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What is the future of wellbeing and mental health in schools and what can you do to make the biggest impact on the children in your care? Join me, Shahana Knight, the Founder and Director of TPC Therapy to talk about all things related to wellbeing and mental health in schools. Each week will be full of innovative ideas, inspirational stories, practical guidance and even some freebies, so that we can actually re-define what school should be for the children of today. In these episodes, I will take you on a journey where we will recreate the concept of school, classrooms, and even the role of being a teacher itself. I will be sharing personal stories and examples along the way, offering new ideas and giving you the tools to implement them. I will challenge perceptions, think outside the box, and leave you feeling inspired and excited to make a change! I will also be focusing on you! What do you need to do to take care of your own mental health and wellbeing? How can you show up to work every day with clarity, motivation and a sense of purpose? We will dive into all of that too! You have SO much power to make some real changes, let me show you how! I am so excited you found me here, let’s dive right in!
Episodes
Monday Mar 20, 2023
SPECIAL: Paul Dix Interviews Shahana Knight
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Have you been following my Therapeutic Classrooms Approach? Last Year the amazing Paul Dix interviewed me on Teacher Hug Radio! We managed to get a copy and so here it is, just for you on our Therapeutic Teacher Podcast.
In this quick 15min chat, Paul and I talk about the first school who was brave enough to hand their classroom over to me to be transformed, what a therapeutic classroom is and why we need more of them in the UK!
Find out more about The Therapeutic Classroom Approach:
Follow Shahana's Head Teacher Update diary entries which follow the story of Shevington Vale ( her first school) and then others that followed. https://www.headteacher-update.com/search-results/shahana-knight/81/1/
Watch our Reinventing Classrooms You Tube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@tpctherapyltd5124/videos
Visit our website:
https://www.tpctherapy.co.uk/therapeutic-classrooms
Learn more about Paul Dix and his work and the Teacher Hug Radio here:
https://teacherhug.co.uk/
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Episode 20 - Reinventing break and dinner times
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
The Path Meditation is a 7 minute guided Meditation, let me know what your class thinks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACOlnosx8_o
Thursday Mar 25, 2021
Episode 19 - Random acts of kindness in the classroom
Thursday Mar 25, 2021
Thursday Mar 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Episode 18 - What lockdown has taught us about trauma
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Lockdown has been a rough year for us all, we have felt anxious and powerless. We have felt alone and at risk.. many of us have battled with our wellbeing and our mental health as a result. Feeling low, teary or withdrawn, getting angry, frustrated and snappy. We can feel the effects. One year of collective trauma has impacted us all emotionally and mentally. But it is important to remember, we have had one year...just one… what about those children who have had a whole life of trauma? Who feels alone, anxious, powerless and at risk every single day? This is a good opportunity to step into their shoes, drawing comparisons from our own experiences to what it might be like for them. This will help you support them when you go back to school and also for years to come. The impact of trauma is long-lasting and we have all had a taste of it. Let’s not forget, not everyone's trauma will end after lockdown.
In this podcast, we explore comparisons between lockdown and trauma in relation to:
What it feels like to always be disappointed
What it feels like to have no control
How anxiety can grow
Developing a negative mindset
We have had this for 1 year and there are so many lasting effects. We now get a small sense of what it might be like for children experiencing trauma all their lives. No wonder things feel so hard!!!
We need to utilise these experiences to best support our vulnerable pupils and put their frame of reference at the heart of the day-to-day. When we don’t live it, it is hard to appreciate how hard it is – use this as your opportunity to get some insight.
