The Contented Child

Anxiety – Helping Children to Cope
2019-11-22 12:30 - 14:45 (Europe/London) | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
‘Anxiety is a thin stream of fears trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.’
Arthur Somers Roche
The daily pressures on our children are increasing from targets and testing in the classroom to the rise of pressure advertising and social media. For many of our children the world, or certain aspects of it, is overwhelming, complex and scary. From separation and social anxiety to performance and health anxiety, an increasing number of children now benefit from direct support to manage their worries.
This workshop will introduce you to the current thinking around children’s anxiety and move onto exploring ways to support young people to manage their anxiety more effectively. We will introduce you to visual resources and a toolbox of practical strategies that can be used within home and school.
Tickets £10 per person.
FEEDBACK
‘Fantastic course – can definitely recommend and I will certainly attend more workshops on offer. Thank you for delivering a well rounded session and thank you to everyone else present. I came away feeling more informed, confident and reassured. This is probably the first time that I felt that others ‘got it’, that I wasn’t alone and it has reassured me that I am heading in the right direction with the various strategies etc. Once again, thank you for the professional delivery of the course and opportunity’

Supporting Your Child's Emotional Regulation
2019-11-26 09:15 - 11:15 | Aylesham Primary School, Attlee Avenue, Aylesham, Kent, CT3 3BS, United Kingdom
AVAILABLE TO PARENTS OF AYLESHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL, DOVER
Are you the parent/carer of a child who struggles to regulate their emotions and is often misunderstood as a result? A professional who supports children with emotional regulation issues in the school setting? Or a child who keeps their emotions in check during the school day only to have a meltdown on coming home.
This workshop is designed for professionals and parents of school aged children with difficulties tolerating and expressing their feelings, leading to outbursts and other displays of overwhelming emotion. Attendees will learn about emotional dysregulation in children and the role of biological and environmental factors.
Practical strategies and resources to support children in understanding and managing their emotions and resulting behaviours will be shared and discussed, as well as strategies for promoting your child’s wellbeing.

MISUNDERSTOOD DEFIANCE - UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING PDA AND ODD
2019-11-26 09:30 - 12:00 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
How do you cope when presented with a child who is persistently defiant, argumentative, irritable and presents as needing to be in control of everything – to the extent that seriously interferes with day to day life?
Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) are diagnoses that can describe such behaviour. This short training session seeks to explore behaviours linked to these diagnoses so that parents and professionals can have a better understanding of why and how they occur.
The course will explore the recommended strategies for supporting and ways to manage when faced with these challenging behaviours.
There will be opportunities for Q and A throughout with handouts providing links and signposting to further information for those who wish to explore further.
Refreshments are provided and there is free parking at the venue

BOUNCING BACK, BUILDING RESILIENCE IN CHILDREN
2019-11-26 12:30 - 14:45 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
With ever growing numbers of children struggling with anxiety and depression the need for children to be able to ‘bounce back’ from life’s challenges becomes increasingly imperative.
Resilience is the ability to steer through serious life challenges and find ways to bounce back and to thrive, it helps people live happier, healthier, more successful lives and protects against depression.

This workshop, bought to you by Niki Green will aim to

educate attendees in resilience and its importance for child development.
reflect on ways to be positive role models for children.
teach ways to boost children’s ability to bounce back from life’s challenges and thrive.

Attendees will receive an extensive electronic resource pack after the event to further support learning and supporting young people.

RECOGNISING AND UNDERSTANDING THE 'QUIET' CHILD OR THOSE WHO HAVE SELECTIVE MUTISM
2019-12-06 09:30 - 12:45, 2020-03-18 09:30 - 12:45 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
This workshop intended to help parents/carers and educators understand and support children who are perceived as quiet or have Selective Mutism.
Selective Mutism is a childhood anxiety disorder that is defined by consistent failure to speak in social situations in which there is an expectation for speaking, despite speaking in other situations. Children are often unable to speak in social situations like school classrooms or the playground, and with certain people, such as their teacher, grandparents or peers.
Aims of the session-
To provide increased knowledge and understanding of selective mutism including:
What is selective Mutism.
The causes and definitions of Selective Mutism.
Assessment and diagnosis of selective mutism.
Differential diagnosis of a quiet child/reluctant talker and SM
Effective strategies and techniques to support young people with selective mutism (including the sliding in technique)
How to create a supportive environment.

