Training Available from LEHSS

We offer a comprehensive range of training sessions for Lancashire school and college staff, organised into seven pathways of support. Training sessions are delivered either online via Microsoft Teams or in-person at our training base at Lancaster University. Below is a list of all of our training, which you can filter by Pathway and topic. Click on the Book Now button to go to our Eventbrite site where you can book places.

Each LEHSS pathway of support maps onto the OFSTED Inspection Framework, DfE guidance and evidence-based guidance from the National Institute of Clinical Excellence. You can find out more about each pathway here lehss.co.uk/pathways.html.

If you have an idea for a new training topic that you would find useful, please get in touch with us for a chat.

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Core and Refresher

Understanding Mental Health and Adverse Childhood Experiences

This two-hour online training course will introduce you to theory and ideas to aid a better understanding of children's mental health and wellbeing. We will also cover the impact of adversity and life events on children and how this can help us to better understand and offer support to children and families who need it.

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Core and Refresher

Understanding Anxiety and Practical Strategies

This two-hour online training course will cover information about what anxiety is, why it happens and what is does to us in terms of our wellbeing and behaviour. From coming to this training, you will gain a better understanding of anxiety in children and young people and some practical ways to support them to help them to manage their own anxiety and stress more effectively.

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Core and Refresher

Understanding Anxiety Part 2: Practical Strategies Deep Dive

This two-hour online session is a follow-on from LEHSS Understanding Anxiety and Practical Strategies. Improve your knowledge and confidence using the ideas learnt to respond to and support young people with anxiety difficulties.

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Core and Refresher

Supporting Children with Loss and Bereavement

This two-hour online training session will help you better understand loss and bereavement in children and young people, and outline how they can be affected by loss and when we should be concerned and offer support. The session will offer effective, evidence-based strategies for how to how to support young people who have experienced significant losses and bereavements, and ideas which you can use within a school setting and share with pupils and their families.

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Core and Refresher

Low Mood in Children and Young People

This two-hour online training session will give an overview of low mood and depression, why people experience periods of lower mood, and how this can affect them. We will cover a range of ways we can support our students to feel better and engage more, both in and out of school or college.

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Core and Refresher

Communicating with Children in Distress

This two-hour online training course aims to help improve knowledge and skills around working with young people who are stressed, in distress or who find communication around how they feel difficult.

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Relationships & Belonging

Using Attachment Theory to Build Better Relationships

This two-hour online training course will introduce you to attachment theory and help you learn how attachment can help us understand relationships and behaviours we see in schools. We will discuss how using attachment-informed strategies can help us build better relationships with students and improve their emotional wellbeing and behaviour.

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Relationships & Belonging

Understanding and Promoting Resilience in Children and Young People

This two-hour online training course will help you better understand what resilience is, how these skills develop, and how we can help children learn more effective resiliency skills. We will also talk about ways in which schools and colleges can be resilience-promoting environments in order to support students' wellbeing.

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Relationships & Belonging

Developing Emotional Health Peer Support in Schools and Colleges

This full day training course will introduce ideas and models for developing peer support for emotional health and wellbeing in your school. We will talk about ways in which schools can embed peer support principles and systems to help them be resilience-promoting environments, in order to support students' wellbeing.

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Relationships & Belonging

Trauma-Informed Work in Schools and Colleges

This two-hour online training course will introduce you to theory and ideas to aid a better understanding of trauma in children and young people. Adopting a trauma-informed approach will be beneficial in understanding the needs of vulnerable children and this training will help you develop support plans based on this understanding.

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Targeted Support

Supporting Children with Emotionally-based School Avoidance (EBSA)

This two-hour online training session will briefly review theory and models for understanding anxiety and stress in children and young people. We will then introduce a compassionate-mind approach to understanding anxiety. We will then think about how these theories help us understand EBSA, and how to use these ideas to support students who struggle with attendance.

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Targeted Support

Supporting Students with Exam Stress

This two-hour online training course will help you understand why some students find that exams cause high levels of stress, and how we can understand what is happening in their brains and bodies at this time. We will introduce you to a new way of looking at exam stress based on compassion, and how you can use this knowledge to better support your students at this time.

