Guest Speaker paul bray
Regulation Before Intervention: Rethinking Mental Wellbeing in Schools
This 2-hour CPD webinar for Thrive Licensed Practitioners explores what meaningful mental wellbeing support looks like in everyday educational practice.
Led by guest expert Paul Bray, this session explores how relationships, safety and belonging influence emotional regulation. You’ll develop practical ways to recognise distress, respond without increasing vulnerability and create environments where learners feel safe enough to engage and share concerns.
Duration
2 Hours
Format
Live online training
CPD
5 CPD points
Price
£80 + VAT
Designed for
Thrive Practitioners
REGULATION BEFORE INTERVENTION CPD
Overview
There is growing awareness of mental health in education, but often less clarity about what meaningful support looks like in day-to-day practice.
This session explores mental wellbeing through the concept of dysregulated communication, considering how relationships, safety and belonging underpin emotional regulation. It will also look at how school systems, adult responses and environmental factors can support or undermine a learner’s sense of emotional security.
With a practical focus, you’ll learn to recognise early signs of distress, respond without increasing vulnerability and create safer environments where learners feel able to engage and share concerns.
This session contributes towards maintaining your Thrive Licensed Practitioner status.
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REGULATION BEFORE INTERVENTION CPD
What you’ll gain from this CPD
Explore how relationships, safety and belonging shape mental wellbeing, and gain practical strategies to recognise distress and respond with confidence.
- Understand wellbeing as relational, not just clinical.
- Recognise and respond to distress with confidence.
- Use practical strategies to support regulation.
- Create emotionally safe learning environments.
- Use relationships to build resilience and emotional safety.
- Distinguish between mental health and mental wellbeing in education.
- Explore the role of relationships in emotional regulation and safety.
- Consider how systems and adult responses can unintentionally increase distress.
- Recognise early indicators of emotional distress and dysregulation.
- Develop practical approaches to support regulation and resilience.
- Build confidence in responding to distress without increasing vulnerability.
- Consider how to create environments where learners feel safe enough to engage and communicate.
Our guest speaker
Paul brings extensive experience in SEND, relational practice and mental wellbeing.
Paul Bray
SEND Advocate, Consultant and Tutor
Paul has more than 25 years’ teaching and leadership experience across mainstream and SEND settings. He works directly with children and young adults, while supporting professionals across education, health and social care as a SEND advocate, consultant and tutor.
He has spoken at events including the World Education Summit, TES SEND Show and World Inclusion Congress. Paul is also the author of a Routledge RSE resource for learners with special educational needs and trained as a Thrive Practitioner in 2014.
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Our September 2026 start dates
PA10303 - Guest Speaker - Regulation Before Intervention: Rethinking Mental Wellbeing in Schools
Start date: 17th September 2026
End date: 17th September 2026
1 Session
300 Places left
£80 ex VAT
Session dates:
- Thu 17th September 2026 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
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