Guest Speaker: From Co-Regulation to Self-Regulation: Helping Children Cope in Busy Classrooms and Nurseries
At a glance
Guest speaker
Dr Kirstie Rees
Webinar duration
2 hours
Suitable for
Thrive Licensed Practitioners
CPD
Worth 5 CPD points
Price per place
£78 excl. VAT
Course outcomes
By the end of this 2-hour session, you will:
- Have a clearer understanding of how children learn to manage their emotions.
- Understand how to assess the sensory needs of children with SEND.
- Feel more confident supporting children who become overwhelmed or dysregulated.
- Have simple, practical strategies to use in classrooms and nursery settings.
- Understand how our knowledge of an individual child’s needs can help us to reduce distress.
- Possess knowledge of practical strategies and environmental adaptations to help children build their own coping skills.
- Feel more confident supporting emotional regulation in busy, real-life environments.
Who is it for?
This session is suitable for Thrive Licensed Practitioners working in early years/primary settings.
Introducing guest speaker: Dr Kirstie Rees
Dr Kirstie Rees is a specialised educational and child psychologist, with extensive experience and research in the areas of learning disabilities, neurodiversity and mental health.
She has written a number of articles for different publications and is author of the book: ‘The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People with Learning Difficulties: A Guide for Educators’.
Kirstie provides training, consultation and support to a number of organisations and carries out therapeutic work with individual children and their families. She has also worked as a tutor on the MSC in Educational Psychology at the University of Dundee and chairs the Scottish branch of the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
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What you'll learn
The aims and objectives of the session include:
- Understand the difference between co-regulation and self-regulation, and why both are important.
- Understand the impact of sensory needs on children’s regulation skills, including SEN.
- Learn how children develop regulation skills over time, with adult support.
- Recognise signs of overwhelm and emotional dysregulation in busy classroom and nursery settings.
- Explore the role of relationships, routines and adult responses in supporting regulation.
- Build confidence in helping children move from needing adult support to using their own coping strategies.
- Develop realistic, developmentally appropriate approaches to support regulation in everyday practice.