ELSA and Nurture Conference 2025

Course description

Seeing Through Their Eyes

A conference designed for ELSAs and nurture group staff to explore effective ways of understanding and exploring the views of children and young people - building empathy, deepening insight, and enhancing support.

Keynote – Introduction to personal construct psychology
Delivered by Heather Moran, Chartered Clinical and Educational Psychologist and Personal Construct Psychology Counsellor.
Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) is a useful psychological theory to understand people and why they do what they do, even when it seems that their actions will land them in a problem situation. It is the basis for Drawing the Ideal Self and a number of other techniques which explore an individual’s view points and the sense they make of the world. I will explain the basics of PCP and illustrate the theory through examples from work with children and young people.

Choice of 2 of the 4 afternoon sessions below:

• Exploring Problems and Situations (ESP) Cards
• Empathy Lab
• Children’s Exploratory Drawings
• Inside Out: Developing Interoception Skills to Support Emotional Literacy

Target audience

ELSA and Nurture Group Practitioners

Age phase

Early years / Primary / Secondary / Post-16

Topic areas

Effective ways of understanding and exploring the views of children and young people

Format and duration

1 day face to face training

Price per person

£150

Date

Thursday 23 October 2025

Area

All Hampshire Schools

Venue

Fareham