Valentines offers us a chance to express love and care and reflect, on our relationship with ourselves, our friends, community, pets, nature and the world around us
Relationships
A connection with other individuals based on warmth, empathy and respect.
We need each other more than ever right now! This month let's focus on reaching out to connect with others and doing our best to be a good friend. Our acts of kindness and connection ripple out and impact so many more people than we realise - and they also boost our own happy hormones too! In stressful times people around us may be feeling the strain, so let's try to keep calm, take time to listen and show compassion.
Access Friendly February calendar here share with a friend or loved one to help spread their happiness www.actionforhappiness.org/february
In addition to our Mental Wellbeing Lifehacks for coping with Covid-19: https://www.cypsomersethealth.org/news&id=359
you may also like to visit our Mental Health Life Hacks - Looking after a friend.pdf
Online and virtual relationships are more important than ever to help keep us connected these videos and guides from internet matters support online safety
Pre-teens (11-13)
Online safety advice
www.internetmatters.org/advice/11-13/
Teens (14+)
Online safety advice
www.internetmatters.org/advice/14plus/
Tiny Happy People offers a range of free digital resources that have been specifically designed to support parents and carers in developing children’s language from pregnancy. They are easy to use and incorporate into everyday routines.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people
https://www.instagram.com/bbctinyhappypeople/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/bbctinyhappypeople/
Watch Kooth's 'don't do it alone' video, reminding young people they are not alone and to reach out and talk with others - www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=PEShtD0vTzc&feature=youtu.be
Belonging
Creating a positive relationship with ourselves, our environment and the natural world around us, supporting our sense of connection and belonging
A to Z of mindfulness in nature explores just some of the ways that our countryside and its wildlife can improve both your physical and mental health.
There are an increasing number of studies, backed by scientific research, that suggest that slowing down and being more present can help alleviate feelings of anxiety, depression and stress.
www.countryfile.com/how-to/a-to-z-of-mindfulness-in-nature/
This website offers a range of resources, ideas and practices to support social and emotional development, kindness and happiness in schools - Feeling connected to each other
Rocking all over the world: the painted pebble trend crossing continents
Express your love creatively using pebble painting - Find out more about this developing community connection in this article Here
Learning
All our trainings support and develop a Whole School & College Approach and the 3 Pillars of Wellbeing: Belonging, Relationships and Lifestyles
LIFEbeat
February is the perfect time to celebrate relationships, how we love and nuture ourselves, how we care and support others as well as how we build a connection with the wider world that surrounds us. In September 2020, DfE made it compulsory for schools to teach Relationships, Sex and Health Education. Many of you I know are already doing a fantastic job in teaching RSHE in your settings and we hope that you will share you lesson plans and activities with us so that we can celebrate your great work. It is a mandation for all schools to also have a published RSHE policy which has been consulted with by parents/carers.
If you would like to find out how best to engage with your parent community, we invite you to attend our training workshop:
Engaging Parents & Carers in the School Community 4th March, 9:30 - 11:30 am
Join us in this workshop to explore creative ways to better engage with parents, carers and families in your practice. Click the link below for more information and bookings.
School communities are at the heart of everything we do. It is our mission to support children and young people to be the best version of themselves and to create opportunities where every child/young person is seen valued and heard. We would like to share this journey with you and would like to invite you attend our new workshop ‘Empowering Youth Participation and Engaging the Pupil Voice’
During this course we will explore how to develop an inclusive community of belonging where every pupil feels seen, heard and valued in relation to The Somerset Wellbeing Framework. • To create a plan for policy and implementation of pupil consultation as a foundation for Relationships and Sex Education and PSHE. • Learn about available resources and tools which can be used in pupil consultation. • Experience how creativity and reflective practice can illuminate the voices and perspectives of pupils.
24th March, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Empowering Pupils' Voices and Developing Leadership Tickets, Wed 24 Mar 2021 at 09:30 | Eventbrite
Compassionate Mindful Resilience (CMR)
Friday 5th and Friday 12th March 2021 from 9 .00 am to 2.00 pm (including breaks)
CMR helps Individuals manage stress, develop resilience, and enhance wellbeing. This is done by sharing information about mindfulness, a little neuroscience, introducing compassion, empathy fatigue and secondary trauma.
Participants will collate a toolbox of mindfulness and compassion practices, techniques and skills that can benefit their own wellbeing and help equip to better support others.
Please click on links below to register:
Friday 5th and Friday 12th March 2021 from 9 .00 am to 2.00 pm (including breaks)
Attendance is necessary at both sessions and some home practice between sessions will be required
Monday 10th May 09:00 - 12:00 and 17th, 24th May and 7th June 09:30 - 11:30
Attendance is necessary at all 4 sessions and some home practice between sessions will be required
Friday 11th June 09:00 - 12:00 and Friday 18th, 25th June, 2nd July 09:30 - 11:30
Attendance is necessary at all 4 sessions and some home practice between sessions will be required
Learning about emotions, neuroscience and the brain can help us understand and maintain positive relationships
Emotion Coaching provides an evidence-based model for helping children, young people and adults to understand and interpret emotions as a way of enhancing social interactions with others.
Visit our webpage to find out more about the 5 steps of Emotion Coaching and how you can practice these in everyday relationships
www.cypsomersethealth.org/?ks=1&page=mhtk_secp_5
To express an interest in attending MACE training please click Here
For more Training opportunities please visit our Training Menu Here
Healthy Lifestyles: Diet, Activity & Sleep
Food & Mood - Nurturing and showing care and love to ourselves includes being mindful of the foods we choose.
This video offers tips on the relationship between food & mood
Fizz Free February - Kindness to health & planet
This February SUGAR SMART are asking us to ditch the fizzy drinks and go Fizz Free. We know that fizzy drinks are bad for our health, but this year the campaign also focuses on the environmental impact that they have.
For more information and to support this campaign visit:
Five Reasons to use the Natural Environment to Enhance Children’s Health, Wellbeing and Learning 
- Wellbeing and Mental Health
- Physical Health
- Mindfulness
- Behaviour
- Social Connectedness
To find out more about these areas, please click Here
Sleep Hygiene - Get more and Better sleep and help boost your wellbeing. In return this will boost your relationship with yourself and others
Healthy Relationships
LIFEbeat offer 5 top tips for healthy relationships
Every relationship, friendship and partnership is different. They are like gardens, where we get to plant seeds and care for them so they flourish and become abundant, colourful spaces. They are seasonal and go through ups and downs and they need to be valued........
5 Top Tips for Healthy Relationships
Tune into Young Somerset's virtual Hubs throughout Valentines week, where we'll be discussing what healthy relationships look like and where you can access support.
www.youngsomerset.org.uk/the-hubs
Healthy Teenage Relationships
Local help and support is available to young people experiencing relationships that cause them to feel scared, controlled or who are harmed. Help is available: www.somersetsurvivors.org.uk 0800 69 49 999
What are the signs of an unhealthy teen relationship? Find out in this video
In a time when we can’t all be with the ones we love - let’s make sure we are there for each other.
Here when you need us All Day, Every Day on 01823 276 892.
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