At the end of the session delegates should feel empowered and confident in making tangible steps in supporting the child.

Supporting Your Child's Emotional Regulation
2020-02-07 10:00 - 12:30 | Aspen SMILE Training and Resource Centre, Whitfield Aspen School, Mayfield Road, Whitfield, Dover, Kent, CT16 3LJ, United Kingdom
BEING RUN IN CONJUNCTION WITH ASPEN SMILE TRAINING AND RESOURCE CENTRE
Are you the parent/carer of a child who struggles to regulate their emotions and is often misunderstood as a result? A professional who supports children with emotional regulation issues in the school setting? Or a child who keeps their emotions in check during the school day only to have a meltdown on coming home.
This workshop is designed for professionals and parents of school aged children with difficulties tolerating and expressing their feelings, leading to outbursts and other displays of overwhelming emotion. Attendees will learn about emotional dysregulation in children and the role of biological and environmental factors.
Practical strategies and resources to support children in understanding and managing their emotions and resulting behaviours will be shared and discussed, as well as strategies for promoting your child’s wellbeing.

Anxiety – Helping Children to Cope
2020-02-10 13:00 - 2020-02-11 15:00 | Egerton Primary School, Stisted Way, Egerton, Kent, TN27 9DR, United Kingdom
PARENTS OF EGERTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL ONLY.
‘Anxiety is a thin stream of fears trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.’
Arthur Somers Roche
The daily pressures on our children are increasing from targets and testing in the classroom to the rise of pressure advertising and social media. For many of our children the world, or certain aspects of it, is overwhelming, complex and scary. From separation and social anxiety to performance and health anxiety, an increasing number of children now benefit from direct support to manage their worries.
This workshop will introduce you to the current thinking around children’s anxiety and move onto exploring ways to support young people to manage their anxiety more effectively. We will introduce you to visual resources and a toolbox of practical strategies that can be used within home and school.
Tickets £10 per person.
FEEDBACK
‘Fantastic course – can definitely recommend and I will certainly attend more workshops on offer. Thank you for delivering a well rounded session and thank you to everyone else present. I came away feeling more informed, confident and reassured. This is probably the first time that I felt that others ‘got it’, that I wasn’t alone and it has reassured me that I am heading in the right direction with the various strategies etc. Once again, thank you for the professional delivery of the course and opportunity’

Anxiety – Helping Children to Cope
2020-02-11 10:00 - 12:30 | Yoakley House, Drapers Close, Margate, Kent, CT9 4AH, United Kingdom

How To Run Lego Therapy Intervention
2020-02-11 13:00 - 14:45 | Yoakley House, Drapers Close, Margate, Kent, CT9 4AH, United Kingdom
Lego Therapy was originally developed for children with autism but brick building has been and continues to be used therapeutically with children with other social skill difficulties and communication difficulties including language impairment and social use of language. It promotes development of key communication skills, including attention and listening, vocabulary and concept development, sharing, collaboration, describing and explaining, turn taking, problem solving and conflict resolution.
The course will equip the attendees with the theory behind therapeutic brick building and Lego Therapy. It is designed to be a practical and interactive workshop for education staff and parents that covers how to set up and run therapeutic brick building sessions within the home and education settings. As part of the course there will be a practical activity, running a therapeutic brick building session. The course will equip attendees with practical advice that can be applied immediately into everyday practice. Attendees will also receive resources to support the intervention electronically after the event.
Ticket £20 per person.

TAMING YOUR TEMPER, a Parent and Child Workshop (6-9yrs) SOLD OUT
2020-02-17 09:30 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
Due to the level of interest expressed we expect these workshops to sell out quickly, early booking advised to ensure availability.

Are outbursts and meltdowns affecting your child’s life and becoming disabling, both for them and your family?

Based on our popular emotional regulation intervention, this workshop will enable you to work with your child in a supportive environment with a skilled facilitator. We shall be looking to

• raise self-awareness including identifying triggers
• educate about the anger cycle
• ascertain understanding of emotions
• understand the changes in the brain before and during crisis
• an understanding of the physical feelings during the anger cycle
• educate around the optimal time to use strategies for calming
• develop a range of coping strategies
• understand the consequences of choices
•create a plan for managing crisis events

Together with your child you will complete a workbook which will serve as a prompt and support moving on from the workshop. This interactive workshop will also comprise videos and practical activities with activities around deep breathing/mindfulness. Children will take home resources at the end of the session.

