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Newsletter April 2016
Hi everyone
The luxury of Easter is a distant memory and the rush to exams is fully upon us.
"Stressed spelled backwards is desserts"
Loretta Laroche
We hope this brings a smile. Good luck reaping your rewards!
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VisionWorks and Mindful Emotion Coaching
In this newsletter we celebrate our growing connection with Mindful Emotion Coaching, a practical strategy that helps children to become more aware of their emotions and to manage their feelings more effectively. We are excited to trumpet this approach, which fits so well with VisionWorks' offering of practical activities and schemes of work to build emotional wellbeing.
Click here for more information on VisionWorks and Mindful Emotion Coaching
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A New FREE download. Hooray! 
Few teachers can say they have never seen an angry student. And anger is routinely one of the top issues raised by students with counselors in schools.
Our new download Understanding Anger explores the emotion of Anger; what lies beneath it and how to deal with it. Transformative.
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Mindful Emotion Coaching highlighted at DfE
It is wonderful to hear from Claire West of Mindful Emotion Coaching that the Department for Education in London have been inviting experts to help their work around peer support for mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Claire says:
"Sixteen representatives from schools, mental health charities, county councils, BACP and others discussed what we would like to see in terms of peer mentoring, shared ideas and good practice; including:
- What best practice in peer support looks like in schools
- Consideration of the type of support and supervision that peer mentors need
- Training and accreditation issues - both for mentors and for teachers
- The need to evaluate impact
- Recruitment processes for mentors.
In addition to our workshops the DfE held a series of events with young people to ensure that their views are central to what is developed. The DfE subsequently ran a call for evidence, asking for views and evidence on peer support via a survey.
It was an informative, interesting and engaging meeting."
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Tuning In To Kids
Emotionally Intelligent Parenting
 Clare Wilson and Sharron Ricketts (Parent and Family Support Advisors and trained facilitators in South West England) say this programme is the best intervention with positive outcomes for both parents and children. Parents often comment "I'm calmer and my kids are calmer".
Tuning In To Kids was developed by Dr Sophie Havighurst and Ann Harley in Melbourne, Australia, and has been evaluated in multiple randomised controlled trials that have shown the programme improves parenting, parent-child relationships and children's emotional competence and behaviour. It focuses on the emotional connection between parents and children, teaching parents skills in emotion coaching, to recognise, understand and respond to children's emotions in an accepting, supportive way. This approach helps the child to understand and manage their emotions.
The program has been particularly effective with children with clinical-level emotional and behavioural difficulties. Contact Clare or Sharron to find out more.
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Extra Ideas Anyone? 
Do you know about our inspirational and informative VisionWorks for Schools facebook page? Please like us for regular cartoons, comments and ideas on emotional wellbeing. Click here for FB page
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Register with VisionWorks
Register at www.vision-works.net for a host of FREE downloadable resources, assembly ideas and sample modules from our programmes.
More information
 VisionWorks for Schools now has its own Facebook page. All you have to do is like us and you will have regular updates of workshops, webinars, current EI news and more! We would love to hear from you too.
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