SERVICES
Supporting mental health & wellbeing in Education
We arrive without an agenda. We work both one-to-one and in groups in order to affirm the inherent expertise amongst school staff and to work out how best to respond to the unique needs of the school. We try not to ‘fix’ things or provide solutions. Here are some of the ways we are working within schools and universities in Bristol and the South West.
One-to-one reflective practice/supervision
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This provides an opportunity for any member of staff to have an opportunity to work confidentially with a member of our team to explore challenges and fulfilment to and in their work. The majority of those we support in this way have pastoral, mental health, well-being and safeguarding responsibilities.
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Reflective practice supervision sessions provide a regular, confidential, safe space for sharing and support. They do not have a distinct agenda but are responsive to the needs of those present. So what happens depends on the interactions between participants and the relationships created. These groups are non-judgemental spaces that allow time to pause and reflect. They are not mentoring, advisory or coaching but instead allow the awareness of feelings, thoughts and whatever is feeling a challege to emerge and be safely and confidentiality explored.
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Reflective practice groups
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Our reflective practice groups similarly provide a regular, confidential, safe space for sharing and support.
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Groups are often made up of department or year heads, assistant or deputy head teachers, DSLs, pastoral staff and counsellors.
Training talks and workshops
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We run a variety of training talks and workshops for school staff to address issues currently arising in pupils. Examples of such issues include anxiety, self-harm, autism and ADHD.
Our workshops are confidential, non-judgemental, exploratory sessions that use the expertise and experiences of the group – both staff and facilitators – to further our understanding and responses. We often hold complex and contradictory feelings about such issues and these sessions aim to provide a safe, respectful and confidential space for these to be discussed and shared.
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