Parent participation in Non-violent Resistance (NVR) is an approach developed by author Elisabeth Heismann and colleagues that uses principles of NVR to help carers resist violent and out of control behaviours and to establish a warm, loving and containing parental presence with their children. It is based on 15 years of collaborative practice in various settings and organisations and is presented as a formula for good practice.
In this unique book, three parents with lived experience of using NVR and a family therapist who has used the approach extensively, demonstrate the experience and positive impact of parent participation in NVR in one of London’s most polarised boroughs in terms of the distribution of wealth and deprivation, where gang problems, knife crime and child sexual exploitation are rife. The challenges they have faced represent issues many families experience in the UK and beyond, where young people, families and communities can feel judged and pathologised as ‘bad’ and consequently do not voluntarily access existing social care, mental health and educational services, or want to ‘dance to their tune’.
ETpedia Teacher Training provides both new and more experienced teacher trainers with pointers, ideas and activities to support both pre- and in-service teachers. In addition, you can use it in a variety of different teaching contexts, including in the classroom and online. Each unit of 10 tips is easy to use and will aid or inspire you whether you are dipping in for a quick idea or looking for more comprehensive guidance.
Here are 10 reasons to use it as part of your teacher training practice:
Learn more about the different aspects of a teacher trainer’s role
Get support with making the transition from teacher to trainer
Make your training more engaging
Get inspiration for preparing input sessions
Recap techniques and activities you haven’t used in a while
Supplement your repertoire with fresh new ideas
Develop your mentoring skills
Use alternative approaches to observation
Fine-tune your feedback skills
Integrate online training techniques.
Whether you’re a new teacher trainer looking for support, or a more experienced teacher trainer, this is the book for you. ETpedia Teaching Training is packed with ideas for beginning TT courses, input sessions, teaching practice, lesson planning, lesson observations, self-reflection, giving feedback, assignments and written tasks, different training contexts, further development and ending TT courses.
You can view a sample chapter from ETpedia Teacher Traininghere.
ETpedia Teacher Training is part of the ETpedia series. Each title offers practical tips and ideas across a wide range of topics. You can explore the full range here.
Reviews:
“I don’t often fall in love with books at first glance, but I have to admit I was pretty close to it when I opened my kindle version.For a new CELTA tutor or teacher trainer in a different context, this book will be a ‘go-to’ resource for many years to come.” – Sandee Thompson, Modern English Teacher, April 2021.
“Transferability, thy name is ETpedia! This book has accessible and immediately applicable resources, ‘top tips’ and ideas for using in a wide range of contexts, and is a refreshingly easy yet informative and practical read. The fully photocopiable resources are well selected, professional looking, and deal with a wide range of areas”. – Rufus James, English Australia Journal, 2020. You can read the full detailed review here.
“Given the current, emergency shift to online teaching, I was delighted to read Unit 43 on online and blended teacher training, and further tips on using online forums.There is useful input on mentoring, dealing with difficult trainees and self-reflection; the Appendix is extensive. This highly-practical book will certainly be welcomed by teacher trainers.” – Pete Sharma, EL Gazette, July 2020. You can read the full book of the month review here.
In this blog, author and former non-profit CEO Don MacDonald considers current mental health provision in the UK and introduces his new book Innovation and Change in Non-Profit Organisations: Case Studies in Survival, Sustainability and Success.
Mental health provision in the UK seems to lurch from crisis to crisis. There are issues over rising demand, decreased staffing, poor buildings and so on – and it doesn’t seem to feature sufficiently in our new PM’s lavish spending plans.
In addition, the economic decline in the UK has been compounded by the severe austerity imposed on public spending by the Government since 2010. Though the NHS’s spending has been protected to a certain extent, the current PM has – in my opinion – demonstrated no great sympathy for the non-profit sector.
However the NHS Five Year Forward View in 2014 described the voluntary and charitable sector as having a crucial role in helping to meet demands in the health and social care system. A large amount of support for people with mental health issues is provided by non-profit organisations through statutory contracts with clinical commissioners, with 1.5 million people accessing this annually – making it the single largest form of provision. Additional support is provided by non-profit organisations with their own voluntary and charitable funding.
the development of local mental health and community-building strategies
the role of non-profit organisations in mental health provision, local capacity building and economic regeneration
leadership and management strategies to sustain and strengthen non-profit organisations.
In the book, we provide a range of case studies, we describe the problems facing cash-strapped small voluntary and community sector organisations, and we analyse and outline potential solutions.
