Early Years and childcare
The role of nurseries and Early Years workers is significant in nurturing young people in the early months and years of brain development. These childcare relationships often teach key skills in children’s emotional regulation, social connections and personal care.
Togetherness trained staff develop techniques used advanced knowledge of emotional health and an evidence-based framework for relationships to help them model helpful behaviours, to tune into emotional needs and to empathise in order to get the best from children.
Togetherness for early years practitioners
Learning and professional development
Parent engagement and support
Trauma informed practice
Early Years Foundation Stage Training
Evidence based training available to everyone:
- Understanding brain development and emotional health
- Reading behaviours and communication
- Parallel process – understanding emotional health and the importance of ‘containment’ for clear thinking
- Recognising personal signs of stress and emotional needs
Printed guide: First Five Years Resource Pack
The Resource Pack print publication is your everyday reference and comfort for putting theory into practice after training. Here to help you bring the Solihull Approach model to life through real-life case studies and useful assessment tools.
You’ll find information and ideas for the big topics of:
- Sleep
- Feeding
- Toileting
- Behaviour
Also included are shareable resources for parents and families for connected approaches to raising children.
CPD Online Courses
Advanced training applies the Solihull Approach model and relevant theories to specialist areas of psychology for practitioners:
- Trauma
- Attachment
- Brain development
Maintaining the accessible style of our training, courses support in-depth knowledge for practical application. Each of the courses are designed to build on the Foundation training and are recognised as 3.75 hours of CPD training.
Parent groups
Evidence-based, structured groups for can be delivered by practitioners following Togetherness facilitator training. You will be provided with a delivery manual and all the required resources to lead structured sessions for your parents to share learning about emotional development for young children and babies.
Groups include:
- Antenatal, Understanding your pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby
- Postnatal, Understanding your baby
- Postnatal Plus
- Understanding Your Child: from toddler to teenager