Childhood Licensed Practitioner Course

Course content

The Thrive Licensed Practitioner for Childhood course covers:

• The development and functioning of the brain and nervous system.
• The six developmental stages of social and emotional development.
• The principles of attachment theory.
• Key strategies for building supportive relationships.
• The role of the arts, play and creativity in supporting social and emotional development.
• How fear, anger, loss, change, separation, bereavement and joy can interrupt learning.
• Instruction and practice in using Thrive-Online to profile and create targeted action plans for whole groups and individual children, and measure progress.

Course structure

The course is structured into 3 e-learning modules with 2 e-mentoring sessions and 12 virtual training sessions, each 3 hours long:

1. Pre-course module material released with online activities
2. Virtual training session 1 – Introducing the Thrive Approach
3. E-learning module 1 material released
4. Virtual training session 2 – Emotions, why they matter and Being
5. Virtual training session 3 – Relationships and how they can get in the way
6. E-mentoring session 1
7. Virtual training session 4 – Learning about Doing and Thinking
8. Virtual training session 5 – Power and Identity, hooks and triggers
9. E-learning module 2 material released
10. Virtual training session 6 – Relationships and Skills and Structure
11. Virtual training session 7 – Understanding behaviour
12. Virtual training session 8 – Deepening practice
13. E-mentoring session 2
14. Virtual training session 9 – Being the source of real change
15. Virtual training session 10 – Understanding fear and anger as interruptions to learning
16. Virtual training session 11 Understanding loss and change as interruptions to learning
17. Virtual training session 12 – Joy, success and becoming a Thrive Licensed Practitioner

Course outcomes

Successful completion of this course leads to Thrive Licensed Practitioner for Childhood status. You will have acquired the additional skills and knowledge to implement the Thrive Approach to benefit all students (right-time), and be able to work with individual students needing additional support (reparative).

To maintain your Licensed status you need to attend Thrive CPD courses and actively use Thrive-Online. The annual criteria is to gain 10 CPD points and profile/re-profile a minimum of three individuals.