Useful links

ABC Peer Support Scheme
Creates the opportunity for a broad range of students to learn about dealing with conflict in a safe and positive environment. Works upon the principle that young people can be empowered with trust, training and support to help their peers find solutions to the issue of bullying in the school community.
www.aclandburghley.camden.sch.uk

Advisory Center for Education (ACE)
Presses for a fairer and more responsive education system. Gives free advice and support to parents of children in state school.
www.ace-ed.org.uk

Anti-bullying Alliance
A coalition of 50 expert organisations that is seeking to get children, young people and adults working together to develop strategies that help both those being bullied and the bullies themselves.

Anti-Bullying Network
Run conferences and publish information sheets for young people, parents and school staff as well as providing information and links to relevant organisations on their website.
www.antibullying.net

Atlow Mill Centre for Emotional Education
Works with young people who have been identified as being at risk of permanent exclusion from school. Residential programmes encourage young people to identify the side of themselves that causes problems for them. The Mill also runs a post-graduate certificate in emotional education.
www.atlowmill.org

Befrienders International
Offers support to those contemplating suicide or coping with emotional crisis.
www.befrienders.org

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Aims to:-
* promote the understanding and awareness of counselling throughout society;
* maintain and raise standards of training and practice;
* respond to requests for information and advice on matters related to counselling.
www.counselling.co.uk

Bully OnLine
The website of the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line provides insight and information on all aspects of bullying with the long-term aim of eradicating the behaviour altogether.
www.successunlimited.co.uk

bullying.org
bullying.org aims to enhance the capacity of individuals and organisations to deal effectively with bullying.
www.bullying.org

Bullying Online
Offers children and parents practical advice for parents and straightforward explanations of methods designed to combat bullying such as the No-Blame Approach, the Pikas Method, Peer Counselling and Circle Time.
www.bullying.co.uk

Campaign for Learning
The Campaign works to create an appetite for learning in every individual, and to foster a learning society. Their vision is of an inclusive society in which learning is valued, understood, enjoyed, wanted and widely available to everyone.
www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk

Caspari Foundation
Provides educational therapy for children with emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties, and consultations to their families/carers/teachers.
www.caspari.org.uk

Catalyst Conflict and Change
Catalyst specialises in peer mediation techniques to educate young people from 3-16 in effective communication, cooperation and self-esteem building skills.
www.conflictandchange.co.uk

Center for Citizenship Studies in Education
Provides information on all aspects of citizenship education and training. Operates in partnership with: schools and other educational institutions; local education authorities; the voluntary sector and other organisations working in the field of citizenship.
www.citizenship.org.uk

Center for Studies in Counselling
CESCO exists to promote research, training and academic excellence in counselling.
www.dur.ac.uk

Centre for Thinking Skills
The Centre offers talks, workshops, seminars, presentations and resources, for teachers and others concerned with improving the thinking, learning and creativity of children.
www.teachingthinking.net

Childline & CHIPS
ChildLine is the free confidential 24-hour helpline on for children and young people in trouble or danger. Provides a confidential telephone counselling service to deal with problems with family relationships; feeling lonely, unloved and unwanted; being bullied; suffering physical and/or sexual abuse; worries about pregnancy; concerns about friends; having problems at school. Refer children in danger to appropriate helping agencies.CHIPS is a partnership between ChildLine, young people and schools. It raises awareness about ChildLine and encourages schools to support their pupils in setting up projects run by them in tackling issues that affect their lives such as setting up anti-bullying projects; befriending and peer support schemes.

