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Regional Event Regional Event - Birmingham Hillscourt, Rose Hill, Lickey, Birmingham, B45 8RS Thursday 27th June, 9.30am – 3.00pm Arrival and refreshments from 9.30am. Event starts at 10.00am. ​ A networking opportunity for commissioners, practitioners and other interested parties. This free event for around 25 people is an opportunity for you to share with one another the successes and challenges of working with parents, carers and families, to hear updates from The Centre for Emotional Health, and for us to learn how we can continue to support you in your work. ​ ​ Review the current context of parenting and family support Find out about the work and future plans of The Centre for Emotional Health Explore how we might help you further in your setting by attending our ‘Ask us About’ sessions Network with others who support families in the community Learn from the experiences of other organisations in your area Book your place (Please note that registration closes on 14th June 2024) If you have any questions, please get in touch with us via development@emotionalhealth.org.uk or call us on 01865 401800. ​ The venue and how to get there: www.hillscourt.co.uk There is parking onsite.

At Home | At School | At Work Playful Parenting CPD Early Years | Primary This 1-day 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 course, 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. Course Overview & Cost Click here to download the Playful Parenting CPD overview. ​ Resources ​ Relevant resources (not included in course 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 Training Options ​ ​ Face-to-face for groups of up to 20 people. Testimonials “Thank you for the training, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It made me realise, from a parent’s perspective, that you don't have to take children on expensive days out to have fun – that fun starts at home." ​ "Today’s training about playful parenting was really helpful and fun. I’ve learned the deeper meaning of play and how I can apply it in my personal life and work." Other training available To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key.

We provide high quality training courses and resources for professionals working with families, parents and carers including foster carers and adoptive parents in a variety of settings. Our approach is relational and empowering and highlights the link between behaviour and feelings in the context of relationships. Our programmes develop self-awareness, empathy and self-regulation, supporting people to build and maintain positive relationships. Read our Commissioner Guide Information for Family Hubs We are proud to have worked alongside Demos to produce the paper Strong Foundations: Why everyone needs good Emotional Health – and how to achieve it. Read the executive summary Read the report & their recommendations Find out what Emotional Health is News and blog posts Podcast series: Emotionally Speaking Importance of Emotional Health in the workplace Emotional Health and Me View all news Mental Health & Wellbeing Awards Finalist Badges NCVO logo CPDMember-logo white space Fair Education Alliance Living Wage Employer 1/1

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