SCHOOLS & EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
Psychology for the places where children learn, belong and grow.
Schools are more than places for learning. They are where children build relationships, navigate expectations, experience belonging and exclusion, manage change and spend a huge part of their everyday lives.
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Psychology training, reflective practice and consultancy for schools, teachers, SENCOs, pastoral teams and educational settings.
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A KINDER SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
Psychological understanding can become part of everyday school life.
Schools are more than places for learning. They are places where children develop relationships, navigate expectations, experience belonging and exclusion, and make sense of themselves and the world around them.
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We help schools bring psychological thinking into those everyday experiences — supporting staff to understand what may be happening beneath the surface, respond thoughtfully and create environments where children can feel understood, supported and able to flourish.
Training & CPD
Practical psychology for the people supporting children and teens every day.
Reflective Practice
​For teams working through complex situations, recurring challenges, or questions about how best to support a child.
Consultancy
Psychological thinking for particular challenges, teams, policies, environments and wider school development.
TRAINING & CPD
Four Areas, A Kinder School Experience
Our training helps school staff develop psychological understanding that can be brought into everyday interactions, relationships and decision-making.
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Rather than a long list of separate workshops, our core training can be adapted to the needs of your school, your staff and the children you support.
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60–90 minute CPD sessions
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Half-day or full-day training
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​Bespoke training
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Whole school approaches
TRAINING CAN INCLUDE:
When behaviour is communication
Helping staff recognise emotional distress, understand what may sit underneath behaviour and respond in supportive, informed ways.
When Behaviour Is Communication
Looking beyond behaviour to understand needs, emotions, relationships and context — and considering what might help.
Supporting SEND, Difference & Neurodivergence
Developing inclusive, psychologically informed approaches to communication, participation, relationships and belonging.
Health & Medical Needs
Understanding the psychological impact of illness, hospital experiences, uncertainty and changing identity — and how schools can support children and families.
Download the Schools Training Guide
Explore the full programme, session content, formats and ways of working.
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
A space to stop, think and process
Reflective practice gives teams protected spaces to think together about complex situations, reoccuring challenges and the children they support.
Better Practice
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​Understand situations differently and consider what might be happening beneath the surface.
Staff Wellbeing
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Create space to process the emotional demands of supporting children and young people.
Confidence & Clarity
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Work through uncertainty and feel clearer about possible next steps.
ONE-OFF & REGULAR
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From £100 per 60-min session for up to 10 members of staff
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Online across UK or in person across East Sussex
Ongoing Learning
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Turn reflection into changes in everyday practice.
Invest in reflective practice for your setting and team
CONSULTANCY FOR SCHOOLS
Bringing psychology into the places where children grow.
The Conditions to Flourish framework helps us think psychologically about children, the adults around them and the environments they experience — and what might help those conditions become stronger.
We work with schools to apply the Conditions to Flourish Framework at an organisational level - helping you to review and develop policies, processes, environments and everyday practice so that all children can feel understood, supported, able to flourish and sustain themselves overtime.
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A framework for real change.
Here's how the Conditions to Flourish might be applied to your school:
Understand
How well do we understand children's psychological experiences?
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What children may be experiencing emotionally
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How children communicate needs and distress
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Children's perspectives and sense-making
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Development, difference and individual needs
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How adults interpret behaviour
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Whether policies and practice reflect children's lived experiences
Support
Does our practice provide the psychological support children need?
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Relationships and attachment
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Emotional support and communication
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Regulation and co-regulation
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Accessibility and reasonable adjustments
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How adults respond to distress or uncertainty
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Whether systems enable appropriate support
Flourish
Does our environment create the psychological conditions for children to flourish?
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Psychological safety
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Belonging and inclusion
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Identity and being able to be oneself
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Confidence and participation
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Relationships with adults and peers
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How the environment affects wellbeing and engagement
Sustain
How do we sustain psychologically informed practice over time?
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Staff psychological understanding
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Shared ways of thinking
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Reflective practice
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Learning from experience
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Embedding approaches into everyday practice
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Reviewing and adapting what we do
PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS
Turning psychological understanding into everyday support.
Training can help staff understand children differently.But understanding is only the beginning.
The Greenhouse is our practical support-planning tool, designed to help children and the adults around them think about what helps a child feel supported, what they need to grow and who can help them get there.
Rather than starting with:
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“What's wrong?”
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The Greenhouse encourages us to ask:
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“What does this child need around them to flourish?”
