Mind the Music training event, July 16th: Resilience, Self-Esteem & Using Your Presence And Practice
Mind the Music: Resilience, Self-Esteem & Using Your Presence And Practice. Training For Creative Arts Leaders Working With Vulnerable Young People.
Mind the Music is a three year programme supporting young people with mental health issues, through music making. As part of the programme, Community Music is offering a series of training sessions for music and arts leaders across London. Anyone currently working with, or interested in working with, young people using the creative arts can benefit from this training.
Jo Stockdale from the Child Learning and Development Advisory Centre presents a training day split into two sessions, open to all music and arts leaders, teachers and facilitators.
Schedule:
10am Registration
10:30am Morning session
Resilience and Self-esteem; What Are They Anyway and How Do We Know We Are Helping?
We all know that poor resilience and self-esteem are big issues in our work with children and young people. Instinctively we can identify those young people who are ‘vulnerable’ have a fragile sense of self or are fixed in the ‘not good enough’ mindset. But how do we best support those children? Very often we-quite rightfully-use the language of ‘self-esteem’ or resilience when we think and talk about these young people, but much less often do we have a shared definition or articulated theory of what these are, and how they present themselves in our settings-let alone know how to nurture these children and know that we are helping them overcome these vulnerabilities. This session will introduce you to specific frameworks and theories around both self-esteem and resilience; helping you to recognise-not only the characteristics and behaviours associated with these issues-but how to address them meaningfully within your own practice. Furthermore, you will come away with a few practical tools and ideas to help you to track the progress of young people as you nurture their ability to learn, do and ‘be’ well.
1.15pm Lunch (provided)
2pm Afternoon session
Understanding the Person-Centred Relationship; Using Your ‘Presence’, As Well As Your Practice
First and foremost, most of think of our profession as our practice; Our job is to utilise our skills to facilitate the most positive change we can for those that we work with. However, all of us who work with adults and children- in particular those who are somehow ‘vulnerable’-have an extra-ordinary capacity to use our ‘presence’, as well as our practice, to make a transformational difference to our service users. Even making the most subtle of changes can facilitate profound effects, but it is easy to miss these opportunities because we are primarily engaged with what we are doing, not who we are ‘being’. This session will help you to understand the nature of the ‘person-centred relationship’; showing you how to harness your ‘self’, your service-users, and the ‘space in between’, to promote personal, social and emotional growth
5pm Finish
About Jo Stockdale:
"Jo is a trainer with Child Learning and Development Advisory Centre (CLADAC) which provides training, evaluation and consultancy for all kinds of organisations which support the healthy social and emotional development of children and young people. CLADAC specialises is helping practitioners to understand and practically apply the basic principles of healthy brain development to enhance and develop their practice. Jo has a background in the creative sector and started to develop work in this field more than a decade ago when she become interested in why creative practitioners were often so successful in nurturing the social and emotional wellbeing of children.
Jo is passionate about the importance of using creative practice, and creative practitioners, to promote mental health and, outside of CLADAC, Jo is also a drama practitioner with a particular interest in working with children with learning disabilities and emotional and behavioural difficulties."
This event is fully accessible, with disabled toilets on the ground floor and ramp access to the front of the building.
Please get in touch with us if you require a BSL interpreter.