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At Home | At School | At Work Playful Parenting Workshops Early Years | Primary This 1-day training course is for practitioners who have already trained as Parent Group Leaders or Welcome to the World Group Leaders and who wish to work with parents on the subject of play. The course provides the knowledge, skills and resources to deliver two 2-hour workshops to parents. ​ 2 Family Links trained Parent Group Leaders are required to deliver the groups, with each PGL trained in the specific programme being delivered. ​The course highlights the importance of play and of building attachment through play. It focuses on understanding child development, the brain, attachment and how play supports healthy development and explores the value and benefits of different types of play. Learning Outcomes ​ On completion of the training, practitioners will have: ​ ​ Developed confidence in delivering two 2-hour Playful Parenting workshops to groups of parents or on a 1:1 basis. Developed a deeper understanding of the importance of play and of building attachment through play. Understood how child development, the brain and play support healthy development. Explored the use of child-centred play skills to support development and the use of cheap/free resources to create quality play opportunities. Developed confidence in promoting positive approaches to discipline and boundary setting. Developed knowledge and skills to support parents in their play with children. Course Overview & Cost Click here to download the Playful Parenting Workshops overview. ​ Programme Overview​ Click link for an overview of the two-session programme that professionals who attend our one-day training course will deliver to parents. ​ Resources ​ Included in training cost: The Playful Parenting Handbook ​ Other relevant resources (not included in training cost): The Parenting Puzzle book Book Team Training Contact our At Home team to discuss or find out more. ​ 01865 401800 training@ emotionalhealth .org.uk Book Individual Places Check our training calendar for face-to-face or online training availability. Book now Training Options ​ ​ Face-to-face for groups of up to 20 people. Online individual places on Open training. This training can also be used as a CPD day. Contact us for more information. Testimonials “This training will help frontline workers strengthen relationships with families through methods of play. I think it can be a useful tool to engage parents in their children's play. It has enough theory, with fun elements of hands on exploration, for it to be understood by parents from all backgrounds.” Other training available To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key.

At Home | At School | At Work Programme Overview Playful Parenting Workshops This is an overview of the 2-session programme that professionals who attend our one-day training course will deliver to parents. Programme Summary ​ The course consists of two 2-hour workshops for groups of parents with young children and is usually delivered in children’s centres, schools or early years settings. ​ Programme Content ​ Week 1 What is Play? Happy memories of play Benefits of play Types of play Week 2 Child-led Play Making everyday life more playful Patterns of play Setting Boundaries ​ Outcomes For Parents & Children ​ The aims of the programme are to improve family relationships and children’s social, emotional and cognitive development by: ​ Developing parents’ understanding of the importance of play and of building attachment through play Increasing parent’s understanding of child development, the brain, attachment and how play supports healthy development To increase parents confidence using child-centred play skills to support development and use cheap/free resources to create quality play opportunities Promoting positive approaches to discipline and boundary setting ​ Resources For Parents ​ The Parenting Puzzle book ​ The Parenting Puzzle booklets (available in 8 languages) Return to course page

At Home | At School | At Work Playful Parenting CPD Early Years | Primary This 1-day training course highlights the importance of play and of building attachment through play. It focuses on understanding child development, the brain, attachment and how play supports healthy development and explores the value and benefits of different types of play. Learning Outcomes ​ On completion of the training, practitioners will have: ​ ​ Developed a deeper understanding of the importance of play and of building attachment through play. Understood how child development, the brain and play support healthy development. Explored the use of child-centred play skills to support development and the use of cheap/free resources to create quality play opportunities. Developed confidence in promoting positive approaches to discipline and boundary setting. Developed knowledge and skills to support parents in their play with children. Resources ​ Relevant resources (not included in training cost): The Parenting Puzzle book Book Team Training Contact our At Home team to discuss or find out more. ​ 01865 401800 training@ emotionalhealth .org.uk Book Individual Places Check our training calendar for face-to-face or online training availability. Book now Training Options ​ ​ Face-to-face for groups of up to 20 people. Online individual places on Open training. This training can also be used as a CPD day. Contact us for more information. Testimonials “This training will help frontline workers strengthen relationships with families through methods of play. I think it can be a useful tool to engage parents in their children's play. It has enough theory, with fun elements of hands on exploration, for it to be understood by parents from all backgrounds.” Other training available To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key.

Join Peter Leonard, Chief Executive of the Centre for Emotional Health, and his notable guests as they share their coping mechanisms for emotionally challenging experiences including anxiety, stage fright, loneliness, addiction and fatigue. Their challenges could be ongoing, or in the distant past, but each guest talks reflectively and with emotion about its impact. As the podcast grows, the emotional toolkit gets bigger with suggestions and tools that might work for you. Emotional health is related to but different from mental health. Good emotional health can help you manage periods of poor mental health as well as the ups and down of everyday life. So, if you’re interested in living a more emotionally healthy life or want to know more about coping in difficult times, Emotionally Speaking will help you understand your emotions, how you relate to your emotional self, and other people.