Take our free course to help you prepare your support for them in the months to come:
https://support.tpcteach.co.uk/free_1111
Take our full therapeutic teaching course and learn how to focus on wellbeing and mental health as part of your embedded practices and core aims:
https://www.tpctherapy.co.uk/therapeutic-teaching-course
Book on to our wellbeing curriculum platform and use the resources and lesson plans to support the children:
https://www.tpctherapy.co.uk/wellbeing-curriculm
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Episode 17 - Teach children to express themselves and not just for a week
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
This week is children’s mental health week and the focus is expressing yourself. It is a great time to do lessons and assemblies on this with the children BUT it goes well beyond that. In order to learn something we have to do it over and over again, it takes time and repetition to really take on a new way of doing something. This is why we spend so much time focusing on handwriting and reading. If we really want children to learn to take care of their own mental health by expressing themselves then we have to teach them how to do that in a multitude of ways to help them truly learn how. A lesson on expressing yourself through art or a drama session isn’t enough, in fact, it is more of an introduction.
In today’s episode, we are going to discuss 4 key ways that will really teach children to express themselves as a means to support their mental health.
1. Creating a feeling of being comfortable with a creative medium
2. Adding small daily practices into your day with the children in school that promote self-expression
3. Teaching children to use self-expressive tools to regulate themselves when they need it most
4. Modelling self-expression
If we really want to make a difference to children’s mental health and give them the tools to express themselves then we must commit to this every single day.
If you love today’s episode please share it with someone to spread the word and help this podcast reach more people
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Episode 16 - 3 behaviour management strategies that don't work with children
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Episode 15 - 4 ways children manage stress that you might not know
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
On today’s podcast, we are going to look at 4 ways children communicate stress that you might not know.
As a collective, children’s stress levels are likely to be higher now than they have been in a long time. This episode explores different factors that can cause higher stress levels in children and then we will unpick how this might manifest itself day to day. When you see a child in the classroom fidgeting or messing with their shoelaces it is easy to assume this child is being silly or even that they are choosing to behave that way. However, if we look a bit closer, there is often more to it than that! Let’s look at 4 specific ways that children in your class might be communicating stress and touch on what you can do to help.
Press play now!
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Episode 14 - What is leadership and how can you become an inspirational leader?
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
"I am not a leader" you might say. But you are!!
It is so easy to forget that we are all leaders in our own unique way. Whether you are an Executive Head, Headteacher or SENCO, whether you are the CEO of a business or employee..a mother or a father.. You are leading. What you say, what you believe and how you communicate influences the people around you. It has meaning.. Imagine you are stood in the sea, what you do creates small ripples around you that extend out and impact others. Those ripples can become waves.
What waves are you creating?
This year, choose to lead with more intention. What can you do to make a difference? How can you use your unique strengths & interests to inspire those around you? A good leader uses their influence to guide others, create positive change in thoughts, beliefs and practices.. You can do that. In whatever role you are in. Your leading either way. So use your words, stories, passions and unique self to step into a year of inspirational leadership and let's get those waves going!
Every one of us has the power to create change..So as Gandhi said - "Be the change you wish to see in the world"
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Episode 13 - New Year Eve Intention Setting Challenge
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Happy New Year's EVE!!!
Today’s episode is really special because we are going to set our new year's intentions together!
This year has been rough but it is important that we look back and take stock. Let’s think about what we have learnt and how we have grown and then lets set some intentions for 2021.
Did you sign up to take part in this challenge in advance? If so, check your emails – you will have received a workbook from us. You can download this, print it off and join in! If you missed the signup link, then you can download the workbook.
https://support.tpcteach.co.uk/new-year-eve-workbook
What you need:
- The workbook (OR a pen and paper)
- A cup of tea, coffee or hot chocolate (with cream and sprinkles) – optional but nice!
- Somewhere quiet so you can think and concentrate
I can’t wait to get into this episode with you today - press play now!
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Christmas Message
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Merry Christmas!
This year has been a crazy one, full of ups and downs but as we walk into the Christmas holidays. Let us remember that Christmas is a time of peace and joy. You deserve to laugh, play silly games, eat too much food and focus on yourself for a little while. Forget the news, forget what tier you are in, don't give it the power to ruin this much-needed festive time. You deserve to down tools and rest.
We are wishing you lots of happiness in 2021 and we'll see you in the New Year!