Emotional Wellbeing
We employ a variety of evidence-based wellbeing techniques including:
- Mindfulness - becoming more aware of our surroundings, to ‘live in the moment’. Including breathwork and grounding.
- Dialectical behaviour therapeutic work (DBT informed wellbeing practice) - understanding and accepting difficult feelings, while learning skills to manage them (adapted for people who feel emotions very intensely). Identifying feelings in relation to thoughts, such that they are less likely to influence subsequent feelings and behaviours.
- Cognitive behavioural therapeutic work (CBT informed wellbeing practice) - restructuring and reframing cognitions and beliefs.
- Nurture approach - naming individual strengths, drawing focus to the greatness of each child. Using positive Psychology to focus on character strengths and behaviours that allow us to build a life of meaning and purpose, to move beyond surviving to thriving.
- Systemic family work - helping those in close relationships to better understand and support each other by focusing on relationships between a group of people, rather than solely on an individual’s thoughts and feelings.
- Collaborative and proactive, solutions work - helps caregivers focus on identifying the problems that are causing concerning behaviours and solving those problems collaboratively and proactively with children.