Costs (to include extensive resources)
Parent/one child £45
Additional Child £20
Additional Adult £5
A social story will be supplied prior to the event. Parking is free at the venue if you display a sign saying ‘With The Contented Child’.

TAMING YOUR TEMPER, a Parent and Child Workshop (9-11yrs)
2020-02-17 13:00 - 15:30 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom

AUTISM AWARENESS, a parent and child workshop (Girls age 8-11yrs) SOLD OUT
2020-02-18 09:30 - 12:00 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A SESSION FOR GIRLS
‘The things that make me DIFFERENT are the things that make ME’ (AA Milne)
Starting from this quote from the famous ‘Winnie the Pooh’, we will support young people and their parent/s to understand not only how they might see the world and react to it in a different way to their peers but also how to celebrate and build on their uniqueness.
Using accessible, age appropriate mediums such as video clips we aim to raise your child’s awareness and understanding of their autism as well as give them the opportunity to be able to air their feelings within a safe, supported environment. We will also offer practical coping skills and strategies to increase their emotional regulation and resilience.
A supporting social story will be provided prior to the event. Numbers are kept low to ensure as much as possible that young people are not overwhelmed. An information seek will also be sent in order to cater to the individual.
Children will need to be aware of their diagnosis prior to the event.
Parking is free if you display a note stating ‘With The Contented Child’.
Costs (to include extensive resources)
Parent/one child £45, Additional Child £20, Additional Adult £5

AUTISM AWARENESS, a parent and child workshop (Boys age 8-11yrs)
2020-02-18 13:00 - 15:30 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A SESSION FOR BOYS
‘The things that make me DIFFERENT are the things that make ME’ (AA Milne)
Starting from this quote from the famous ‘Winnie the Pooh’, we will support young people and their parent/s to understand not only how they might see the world and react to it in a different way to their peers but also how to celebrate and build on their uniqueness.
Using accessible, age appropriate mediums such as video clips we aim to raise your child’s awareness and understanding of their autism as well as give them the opportunity to be able to air their feelings within a safe, supported environment. We will also offer practical coping skills and strategies to increase their emotional regulation and resilience.
A supporting social story will be provided prior to the event. Numbers are kept low to ensure as much as possible that young people are not overwhelmed. An information seek will also be sent in order to cater to the individual.
Children will need to be aware of their diagnosis prior to the event.
Parking is free if you display a note stating ‘With The Contented Child’.
Costs (to include extensive resources)
Parent/one child £45, Additional Child £20, Additional Adult £5

MANAGING CHALLENGING AND VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR (PRIMARY AGE GROUP)
2020-02-25 09:30 - 12:30 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
This three hour workshop for parents is designed to empower; To develop knowledge confidence and skills in understanding and managing behaviour that challenges from children – including violent, aggressive behaviour. Participants will learn important aspects of the science of behaviour – why certain behaviours occur, what keeps behaviours happening and ways to help change behaviour and rebuild positive relationships.
Participants will have opportunity to actively trial techniques in a safe environment and will leave the workshop with a toolkit of practical strategies.
Refreshments are provided and there is free parking at the venue if you display a sign saying ‘With The Contented Child’.

Supporting Your Child's Emotional Regulation
2020-03-06 09:00 - 11:00 | Thurnham Infant School, The Landway, Bearsted, Kent, ME14 4BL, United Kingdom
OPEN TO PARENTS OF THURNHAM INFANT SCHOOL ONLY
Are you the parent/carer of a child who struggles to regulate their emotions and is often misunderstood as a result? A professional who supports children with emotional regulation issues in the school setting? Or a child who keeps their emotions in check during the school day only to have a meltdown on coming home.
This workshop is designed for professionals and parents of school aged children with difficulties tolerating and expressing their feelings, leading to outbursts and other displays of overwhelming emotion. Attendees will learn about emotional dysregulation in children and the role of biological and environmental factors.
Practical strategies and resources to support children in understanding and managing their emotions and resulting behaviours will be shared and discussed, as well as strategies for promoting your child’s wellbeing.

