Understanding that behaviour is a form of communication will support you to engage children with life and learning. Ultimately, this will lead to better outcomes for all children.

The Thrive Licensed practitioner course explores how to identify the emotional developmental needs of a baby, toddler, young child, child or adolescence. It will show you how to be and what to do in response to children’s varying, and often

complex social and emotional needs. You will be given simple, practical strategies to promote well-being and learning. By the end of the course you will feel more confident and competent to work with children with a wide variety of social and emotional needs.

This course is available in Early Years, Childhood or Adolescence and is suitable for anyone working closely with children in a teaching, health care or social care role. It is particularly beneficial to professionals with pastoral
responsibilities, including child protection, special education needs, Social, Emotional and Mental Health education or other well being roles.

There are no previous qualifications required to undertake this course, other than being comfortable with the use of a computer as Thrive-Online is a website based toolkit that is essential.

To be professionally Licensed you will need to be an authorised user of THRIVE-Online through an annual subscription. Please note this is a separate charge to the course fee. Full attendance on the course is a requirement of gaining the license.

The Thrive Licensed Practitioners course supports the understanding of how to build and repair emotional health and wellbeing in children.

This course explores:

• Neuroscience in childhood development.
• The six development stages of social and emotional development
• The principles of attachment theory
• Key Strategies for building relationships that are supportive and reparative
• How to use Thrive-Online, our profiling, measuring and monitoring tool for group screening and individual baseline screening and action planning.
• How to use the arts, play and creativity in supporting social and emotional development.
• How Fear, anger, loss, change, separation, bereavement and joy can interrupt learning.