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At Home | At School | At Work Refresher Days All Ages The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Refresher Days are 1-day courses for practitioners who have completed their training to deliver Parent Groups. Through activities, group work, fun and nurturing, practitioners will revisit the fundamental principles of the programme and enhance their parent support skills. Relevant updates and national initiatives will be included. ​ Parent Group Leader (10-week Programme) Talking Teens Welcome to the World PGL Refresher Day Parent Group Leader Re fresher Day ​ Learning outcomes On completion of the training, practitioners will be able to: review and reflect on facilitation skills review strategies in The Pa renting Puzzle assess our practice as Parent Group Leaders problem-solve challenges to our practice through working together network and update on local and national development nurture ourselves Course Overview & Cost​​ ​ Click link to download the PGL Refresher Day training course overview Talking Teens Refresher Day ​ Learning outcomes On completion of the training, practitioners will be able to: review and reflect on facilitatio n skills review strategies from the Talking Teens programme assess our practice as Talking Teens Parent Group Leaders problem-solve challenges to our practice through working together network and update on local and national development nurture ourselves Course Overview & Cost​​ ​ ​ Click link to download the Talking Teens Refreshe r Day training course overview. 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 online training availability. Book now Training Options​​ Online for groups of up to 20 people. For the PGL and Talking Teens refresher courses there is the option of face-to-face team training for groups of up to 20 people. Welcome to the World Refresher Day ​ Learning outcomes On completion of the training, practitioners will be able to: review and reflect on facilitation skills review strategies from the Welcome to the World programme assess our practice as Welcome to the World Parent Group Leaders problem-solve c hallenges to our practice through working together network and update on local and national development nurture ourselves Course Overview & Cost​​ ​ ​ Click link to download the Welcome to the World Refresher Day (online) training course overview. TT Refresher WTTW Refresher

Meet the team Peter loves cooking, going to the gym, kayaking and walking his dog Lyra! Peter Leonard Chief Executive Contact Peter Sally loves travelling, fruit and nut chocolate and her Jack Russell Fern. Sally Alden Director of Funding & External Relations Contact Sally Rowen loves music, football and is a keen cyclist. Rowen Smith Director of Training ​ Contact Rowen Pip enjoys paddleboarding, meals out and walks on Dartmoor. Pip Collyer Director of Operations ​ Contact Pip Rebecca loves gardening, growing vegetables, and collecting house plants (especially orchids!). She started working at The Centre for Emotional Health in 2016. Rebecca Carrott Management Accountant Contact Rebecca Thomas is a very keen cook, and enjoys reading (especially history and fantasy), rural hill walking, painting, and playing strategy board games. Thomas Carrott Training Operations Lead ​ Contact Thomas Luce loves live music (preferably at festivals!), good food, football, dog walking and her family & friends. Luce Carter Programme Implementation Lead ​ Contact Luce Alison loves building relationships with people in & out of the office. A self-confessed coffee snob, cat lover & proud mum of 2 grown-up boys, her happy place is the great outdoors. Alison Duffy Business Development Manager ​ Contact Alison Kitty enjoys trying different cuisines & travelling. Care taker of the office plants. Has a penchant for all things cats and fashion. Kitty Fong Digital Systems Manager ​ Contact Kitty Helen enjoys having friends over for themed dinner parties, playing games and having kitchen discos with her family. Helen Gamble Training Lead ​ Contact Helen Donna started at The Centre for Emotional Health in November 2003 in a broom cupboard for a stock room! 21 years later and Donna now has a small warehouse. Donna Gardner Warehouse Manager & Training Supplies Coordinator Contact Donna Lyndsay loves Jane Austen, reading food menus, wearing bright colours and Christmas. She also adores her rescue dog and travelling to remote Scottish islands with her husband and 2 children. Lyndsay Harrison Regional Trainer Contact Lyndsay Rosie loves all things Italian, especially pasta and ice cream and is always looking forward to visits to Venice and Birmingham to admire the canals. Rosie Hatton Regional Trainer Contact Rosie I am an animal lover, who enjoys walking, has a passion for travelling, new experiences and Food!! Maxine Hertlein Head of Finance ​ Contact Maxine Loves singing along to the musicals, countryside walks, learning about local history and is researching her family tree. Loves words games and enjoys the company of her husband and four grown up children. Penny Jenner Purchase Ledger Administrator Contact Penny Alan loves travelling (especially on a shoestring), music, and being the proud dad of his young son Alan Kennedy Online Training and Systems Administrator Contact Alan Hannah loves spending time outdoors and exploring new places - whether it’s abroad or close to home. She also enjoys baking, reading, theatre trips & dancing! Hannah Partis Partner Engagement Coordinator Contact Hannah Sylwia has been working for The Centre for Emotional Health for nearly 6 years. Sylwia enjoys walking, listening to music and watching Netflix. Sylwia Siadala Training & Events Administrator ​ Contact Sylwia Can be found listening to music, going to gigs, practicing calligraphy, spending time with friends and family and being a proud mum to her daughter. Amy Swapp Resources Coordinator ​ Contact Amy Mary loves sharing food around the table with family & friends, swimming in a warm sea, & music of almost all kinds. Mary Taylor Head of Parent Programmes Contact Mary Verity began working for The Centre for Emotional Health in 2017 and thoroughly enjoys working with such a fantastic team! Verity has a keen interest in sports and fitness and loves live music and theatre. Verity Watson Office Manager ​ Contact Verity Our Trainers We have a team of around 30 trainers based throughout the UK, who deliver our training. They come from a wide variety of backgrounds with many specialist areas of expertise.

