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1-day workshop
Understanding and improving children’s difficult behaviour
Explore the real reasons behind most difficult behaviour, and what you can do about it, with family therapist and best-selling author Miriam Chachamu
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Understanding and improving children's difficult behaviour
Length 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm)
Tutor: Miriam Chachamu
CPD Certificate 6 hours
- Price: £192 per person
Price includes lunch, refreshments and course notes
£192.00
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Live Online Workshop – during the pandemic we will be running an adapted version of this workshop via Zoom. We will update this page with full information as soon as possible.
Very inspiring – this will be really helpful in my work and help me improve the way I deal with a child or their parents to get more positive results
Residential Worker
Why take this course
If society is to successfully reduce the levels of anti-social behaviour, family breakdowns, mental illness and addictions, all our children need to be raised in environments where their innate psychological needs are met.
For children to be able to flourish and behave well, they need to feel secure, be given and receive appropriate attention, be able to delay gratification, take increasing levels of responsibility for their own behaviour, be stretched, develop a sense of autonomy and, of course, have fun!
For all this to happen they also need to be emotionally well connected to their family, peers, school and the wider community; and be given a sense of status that reflects their effort and achievements.
Miriam Chachamu’s wide-reaching training day, which focuses mainly on pre-eleven year-old children, clarifies how this can be done and gives you practical tools for meeting these needs and managing and preventing challenging behaviour.
It also shows how we can create an environment in which not only children but also the rest of the family can thrive and be better equipped to fulfil their potential.
Great new skills and helpful insights
Teacher
What will you learn
- A clear understanding of why things can go wrong and what to do
about them - New insights into how children feel, think and understand our communication with them which will increase cooperation and improve relationships – you may be surprised at what you find out!
- How to de-escalate anger outburts – and prevent them
- The importance of children’s innate emotional and psychological needs
- How these can be met healthily without alienating the child
- A range of tried and tested skills for preventing, as well as managing, difficult behaviour
- Healthy and lasting ways to engender self-esteem in children
- A better understanding of difficult emotions and effective skills for dealing with them
- Practical skills for motivating children to be their best
- How to help children both spot and learn from their mistakes, without you pointing them out
- Why individual needs are more important than things being ‘equal’
- Relaxation skills
- Typical obstacles that prevent children from learning and progressing – and how to remove them
- How to set realistic goals for each child
- New language skills for improving outcomes
- How to create an environment in which not only the child but the whole family flourishes
- The opportunity to discuss with a highly experienced tutor how you would bring all the new skills and knowledge together in a typical case history from your own practice
- Tips on how to transfer these new skills to parents and carers, including those considered ‘hard-to-reach’
- Course notes, CPD Certificate and more…
Course Programme
The ‘Understanding and improving children’s difficult behaviour’ course starts at 9.30am and runs until 4.00pm.
Who is this course suitable for?
- Teachers, social workers, therapists, and anyone else working with children who would like to gain a better understanding of their emotional needs, and have an insight into how children think and feel
- Anyone who interacts with children and would like to learn new positive and effective skills to connect with them and to motivate them to become their best.
- Therapists and parenting practitioners who are interested in empowering parents to become more confident and skilled in their parenting practices.
- Parents who wish to improve their relationships with their children, reduce friction and increase harmony in the home.
- Anyone else who would like to have a better understanding of the world from a child’s perspective and discover how they can use this understanding to improve children’s behaviour and wellbeing
Really glad I came today. Great new skills and helpful insights which I can take away and use straight away. Particularly liked the section on anger outbursts – that's going to be very useful.
Teacher
I came on this course because I've been having such dreadful times with my teenager daughter – and at last I've been given real hope that things can improve as well as some concrete, realistic ways to go about it. Today also really helped me understand better where my daughter's behaviour is coming from and how I can best help her. Thank you very much.
Parent
So useful to have a thorough grasp of which innate needs are essential for emotional health and the fact that children will attempt to get these needs met in whichever ways are open to them – a huge insight into the drivers behind behaviour. And I loved the language skills for improving outcomes.
Educationalist
Reviews for this course
4.8/5 (25 Reviews)
Lots of relevant points for me both as a therapist, mum and grandma.
Particularly useful was the understanding of why children act out and how we can help them. Miriam was absolutely superb – so knowledgeable and a great speaker. I feel I have learned many techniques and I hope we can book her to do some training at my school
The course was brilliant.
I think the day was very informative and fulfilling – thank you.
Excellent interactive day and enthusiastic and skilled teacher/therapist.
The explanations were very good and led on from one another in a constructive way – adding to the information and building knowledge. The tools and skills discussed are very useful. Miriam broke them down, used examples and role play so we could understand them thoroughly and their application. I thought it was a very well run training day – so much information to pack in.
Practical, calm approach – applicable to adults too!
All elements skilfully woven together. Theory and practical approaches clearly connected. Material presented with authority and good nature.
Found the idea of descriptive listening particularly useful – I can see how this could diffuse a situation
Many thanks – brilliant
A useful day. The course leader was very engaging and flexible about responding to questions.
A great day. Really helpful to understand the difference between perception and reality of an experience and how it can affect children and adults
I learnt a lot of good responses and approaches to children and the underlying principles behind these approaches.
All of it was useful – I learnt so much.
Thanks for a wonderfully helpful day, lots of light bulb moments for me. Very useful to understand a lot of children’s behaviour is a means of getting their needs met. Great to work with Miriam.
Really helpful exercise around stopping behaviour from getting out of control
A really helpful day – I found the section on how children perceive what we say to them a real eye-opener and will now be much more careful with the language I use!
I’ve read Miriam’s excellent book but this brought it all to life more clearly for me. It was great to see some of the skills demonstrated and to practise ourselves. I also appreciated being able to talk to her about some of the behavioural problems I have to deal with.
All of it was useful, but the exercises we did really made me think! Very relevant to all the children in one’s life whether they are 8 or 80!
There was lots covered that I will use in my work – eg. how to praise appropriately; building resilience was also very useful. And how to de-escalate or avoid anger outbursts. This will be very helpful in working with young people or with those who have children
As usual a great day with helpful and informative course materials that effectively back up the main ideas discussed and presented.
This has given me a wealth of information and skills – I particularly liked the anger mountain idea. Miriam really knows her subject.
The demonstrations of reflective listening with children, looking at events from a child’s perspective and relating everything to a child’s needs – and not blaming – were particularly useful. A great day, thank you.
Thank you! Today has given me a much better insight into how kids behave and why – and I feel much more confident about dealing with the difficult situations I often have to face at work now.
A really useful day. The demonstration was especially useful and interesting. I also liked the way Miriam provided examples to illustrate all the techniques/points she was making.