I was reflecting recently on the first proper job I had. During this period, I remember regularly trying to stay awake for as long as I could at night, because I knew that my next waking moment meant that I had to get ready to go to work. Put simply, I absolutely dreaded it. At the time, I didn’t really know why I dreaded it so much – I can just remember all the feelings around it. The one good thing to come out of this experience was that I vowed never to put myself in that situation again. At The Centre for Emotional Health, our vision is for everyone to live an emotionally healthy life. This includes creating and developing emotionally healthy workplaces. During Emotional Health Week, we are inviting people to think about their own workplaces and the people within them. For us, an emotionally healthy workplace is one where there is a culture of people feeling safe, supported and valued. Where there is a clear sense of purpose, people feel empowered and where there are clear expectations and boundaries. There will also be key features such as respect, kindness and an understanding of the value that differences can bring. Probably most importantly, the environment will be one where relationships really matter. Looking back on the experience of my first job, very little of this was in place and the impact was that I struggled, and the workplace got the worst of me! Nowadays it is not uncommon, for example, for staff to have free yoga sessions or wellbeing hours. However, it is often the more foundational habits and structures that create a genuine emotionally healthy environment: do team members hold each other in mind regularly? (How was that meeting yesterday? Good luck with your training tomorrow! How’s the house-buying going?… etc). Noticing and responding to how colleagues seem to be, interacting with each other in an adult and meaningful way is helpful to both individuals and the organisation. The challenge for us all is that it is far easier and less time-consuming to book in a pizza for staff meetings than it is to spend the time required to foster healthy relationships and to be tuned in to people’s needs and emotions – even when we know that it’s this that makes the difference. An approach based on good emotional health can ensure that both organisational and individual needs are recognised and valued, and crucially that workplaces and employees can be good for each other. We don’t want staff to do as I did and intentionally avoid trying to sleep at night! For more information about how our workplace trainings courses may be able to help, do get in touch: hello@emotionalhealth.org.uk Rowen Smith, Director of Training at The Centre for Emotional Health

Picture, if you will, a thirty year old divorced man with two children whom he has for part of every week. He is also holding down a demanding job and volunteers as a school governor. This man has all the pressures you would expect someone in this position to have, plus his own personal baggage from childhood and his own unique experiences which have shaped him to this point. The school he serves as governor decides to undertake some whole school emotional health training, using The Nurturing Programme by Family Links, now The Centre for Emotional Health. The man attends and realises two things; firstly, that this programme is beneficial for everyone not just parents and teachers and, secondly, that he already has the foundations of the course. He just needed support to identify and start using them. At The Centre for Emotional health we call these our Emotional health Assets and you can read more about them on our website. Fast forward twenty years and that same man (me!) is now Chief Executive of the Centre for Emotional health, and I consider it a privilege and a joy to be at the helm of such a significant organisation. Over the course of those intervening years I have used the tools collected in my emotional toolkit to great effect, as a parent, as a teacher, as a headteacher, in other work settings, as a family member, a husband and a friend. Most significantly, those skills and strategies have helped to steer me through some patches of challenging mental health as well. This is why I am so vocal about the importance of Emotional Health. It has beneficially impacted my life personally and professionally and also hearing the stories of change from people like PJ, a dad seeing the positive impact of the Nurturing Programme on both his life and that of his child. At The Centre for Emotional Health, we are passionate about our vision of everyone living an emotionally healthy life. Since 1997, we have reached over 1.4m parents and children by training over 40,000 professionals who go on to work across the community in local authority services including Family Hubs, in schools, the voluntary sector, health, prisons and in faith organisations. Our relationship-centred approach means we work in a collaborative way and in partnership wherever possible. At a national level, we raise awareness of what emotional health is and why it is important, influencing policy to create a more emotionally healthy society. We know that everyone needs good emotional health for themselves as individuals and also to enable them to contribute to creating an emotionally healthy culture wherever they are. We have recently partnered with the think tank Demos to produce a report highlighting the impact good emotional health could have on society as a whole. In this report we are calling on the Government to recommit to a standalone, cross-government mental health & wellbeing plan, to incorporate emotional health into its long-term plan to ensure that health is considered in all policies and to invest in evidence-based training and programmes on emotional health. We would like to see every adult experiencing positive relationships so that everyone can both contribute to and benefit from being in emotionally healthy families, communities, schools and workplaces. The benefits of good emotional health are significant and that is why we do what we do. Peter Leonard, Chief Executive at The Centre for Emotional Health