Childhood Licensed Practitioner

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

Please note that from January 2022 the course structure is changing as follows, with the e-learning starting alongside the 5th virtual training session:

1. Virtual training session 1 – Introducing the Thrive Approach
2. Virtual training session 2 – Emotions, why they matter and Being
3. Virtual training session 3 – Relationships and how they can get in the way
4. Virtual training session 4 – Learning about Doing and Thinking
5. Virtual training session 5 – Power and Identity, hooks and triggers
6. Virtual training session 6 – Relationships and Skills and Structure
7. E-mentoring session 1
8. Virtual training session 7 – Understanding behaviour
9. Virtual training session 8 – Deepening practice
10. Virtual training session 9 – Being the source of real change
11. E-mentoring session 2
12. Virtual training session 10 – Understanding fear and anger as interruptions to learning
13. Virtual training session 11 Understanding loss and change as interruptions to learning
14. 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.