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Targeted Support

Supporting Students with Change and Transition

This two-hour online training course looks at how change and transitions affect children and young people. Life events like moving school, changing class, family separation, or loss can have a big impact on a pupil's mood and behaviour in the classroom and school environment. This training will cover evidence-based, practical strategies to help you support your pupils effectively.

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Targeted Support

Understanding and Supporting Self-harm and Suicidal Thoughts

Knowing how to respond and talk about self-harm or suicide can sometimes feel difficult or scary. This two-hour online session provides a brief introduction to what self-harm and suicide is and explores helpful ways of how we can respond as professionals. The session also explores options for support available in Lancashire.

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Targeted Support

Introduction to Motivational and Solution-Focused Ideas

In this two-hour online training session you will learn and practice some effective and evidence-based ways to talk with children and young people who are experiencing difficulties with motivation or negative/problem-filled thinking. This session takes a practical rather than theoretical approach to practicing them.

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Skills for the Mind

Supporting Staff Wellbeing and Organisational Resilience

A full day session for senior staff focusing on how to support staff wellbeing in your school or college. This practical workshop is designed to give you the dedicated time and tools you need to plan and develop your approach. This is a 'train the trainer' session, with the aim of both giving you ideas and the resources to go back and lead this work.

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Skills for the Mind

Staying Compassionate in your School Leadership

In the landscape of modern school leadership, the pressure to support students and staff can leave senior leaders neglecting their most vital asset: themselves. This practical and evidence-based two-hour online session is designed specifically for headteachers and senior leaders.

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Skills for the Mind

Maximising Resilience and Wellbeing Skills for Professionals Using PERMA

This training session will explore ways that individual and whole team wellbeing, resilience and fulfilment can be maximised when working in complex environments. This session is based on the ‘PERMA' model of wellbeing, which is an evidence-based framework.

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Skills for the Mind

Making Space, Being Present, and Doing What Matters in Our Work

This two-hour online training course is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and is a practical introduction to supporting our own wellbeing at work through being aware of and working in line with our values. This session aims to help you make space for what may feel challenging.

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Skills for the Mind

How to Stay Compassionate at Work

There is strong evidence that learning the skills of compassion for ourselves and others can be a powerful tool to help manage stress and protect our mental health. This two-hour online training session will introduce you to some core ideas of Compassionate Mind Training.

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Skills for the Mind

How to Leave Work at Work

Bringing the stresses and worries of our workday home with us is common, and it can affect our wellbeing and ability to switch off and relax. This two-hour online session will explore compassionate mind and mindfulness skills and how they can be applied.

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Identifying & Monitoring

Assessment, Understanding and Action Planning

This two hour online training session focuses on methods for identifying and assessing wellbeing needs in students, sharing processes and tools to support evidence-based assessment. The session will also focus on ways to make sense of assessment information, plan interventions and monitor effectiveness.

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Parents and Carers

Building Good Communication with Families

Sometimes it can feel tricky to know how best to approach or respond to challenging situations and conversations. We can sometimes feel that there are barriers getting in the way of having good relationships. This training considers factors that often affect our ability to communicate well.

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Coaching, Consultation and Supervision Pathway

Supervision Skills for School and College Staff

To ensure good practice is sustained, and that education staff feel professionally held and valued, structured support in the form of supervision can be helpful and effective. This full day training session will introduce practical ideas for establishing supervision systems.

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Coaching, Consultation and Supervision Pathway

Individual consultation sessions for staff

Our 30 min online consultation sessions are a space for staff to discuss on a one-to-one basis, difficulties in school or college relating to mental health and wellbeing. We aim to offer a safe, confidential and containing space to talk about current issues and challenges.

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Coaching, Consultation and Supervision Pathway

Leadership coaching sessions for senior staff

We offer a compassion-focused leadership development programme for senior leaders, aligned with the Ofsted Leadership and Management Pathway. We offer evidence-informed support tailored to the unique challenges of leading schools and colleges.