Children’s Social Behaviour Project
An emotional literacy curriculum for KS2 that involves a range of activities used in small-group and whole-class work to help children explore their thoughts and feelings about social situations using hypothetical stories about peer interactions.
www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/robinb/csb.htm

childrenthinking.co.uk
Childrenthinking was set up by practising teachers to co-ordinate a range of courses in the area of Philosophy with Children (PWC).
www.childrenthinking.co.uk

The Citizenship Foundation
An independent educational charity supported by the Law Society to encourage informed and active citizenship, especially among young people. It has been foremost in promoting a programme of citizenship education in schools.
www.citfou.org.uk

Conflict and Change
Has pioneered mediation and conflict resolution in the UK, initially through work in local communities, more recently in schools as well.
www.conflictandchange.co.uk

Coram Family
Coram Family works with vulnerable children and young people to promote resilience, enabling them to take responsibility for their own lives and achieve their full potential.
www.coram.org.uk

Continyou
Continyou provides advice, training, consultancy and professional development opportunities related to out-of-school-hours learning.
www.continyou.org.uk

Counselling Directory
A free, confidential counselling support network, enabling those in distress to find a qualified counsellor close to them and appropriate for their needs. The website also contains a number of sections on emotional disorders.
www.counselling-directory.org.uk

Counselling for Children and Young People
Exists to promote, support and develop the counselling of young people in educational and youth establishments, so that they all may have access to professional counselling. Work directly with children and young people who are experiencing unhappiness, anxiety and distress.
www.counselling.co.uk

CSV Education
Creates opportunities for people to play an active part in their community through education, volunteering, training and the media. CSV enables young people in schools, colleges and universities to learn through meeting real community needs as part of their education.
www.csv.org.uk

Depression Alliance
Offer information, support and understanding for people affected by depression. Co-ordinates a network of self-help groups across the UK, a special internet group and a written advisory service offering support and understanding. Produces a variety of leaflets and other publications, including a quarterly newsletter.
www.depressionalliance.org

Dialogue WORKS
Brings together leading trainers in critical thinking and creative dialogue to run conferences and trainings for teachers or students.

The Discovery Project
Discovery offers a series of programmes designed to provide practical tools for enhancing emotional literacy in the staff-room.
www.discovery-project.com

Ei (UK) Limited
is a dedicated provider of training, consultancy and assessment tools in the field of Emotional Intelligence. It is made up of a team of consultants, trainers and HR practictioners with many years’ experience in change management, personal development and executive coaching.
www.eiworld.org

Family Links
Family Links believes is that one needs to be emotionally literate and healthy in order to reach one’s full potential socially, academically and in relationships.

HITS
Provides a range of services for vulnerable children, young people and their families. By listening to and learning from young people, the organisation aims to help them make positive changes in their lives.
www.hits-halton.org.uk

Human Scale Education
HSE believes that the child should be at the centre of the educational process, and that schools and classes need to be small in size if they are to provide a stimulating learning environment.

Incentive Plus
Mail order education distribution company, which carries a wide range of materials for teachers that are designed to develop the emotional literacy of pupils. Resources for raising standards, improving attitudes, developing self-esteem and building citizenship.
www.incentiveplus.co.uk

Indigo Brave
Works through drama, circle activities, discussion, self-esteem exercises and metaphor to create a learning environment that is supportive and non-shaming.
www.indigobrave.com

The Institute of Citizenship
aims to promote informed active citizenship and greater participation in democracy and society by developing innovative projects for citizenship education, encouraging voter participation and stimulating debate.
www.citizen.org.uk

The Institute for Global Ethics UK Trust
is dedicated to promoting ethical fitness through public discourse and practical action. The UK Trust is the British entity of the Institute of Global Ethics which was founded in the US in 1990.

