CPD and conversion courses
Keep your Thrive Licensed Practitioner status up to date with CPD webinars covering a range of topics, including sessions led by guest speakers.
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Are you a Thrive Licensed Trainer? Trainer conversion courses can be found in the Trainer section.
How to Handle Outbursts and Meltdowns in Nursery Settings and Primary Schools
Next session: 15 June 2026
This session explores the neuroscience behind outbursts and meltdowns in young children. It helps you understand the differences between them and provides practical, evidence-informed strategies to respond in ways that support emotional regulation, strengthen relationships and promote positive behaviour in early years and primary settings.
Guest Speaker: Trauma, Attachment & SEND: When Needs Overlap - Building Trust and Reducing Distress
Next session: 17 June 2026
This 2-hour CPD webinar for Thrive Licensed Practitioners explores the overlap between trauma, attachment needs and SEND. Led by expert educational psychologist, Dr Kirstie Rees, it helps you understand how these experiences can present in similar ways and provides practical, compassionate strategies to support children's emotional regulation, build trust and respond effectively in the classroom.
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Guest Speaker: Nurturing Respectful Relationships: Developing Tolerance & Empathy Through Circles for Learning
Next session: 24 June 2026
This session explores using Circles for Learning as a powerful vehicle for helping children understand relationships, emotions and behaviour. This session looks at how reflective discussion, observation and follow-up activities can help pupils celebrate difference, build tolerance, develop empathy and strengthen emotional literacy within an inclusive classroom culture.
How to Talk to Children About Difficult Topics
Next session: 25 June 2026
This session explores how to approach sensitive and challenging conversations with children. It builds your confidence in initiating discussions, understanding the impact of difficult experiences and responding in a supportive, regulated way, helping children feel heard, safe and able to express their thoughts and emotions.
Flip the Script: How Cognitive Flexibility Supports Learning, Behaviour and Relationships
Next session: 26 June 2026
This session explores cognitive flexibility, one of the eight executive function skills and a key driver of learning, behaviour and relationships. You'll gain insight into how flexible thinking develops and how it presents when children and young people are still building this capacity. The session combines current neuroscience with practical, relational strategies you can apply immediately in your setting.
Guest speaker: Auditing your whole school approach to mental health
Next session: 26 June 2026
During this session, Amy Sayer will explore the eight aspects of a whole-school approach to mental health and provide an opportunity for you to reflect on the priorities that you need to focus on in your school. There will be practical tips and ideas to take back to your school and a range of ways to support the mental health of your whole community.
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Helping Very Young Children to Manage Big Worries
Next session: 29 June 2026
This session explores how to support very young children experiencing anxiety and big worries. Grounded in neuroscience and child development, it helps you understand how anxiety presents, and provides practical strategies to help children recognise, manage and regulate their emotions so they feel safe, supported and ready to learn.
Understanding How to Positively Support 13-15-Year-Olds
Next session: 30 June 2026
This session explores how to support young people aged 13-15 during a key phase of adolescence. It focuses on developmental needs, relationships and practical strategies to help pupils feel contained, connected and ready to learn, supporting their emotional wellbeing as they navigate increasingly complex social and emotional experiences.
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Guest Speaker: The hidden dynamics of relationships: The Rupture-Repair Cycle
Next session: 30 June 2026
Delivered by Dr Suzanne Zeedyk this session introduces the Rupture-Repair Cycle, one of the most fundamental dynamics of all human relationships. Through this session you will learn to recognise the cycle in action and explore ways this understanding can help build healthier, more resilient relationships.
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Understanding How to Positively Support 11-13-Year-Olds
Next session: 1 July 2026
This session explores how to support young people aged 11-13 during a key phase of early adolescence. It focuses on developmental needs, relationships and practical strategies to help pupils feel safe, secure and ready to learn, supporting their emotional wellbeing and engagement as they transition into this stage of growth.
Family Thrive Course Leader
Next session: 1 July 2026
This advanced training course equips Thrive Licensed Practitioners to deliver Family Thrive: Empowering parents and carers, Thrive's six-session programme for parents and carers.
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Guest Speaker: Helping Young People Who Are Disengaged
Next session: 2 July 2026
This 2-hour CPD webinar for Thrive Licensed Practitioners explores why some young people disengage from learning and how to support them to reconnect. Led by guest expert Lorraine Lee, it combines theory and practical strategies to help you rebuild trust, increase motivation and create meaningful learning experiences that support engagement and positive outcomes.
