Thrive All-Staff Training for Specialist Provision
Thrive All-Staff Training helps everyone in your setting recognise the vital role they play in supporting children and young people’s social and emotional development.
Choose from themed units that give you everything you need to deliver high-quality training in-house, including expert video content, fully scripted activities and ready-to-use resources. The training is simple to facilitate, with no prior Thrive training required.
Duration
3-hr units
Format
Setting-led training
Designed for
Specialist provision
Investment
£396 per unit + VAT
Access
12 months
Thrive All-Staff Training For specialist provision
Overview
Thrive All-Staff Training for Specialist Provision helps colleagues understand how relationships, routines, communication and environments can support children and young people to feel safe, understood and ready to engage.
From introducing Thrive to embedding the Approach across your setting, you can select the units that best meet your organisation’s priorities. Content focuses on key areas of practice and uses examples, scenarios and activities that reflect the realities of working with children and young people with a range of complex needs.
You’ll receive everything you need to deliver high-quality training in-house, including expert video content, facilitation guidance, fully scripted group activities and practical resources. Each workshop within the units helps staff reflect on their role, build shared understanding and leave with strategies they can use straight away.
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Thrive All-Staff Training for specialist provision
Benefits
Help your whole team build the confidence, consistency and practical skills needed to support children and young people’s social and emotional development every day.
- Improve outcomes through stronger relationships and trauma-informed practice.
- Build a shared understanding of social and emotional development and how to support it.
- Help staff use practical strategies confidently in classrooms and across the wider school day.
- Move beyond theory with practical learning that supports lasting change.
- Deliver training at a time and pace that works for you, with step-by-step session materials.
- Gain lasting value from high-quality resources that can be revisited, refreshed and embedded over time.
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Programme details
How the training works
Each 3-hour unit contains three workshops.
Each workshop includes:
- A 25-minute recorded expert presentation
- A 25-minute facilitated group activity
- A facilitator guide with step-by-step instructions
- Delegate resources, templates and supporting materials
You can choose the units that best align with your setting’s priorities and development goals. If you’re new to Thrive, we recommend starting with Unit 1: Introduction to Thrive.
Units 1-6 and unit 9 are suitable for all settings, while units 7 and 8 are designed specifically for settings with an active Thrive-Online subscription.
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Facilitating the training
The training is designed to be facilitated in-house by your own team. You don’t need to be a Thrive Licensed Practitioner or have completed Thrive training to run the sessions.The person leading the session is guided through the materials step by step, with clear prompts to support discussion, reflection and activities with staff.
With 12 months’ access, you can plan the training around your setting’s schedule, whether you deliver a full 3-hour unit in one session or work through the workshops over time.
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Who the training is for
This training is designed for everyone working within specialist provision, including:
- Teachers and teaching assistants
- SENCOs and inclusion leads
- Therapists and specialist support staff
- Pastoral and wellbeing teams
- Lunchtime and care staff
- Administrative, support and site staff
- Senior leaders and provision leaders
It is suitable for special schools, resourced provision, inclusion bases, pupil referral units, alternative provision and other settings with a specialist focus.
The workshops have been designed to be accessible for teams at all stages of their Thrive journey. By training whole teams together, you can develop a shared language and consistent approach across your setting.
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Choose your training units
One named staff member will receive everything they need to deliver the training in your setting, including three 1-hour workshops, resources and step-by-step guidance.
UNIT 1: Introduction to Thrive
Recommended for schools new to Thrive.
Explore the Thrive Approach and discover how relationships, emotional safety and connection support healthy development and learning in specialist provision. Staff will gain an understanding of the science behind Thrive and consider how it can be used to support children and young people with different communication, learning and sensory needs.
Workshops include:
- What is Thrive and how does it support development?
- The science of safety, connection and learning
- Thrive in everyday whole-setting practice
Buy now and get access to the training materials from 1st September 2026. Your 12-month access period will start on this date.
£396 ex VAT
UNIT 2: The Thrive Relational Approach
Develop the relational skills that sit at the heart of the Thrive Approach. Staff will explore PACE, the Vital Relational Functions, attachment and emotional availability, with a focus on supporting children and young people who may not yet be able to engage in connection in expected or familiar ways.
Workshops include:
- PACE and the Vital Relational Functions
- Attachment and being the emotionally available adult
- Still Face and the Relate, Rupture, Repair cycle
Buy now and get access to the training materials from 1st September 2026. Your 12-month access period will start on this date.
£396 ex VAT
UNIT 3: The Thrive Developmental Model in Specialist Settings
This unit explores the Thrive Developmental Model, helping staff understand children and young people’s developmental needs and how these influence behaviour, learning and relationships. It helps adults to recognise social and emotional needs and respond effectively through everyday interactions, classroom practice and the learning environment.
Workshops include:
- The Thrive Developmental Model and developmental strands
- Recognising and understanding social and emotional needs
- Responding to children and young people’s needs through effective everyday practice
Buy now and get access to the training materials from 1st September 2026. Your 12-month access period will start on this date.
