Health and Wellbeing
Trauma-Informed Leadership: Pooky’s Practical Principles
Put the five principles of trauma-informed practice to work in how you lead staff, pupils and families, starting this afternoon.
- 1 hour 7 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Use "slow, low, low" to bring calm to a tense conversation
- Answer requests for a decision with coaching questions that build others' confidence
- Build goals around a pupil's own reasons for coming in, not the adults'
- Plan with a child exactly who will be told what they've shared, and when
- Find and draw on the hidden strengths and interests of your team
About this course
A message from your line manager that just says "we need to talk" can wreck someone's afternoon. As a leader, small things like that decide whether people feel safe enough to do their best work. For some of your pupils and staff, school is the safest place they have.
Safety, choice, collaboration, trust and empowerment are the principles behind trauma-informed practice. Here, each one becomes things a leader actually does. Some you can try today, such as "slow, low, low" to calm your voice in a tense moment, or answering "what should I do?" with a question. Others take longer: walk-and-talk meetings instead of across-the-desk ones, rotating who leads projects, or a clear plan for what you'll share when a child tells you something in confidence.
- For governors, mental health leads and 3 other roles. All phases.
Recording
- 67 min
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