The word is out
We’ve been getting the word out about Grit a lot this last month. Children and Young People Now – the UK’s top publication on policy and practice for professionals supporting children, young people and families - published a case study of the work we’ve been doing with Children’s services staff. It talks about how our tools significantly improved their work with young people and their colleagues.
Then there’s been the piece on the Nottingham Trent University (NTU) website about the evaluation led by Dr Chris Rolph, Associate Professor of Education Policy and Practice, of our “Tough and uncompromising” training with professionals.
And, talking of NTU, there’s the evaluation of their Black Leadership programme – of which our Black Leaders workshop is a key feature – by TASO (Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education). TASO is the leading research and evaluation hub for Higher Education. It reports that the programme - “Increases students’ grades through student engagement which in turn impacts degree award. Students developing their academic skills, social capital, confidence, leadership, and employability skills may account for this increase in grades.”
Mixing it up
We’ve been as busy as ever on social media.
Check out our new film about Aleena who had just started her first year as a student at the University of Leeds when she did a 1-day workshop. We think it’s a great mix of film, audio and slides.
Our friends at the University of Nottingham have produced this fantastic film of students Janmatthew and Michele talking about their experiences of our Black Leaders Programme as they take a stroll around the campus.
And take a look at the latest of our Linkedin Carousels. This one is all about Grit programmes for health students, how they support students facing the particular challenges of health-related courses: navigating placements; developing resilience in a pressurised environment; balancing their own wellbeing with taking care of others.
In conference
Ellie led a workshop at The Mercian Trust Youth Violence Awareness and Reduction Conference at Villa Park earlier in the month.
It was great to be amongst a room of such varied roles and organisations – from school staff to youth workers, youth justice teams, police, charities and mental health specialists – yet all with a strong sense of common ground.
We looked at the challenges involved in creating the space for young people to get to the heart of what’s going on for them. We looked at how our inner critic is often at the heart of why we get so stuck in certain ‘ruts’ in life and feel paralysed to bring about change and we looked at how a coach can play such an integral role in disrupting those ruts.
The group did an amazing job at throwing themselves in, and even in the short period of time, made great insights about their own coaching and how to develop it. A real pleasure of a day!
