Health and Wellbeing
How To Be a Trauma-Inclusive Adult in Early Years Settings
Small changes to your voice, your face and your room can help young children who've lived through trauma feel safe enough to settle.
- 47 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Tell a trauma response apart from typical toddler behaviour
- Keep a child safe through fight, flight or freeze, then help them feel grounded
- Adapt noise, lighting, layout and exits so your room feels less threatening
- Slow your pace and soften your voice and expressions so children feel safe
- Move temptations and triggers out of reach before they become flashpoints
About this course
In any group of under-fives there's probably at least one child carrying some trauma, and you may not know which. It can look a lot like ordinary toddler behaviour. The difference matters, because a cuddle and a story won't reach a child whose survival brain has taken over.
Being trauma-inclusive means setting things up so that child feels safer without anyone needing to know their story. You'll learn to tell a trauma response from a tantrum, and what to do while it passes. Then there are changes to the room that cost little: quieter furniture, a gentler signal than a bell, a clear route to the door. Just as important is you, with a slower pace, a softer voice and a face that says "you're safe" rather than "I'm disappointed".
The trainer's background spans teaching, domestic abuse and safeguarding, and her examples come from children she's working with now.
- For early career teachers, middle leaders and 4 other roles. Early years and primary.
Recording
- 48 min
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