met, we need resources in the following four areas: bonding, mastery, meaning and skills. The Resilience Ball framework developed by Dr Cath Lowther (2022) explores how we deal with challenges.

My 17 year old son earns more an hour working in Costa at the weekend than a year 3 trainee EP with a patch of schools. It’s time for a change to support the future of our profession