For Professionals:
The Centre for Healing: Trauma-informed Certificate for Coaches (for professionals)
Trauma has to be one of the most misunderstood forms of human suffering and underlies many mental health issues such as depression, anxiety and addiction.
For a long time, coaches, therapists, psychologists and other mental health practitioners have been attempting to resolve trauma using the cognitive mind, but recent studies have shown that the effects of trauma are stored within the body. Meaning trauma is not only a psychological issue, it is an issue that affects the whole system.
Trauma is not a disorder, it is an adaptation.
Our nervous system adapts to feeling unsafe, it adapts to traumatic circumstances until we are left with a baseline and undercurrent of impending doom and a deficient sense of self.
We have to redefine trauma, and we have to deepen our understanding of it if we are going to work with it in an effective way. It is the driver behind so much of our dysfunction as human beings, yet we are unaware of how deeply it runs within us as a collective.
The purpose of this training is to bring about a deeper understanding of trauma and how it shapes all areas of our lives. Once we understand something and approach it with the correct perspective we can begin to make positive changes and heal something that is causing so much damage to our individual psyche, our collective psyche, our society as a whole and also our planet.
Whether you’re a coach or therapist already, work in mental health or healthcare in general, an organisation wanting your staff to be Trauma Informed, or on a personal journey of learning about this important topic, this is the training for you!
Trauma-Informed Certificate for Coaches (thecentreforhealing.com)
For Parents:
Silver Cloud: Supporting an anxious child
This programme will guide you in supporting a child (aged 4 - 11) who is dealing with worry and anxiety.
· Understand how anxiety is affecting the child and how your response may be having an impact.
· Learn how to facilitate and maintain positive communication channels with the child.
· Help the child to recognise the importance of facing their fears, rather then avoiding them.
· Learn strategies for building self-esteem and resilience.
Before we begin - SilverCloud (silvercloudhealth.com)
Silver Cloud Supporting an Anxious Teen:
This programme will guide you in supporting a teenager (aged 12 - 18) who is dealing with worry and anxiety.
· Understand how anxiety is affecting the teenager and how your response may be having an impact.
· Learn how to facilitate and maintain positive communication channels with the teenager.
· Help the teen to recognise the importance of facing their fears, rather then avoiding them.
· Learn strategies for building self-esteem and resilience.
Sign Up - SilverCloud (silvercloudhealth.com)
Virtual College: Keep Them Safe: Protecting Children from CSE
Virtual College have teamed up Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (PACE)
to provide this short (20 to 30 minutes) online course designed for parents and carers. This short online course equips parents and parents with the knowledge to protect children against sexual exploitation
Keep Them Safe: Free Child Protection Course | Virtual College (virtual-college.co.uk)
Virtual College: Level 1 Child Criminal Exploitation and County Lines
This free online course is aimed at parents, Carers and professionals who work along side children and young people
Parents Against Child Exploitation (Pace) and Virtual College have teamed up to create this FREE short (20 to 30 minutes) online course designed for parents, carers and professionals working alongside children and young people.
Gain an understanding about how children are groomed and criminally exploited. Learn what county lines is and how it is operated across the UK. Understand the impact this form of child abuse has on families and how to seek support if you have concerns about a child at risk
Virtual College: Understanding Young Minds
Virtual College have created this free online course with Self Harm UK to help parents talk about the issue of self-harm with their children.
Understanding Young Minds | Virtual College (virtual-college.co.uk)
Coursera: The Science of Well-Being
In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.
Works on desktops / tablets and mobiles (via the free app – Coursera)
The Science of Well-Being by Yale University | Coursera
Coursera: The Science of Well-Being for Teens (Brand new)
A recent survey found that 37% of teens say they have poor mental health. This 6-week course aims to curb this mental health crisis by bringing together the best insights from Dr. Laurie Santos’ popular Yale course Psychology and the Good Life. In this course, you will explore what the field of psychology teaches us about how to be happier, how to feel less stressed, and how to thrive in high school and beyond. The lessons along with short weekly ‘happiness homework’ assignments will ultimately prepare you to put these scientific findings into practice. The ultimate goal is for you to feel better and build healthier habits. Parents, teachers, and other professionals supporting teenagers may also find the course beneficial.
Works on desktops / tablets and mobiles (via the free app – Coursera)
The Science of Well-Being for Teens | Coursera
Oneplusone: Arguing Better
Disagreements are a normal part of life, and most couples argue from time to time. The way you approach these conversations can make a big difference to you, your partner, and your children. Arguing better is a free online course to help you manage difficult conversations, avoid conflict, and improve things for your whole family
Parent guide for England (oneplusone.org.uk) – Click ‘Sign up (Wales) - Chose the residing local authority.
Oneplusone: Getting it right for children
When parents are separating or separated, children can often get caught in the middle. Getting it right for children is a free online course designed to help you parent co-operatively. It can help you to develop positive communication skills, so that you can sort out disagreements and find solutions together.
Parent guide for England (oneplusone.org.uk) – Click ‘Sign up (Wales) - Chose the residing local authority
Oneplusone: Me, You and Baby too
Having a baby can be an exciting time but it’s also one of the biggest changes you and your partner are likely to go through. You’ll both be tired and stressed, and you may argue more. Me, You and Baby Too is a free online course that can help you navigate these changes and keep moving forward together.
Parent guide for England (oneplusone.org.uk) – Click ‘Sign up (Wales) - Chose the residing local authority
Family Lives: Parents Together
Why not access our free, online and innovative Parents Together Programme? Based on our forty years experience working with parents and families and at your own pace, you can work through our six interactive blocks filled with helpful techniques and ideas that we know will help you become a more confident and happy parent. Please note that this programme is suitable for families with primary school aged children and under.
Modules:
· Promoting wellbeing
· The power of communicating and being positive
· Understanding behaviour
· Managing and promoting positive behaviour in the family
· Play and what do children need
· Setting limits, boundaries and promoting o-operation
parenting classes online - | Family Lives
Family Lives: Let’s Play
Why not access our free, online and innovative Let's Play course? Play is one of the main ways in which children learn and develop. It helps to build self-worth by giving a child a sense of his or her own abilities and to feel good about themselves. Based on our forty years experience working with parents and families and at your own pace, you can work through our interactive blocks filled with helpful techniques and ideas that we know will help you enhance and develop play ideas with your child.
Modules:
· Child’s play, adult play
· Enjoying children’s play
· Play ideas and games
