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Solutions Focused Coaching in Schools – providing Early Help for mental health, wellbeing and behaviour

SF Coaching in Schools is a highly effective way of strengthening the engagement and active participation of students in their own pathways to growth and learning.

SFC supports the elimination of exclusion and the improved mental health and wellbeing of all children and young people. It’s especially valuable as a counter to stress, trauma and adverse experiences which can make perfect behaviour so hard to achieve.

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Putting the wellbeing and mental health of children first as they learn, grow and develop means …..

placing relationship, consistency & empathy at the heart of school pastoral practice and policy
knowing that children are doing their best even when it might not look like it
reconnecting behaviour with learning and good mental and physical health
confirming the need for rules & reminders to provide structure for the school community without seeing them as the only route to learning and growth

SFC in Schools – structured kindness for fast and effective Early Help for all children with challenging or withdrawn behaviour

Solutions Focused Coaching is the answer to a long-standing problem; what do you do when children and young people don’t respond to rewards and punishments? SFCIS is not driven by diagnosis, it is centred on the whole child, a future-focused way of working which places the student as the active agent in their own growth and development, working in a self-directed way towards their own preferred future. Children and […]

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If not now, when? It’s our children’s lives were talking about.

The Problem Talk from Twitter this week; A July 2020 report from the then new Children’s Commissioner (England) ‘Vulnerable teenagers; where did it go wrong?’ Shining a light on the extent and impact of child vulnerability in England, focusing in particular on children with undiagnosed mental health issues, those excluded from mainstream education and children in gangs From these conversations there were three clear flashpoints: […]

Posted: July 17, 2021
Under: Action against exclusion, behaviour management, Early help, educational literacy, first response, Leadership, pastoral support, Solutions Focused coaching, structured kindness

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Solutions Focused Coaching in Schools – the way forward

Case note 1: “Some members of my team who are in school now starting to deliver Solutions Focused Coaching sessions shocked the socks off the school and surprised the young people – two very, very good sessions with two disillusioned young people. It was an incredibly uplifting professional experience to break through that original cynicism, disillusionment, disengagement …. They actually came into school to meet […]

Posted: July 8, 2021
Under: Action against exclusion, behaviour management, Early help, Mental Health Awareness, pastoral support, Solutions Focused coaching

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The 5% and talking about strengths

Last May, as the pandemic was in full flood, this arrived in my email inbox; “Hi Geoff, I have been working from home today and I remembered the job that you gave me which was to notice when things are going well. Throughout the day I have noticed quite a few things going well, one specific time was when I was doing maths in the […]

Posted: July 7, 2021
Under: Uncategorized

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