Psychology and Therapeutic Services Keys to Inclusion

Person Centred Approach to supporting inclusive practice in your setting.

Keys to Inclusion

For more information about the Keys to Inclusion Approach, please see this 'Keys to Inclusion' brochure.

This training serves as both a values primer and a practical guide to successful strategies for developing inclusive practices for children and young people of all ages. It is an interactive, practical, and hearts-and-minds experiential day where we deeply explore what inclusion means to us.

Participation in activities is always voluntary, and it is perfectly fine to pass if you prefer. We will cover a wide range of inclusion topics, including race, LGBTQ+, special educational needs, neurodiversity, and well-being. If you have any questions about the nature of this training or how we address these topics, please let us know, especially if any of these contexts apply to you and you wish to discuss them before attending.

While the topics we consider can be emotional, our goal is to create a supportive and understanding environment. Feedback from attendees shows us how valuable people find this day, which supports time to reflect deeply on the power of our words, decisions, and actions. Participants report that they particularly value the engaging and thought-provoking delivery by Colin and Claire, the natural delivery style, the graphic (i.e. the big picture of the key messages that is literally drawn up over the day) and the many practical and engaging ideas, which effectively help to break down barriers faced by children and young people. One of our course attendees summarised this by letting us know that “this training is reinforcing, reinvigorating and re-engaging”

We look forward to seeing you there. If you have any questions or need additional information, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Timings for the day:

  • 9.30 Training session 1
  • 10.45 Short break
  • 11.00 Training session 2
  • 12.30 Lunch break
  • 1.30 Training session 3 with a short comfort break in the middle of this session
  • 3.30 Finish

In summary, this training covers:

  • Why inclusion?
  • What is inclusion?
  • How do we include all children and young people?
  • What does inclusion have to do with me?

Learning objectives of this training:

  • Increased confidence regarding developing inclusive practice in education settings and services
  • Access to a wide range of practical strategies
  • Deeper understanding of core values surrounding the inclusion of all people irrespective of any difficulties or difference
  • Opportunity to reflect on professional attitudes and behaviour in relation to our relationships with families and pupils
  • New skills and processes to support successful inclusion.

Some of the topics covered in the 'Key to Inclusion' training

Resources to compliment the Keys to Inclusion training

After attending this training course, you will be giving access to a bundle of self-paced learning modules. 

Person Centred Planning Together - This book is co-written by Claire Darwin within the Psychology and Therapeutic Service, provides descriptions and resources to support settings with the 'Keys to Inclusion Mindset Training', and includes the most commonly used Person Centred Planning tools, particularly MAPS and PATH. 

Restorative Practice

Restorative Practice is a non-adversarial approach to conflict resolution. Taking a restorative approach in settings is reported to be highly effective in reducing bullying, truancy and exclusion.

Learning objectives for the last session were as follows:

  • To introduce participants to Restorative Interventions
  • To develop understanding of value and role in developing inclusive practice of Restorative Interventions
  • To develop and practise Restorative Intervention skills processes
  • To give an opportunity to reflect on professional practice