Resources and Toolkits

“From the visual representation of students’ emotional lives over a 24 hour timeline, learning around their stressors and general high anxiety levels emerged, opening up discussion about the strategies they could use to help themselves.”
14-17 Study Programme Manager, Derbyshire County Council

From 'Surviving' to Thriving

We work with many organisations to create practical resources and products designed around their unique needs. These may:

Ensure theory transforms into sustainable practice
Help learning to be shared across a setting or team, even when staff changes occur
Engage young people in emotional learning directly

Have a look at some of our previous work below, and if you have an idea you’d like to discuss, just contact us.

"There's Always a Reason"

Person-Centred Handbook

With a team of senior leaders at Dawn House School, one of only two Speech and Language UK schools in the UK, we’ve developed a handbook based on the principles of person-centred practice.

Designed for whole-school change, the material supports all school and residential unit staff to develop approaches to adult-child interactions, which are trauma-informed, and sensitive to young people’s neurodivergence, sensory, social and emotional needs.

"A Good Mind To THRIVE!"

Emotional Learning Cards

This flexible pack of 30 cards – 26 A-Z cards and four ‘Wild Cards’ – was designed to support healthy, person-centred development of young people of all ages and abilities across a range of settings.
Adults can facilitate, and/or young people can use them independently to creatively and playfully strengthen a whole host of competencies.

"I Can Change My Mind"

Psycho-education Resources

Comprising 12 flexible lesson plans, these emotional learning resources help children to explore specific aspects of wellbeing; i.e. relationships, anger, anxiety, asking for help; in ways their are pertinent to them as individuals.

They’re designed to help young people through group work, 1:1 support, and those who are able can access them as a form of self-study.

"Thriving Little Minds"

Early Brain Development

This resource was designed to improve Curiosity, Creativity and Play in Early Years children in one of the most socio-economically deprived areas of Kirklees, Yorkshire.

Developed with Evoke and the local authority Early Years team, Thriving Little Minds compromises a range of activities, and a simple evaluation tools to measure the impacts of those.

"Young Lincolnshire" Charter

Wellbeing Workbook

Commissioned by LCVYS in response to the very specific needs of Lincolnshire’s young population – rural isolation, poor infrastructure, coastal towns and a large transient community, this workbook outlines 45 practical activities for youth group leaders to facilitate, selected around the particular needs of their groups.

15 creative self-evaluation activities also help young people to recognise their learning, and equips them to support their own mental health.

“By exploring the situation creatively, the student was able to reflect on and understand it in a way she hadn’t considered before.
She’d have never accepted by told that by an adult, but because she was free of grown-ups’ judgement, she was able to decide for herself what she needed to do.”
Youth Worker

If you want to know more, or are interested in developing teaching & learning resources or a CPD session for your service, just get in touch.