At Home “What we like most about using the Nurturing Programme approach with families is that it takes such a relational approach. It’s a joy for our workers to use and the parents get so much out of it right from week one.” Diane Gray–Stephenson, Senior Parenting Practitioner Early Help Parenting Team, Manchester City Council We offer training courses in parenting programmes and approaches that allow practitioners to work professionally, confidently, effectively and safely with parents and children to improve their family relationships and emotional health. ​ We provide programmes suitable for parents of children from 0 -19 years, underpinned by the Nurturing Programme and developing an understanding of behaviour in the context of relationships. At Home | At School | At Work All Ages Parent Group Leader training (10-week Nurturing Programme for Parents) This 4-day training course equips practitioners with everything needed to deliver the 10-week Nurturing Programme for parents. It focuses on facilitation skills as well as the content of the programme and includes a manual that gives clear and detailed step-by-step guidance for each session. ​ ​ ​ Find out more Antenatal Welcome to the World This 2 or 4-day training course provides practitioners with the skills, knowledge and resources needed to deliver the 8-week Welcome to the World programme for parents. The focus is on the emotional health of the parents and baby, and the relationships between them; and emphasises the importance of supportive, positive facilitation from the practitioner. ​ Find out more Teenagers ​ Talking Teens This 1 or 2-day training course is for practitioners who wish to offer the 4-week Talking Teens programme for parents of teenagers. The groups focus on relationships within the family, communication, negotiating, decision-making and strategies to reduce conflict. ​ ​ ​ Find out more Early Years Parenting Puzzle Workshops This 1-day training course is for practitioners who have already trained as Parent Group Leaders and wish to offer a shorter intervention for parents of children under 5. The course provides the knowledge, skill and resources to deliver the four 2-hour workshops. ​ ​ ​ Find out more Early Years | Primary Playful Parenting Workshops This 1-day training course is for practitioners who have already trained as Parent Group Leaders or Welcome to the World Group Leaders. The course provides the knowledge, skills and resources to deliver two 2-hour workshops to parents. ​ ​ ​ ​ Find out more All Ages Keeping Your Child in Mind This 1 or 2-day training course is for practitioners who wish to offer the 4-week Keeping Your Child in Mind programme for parents/carers. ​The groups focus on relationships within the family and in particular the influence of parental relationships on children, including when there might be conflict and tension. ​ ​ Find out more All Ages Refresher Days This 1-day CPD course is for practitioners who have completed their training to deliver Parent Groups. It provides the opportunity to revisit the fundamental principles of the programme and enhance their parent support skills. Relevant updates and national initiatives will be included. ​ ​ ​ Find out more All Ages ​ Working One to One with Parents This 2-day training course promotes a consistent approach to developing family relationships and positive behaviour management strategies. It prepares staff to work effectively with parents using The Nurturing Programme on a one-to-one basis. ​ ​ ​ Find out more All Ages Working with Families with Multiple Challenges (Previously known as Working with Families with Complex Needs.) This 1-day training course is for practitioners who have already completed the PGL training or the Working One to One with Parents training. It equips staff to work effectively with families who are experiencing particular challenges and to support them in developing and maintaining a consistent and positive approach. Find out more All Ages ​ Parenting, Culture and Religion This 1-day training is for practitioners working directly with families. It enables them to build successful relationships within a diverse community. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Find out more Teenagers Understanding Teenagers This 1-day CPD course is for those working with parents of teenagers and/ or teenagers themselves. It provides an opportunity to understand teenage brain development and the adolescent developmental process. ​ ​ ​ ​ Find out more Primary | Teenagers Stress and the Brain in Children and Teenagers This half-day interactive session is for teachers, family support practitioners, youth workers and others who are interested in understanding more about what children and young people need from adults to help them manage stress. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Find out more All Ages Working with Muslim Families This 1-day training will equip practitioners to work effectively with Muslim families. Based on the well-established Parenting Puzzle and Islamic Values programme, the course specifically considers how positive parenting strategies relate to Islamic values and religious teaching. ​ ​ ​ Find out more All Ages Supervision Training This half day, experiential course is for professionals who supervise trained Parent Group Leaders who deliver the Nurturing Programme to parents and carers. It is ideal for those who are new to supervision as well as those who would welcome extra ideas and structure to enhance what they are already doing. ​ Find out more All Ages Other Specialist Programmes The Nurturing Programme for Parents in Prison. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Find out more All Ages Parent Group Leader training with Islamic Values This specialist 5-day training course equips practitioners to deliver 10-week Nurturing Programme parent groups to all parents in the community. It increases the programme's relevance and meaning for the Muslim community by relating the content to Islamic Values. ​ ​ Find out more

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