£396 ex VAT
UNIT 4: Understanding and Responding to Behaviour
Support staff to understand behaviour as communication, particularly where children and young people may communicate through movement, withdrawal, refusal, vocalisation, distress or changes in engagement. This unit explores distressed behaviour, overwhelm, conflict and coping, helping staff respond with curiosity, co-regulation and developmentally appropriate support.
Workshops include:
- Behaviour as communication
- Supporting children and young people in moments of overwhelm
- Supporting children and young people to manage conflict and develop helpful coping strategies
Buy now and get access to the training materials from 1st September 2026. Your 12-month access period will start on this date.
£396 ex VAT
UNIT 5: Supporting Emotional Development
Explore how emotional awareness, regulation and social connection develop, and how adults can support these capacities in specialist settings. Staff will consider the role of sensation, co-regulation, body-based learning, emotional vocabulary and attuned interaction in helping children and young people build the foundations for emotional and social development.
Workshops include:
- Self-awareness, interoception and exteroception
- Co-regulation and self-regulation
- Social awareness and empathy
Buy now and get access to the training materials from 1st September 2026. Your 12-month access period will start on this date.
£396 ex VAT
UNIT 6: Creating Enabling Environments
Consider how the physical, sensory and social environment can support or hinder development, regulation and belonging. Staff will explore how spaces, routines, transitions, play, creativity and sensory experiences can be shaped to help children and young people feel safe, connected and ready to engage.
Workshops include:
- Environments that support development
- Creating a culture of belonging through routines, transitions and unstructured times
- Play, creativity and self-regulation
Buy now and get access to the training materials from 1st September 2026. Your 12-month access period will start on this date.
£396 ex VAT
UNIT 7: Understanding Thrive-Online
Please note: this unit requires an active Thrive-Online subscription.
Support staff to understand and use Thrive-Online data in specialist provision. This unit explores My Thrive Scan, group assessments, action plans and individual assessments, helping teams use evidence to plan support, monitor progress and communicate impact.
Workshops include:
- My Thrive Scan
- Group assessments and right-time action plans
- Reparative and behaviour assessments
Buy now and get access to the training materials from 1st September 2026. Your 12-month access period will start on this date.
£396 ex VAT
UNIT 8: Embedding Across the Setting
Please note: this unit requires an active Thrive-Online subscription.
Strengthen communication, consistency and shared Thrive practice across your whole setting. Staff will explore how Thrive information is shared, how adults communicate with children and young people throughout the day, and what it takes to build a sustainable whole-setting Thrive culture.
Workshops include:
- Bridging the gap
- Effective ways of communicating with children and young people
- Developing a whole-setting Thrive culture
Buy now and get access to the training materials from 1st September 2026. Your 12-month access period will start on this date.
£396 ex VAT
UNIT 9: Supporting Staff Wellbeing
Support every adult in the setting to understand their own wellbeing, regulation and reflective practice. This unit explores self-awareness, proactive wellbeing and mindsight, helping staff sustain the emotional availability needed for relational practice in specialist provision.
Workshops include:
- Understanding self
- Nourishing your wellbeing
- Developing mindsight
Buy now and get access to the training materials from 1st September 2026. Your 12-month access period will start on this date.
£396 ex VAT
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Fees & next steps
Each 3-hour unit costs £396 + VAT.
Choose the unit, or combination of units, that best supports your setting’s priorities. For settings new to Thrive, we recommend starting with Unit 1: Introduction to Thrive.
For guidance on selecting the right training for your setting, or to discuss in-person delivery by a Thrive trainer, please call us on 01392 797555.
Looking to roll out training across multiple settings?
Our Enterprise Package is designed for MATs, local authorities and groups of schools looking to deliver Thrive All-Staff Training at scale.
Book a Discovery Call with our team to find out how the Enterprise Package could work for your organisation.
No, you don’t need to be a Thrive Licensed Practitioner to deliver the training. Each unit includes short films, facilitator packs and resources that guide you through each workshop step by step.
The majority of units are suitable for settings without a Thrive-Online subscription. However, Units 7 and 8 are designed for those with an active subscription, as they focus on using Thrive-Online data, assessments, action plans and progress monitoring to support and embed practice.
Each unit provides up to three hours of training content, which your setting can deliver at a time and pace that works for your team. The workshops include short films created by Thrive, along with facilitator packs containing clear delivery guidance, activities, fidelity checklists and reflection prompts to support implementation.
If your setting is new to Thrive, we recommend starting with Unit 1: Introduction to Thrive. This introduces the Thrive Approach, the science of safety, connection and learning, and what Thrive looks like in everyday routines, interactions and practice.
If you’d like your training units delivered in person by a Thrive trainer, please call us on 01392 797555 to talk through your setting’s requirements and the best delivery option for your team.
Costs for in-person delivery
Up to 25 people: £1,040
Delivered in person by one Thrive trainer, in one visit.
Up to 100 people: £1,580
Delivered in person by one Thrive trainer, in one visit.
More than 100 people: £2,400
Delivered in person by two Thrive trainers, in one visit.