Thrive Licensed Practitioner Course
Given the importance of supporting the mental health of children and young people today, Best Practice Network is delighted to be working with Thrive, a leading provider of training and tools for a whole-school approach to wellbeing.
The Thrive Approach is a specific way of working with children and young people that promotes mental wellbeing while helping to prevent mental health issues. With an insight into how the brain develops during childhood and adolescence and the role our relationships with students can play, you can seize new opportunities to help children and young people build their resilience, become more open to learning and thrive!
As a Thrive Licensed Practitioner, you will gain a deep, practical knowledge of Thrive and the underpinning theory, science and skills required to meet the reparative needs of children and young people with interrupted social and emotional development. You will have access to Thrive-Online, a web-based profiling, monitoring and action-planning tool, to work with individuals and small groups requiring additional support.
There are three versions of this course, based on the age of the children and young people you work with:
- Early Years (from birth to 5 years) – develop a ‘right-time’ approach to helping babies and very young children develop healthy, secure attachments and build their emotional resilience.
Childhood (for primary school-aged students) – discover why sometimes the disruptive behaviour children present can be their way of communicating, and how your relationship with them can help them become more open to learning.
Adolescence (for secondary school-aged students) – explore the huge opportunity adolescence offers to build young people’s resilience and support their wellbeing while helping to prevent mental health issues arising.
Who is this for?
The Licensed Practitioner courses are suitable for anyone working with children and young people on a group or one-to-one basis. If you are passionate about developing supportive and positive connections, enabling improved wellbeing and achievement, you will be perfectly placed to implement the Thrive Approach in your setting.
What are the benefits?
Benefits for candidates:
- Recognised status as a Thrive Licensed Practitioner
- More confident in dealing with challenging and disruptive behaviour
- New approach to relationship building that does not increase your workload
- Access to Thrive-Online’s bank of targeted strategies and activities easily incorporated in your day-to-day curriculum.
Benefits for schools and settings:
- Whole-school approach to student wellbeing
- Calmer classrooms
- Improved student attendance and achievement
- Reduced student absences and exclusions
- Access to Thrive-Online for profiling, monitoring and measuring progress to show the impact of Thrive.
What is the programme outline?
Each course includes a pre-course module and two further modules, each with a number of virtual training sessions run as live interactive webinars and supported with e-learning and e-mentoring sessions. There is a final virtual interactive session for assessment and licensing.
| Early Years Licensed Practitioner content | |
|---|---|
| Event 1 | Virtual training session 1: Introducing the Thrive Approach |
| Event 2 | Virtual training session 2: How our brains and bodies respond to stress |
| Event 3 | Virtual training session 3: Relationship and Being |
| Event 4 | E-mentoring session 1 |
| Event 5 | Virtual training session 4: Relationship and Doing |
| Event 6 | Virtual training session 5: Relationship and Thinking |
| Event 7 | Virtual training session 6: Behaviour as a communicator |
| Event 8 | Virtual training session 7: Understanding our responses to behaviour |
| Event 9 | Virtual training session 8: Relationship and Power & Identity |
| Event 10 | E-mentoring session 2 |
| Event 11 | Virtual training session 9: Core emotions |
| Event 12 | Virtual training session 10: Supporting parents and carers |
| Event 13 | Virtual training session 11: Thrive in the Early Years environment |
| Event 14 | Virtual training session 12: Being a Thrive Licensed Practitioner |
| Childhood Licensed Practitioner content | |
|---|---|
| Event 1 | Pre-course module material released with online activities |
| Event 2 | Virtual training session 1: Introducing the Thrive Approach |
| Event 3 | E-learning module 1 material released |
| Event 4 | Virtual training session 2: Emotions, why they matter and Being |
| Event 5 | Virtual training session 3: Relationships and how they can get in the way |
| Event 6 | E-mentoring session 1 |
| Event 7 | Virtual training session 4: Learning about Doing and Thinking |
| Event 8 | Virtual training session 5: Power and Identity, hooks and triggers |
| Event 9 | E-learning module 2 material released |
| Event 10 | Virtual training session 6: Relationships and Skills and Structure |
| Event 11 | Virtual training session 7: Understanding behaviour |
| Event 12 | Virtual training session 8: Deepening practice |
| Event 13 | E-mentoring session 2 |
| Event 14 | Virtual training session 9: Being the source of real change |
| Event 15 | Virtual training session 10: Understanding fear and anger as interruptions to learning |
| Event 16 | Virtual training session 11: Understanding loss and change as interruptions to learning |
| Event 17 | Virtual training session 12: Joy, success and becoming a Thrive Licensed Practitioner |
| Adolescent Licensed Practitioner content | |
|---|---|
| Event 1 | Pre-course module material released with online activities |
| Event 2 | E-mentoring session 1 |
| Event 3 | E-learning module 1 material released |
| Event 4 | Virtual training session 1: Exploring the adolescent world |
| Event 5 | Virtual training session 2: Understanding reparative needs |
| Event 6 | E-mentoring session 2 |
| Event 7 | E-learning module 2 material released |
| Event 8 | Virtual training session 3: Looking back through the lens of adolescence |
| Event 9 | Virtual training session 4: Making connections |
| Event 10 | E-mentoring session 3 |
| Event 11 | Virtual training session 5: Places, spaces and people |
| Event 12 | Virtual training session 6: Responding to change |
| Event 13 | E-mentoring session 4 |
| Event 14 | Virtual training session 7: Planning for change |
| Event 15 | Virtual training session 8: Celebrating change |
How is it delivered?
Each course includes a pre-course module and 2-3 further modules, each with a number of virtual training sessions delivered by experienced Thrive trainers as live interactive webinars where you will connect with the other delegates. The virtual training sessions are supported with ongoing e-learning and a specified number of e-mentoring sessions. There is a final virtual interactive session for assessment and licensing.
The courses are run weekly, available as either half-day or full-day training, or in blocks, every third week, typically over one to two terms max, depending on your chosen format.
Please note that the virtual training sessions and e-mentoring session are run of the Zoom platform.
What are the costs?
Early Years Licensed Practitioner £1,297 plus VAT
Childhood Licensed Practitioner £1,394 plus VAT
Adolescence Licensed Practitioner £1,574 plus VAT
The course fees include two continuing professional development webinars (worth up to £130) for the first year after achieving your Licensed status.
Thrive are offering a subscription that includes Licensed Practitioner training, training for a senior leader, access to Thrive-Online and more from £2,450 per year – find out more.
How do I apply?
Please click on the button below to select a date and book your place:
Early Years course dates Childhood course dates Adolescent course datesThrive Licensed Practitioner Course
Schools have used the Pupil Premium Grant, Covid-19 Catch-Up funding and the Accelerated Learning Fund in Wales, some have approached their PTA, local authority or charitable trusts, or used crowd funding in their local community.
Yes, you do! Thrive-Online is central to the Thrive Approach. It is a web-based screening, monitoring and progress measuring tool that will provide you with a profile of social and emotional development for individuals, classes and year groups. It is packed with targeted strategies and age-appropriate activities for creating individual or group action plans that are easily incorporated in your lesson planning.