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Calling All Residential Childcare Staff Who Feel Frustrated, Burnt Out & Overwhelmed:

Discover The Proven 3-Step Method To Significantly Reduce Incidents in Your Homes

And Create A Nurturing Environment Where Children Can Thrive

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Your Team's Passion To Help Children Shouldn’t Feel Painful

We’ve all had “off” days at work…

But when one day quickly turns into weeks and months of feeling overwhelmed and burnt out, it’s time for a wake-up call.

If your Team struggles with:

  • Feeling lost and powerless to control children's behaviour

  • Frustrated that nothing they’ve tried is working

  • They dread work and are taking more and more time off

  • They're losing the passion for a career they once loved

Then, it’s a clear sign that they need a new type of support. 

Because they can’t help children in crisis if they’re struggling themselves. 

Transform Your Results with the One Proven Solution

The key to creating a harmonious and supportive environment where both the children and the adults can thrive is through knowledge, skills, empathy and understanding.

Because when your team fully understands trauma, unmet attachement needs and the impact of toxic shame, they’ll not only understand the child, they’ll more importantly be able to support them towards recovery.

That is why we have carefully crafted comprehensive and easily accessible 2, 3, and 4-Day Courses that will provide you with everything you need to:

  • Cultivate the ideal environment for children to flourish

  • Apply simple techniques to correctly support children in crisis

  • Reduce tension, stress, and the need for restrictive practices (#AimingForZero!)

  • Improve the quality of life for both your team and the children in your care

  • And so much more…

All so your teams can start to love their job again, feel fulfilled, and regain that spark of passion they once had.

Our 2, 3, or 4-Day Courses Will Help You:

Easily identify the deeper meanings behind “baffling” behaviours

Understand child development from a neurological standpoint to support the children in your care

Breakdown the impact of childhood trauma & unmet attachment needs to effectively de-escalate during a crisis

Incorporate PACE into your therapeutic practice, allowing you to implement the appropriate post-crisis support

Plus, so much more!

Hi, we’re +Proactive Approaches

Our mission is to provide residential child care staff with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to thrive in their career and life. 

Over the past 10 years, we have helped thousands of childcare staff to identify, understand, and respond confidently to Behaviours of Concern (often called ‘Challenging Behaviour’) using proven strategies and techniques.

This bespoke course is your solution to easily access BILD Act (RRN) Certified ‘Trauma-informed & Attachment aware’ behaviour support training, uniquely designed using our exclusive 3-Step Method.

This method’s philosophy is built on the foundations of real-world experiences, empathy, and becoming a trusted adult, allowing you to effectively support young people and deliver the appropriate therapeutic solution for any situation.

Let's Take Your Teams Understanding of Children To The Next Level & Help Them To Fall Back In Love With Their Career:

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Discover Our Unique 3-Step Method

The What → The Why → The How

Step 1: The What – ‘What Your Team Needs To Know’

Academic Education

Gain a foundational & practical understanding of behaviour and unravel the complexities of supporting children with SEMH & SEND by exploring lived experiences.

You Will Learn How To:

  • Understand the significant impact of childhood trauma, attachment, and shame

  • Identify child responses (behaviour) in the context of development and trauma

  • Explore Toxic Shame and the neuroscience that motivates behaviour

  • Examine the ‘arousal-relaxation cycle’ and reduce restrictive practices

  • Plus, so much more

Step 2: The Why – ‘Why Does This Behaviour Happen’

The Science Behind The Outcome

Delve into why behaviours occur by exploring simplified neuroscience, and how it links to environment and parenting.

You Will Learn How To:

  • Define ‘Behaviours’ or ‘Responses’ through a Therapeutic Lens – ACES

  • Understand how brain architecture relates to attachment, trauma and shame

  • Recognise types and causes of behaviour (Functions of Behaviour)

  • Discover the different forms of aggression, ‘Setting Events‘ & ‘Triggers‘

  • Plus, so much more

Step 3: The How – ‘How Do I Respond Accordingly’

Practical Application

Apply techniques and strategies into your daily practice, providing positive experiences for children so they can thrive socially, emotionally, and academically.

You Will Learn How To:

  • Understand the need for a therapeutic culture and language among adults

  • Implement the House Model of Parenting and PACE into your service

  • Support children when they become dysregulated, anxious, or stressed

  • Learn how to include children and young people in detailed behaviour planning

  • Plus, so much more

Let's Take Your Teams Understanding of Children To The Next Level & Help Them To Fall Back In Love With Their Career:

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Select The Level That’s Right For You

Our training packages are all BILD Act (RRN) Certified and are designed to fit into any goal and budget, allowing you to choose your level of intensity and content.

Rest assured, all three of our options will provide you with practical solutions to serious issues and significantly increase your team’s pool of knowledge, skill set, and confidence. 

The 2-Day Course

The 2-day course includes  theory modules and a small amount of restrictive physical intervention techniques and includes the following:

  • Behaviours of concern in the context of child development (sometimes referred to as challenging behaviour, we’ll explain why that’s not helpful and may even be creating a toxic culture and increasing our levels of incidents)
  • The significant impact of childhood trauma & unmet attachment needs.
  • Effective and practical de-escalation techniques including help scripts.
  • Incorporates PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity & Empathy).
  • The legal context.
  • Low-level guiding & escorting techniques using +ProActive Building Blocks©.
  • 1 and 2-person physical interventions using +ProActive Building Blocks©.
  • Can include breakaway techniques if required.

