World renowned
Designed in the UK and recognised worldwide.
Australian first
Official Solihull Approach
Governance Centre, Australia
Evidence based
Includes infant mental health, neurodevelopmental and psychotherapeutic concepts.
What is the Solihull Approach?
It is a theoretical model to frame thinking.
The overarching aim of the Solihull Approach is to support quality relationships.
Facilitates understating of mental health and socio-emotional health, right from the start.
Provides a thinking pathway to enable emotional regulation and mobilises reflective capacity.
This evidence-based model supported by ever-growing body of research.
Offering a range of trainings for professionals, and courses for parents.
Training and courses are applicable across the lifespan.
The Approach supports quality interactions and is applicable across diverse: cultural, linguistic, socio-economic, and life experience backgrounds.
Professionals report the approach provides a means for navigating the difficult conversations, by enabling others’ autonomy and reflective capacity.
Professional feedback; life changing, awakening, immediately applicable, makes life and relationships easier, changed my thinking completely.
Parents (research findings) identify increase parenting confidence, and better understand their baby, child or adolescent, resulting from the parent courses.
Parent feedback; empowering, improved my relationship with my baby, should be compulsory, enjoying my baby more, partner and I are working together better.
The breadth of application of the model results from incorporation of recognised theories from Psychoanalyst, Dr Wilfred Bion’s, theory of Containment, and Paediatrician and researcher, Dr Berry Brazelton’s work on Reciprocity. When considered in conjunction, these theories supports others to customise their own behaviour change.
About the training courses
for information about materials, resources or enquiries
email: info@solihullapproach.com.au or ph: +61 411 880 720
For Professionals
PROFESSIONAL training course sessions are also available for individual ORGANISATIONS. To discuss your needs please contact info@solihullapproach.com.au
La Trobe Uni - Grad Dip. Child Family & Community Nurse students
RMIT - Grad Dip. Child and Family Health Nurse students
please contact helen@helenstevens.com.au to discuss training options
Trainings are all small group and offered via live-remote access
Foundation training course
2.5 day ($350 per day)
For Professionals working in perinatal, early years and adolescent fields
Develop an understanding of the internationally renowned, evidence based Approach, including the application of key themes derived from infant mental health, containment and reciprocity theoretical frameworks.
SRF approved for Early Childhood educators and allied professionals in the sector.
Foundation + Parent Group Facilitator
3 days ($350 per day)
For Professionals working in perinatal, early years and adolescent fields
Combine the Foundation Training coursewith an additional day and become a group facilitator using the Solihull Approach theoretical underpinning.
Parent Group Facilitator training
1 day ($350 per day)
For those who have completed 2 day Foundation course
Expand on your previous training to become a skilled, trained group facilitator.
Managers Only
2.5 day training ($380/day)
No prior training required. The Solihull Approach, theory and application to management practice.
For details contact: info@solihullapproach.com.au
Adult - Keeping Trauma in Mind
2.5 day training ($380/day)
No previous training required. For Professionals working with those with experiences resulting in trauma responses from early life through to adulthood.
Foster Care Group Facilitator training
1 day training ($380)
Following completion of Foundation training, this training is designed to equip practitioners with an effective approach to deliver the 12-week ‘Understanding your foster child’s behaviour’ course for foster carers.
Train-the-Trainer
1 day training ($380)
This training skills you to become a Registered Solihull Approach Professional trainer. For those who have completed 2.5 Day Foundation training
For details contact: info@solihullapproach.com.au
Foster and Adoptive Care
2 day training ($380)
No previous training required. For those supporting foster and adoption carers.
For details contact: info@solihullapproach.com.au
Reflective Supervision
1 day training ($380)
Following completion of Foundation training, this training is designed to develop reflective supervision skill by using the Theoretical model.
For details contact: info@solihullapproach.com.au
Teenagers’ Brains
2 courses available
For parents
Teenager’s brain development
Teenagers and reading faces
Risk taking
Sensitivity to rejection
Teenagers and sleep
For Teenagers Only! Your brain development
School Training course
2.5 day training or x 5 half days ($380/day)
Specifically designed training for those working with ANY school aged children. Can also be offered as half days and twilight sessions to accommodate teacher needs. For details contact; info@solihullapproach.com.au
Journey to Parenthood Foundation
2 Day training ($350/day)
No previous Solihull Approach training required. Specifically designed for those working with families in the antenatal and postnatal periods
For details contact: info@solihullapproach.com.au
For Parents
Helping you be the best parent you can
8 weeks and 10 week courses available
These outcomes are achieved by increasing parent’s awareness of; brain development, emerging social and emotional needs and understanding their baby’s and child’s behaviours
Parents report it improved their ability to understand and respond to behaviours and helped them feel more confident and empowered as a parent.
“We offer team training.
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Online parenting courses
Unearth your potential
Learn, discover, love and respect.
We're proud to partner with the Solihull Approach in the UK to offer these evidence-based online courses for anyone caring for babies, children. adolescents or foster children.
Courses include
Understanding pregnancy and birth
Understanding your baby
Understanding your child and teenager
Understanding your foster child’s behaviour
What is the Solihull Approach?
The Solihull Approach aims to increase emotional health and well-being for parents/teachers/client services workers/managers/early childhood/ mental health workers/ health care professionals and even first responders and sports coaches.
It is about enabling quality relationships by fostering emotional regulation and reflective capacity.
It is an internationally recognised approach to strengthen the bond between parents and children and has been referred to in the most recent ‘MERTIL’ (Trauma informed training Australia 2020) aimed at helping to protect our children from the enduring effects of early relational trauma.
Developed in the UK, participants in this training, initially learn to help caregivers/teachers and other professionals, including managers, to identify, acknowledge and understand emotions that often prevent them from sensitively interpreting behaviour of others - from parents to top level managers.
Proud to be the official Solihull Approach - Governance Centre Australia