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Building blocks of emotional resilience’ is a 90 minute interactive workshop providing a brief introduction to evidence-based techniques for improving mental wellbeing. Emotional resilience describes the ability to ‘bounce back’ from difficulties. The 5 building blocks bring together tried and tested tools taken from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Positive Psychology. This course is run by Marianne Demmer emotional resilience and Connect 5 trainer.

This training is specifically for practitioners in South Glos Council's adult social care division, i.e. Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Social Work Assistants, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Senior Practitioners etc.
Strength based approaches are not new in Adult Social Care. You will be familiar with this term and will be able to identify aspects of it in your current practice. Our starting point will be recognising the practice strengths and professional curiosity you already apply in South Gloucestershire in your work with adults and carers and enabling you to share ideas and tools with your colleagues. A strength-based approach is as much about how professionals think and feel about their role, and the individuals they work with, as it is about using new and/or different tools. It requires finding ways to share both power and responsibility with people to promote wellbeing. During the session you will have the chance to explore what this means for you and your colleagues in the challenging climate within which you are working.
Aim: To enable delegates to gain a consistent set of underpinning knowledge and to further develop skills and confidence in applying a strength-based approach in practice

The multi-agency South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board oversees the Joint Policy and Procedures for Safeguarding Adults in this area. It is essential that a wide range of staff working in local authority, health and social care agencies are fully aware of the key issues in safeguarding vulnerable adults and of how the policy affects them in their front-line roles. The half-day Raising Safeguarding Concerns course is essential training for all front-line staff and managers who are involved in providing services to adults at risk and who work directly with service users. The course content is mapped to the learning outcomes in the local Safeguarding Adults Training Standards (published Dec 2017) as well as to relevant national occupational standards including the Care Certificate (Standard 10). Course attendance is monitored by the Safeguarding Adults Board.

The standard charge for this course is £40. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions.

I am TWO!!

I’m two and I just want it; not that way or your way – my way!!!

I want only the red bowl… Absolutely no other bowl will do.

I only want to wear my pink shoes with purple butterflies, even though mummy tells me they are too small now, I always wear them to nursery. However, as my developing sense of self is emerging, together with my, at times, explosion of overwhelming emotion means that what I was able to share and communicate with you yesterday and maybe the day before – I just absolutely can’t today.

So I’m going to look at you with a frowning, disapproving look on my face…. I’m going to stamp my feet, scream and shout even louder than you have ever heard me before and sometimes just have a total melt down!!! I completely can’t cope with anything at this moment in time, I’m not able to draw on any other ways of communicating with you apart from throwing my whole self on the floor, wriggling around like a raged worm…. All whilst you look at me thinking, ‘It’s only the red bowl!!! What’s the problem?’ – Also as you wonder ‘What do I do now?’ If I pick you up…. You hit me. If I talk to you…. You can’t hear me yet as you’re already shouting so loud.

Just how can I help you??

Claire Lugg

Does this sound familiar? If so, please join us as this course will offer some explanations and practical strategies to support daily interactions with different communication styles. We will explore language development from birth to 3 and will specifically focus on the communication skills of two year olds and how you might support the behaviours associated with this.