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The 3-Day Course

The 3-day course builds on the content of the 2-day course with additional theory modules and additional physical techniques.

The 3-day course can include the following:

  • Consider behaviours for adults to avoid when supporting children in crisis, becoming a ‘trusted adult’ and therapeutic responses to crisis.
  • Functions of behaviour (why children sometimes react the way they do).
  • Developing individualised support plans that will support children in relation to their behaviour. Also creates fantastic written evidence for Ofsted.
  • How to include children and young people in behaviour planning (promoting inclusion, choices and considering a therapeutic approach to behaviour plans).
  • Can include breakaway techniques if required.

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The 4-Day Course

The 4-day course builds on the content of the 3-day course with additional theory modules and additional physical techniques.

The 4-day course can include the following:

  • What to do when a child becomes dysregulated –Further strategies to support lowering of stress and anxiety through:
    a. Bottom-up approach (Perry’s 3 R’s – Regulate, Relate, Reason)
    b. Sensory circuits
    c. Brain integration
  • Relationships – recognising that sensitive and authentic attuned relationships can calm anxiety and get the day back on track (‘felt safety’ cues and use of PACE).
  • Mindfulness – A reminder for adults to remain self-aware when faced with crisis behaviours. Includes the ‘ProActive STOP’ strategy.
  • Using Stages of an Incident to understand what happens to a person in crisis during an incident – identifiess how to respond appropriately at any point.
  • Developing a robust set of strategies to use once a child has been triggered into dysregulation (De-Escalation) and choosing the correct responses.
  • Why children lie and how to respond therapeutically.
  • Therapeutic post-crisis support (including understanding sympathy, empathy, shame & guilt)
  • Can include breakaway techniques if required.

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Simple 3 Step Booking Process

A Clear Path To Success...

Step 1

  1. Book your dates with our helpful Customer Success team.

  2. Next, our dedicated team expertly guides you through a swift and straightforward process to identify the perfect course for your organisation. Ensuring your specific needs are met with precision and care.

Step 2

  1. Next, your team gets trained by one of our experienced and Certified BILD Act Trainers.
  2. Your team comes away feeling inspired and motivated.

Step 3

  1. After the course, you receive BILD Act Certified certificates.
  2. You lower your level of incidents, #AimingForZero!
  3. You have happier adults and, therefore, happier children.
  4. You significantly lower your staff turnover and absence rates.
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Additional Benefits Of Our 2, 3, and 4-Day Courses

Protect Your Organisation:

Taking this course will equip your team with a legal understanding of the laws and regulations surrounding restrictive practices.

This includes:

  • Understanding the need for balance between Restraint Reduction and Duty of Care

  • The health risks associated with physically holding children, including positional asphyxiation

  • Developing the use of low arousal approaches, including our research-based and proven effective teaching methodology (+ProActive Building Blocks©)

  • Low-level guiding & escorting, and 1 and 2-person techniques taught using our exclusive +ProActive Building Blocks© methodology.

  • Breakaway (disengagement) techniques taught using our exclusive +ProActive Building Blocks©.

  • And many more

Level 3 Diploma In Childcare Award Evidence is Created 'Whilst' Completing This Course:

Our 2,3 and 4-day courses are now fully ‘mapped’ to the Level 3 Diploma in Childcare Award. 

This allows you to create evidence against 19 of the 21 units for both the City & Guilds & RCC, with 9 of the 19 units having significant levels of evidence produced. 

Your Team will gain access to our online Academy Portal, where they can download all of the course worksheets and gain step-by-step guidance on how to create evidence, craft reflective statements, and more!

Giving you a more cost-efficient way to reach your service goals faster.

Let's Take Your Teams Understanding of Children To The Next Level & Help Them To Fall Back In Love With Their Career:

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Frequently Asked Questions

The duration of your course will depend on your needs. We offer three levels: a two, three, or four-day course.

The usual start and finish times are 9.30 am—4.30 pm. However, this can be flexible depending on your specific goals and organisational setup. There will be a mid-morning and mid-afternoon break.

We recommend up to 12 people for 1 Trainer and up to 18 people for 2 trainers. These ratios are in line with the RRN Training Standards.

There is no need to travel—we’ll come to you! You will supply the venue location, and then we will come with everything else you’ll need.

We can provide detailed specifications to make venue selection easier. Simply book your call with our friendly team below.

Yes, the 2, 3 and 4 day courses are all fully certificated by BILD Act under the RRN (Restraint Reduction Network) Training Standards, and all who pass will receive a certificate as part of the course fee. 

Your certificates will include a BILD Act and RRN logo and will remain valid for 12 months.

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Yes. Our unique combined approach to education and application draws heavily on contemporary research, PBS (Positive Behaviour Support) principles, and direct practice experience. 

As such, all +Proactive Approaches courses will allow you to meet Ofsted’s expectations with complete confidence.

Our course content is delivered through a blend of the following:

  • Experiential Learning
  • Video Case Studies
  • Group Exercises
  • Pairs Exercises
  • Group Discussions

Absolutely! You can speak to a member of our experienced and friendly team at no cost to determine whether our programme is right for you.

Simply click the link below to book your call or download our info pack for more information.

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