The contributors are all experienced and respected practitioners in their fields, exploring different aspects of service provision and leadership. Charles Fraser describes his twenty years as CEO of St Mungo’s building up provision, under several different governments, to become the UK’s largest service provider for homeless people, while providing specialist support for those homeless people with complex needs. Sarah Brennan (ex-CEO of Young Minds) analyses and describes the essential elements of mental health services for young people and how different services need to work closely together to ensure proper provision, with no gaps for people to slip through.
A case study by Sian Lockwood (CEO Community Catalysts) outlines how Somerset Council, concerned that it was uneconomic for traditional care agencies to provide care in remote rural areas, asked Community Catalysts to work with local partners (parish councils, GP surgeries, churches) to support local people set up enterprises to provide help and support unavailable to them. Another case study about Ashford Place, a North London community project, describes how they provide a whole range of support for local people, such as those with mental health and dementia needs, including counselling, mentoring, community cafe, activities (arts, crafts, music, exercise), specialist services for homeless people and other services.
The book also describes local economic and employment initiatives such as Manor House Development Trust, demonstrating how local economic development can be fostered. It describes the management of Jericho Foundation in Wolverhampton, which runs eight social enterprises along with other capacity building projects, providing employment, traineeships and apprenticeships for 130 people including a recycling, catering and cleaning enterprises.
The book also contains case studies, outlining how to run campaigns with examples from the Windrush campaign, Women for Women Refugees and US based campaigns by young people utilising social media. We describe how austerity has hit certain services harder than others, an example being the youth services, while black voluntary organisations also appear to have suffered greater cuts than others.
Other contributions describe and analyse those key elements of non-profit management which are essential for organisational survival, including advice on how to sustain your non-profit organisation, how to be positively involved in procurement and how to manage service improvement and organise cost-effective quality assurance.
Shaks Ghosh outlines how social leadership needs to be different and the importance of soft skills in these roles, stating how important it is for leaders to “challenge their own behaviour”, while giving and receiving feedback. Tommy Hutchinson and Chris Durkin describe how communities can and should adapt positively to the swiftly changing environment, listing different strategies that organisations could use to adapt and survive in “choppy waters.” They outline a range of strategies for organisations to pursue.
The Guardian wrote “Mental health charities can help people where the NHS cannot.” This is particularly true of small local initiatives, which are friendly and flexible, adapting to clients’ needs and local conditions, as one size does not fit all. Our book does not provide simplistic answers, but contributors all have extensive field experience and focus on practical ideas and advice. The non-profit sector is very heterogeneous and diverse, with a range of views, but the contributors all agree on the key role that non-profit organisations play in their local communities in promoting well-being and tackling mental health.
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The core of this book was created by Jody Mardula over several years following a life-threatening stroke – a fairly unusual type of stroke known as a subarachnoid haemorrhage. At the time, Jody was Director of a world-renowned mindfulness centre at Bangor University. The stroke – along with a second 11 months later and a subsequent diagnosis of vascular dementia – affected Jody both psychologically and physically.
In Mindfulness and Stroke, she charts her journey from the day of her first stroke, and explains how she adapted short, easy-to-learn mindfulness practices in order to support herself, manage the impact of her injury and make sense of her situation. Jody’s text is enhanced by clinical neuropsychologist Frances Vaughan, whose ‘Neuro Notes’ provide information and advice about coping with the events described in each section of Jody’s writing. Frances also contributes Section Two of the book – ten chapters explaining some of Jody’s experiences, and looking more broadly at brain injury and its impact on areas of life such as attention, memory, self-awareness and identity.
Sometimes being a parent seems like one long to-do list: taking the children to and from school and clubs, arranging babysitters, feeding them and putting them to bed. Parents can feel trapped in a straitjacket of tasks, all of which prevent them from spending quality time with their children. Susan Bögels has developed and delivered training on this subject for over twenty years. Now, for the first time, she shares her expertise, along with her experiences as a mother and child, with a general audience. In a series of accessible chapters, she shows how we can find a balance between “doing” and “being” modes when interacting with our children. She also explains how to deal with stress, conflict and guilt, and how to cultivate conscious, unbiased attention in a simple way. Together, the chapters form an 11-week course in mindful parenting, supported by simple exercises and guided audio meditations.
Mindful Parenting is an inspirational guide for busy parents who want to better understand the automatic ways in which they can react to stressful situations, balance the ‘doing’ and ‘being’ modes in their everyday lives, and move from instinctive to more mindful responses.
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Here you will find the audio resources that accompany the book Mindful Parenting.