ISMA (UK) www.isma.org.uk

Kids Company
Provides emotional support to vulnerable children in school and outside – through counselling, groupwork and group therapy, as well as nurturing lunchtime activities.
www.kidsco.org.uk

Lapidus
A membership organisation promoting the use of the literary arts in personal development. Membership includes writers, medical and healthcare professionals, therapists, teachers, writers in residence in healthcare and community settings, and those having a general interest in the field.
www.lapidus.org.uk

Leap Confronting Conflict
Leap provides opportunities for young people to explore creative approaches to conflicts in their lives, finding causes and new solutions for themselves.
www.leaplinx.com

The Learning Challenge
TLC provides action groupskills interventions for children identified as being at risk of disaffection. The organisation works in partnership with schools facilitating change in staff approaches to handling children.
www.total-learning.org.uk

Learning Through Action
helps overcome the causes of alienation and under performance and helps counter the threat to young people from drugs and the misuse of alcohol. The organisation uses structured role play, simulation, and associated techniques to challenge preconceptions, to stimulate thinking and a new approach to personal decision-making.
www.learning-through-action.org.uk

The Marshmallow Project
Marshmallow places listening at the foundation of smarter communication. Focussing its whole attention of this area of human/professional development, Marshmallow teaches people how to listen. Its methods refresh thinking to imbue individuals in every kind of organisation or group with greater flexibility of mind, clarity and courage to jump beyond themselves.
Private and public businesses nuture profits by paying attention to the well-being of those who produce them. Marshmallow identifies the innate ability to Listen and transforms it to a powerful, potent, life-enhancing skill.
www.marshmallow.org.uk

Mind
is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales and works for a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress. Establised in 1946, Mind has grown into a major network, with headquarters in East London, offices in the North, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, Trent and Yorkshire and Wales and more than 200 local Mind associations around the country.
Drawing on the experience and skills of mental health service users and professionals, the Mind network has become the largest voluntary service provider of quality community care.
www.mind.org.uk

NCH Action for Children
grew from the Children’s Home founded by Methodist Minister, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Bowman Stephenson in London in 1869. Since then the charity has taken social action and campaigned for it. It speaks out against poverty and social exclusion and supports those who experience them to speak out for themselves. Today the charity is one of Britain’s leading childcare charities. It runs a diverse and innovative range of projects based in communities throughout Britain.
www.nchafc.org.uk

National Campaign for the Arts
Runs a cross-curricular advisory group on the place of creativity and culture within education, taking forward the findings of the report All Our Futures from the National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (NACCE)
www.artstcampaign.org.uk

The National Foundation for Educational Research
is an independent body undertaking research and development projects in all sectors of the public education system. It aims to gather, analyse and disseminate research information with a view to improving education and training.
www.nfer.ac.uk

The National Pyramid Trust
Helps primary school aged children to fulfil their potential in school and in life by building their self-esteem and resilience. The Trust, through local partnerships of statutory and voluntary agencies, runs programmes for 7 to 10 year olds who are causing concern as a result of significant emotional, social and behavioural difficulties. The work involves checking the emotional and behavioural needs of all children in a year group and offering real help to those who need it. In particular, there will be therapeutic activity groups for up to 10 children for 10 weeks after school. These groups are carefully designed to improve relationship and social skills, and raise self-esteem and confidence. The programme has both significant short term benefits and helps prevent serious difficulties in adolescence. The National Pyramid Trust is currently working in more than 20 education authorities.
www.nptrust.org.uk

NSPCC
The NSPCC counselling service aims to provide independent, accessible and confidential counselling for children in schools. The organisations advocates the extension of school-based counselling provision to ensure that every school has a counsellor to help children cope with stress, bullying and abuse.

The Nurture Group Network (NGN)
Nurture Groups are small classes in infant or primary schools for children with identified needs. The NGN provides details on training courses as well as a forum for support and information-sharing between new and existing groups.
www.nurturegroups.org

Osiris Educational
Osiris offers training courses and consultancy relating to the application of emotional intelligence in schools.
www.osiriseducational.co.uk

Pacific Institute
The Pacific Institute runs programmes aimed at enabling individuals to achieve their potential by teaching them to understand what drives them and what holds them back.
www.pacificinstitute.co.uk

The Place to Be
P2B provides emotional and therapeutic support to children within the school environment, and works with the co-operation and involvement of teaching staff and parents or carers.
www.theplace2be.org.uk

