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Thera-Build® With LEGO® 1-Day ‘Blast’ Training (Face to Face)
- Audience: school leaders, teachers, SENDCOs, ELSAs, inclusion managers, learning mentors, pastoral staff, teaching assistants, key workers, play therapists, family support workers and other professionals in education and social care.
- Places limited to one per school
“Thera-Build® with LEGO®” is a playful therapeutic approach for promoting emotional well-being in children. This single day of training ‘blasts’ through the main features of Thera-Build® including:
- The value of LEGO® as a therapeutic tool.
- The fundamentals of Thera-Build® and its therapeutic aims.
- The theory behind the methodology.
- How to resource and organise a Thera-Build® intervention.
- LEGO® building tips, technical vocabulary and advice.
- The importance of purposeful play.
- Helpful strategies for creating a secure therapeutic relationship.
- Practical activities to help children learn to co and self-regulate.
- Lots of ideas for LEGO® building experiences!
- Facilitator
- Venue & Travel Information
Alyson Thomsen, Lead Thera-Build® Practitioner at Bricks2Learn
A former Senior Teacher and LEGO® Education Certified Trainer, Alyson Thomsen is the author of Thera-Build® with LEGO® and the recently published Thera-Build® with LEGO® Resource Book.
Her consultancy, “Bricks2Learn” has now been running for 10 years and Aly is somewhat obsessed by what can be achieved with LEGO® bricks and a bit of imagination!
Aly continues to work directly with children to provide quality commissioned Thera-Build® interventions. She also provides training for parents, carers and professionals in the use of LEGO® as a therapeutic tool.