Positive Psychology Training

Training Modules include:

• Establishing a ‘container’ to firmly and positively hold disengaged young people
• Values, Transformational Education, a potential-orientated approach, relating to more than surface behaviour (values lead to attitudes which leads to behaviour)
• Forming healthy attachment with young people, attachment theory, relational dynamics, mentoring and role modelling.  Building healthy attachments through relationship
• Facilitating young people to learn skills of self-reflection – awareness of choice and consequence – making choices that get the outcomes they want 
• Reframing – turning challenges/problems into developmental steps forward and into a learning experience
• A transformational approach, Mindfulness, becoming a reflexive practitioner
• Mindsets – shifting from a negative (I can’t) to a positive – based on work of Dr Carol Dweck
• Group dynamics:  process vs. content, stages of group dynamics, the need for both inclusion and self-assertion
• Adolescent and youth development:  working with challenging behaviour, conflict resolution. Relating to the deeper need behind behaviour (includes Erik Erikson’s developmental stages)
• Young people and internal multiplicity:  finding identity, trying out different identities
• Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry:  their value and application to education
• A Coaching approach, coaching skills and application

If you’d like more information, or wish to apply for Transformational Youth work and Positive Psychology Facilitator Training, please email admin@growing2gether.org.uk. Certain funding opportunities may be available.