Details Of The Course
Delivered through highly practical, interactive sessions, the programme moves beyond theory to help staff understand how the developing adolescent brain influences behaviour, learning, relationships and emotional regulation. Participants develop an in-depth understanding of executive functioning
skills, including attention, working memory, planning, organisation, flexible thinking, impulse control, problem-solving and self-regulation. These abilities continue to develop throughout adolescence and directly influence young people’s learning, communication, relationships, identity and wellbeing.
The programme also explores how brain development and executive functioning interact with:
Trauma and adverse childhood experiences
Neurodiversity and additional learning needs
Poverty, inequality and social disadvantage
Culture, identity and lived experience
Relationships, belonging and peer influence
The environments in which young people live and learn
Participants are supported to move away from deficit-based explanations of behaviour and instead consider what may be happening beneath the behaviour, within the young person and around them. The training strengthens reflective practice, professional curiosity, relational communication and collaborative problem-solving, enabling staff to respond more thoughtfully and adapt their support to the individual young person.
Most importantly, the programme is designed to create practice that staff can remember, apply and sustain long after the training has finished.
What our Clients say
- Excellent trainers, exceptionally knowledgeable, patient and willing to answer and explore all questions.
- Absolutely loved this course. Would of liked a full day of it as so much to learn. Thank you
Brilliant sessions!
Really well structured with very relatable trainers – who clearly knew what they were talking about!!!! I really enjoyed it and look forward to applying in practice. Cheers!
My confidence when speaking with colleagues from the LGBTQ+ community, as well as help me educate my friends and family about Neurodiversity. Thank you!
- Extremely well delivered, and trainer gave me confidence to be able to adapt this thinking into my everyday teaching.
- Extremely well delivered and pitch was spot on.
- Such knowledgeable trainer, using real life examples. Invaluable!
- Thank you! Activities helped me understand the theory and its practical application.
- Would like further training on strategies I could employ to improve the EFS of my learners.
- As a middle leader, I’ve found this training extremely interesting, as I have learnt new content which builds on my existing skills!
The session was excellent. Family Pathway Coach made the session interesting and informative, and helped to make it comfortable to talk about experiences
Relaxed professional and personable approach of the trainer
- Excellent trainers, exceptionally knowledgeable, patient and willing to answer and explore all questions.
- Very informative and educational. Helped further develop understanding with very engaging activity and material. P.S. trainers were fantastic.
- Really enjoyed – thank you. I think everyone who works with people should receive training/awareness sessions on ESF & neurodiversity – including the people who make the decisions lol.