AN INTRODUCTION TO ATTACHMENT THEORY
2020-03-06 09:30 - 12:30 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
On this workshop participants will gain a basic understanding of attachment and how this may affect the children and young people they work with as well as how it may affect their own interactions and relationships.
This course will cover:
History of attachment – John Bowlby
The different attachment styles explained
What is your attachment style?
Looked after children and attachment
This training will use a range of information including trainer input, videos, and participant activities.
Your trainer is Stephanie Johnson.

UNDERSTANDING SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER
2020-03-10 09:30 - 12:30 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
Does your child or children you work with struggle with noise, movement, touch? Are they always seeking sensory feedback or do they not register pain or discomfort? The Contented Child brings you sensory processing difficulties. A workshop, for professionals and parents who have a child with sensory processing difficulties (SPD). The workshop looks at how sensory processing difficulties may present in the child. Looking at the child who seeks out sensory feedback, to the child who actively avoids touch (hypersensitivity) and the child who is under responsive (hyposensitivity).
Our workshop, aims to
Understand developmental stages of sensory processing Sensory processing difficulties in the early years The hypersensitive/hyposensitive child How sensory processing difficulties impact on behaviour Sensory processing and associated conditions Strategies and activities to support the child who struggles with sensory processing.
Delegates will have an opportunity to gain a theoretical overview of sensory processing difficulties. Delegates will explore the impact on the child’s behaviours and ability to learn, when they are experiencing SPD. Delegates will be supported to think about the environment at nursery/school/home. Delegates will be supported to understand and use strategies that enable children with SPD to, cope in the environment and make progress.
Parking free at the venue if displaying a sign ‘With The Contented Child’

BUILDING CONFIDENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT IN LITERACY
2020-03-13 09:30 - 12:30 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
This course is designed for professionals as well as parents and carers with children that have literacy difficulties. This course will support students with a wide range of literacy problems including dyslexia, dysgraphia, ASD and ADHD.
It will look at different issues that children may face when learning to read and write, what to look out for, the reason behind common issues and how to help the child/children achieve success. The course will also provide a wide range of strategies that can be used in school and home. This course is very hands on and so a camera phone will be useful to take away images of what you have seen and participated in.
Content- The process of reading and writing and pinpointing where common issues occur.
How working memory plays a large part in reading and writing.
What is phonics? Looking at how words and constructed and deconstructed for spelling.
How does a multi-sensory approach help overcome learning problems.
Overcoming problems with: handwriting, phonics, spelling, ideas, phonological awareness and confidence. This section looks at the problem, gives examples of what it looks and feels like, and strategies to overcome the problem.
What’s next? Looking forward to assessments and learner profiles, specialist teaching sessions, support from school.
Parking is free when displaying a note in the window stating ‘With The Contented Child’

Supporting Your Child's Emotional Regulation
2020-03-16 09:00 - 11:00 | Aylesham Primary School, Attlee Avenue, Aylesham, Kent, CT3 3BS, United Kingdom
OPEN TO PARENTS OF AYLESHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL ONLY
Are you the parent/carer of a child who struggles to regulate their emotions and is often misunderstood as a result? A professional who supports children with emotional regulation issues in the school setting? Or a child who keeps their emotions in check during the school day only to have a meltdown on coming home.
This workshop is designed for professionals and parents of school aged children with difficulties tolerating and expressing their feelings, leading to outbursts and other displays of overwhelming emotion. Attendees will learn about emotional dysregulation in children and the role of biological and environmental factors.
Practical strategies and resources to support children in understanding and managing their emotions and resulting behaviours will be shared and discussed, as well as strategies for promoting your child’s wellbeing.

How To Run Lego Therapy Intervention
2020-03-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Aspen SMILE Training and Resource Centre, Whitfield Aspen School, Mayfield Road, Whitfield, Dover, Kent, CT16 3LJ, United Kingdom
RUN IN CONJUNCTION WITH WHITFIELD ASPEN SMILE CENTRE
Lego Therapy was originally developed for children with autism but brick building has been and continues to be used therapeutically with children with other social skill difficulties and communication difficulties including language impairment and social use of language. It promotes development of key communication skills, including attention and listening, vocabulary and concept development, sharing, collaboration, describing and explaining, turn taking, problem solving and conflict resolution.
The course will equip the attendees with the theory behind therapeutic brick building and Lego Therapy. It is designed to be a practical and interactive workshop for education staff and parents that covers how to set up and run therapeutic brick building sessions within the home and education settings. As part of the course there will be a practical activity, running a therapeutic brick building session. The course will equip attendees with practical advice that can be applied immediately into everyday practice. Attendees will also receive resources to support the intervention electronically after the event.
Ticket £20 per person.

