Emotional resilience is fostered and developed when a young person:
- Feels safe.
- Socially connected.
- Understood.
- Can navigate and enjoy peer group relationships.
- Has reliable, predictable and appropriate adult relationships.
- Feels productive and valued.
- Can recognise and manage their emotional regulation needs.
These key elements lay the foundations for readiness to learn and build skills for life.
Many of the day-to-day interactions within a school community can enable a young person to experience these key elements of wellbeing.
The Healthy Minds Offer
School Staff Training
Healthy Minds will offer citywide training events and can also deliver bespoke training within your school.
Get in touch to find out more.
Emotional Wellbeing Resources
Developed in collaboration with Sheffield schools. Please let us know of any practices you would like to share or resources you would like us to create.
Healthy Minds Surveys
Healthy Minds has collected over 40,000 surveys from pupils, parents and carers, and school staff.
Trauma-informed Reflective Practice
For school staff who have attended the TIS-UK eleven-day practitioner training or equivalent.
The Healthy Minds Offer
To develop a comprehensive emotional well-being offering within your educational setting, it is beneficial to consider these three key underlying psychological processes.
These processes can support an individual pupil, parent or carer, a colleague and the whole school approach.
STRUCTURE
Provides the foundations to create a calm and safe environment. Consistent responses, boundaries and predictability are the foundation for emotional safety in schools.
EMOTIONAL REGULATION
The ability to adjust our internal state – emotions and physical needs – to manage the context we find ourselves in appropriately. It is key that pupils recognise and understand their emotional states, making the necessary adjustments to remain rational and productive, drawing on both external and internal resources. Staff, too, will be able to think and reflect when emotionally regulated.
ATTUNEMENT and RELATIONSHIP
The key protective factor for emotional well being is the quality of relationships and interactions that individuals experience. Schools offer tremendous opportunities for people to connect with others and have a sense of belonging. Our relationships with others shape how we perceive ourselves: are we likable, worthy of care, effective, etc.?
For some pupils, school plays a crucial role in providing a safe and secure adult relationship in their lives.
Healthy Minds Top Tips
Build relationships when not at crisis point
Healthy Minds Surveys
17,466 Primary Pupils
11,294 Secondary Pupils
7,836 Parent / Carers
3,625 School Staff
Healthy Minds Champions and Pupil voice
Pupil representatives meet regularly to support school improvement in the area of emotional wellbeing.
See Healthy Minds Champions Resource
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