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Guest Speaker: From Surviving to Thriving - Building Attendance, Belonging and Engagement for Every Child
Next session: 6 July 2026
Delivered by Sharon Gray NLE OBE, this session reframes attendance through a relational lens. It highlights how tracking absence in days (not percentages), supports earlier identification, alongside practical strategies to strengthen relationships, support families, to help every child thrive.
Supporting Young People Who Have Experienced Trauma
Next session: 9 July 2026
This session explores how trauma can impact young people's development, behaviour and wellbeing. Led by guest expert Amy Sayer, it builds your understanding of trauma-informed practice and provides practical strategies to support safety, connection and emotional regulation in school settings.
Supporting a Positive Transition into Primary School
Next session: 14 July 2026
This session explores how to support children as they transition from nursery into primary school. Grounded in neuroscience and relational practice, it helps you understand the emotional impact of change and develop practical strategies to build strong relationships, ensure continuity and create a positive, supported start to school life.
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Guest Speaker: The hidden dynamics of relationships: The Drama Triangle
Next session: 14 July 2026
Delivered by Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, this session will introduce you to the Drama Triangle, a common dynamic present in human relationships. Through this session you will learn to recognise how this dynamic operates and explore ways this understanding can help build healthier, more respectful relationships.
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Supporting a Positive Transition from Primary into Secondary School
Next session: 27 July 2026
This session explores how to support children and young people as they move from primary into secondary school. It provides the underpinning theory behind successful transitions and practical strategies to help reduce anxiety, build confidence and ensure continuity, enabling pupils to feel secure, supported and ready to learn.
Tackling Emotionally-based School Avoidance
Next session: 17 August 2026
This session explores emotionally-based school avoidance and its impact on attendance, wellbeing and learning. It helps you understand the underlying causes, recognise early warning signs and develop practical strategies to support children, young people and their families to re-engage positively with school.
Helping Primary School Children to Manage Anxiety
Next session: 18 August 2026
This session explores anxiety in primary-aged children and how it can impact behaviour, wellbeing and learning. Drawing on neuroscience and child development, it helps you recognise signs of anxiety and provides practical strategies to support children to feel safe, regulate their emotions and engage positively in school life.
Thrive-Online Refresher: Driving Implementation and Impact
Next session: 27 August 2026
This 2-hour CPD webinar for Thrive Licensed Practitioners is designed to refresh your knowledge of Thrive-Online and strengthen how you use it in practice. You'll build confidence using key tools and assessments, and learn how to embed Thrive more effectively across your setting to monitor progress, evidence impact and support positive outcomes for children and young people.
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Practitioner Conversion Course (Early Years)
Next session: 1 October 2026
This e-learning course for Thrive Licensed Practitioners supports you to transition your practice into early years settings. It deepens your understanding of development from birth to five and provides practical strategies to support babies, toddlers and young children to build emotional resilience, regulate stress and form secure foundations for learning.
Practitioner Conversion Course (Childhood)
Next session: 1 October 2026
This e-learning course for Thrive Licensed Practitioners supports you to transition your practice into primary school settings. It deepens your understanding of childhood development (ages 3-11) and provides practical strategies to support emotional regulation, resilience and social development, helping children feel secure, engaged and ready to learn.
Practitioner Conversion Course (Adolescence)
Next session: 1 October 2026
This e-learning course for Thrive Licensed Practitioners supports you to transition your practice into adolescent settings. It deepens your understanding of development from ages 11-25+ and provides practical strategies to support emotional regulation, resilience and relationships, helping young people navigate the complexities of adolescence and stay engaged in learning.
Thrive Advanced Practitioner
Next session: 19 October 2026
Ready to take the next step in your Thrive journey? Thrive Advanced Practitioner training empowers you to lead and embed Thrive across your setting or organisation. You'll build the confidence, knowledge and influence to support colleagues, work with families and create lasting change.
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Softening the Prickles
This session focuses on developing self-awareness and emotional regulation when working with children and colleagues. Using the metaphor of the “cactus”, it explores psychological defences and provides practical strategies to help you stay calm, connected and effective, even in challenging situations.
Thrive Train-the-Trainer
This advanced training course for Thrive Licensed Practitioners is designed to develop you into a Thrive Licensed Trainer. Delivered over six months, you'll deepen your understanding of Thrive theory and build the skills needed to confidently train others and extend your impact across multiple settings.