POSITIVE APPROACHES TO MANAGING BEHAVIOUR IN THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM
2020-03-20 09:30 - 12:30 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
The new Ofsted framework includes a much needed and welcome focus on the emotional wellbeing of learners. So how can classroom behaviour systems support this, and work to increase self-esteem and promote wellbeing whist still being effective at preventing problem behaviour? It starts with understanding why problem behaviour occurs and working proactively to promote the behaviours you want to see.
This 3-hour workshop for school staff will teach you how to implement evidence based, effective methods for managing classroom behaviours that will create a positive environment, promote wellbeing and help develop confident and happy learners.
Participants will gain vital knowledge to help them understand why problem behaviour occurs and why commonly used systems are often ineffective, counterproductive and can be detrimental to pupil’s self-esteem and confidence. Participants will leave with a toolbox of simple, highly effective, low cost (and no cost) whole classroom and individual strategies that can be adjusted and applied to learners of all ages.
Your trainer is Tracy Mapp.
Parking is free if you display a note stating ‘With The Contented Child’ in your windscreen.

ONLINE Autism Awareness
2020-03-24 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom
THIS IS NOW AN ONLINE WORKSHOP. ONCE YOUR TICKET HAS BEEN PURCHASED YOU WILL BE SENT A LINK TO ACCESS THE EVENT.
The aim of this workshop for parents / carers is to raise awareness of ASD and how this can impact on individuals with the condition. The session provides an overview of the key characteristics of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, looks at how ASD is diagnosed and considers the wide-ranging needs of individuals with the condition at different ages. It also aims to challenge and highlight assumptions people may have about the condition and crucially, explore the strengths of ASD and celebrate the individuality and wide-ranging achievements of people with the condition. There will be opportunities for Q & A and discussion with handouts providing links and signposting to further information for those that wish to explore further.
Introduction, Notion of neuro-diversity Prevalence / Terminology
Overview of key characteristics of autism
Language and communication
Repetitive behaviours / Special interests
Sensory processing
Theory of mind / mindblindness – The Sally-Anne Test
Diagnosis
Complexity of ASD – co-occuring conditions
The changing support needs of individuals with ASD at different ages & stages
Media presentations of ASD, common assumptions & misconceptions
Gender – hidden autism
Strengths of Autism, Challenging limitations
How ASD has changed the world for the better – a focus on the achievements of people with the condition
Your trainer is Tracy Mapp.
Parent Review
‘A great course, lots of information given and broken down into understandable info’. It was good to hear the message to focus on positives’.

ONLINE MANAGING CHALLENGING AND VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR (PRIMARY AGE GROUP)
2020-04-09 20:00 - 22:00 | War Memorial, Capel, New Dover Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent, CT18 7JJ, United Kingdom
THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE HOSTED VIA ZOOM, A MEETING CODE WILL BE PROVIDED PRIOR TO THE EVENT.
This two hour workshop for parents is designed to empower; To develop knowledge confidence and skills in understanding and managing behaviour that challenges from children – including violent, aggressive behaviour. Participants will learn important aspects of the science of behaviour – why certain behaviours occur, what keeps behaviours happening and ways to help change behaviour and rebuild positive relationships.
Participants will have opportunity to ask questions in a safe environment and will finish the workshop with a toolkit of practical strategies.
Your trainer is
Tracy Mapp MSc ABA (Intellectual Developmental Disability) BA (Hons) Fine Art, PGCE, QTLS
Tracy has a comprehensive background in the fields of Behaviour Management, Autism and Precision Teaching with extensive experience working with teenagers and young people. She has taught adults in teacher education and learning support qualifications and has designed and delivered training to education professionals. Tracy has the experience of a decade of work with vulnerable young people, young offenders and adolescents with Special Educational Needs and behaviour that challenge.
As a qualified teacher, Tracy worked for many years within alternative education, both teaching at and managing a SEN Pupil Referral Unit which supported and educated some of the most challenging and disengaged students in Kent, as well as managing a county-wide virtual learning education provision for learners with autism and severe social phobias. She has developed robust systems for tracking the progress of groups of learners from differing starting points and is experienced in assessing learners and establishing baselines with which to develop targets from, in both academic, social skill and emotional wellbeing areas.
More recently, Tracy has worked as a specialist autism lecturer providing 1-1 academic and pastoral support to students including developing desensitisation plans for anxiety and using cognitive behavioural approaches to help build confidence and self esteem. In this role Tracy also advised course lecturers on best practice and provided college-wide training on autism.