Richmond upon Thames College
The College provides a series of courses around emotional literacy that are aimed at anyone who would like to learn more about how the concept can be applied in their work.
www.richmond-utcoll.ac.uk

The Samaritans
Provide confidential emotional support to any person, irrespective of race, creed, age or status, who is suicidal or despairing; and work to increase public awareness of issues around suicide and depression.
www.samaritans.org.uk

SAPERE (Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education)
Trains and supports teachers in developing ‘communities of philosophical enquiry’, seeing this as a way to enrich the lives of young people by enabling them to explore their diverse perspectives, values and philosophies in a caring and collaborative manner.

School-Home Support
School-home support work is a school-based, child-centred approach to supporting young people in school that works towards strengthening links between schools and families and enabling people to work together to overcome the barriers which face children and young people during their time in school.
www.schoolhomesupport.org.uk

School of Emotional Literacy
The school provides training for a certificate in emotional literacy development that equips professionals to pass on to children and young people the lifeskills, attitudes, habits and values associated with emotional literacy.
www.schoolofemotional-literacy.com

Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship
Aims to equip pupils to respond with initiative, flexibility and responsibility in a fast-changing world. Committed to the principle that a childâs Îemotional and social skillsâ should be at the center of all educational practices. Represents 26 schools, 45 kindergartens, and eight teacher education seminars in the UK and Ireland.
www.steinerwaldorf.org

Temple Index of Functional Fluency (TIFF)
The functional fluency model and the Temple Index of Functional Fluency (TIFF) are practical tools for enhancing self-awareness, understanding, empathy and social competence. The model gives a framework for learning how to build positive relationships. The results from the TIFF questionnaire provide a profile of a person’s behavioural tendencies and habits, both negative and positive, in a variety of situations and relationships. Expert feedback offers explanations of the model along with support and guidance for making use of the results. The insights gained from these discussions stimulate self-awareness and understanding, and encourage positive changes for increasing interpersonal effectiveness.
www.functionalfluency.com

Theatr Fforwm Cymru
Uses a mixture of forum theatre, circle-time, open-space technology, active listening skills and other related techniques to help school and community groups understand their relationships to themselves, others and the wider world.
www.theatrfforwmcymru.org.uk

Transforming Conflict
Irish website intended to support teachers working in the area of citizenship and human rights education, with a particular focus on a cross-border context. The product of a cross-border Human Rights Conflict and Dialogue Project and Citizenship Development Programme.
www.transformconflict.org

Transforming Conflict
Offers training and consultancy to those wanting to develop restorative practices in educational settings.
www.transformingconflict.com

UK & Ireland Directory of Counselling and Psychotherapy
A free search tool for counselling and psychotherapy services. Low-cost and free services are well represented, as no premium is charged to list practitioners.
www.cpdirectory.com

UK Observatory for the Promotion of Non-Violence
Offers access to a unique collection of experts in research, practice and training from a range of disciplines who are committed to addressing the issues of aggression, bullying, anti-social behaviour and violence amongst children and young people.
www.ukobservatory.com

Visionworks
Visionworks develops teaching programmes that equip young people with the self-awareness and skills to make more positive choices about their relationships, behaviour and lives inside and outside school.
www.vision-works.net

Whole Education
An alliance of non-political and non-profit making organisations that believe in young people’s right to receive a well-rounded education that they can relate to.
www.wholeeducation.org

The Whole School Quality Circle Time Model
The Whole School Quality Circle Time Model introduces the school community to a range of approaches designed to encourage emotional and physical safety, consistency, motivation, positive relationships and openness. It works through a forum which has, at the heart of it, a commitment to building children’s sense of self-worth and helping them to care more about the feelings of those around them.
www.circle-time.co.uk/

Young Minds
The national charity committed to improving the mental health of all babies, children and young people.
www.youngminds.org.uk