Relationships Matter - behaviour support
Helping to grow better relationships in schools and at home by understanding the messages behind everyone's behaviour!
About Me
I worked for Hampshire County Council's Primary Behaviour Service for 20 years prior to setting up Relationships Matter. During that time I worked in 5 out of 6 of the areas of the County and managed 4 of them.
I am a qualified teacher and do not consider myself to be an expert but I do have extensive experience working in different schools with the children - age 5 - 18, their teachers and LSA's and often parents as well as providing support and advice for Head Teachers and SLT for children who are exhibiting difficulties with self regulation and showing dysregulated behaviour.
I have worked with adolescent young people who have been at risk of offending and supported them and their parents to build better, more effective relationships with each other.
I have developed and delivered training to schools around de-escalation, self regulation, language and its effect on our children, creating good relationships both with the children and their parents and can form trusting relationships quickly.
I have supported many many staff and new and old Head Teachers over the years both emotionally and practically with their dysregulated children and their own emotions and feelings around them.
I am a qualified Thrive Practitioner and Trainer and love the understanding this helps to develop around brain neuroscience and relationships.
I am able to form good relationships quickly, am empathetic, patient, understanding and positive and am looking forward to this new part of my life journey.
I have also written a book - Relationships - the key to understanding children's behaviour.
Jenny
Please do look at my testimonials below.
What can I offer?
Staff training -
- understanding your child or young person's behaviour and creating good relationships. What is the message behind the behaviour - addressing the primary behaviour so the secondary ones don't need to happen.
- De-escalation - understanding how we help young people to de-escalate when they are heightened, what is going on for them at the time and how to help them.
- Self-regulation - how do our young people develop self-regulation and how can we as adults help them.
- ASC/ADHD - understanding what is going on for young people and how adults can help.
- Language and its effect on our children and young people. How what we say and how we say it can alter their behaviour both positively and negatively.
- Any other behaviour related training - bespoke to your schools requirements.
Support for Head Teacher/SLT/all staff - emotional and practical.
Problem Solving sessions - or anonymous consultations - talk about a young person without naming them and we can problem solve together.
Parent Workshops - helping parents to understand their Child's behaviour, boundaries and why they are important and how the way we as adults deal with situations can affect the outcomes.
1:1 sessions with parents
Reflective practice/support sessions for school staff - a chance to talk about situations/behaviours and reflect on our practice.
School behaviour audit - a whole day in school with time spent in classrooms to assess the effectiveness of school behaviour policy/behaviour management with a chance to debrief, reflect and problem solve at the end of the day.
Support with school behaviour policy
Anything else you feel I may be able to offer - bespoke package for your school.
Costings
Dependent on frequency and length of session but as a guide:
Whole day - £500
Twighlight training - £250
Hourly - on request
Do get in touch to discuss what you would like.