ONLINE AUTISM AND GIRLS - THE HIDDEN GENDER
2020-04-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Kent
THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE HOSTED ON ZOOM, ATTENDEES WILL BE MAILED A MEETING CODE PRIOR TO THE EVENT.
‘Are parents and professionals missing the signs of autism in girls?’ (Kate Reynolds)
Autism is often described as the ‘exaggerated male brain’ and certainly there is prevalence in diagnosis with current National Autistic Society figures showing that only 1 in 4 diagnoses are female. Is this really an accurate picture though? Are boys really more susceptible to this condition?
In this course, we explore why autism is different for girls, the gender issues within diagnostic methods and the issues with gender bias even post diagnosis. We will look at the particular characteristics presenting within girls as well as female friendly strategies for dealing with big issues such as puberty.
Your trainer is
Tracy Mapp MSc ABA (Intellectual Developmental Disability) BA (Hons) Fine Art, PGCE, QTLS
Tracy has a comprehensive background in the fields of Behaviour Management, Autism and Precision Teaching with extensive experience working with teenagers and young people. She has taught adults in teacher education and learning support qualifications and has designed and delivered training to education professionals. Tracy has the experience of a decade of work with vulnerable young people, young offenders and adolescents with Special Educational Needs and behaviour that challenge.
As a qualified teacher, Tracy worked for many years within alternative education, both teaching at and managing a SEN Pupil Referral Unit which supported and educated some of the most challenging and disengaged students in Kent, as well as managing a county-wide virtual learning education provision for learners with autism and severe social phobias. She has developed robust systems for tracking the progress of groups of learners from differing starting points and is experienced in assessing learners and establishing baselines with which to develop targets from, in both academic, social skill and emotional wellbeing areas.
More recently, Tracy has worked as a specialist autism lecturer providing 1-1 academic and pastoral support to students including developing desensitisation plans for anxiety and using cognitive behavioural approaches to help build confidence and self esteem. In this role Tracy also advised course lecturers on best practice and provided college-wide training on autism.

ONLINE ADHD AWARENESS
2020-04-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Kent
THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE HOSTED ON ZOOM AND A LINK WILL BE PROVIDED PRIOR TO THE EVENT.
The aim of this two hour training session for teachers and parents is to raise awareness of the key symptoms and related issues of ADHD. The session considers the impact ADHD can have on both individuals with the condition and on people around them and the challenges this can bring. We shall also introduce strategies to support young people to manage their behaviour.
There will be opportunities for Q & A throughout with handouts providing links and signposting to further information for those that wish to
Your trainer is
Tracy Mapp MSc ABA (Intellectual Developmental Disability) BA (Hons) Fine Art, PGCE, QTLS
Tracy has a comprehensive background in the fields of Behaviour Management, Autism and Precision Teaching with extensive experience working with teenagers and young people. She has taught adults in teacher education and learning support qualifications and has designed and delivered training to education professionals. Tracy has the experience of a decade of work with vulnerable young people, young offenders and adolescents with Special Educational Needs and behaviour that challenge.
As a qualified teacher, Tracy worked for many years within alternative education, both teaching at and managing a SEN Pupil Referral Unit which supported and educated some of the most challenging and disengaged students in Kent, as well as managing a county-wide virtual learning education provision for learners with autism and severe social phobias. She has developed robust systems for tracking the progress of groups of learners from differing starting points and is experienced in assessing learners and establishing baselines with which to develop targets from, in both academic, social skill and emotional wellbeing areas.
More recently, Tracy has worked as a specialist autism lecturer providing 1-1 academic and pastoral support to students including developing desensitisation plans for anxiety and using cognitive behavioural approaches to help build confidence and self esteem. In this role Tracy also advised course lecturers on best practice and provided college-wide training on autism.

