Workshops

Find details of all of our Workshops on this page.

If you require further information please call the service on 01782 977877 or email StaffordshireEWB@actionforchildren.org.uk

 Please note - in order to access the sessions, your child or young person must have an open referral with the service.

Anxiety, Autism & Neurodiversity

Find out how anxiety can affect your neuro-diverse child. 

Gain an understanding of the four areas of difference, how these can impact your child and learn practical techniques to support them to manage overwhelming feelings and emotions.

 This course enables you to think about anxiety from the perspective of your child whilst equipping you with practical tools to support them. 

It’s an informative workshop which is appropriate for parents or carers of autistic children, children with autistic traits or other neurodiverse conditions; for example ADHD or Dyscalculia.

Communicating with my Child

“When we know better, we do better” Parenting is the hardest job of them all. Want to learn how to communicate with you child more effectively?

This Parent Workshop outlines the role of parents in communicating positively and modelling emotional regulation to children who are struggling with their emotions. It teaches strategies from the Whole Brain Child and shows how we can connect with children, respond to emotions and relate to children in age appropriate ways.

The 1 hour introduction workshop gives you tips and techniques to enrich relationships and encourage emotional connection

Communicating with my Teen

“When we know better, we do better” Parenting is the hardest job of them all.
Want to learn how to communicate with you child more effectively?

The 1 hour introduction workshop gives you tips and techniques to enrich relationships and encourage emotional connection. Learn different effective communication techniques to encourage emotional connection between carers and young people. 

This workshop is suitable for parents of children aged 12 to 18.

Coping Cat (12+)

The Coping CAT Project is a CBT based program for adolescents with anxiety. The program provides education about anxiety, skills for identifying and managing anxiety, and an approach to face one's fears and develop mastery.

This 6 session group intervention teaches young people skills and strategies to recognise and manage anxiety.

Coping Skills

Sometimes, our emotions can become so overwhelming that it can be impossible to think clearly or rationally. This might lead us to use ways of coping, such as self-harm, that ultimately can cause further problems for us or bring about more negative emotions. When we have managed our emotions in a certain way for such a long time, it can be really hard to do something different.

This 3 session group will help you to understand why we use unhelpful coping strategies and will support you in developing new, more helpful coping skills. The skills that we cover will help you to ride out the emotion and bring you to a place where you will feel more able to think clearly and make more helpful decisions.

Managing Emotions (7-11)

Find out how to recognise your feelings, what they look like on the outside and feel like on the inside. This awareness will help your child label and then talk about how they are feeling, which in turns helps them to accept and find ways to calm big feelings like anger and worry.

A fun and informative one session workshop about exploring emotions

Managing Intrusive Thoughts (12+)

‘Intrusive thoughts’ is the term we give to thoughts, images or ideas that pop up into our mind against our will. We can all experience them from time to time but sometimes they may impact some people more than others.

This one session workshops starts to explore what intrusive thoughts are, how they may impact us and how we can respond to them to start being able to manage them

Riding the Wave

Riding The Wave is about learning to manage powerful or negative emotions.

A surfer doesn’t fight the power of the ocean, they learn to move with it and take control of it. Instead of fighting feelings or letting our emotions push us around so we feel distressed or act out, we can learn how to take control and  ‘Ride The Wave’.

In this session you can learn  skills and strategies to help you deal with difficult feelings and situations, and we will look at  how we can  tolerate and accept those things that we can’t change.

This group session is for young people aged 12+

Self-Acceptance

t is a common misconception that our aim should be to get rid of self-critical thoughts. If we hold this belief we can spend our lives trying to battle these thoughts rather than living our best life.

The 3 session group explores how we can change our relationship to self-critical thoughts and emotions to learn ways to work towards greater self-esteem and self-acceptance and in turn start to live the life we want to live.

Timid to Tiger

Timid to Tiger is a parenting-based approach to managing anxiety in children. It aims to teach Parents effective Cognitive Behavioural Techniques (CBT) to help children manage worries and fears. It helps to build confidence in children to minimise the effects of anxiety. If parents learn the techniques, they are in the best position to teach them and reinforce them on a day-to-day basis.

This 8 session course uses attachment-based play and gentle disciplinary techniques to help build the parent child bond. It teaches tools to help manage children’s fears and worries. By delivering the course in a group setting we also connect and learn from others, taking strategies from other people in a similar situation

Understanding Anger

Anger is just like any other emotion that we may experience. However, the things that we do when we are feeling angry can often make us view anger negatively.

This 3 session group will be exploring how we can better understand anger and all of the different emotions that might be underneath this feeling of anger.

Worry Management

We all experience worry from time to time but for some children and young people their worries can become so overwhelming that they impact on their ability to focus in school, have fun or manage their day-to-day life. They may try to avoid things that make them fearful, avoid situations or put things off.

This 2 session group intervention has real impact for young people who have a lot of day-to-day worries.

Worry Psychoeducation

Psychoeducation involves learning about and understanding mental health and wellbeing. Psychoeducation is the first step we can take to understand worry and anxiety as it is a key step to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that enables us to think good to feel good.

This 2 session workshop aims to provide children and young people with the skills to work together to reduce the impact of worry and anxiety on day-to-day life.