ONLINE MISUNDERSTOOD DEFIANCE - UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING PDA AND ODD
2020-04-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Kent
THIS EVENT WILL NOW BE TAKING PLACE ONLINE – LINK WILL BE EMAILED PRIOR TO THE EVENT.
How do you cope when presented with a child who is persistently defiant, argumentative, irritable and presents as needing to be in control of everything – to the extent that seriously interferes with day to day life?
Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) are diagnoses that can describe such behaviour. This short training session seeks to explore behaviours linked to these diagnoses so that parents and professionals can have a better understanding of why and how they occur.
The course will explore the recommended strategies for supporting and ways to manage when faced with these challenging behaviours.
There will be opportunities for Q and A throughout with handouts mailed providing links and signposting to further information for those who wish to explore further.
Your trainer is
Tracy Mapp MSc ABA (Intellectual Developmental Disability) BA (Hons) Fine Art, PGCE, QTLS
Tracy has a comprehensive background in the fields of Behaviour Management, Autism and Precision Teaching with extensive experience working with teenagers and young people. She has taught adults in teacher education and learning support qualifications and has designed and delivered training to education professionals. Tracy has the experience of a decade of work with vulnerable young people, young offenders and adolescents with Special Educational Needs and behaviour that challenge.
As a qualified teacher, Tracy worked for many years within alternative education, both teaching at and managing a SEN Pupil Referral Unit which supported and educated some of the most challenging and disengaged students in Kent, as well as managing a county-wide virtual learning education provision for learners with autism and severe social phobias. She has developed robust systems for tracking the progress of groups of learners from differing starting points and is experienced in assessing learners and establishing baselines with which to develop targets from, in both academic, social skill and emotional wellbeing areas.
More recently, Tracy has worked as a specialist autism lecturer providing 1-1 academic and pastoral support to students including developing desensitisation plans for anxiety and using cognitive behavioural approaches to help build confidence and self esteem. In this role Tracy also advised course lecturers on best practice and provided college-wide training on autism.

ONLINE ANXIETY - HELPING CHILDREN TO COPE
2020-04-22 20:00 - 21:45 | Zoom, The privacy of your own home, United Kingdom
THIS WORKSHOP IS BEING HOSTED VIA ZOOM – A LINK WILL BE PROVIDED PRIOR TO THE EVENT.
‘Anxiety is a thin stream of fears trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.’
Arthur Somers Roche
The daily pressures on our children are increasing from targets and testing in the classroom to the rise of pressure advertising and social media. For many of our children the world, or certain aspects of it, is overwhelming, complex and scary. From separation and social anxiety to performance and health anxiety, an increasing number of children now benefit from direct support to manage their worries.
This workshop will introduce you to the current thinking around children’s anxiety and move onto exploring ways to support young people to manage their anxiety more effectively. We will introduce you to visual resources and a toolbox of practical strategies that can be used within home and school.
Tickets £10 per person.
Your trainer is Niki Green.
FEEDBACK
‘Fantastic course – can definitely recommend and I will certainly attend more workshops on offer. Thank you for delivering a well rounded session. I came away feeling more informed, confident and reassured. This is probably the first time that I felt that others ‘got it’, that I wasn’t alone and it has reassured me that I am heading in the right direction with the various strategies etc. Once again, thank you for the professional delivery of the course and opportunity’

ONLINE Autism Awareness
2020-04-23 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom
THIS IS NOW AN ONLINE ZOOM WORKSHOP. ONCE YOUR TICKET HAS BEEN PURCHASED YOU WILL BE SENT A LINK TO ACCESS THE EVENT.
The aim of this workshop for parents / carers is to raise awareness of ASD and how this can impact on individuals with the condition. The session provides an overview of the key characteristics of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, looks at how ASD is diagnosed and considers the wide-ranging needs of individuals with the condition at different ages. It also aims to challenge and highlight assumptions people may have about the condition and crucially, explore the strengths of ASD and celebrate the individuality and wide-ranging achievements of people with the condition. There will be opportunities for Q & A and discussion with handouts providing links and signposting to further information for those that wish to explore further.
Introduction, Notion of neuro-diversity Prevalence / Terminology
Overview of key characteristics of autism
Language and communication
Repetitive behaviours / Special interests
Sensory processing
Theory of mind / mindblindness – The Sally-Anne Test
Diagnosis
Complexity of ASD – co-occuring conditions
The changing support needs of individuals with ASD at different ages & stages
Media presentations of ASD, common assumptions & misconceptions
Gender – hidden autism
Strengths of Autism, Challenging limitations
How ASD has changed the world for the better – a focus on the achievements of people with the condition.
Your trainer is
Tracy Mapp MSc ABA (Intellectual Developmental Disability) BA (Hons) Fine Art, PGCE, QTLS
Tracy has a comprehensive background in the fields of Behaviour Management, Autism and Precision Teaching with extensive experience working with teenagers and young people. She has taught adults in teacher education and learning support qualifications and has designed and delivered training to education professionals. Tracy has the experience of a decade of work with vulnerable young people, young offenders and adolescents with Special Educational Needs and behaviour that challenge.
As a qualified teacher, Tracy worked for many years within alternative education, both teaching at and managing a SEN Pupil Referral Unit which supported and educated some of the most challenging and disengaged students in Kent, as well as managing a county-wide virtual learning education provision for learners with autism and severe social phobias. She has developed robust systems for tracking the progress of groups of learners from differing starting points and is experienced in assessing learners and establishing baselines with which to develop targets from, in both academic, social skill and emotional wellbeing areas.
More recently, Tracy has worked as a specialist autism lecturer providing 1-1 academic and pastoral support to students including developing desensitisation plans for anxiety and using cognitive behavioural approaches to help build confidence and self esteem. In this role Tracy also advised course lecturers on best practice and provided college-wide training on autism.

Parent Review
‘A great course, lots of information given and broken down into understandable info’. It was good to hear the message to focus on positives’.

ONLINE UNDERSTANDING SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER
2020-04-28 20:00 - 22:00 | Kent
THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE HOSTED ON ZOOM – LINKS TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT WILL BE PROVIDED BEFORE THE SESSION.
Does your child or children you work with struggle with noise, movement, touch? Are they always seeking sensory feedback or do they not register pain or discomfort? The Contented Child brings you sensory processing difficulties. A workshop, for professionals and parents who have a child with sensory processing difficulties (SPD). The workshop looks at how sensory processing difficulties may present in the child. Looking at the child who seeks out sensory feedback, to the child who actively avoids touch (hypersensitivity) and the child who is under responsive (hyposensitivity).
Our workshop, aims to
Understand developmental stages of sensory processing Sensory processing difficulties in the early years The hypersensitive/hyposensitive child How sensory processing difficulties impact on behaviour Sensory processing and associated conditions Strategies and activities to support the child who struggles with sensory processing.
Delegates will have an opportunity to gain a theoretical overview of sensory processing difficulties. Delegates will explore the impact on the child’s behaviours and ability to learn, when they are experiencing SPD. Delegates will be supported to think about the environment at nursery/school/home. Delegates will be supported to understand and use strategies that enable children with SPD to, cope in the environment and make progress.
Your trainer is
Tracy Mapp MSc ABA (Intellectual Developmental Disability) BA (Hons) Fine Art, PGCE, QTLS
Tracy has a comprehensive background in the fields of Behaviour Management, Autism and Precision Teaching with extensive experience working with teenagers and young people. She has taught adults in teacher education and learning support qualifications and has designed and delivered training to education professionals. Tracy has the experience of a decade of work with vulnerable young people, young offenders and adolescents with Special Educational Needs and behaviour that challenge.
As a qualified teacher, Tracy worked for many years within alternative education, both teaching at and managing a SEN Pupil Referral Unit which supported and educated some of the most challenging and disengaged students in Kent, as well as managing a county-wide virtual learning education provision for learners with autism and severe social phobias. She has developed robust systems for tracking the progress of groups of learners from differing starting points and is experienced in assessing learners and establishing baselines with which to develop targets from, in both academic, social skill and emotional wellbeing areas.
More recently, Tracy has worked as a specialist autism lecturer providing 1-1 academic and pastoral support to students including developing desensitisation plans for anxiety and using cognitive behavioural approaches to help build confidence and self esteem. In this role Tracy also advised course lecturers on best practice and provided college-wide training on autism.
