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Interventions
Welcome to our Creative SEMH Interventions
Explore our collection of evidenced-based, highly recommended creative social and emotional interventions – extremely effective tried and tested approaches to supporting every child’s emotional needs.
These innovative interventions pull together existing therapeutic modalities and make them accessible to anyone committed to improving children’s mental health in a neurodivergent affirming way.
For those looking to deepen their knowledge, we offer the option to become a BOUNCE Practitioner 🔍. This self-paced course, with live coaching sessions, is aimed at those wanting to understand the entire process of reducing emotional overwhelm, helping children recalibrate and regulate their system, and rebuild positive mindsets.
To make mental health support more financially accessible, we’ve established a Members Portal 🔎 offering a vast array of resources, on-demand webinars, discounts off the Practitioner Course, the following interventions, a curriculum, activities and ideas, support plans, and discounted coaching.
Creative Arts
Bilateral Art
Bilateral Artwork is a gentle approach to regulating emotions through bilateral integration, colour, and somatic movement – it is great for children that don’t want to talk about their feelings.
E-Art Journaling
E-Art Journaling (Emotional-Art Journaling) offers a process in which children use a combination of writing, drawing, painting, and collaging to express their emotions and thoughts.
Drawing Feelings
The Drawing Feelings method offers a gentle approach to exploring and understanding emotions through colour and drawings.
Tree of Life
The Tree of Life (Ncube, 2006, 2017) is an approach, based on Narrative Therapy, which uses the metaphor of a tree for a person’s life to help children and young people tell their story in a creative, non-threatening way.
Comic Strip Sessions
A comic strip intervention involves using visual storytelling, typically in the form of a comic strip, to help children understand different perspectives, particularly in conflict situations.
A Parts-based Approach
In a Parts-based Session we explore creative arts and play around the internal family systems model. This is an extremely effective way of understanding how each part of us can work in harmony – rather than pushing it away.
Scribble 'n' Squish
Scribble ‘n’ Squish™ is a gentle and transformative course designed to provide you with innovative tools to support these children through the power of creative expression.
Creative Lego
Lego-based Therapy
Lego-based Therapy is a dynamic, play-based intervention that leverages the creativity and engagement of Lego building to support children with social communication challenges.
Lego Feelings
Welcome to Lego Feelings Training, a creative, systematic, and process-driven intervention designed to explore emotions and social situations when words are difficult to express.
Mind-Body
Mindfulness
Mindfulness for children experiencing emotional overwhelm, especially those struggling with dysregulation and difficulties in connecting to their emotions, offers a gentle yet powerful way to help them regain a sense of balance.
EFT/Tapping
Emotional Freedom Technique offers a compassionate and powerful approach to help children release overwhelm and re-gain balance.
Grounding Techniques
Interested in evidenced-based practical ways to support children? Then why not look at our Whitehall Academy Primary School Project, where they incorporated grounding techniques in their school – with amazing results!
Self Massage
Self-massage techniques to activate the parasympathetic system into rest, digest, and heal. These extremely effective techniques are modelled to children, so that they can use them anytime they are feeling overwhelmed.
Sensory-based Story Massage
A sensory-based story massage, is an intervention focused on regulating the nervous system. It is filled with practical ideas, alongside visualisations and poems to get you started.
Somatic
Drumming for Regulation
Therapeutic Drumming is a great, interactive approach to improving a child’s social and emotional well-being.
SEMH Sensory Circuits
Sensory circuits are a great sensory integration intervention involving a sequence of physical activities designed to alert, organise, and calm the nervous system of the child.
This intervention looks at how to ensure the child’s nervous system doesn’t get too activated with the process.
Sensory Diets
A sensory diet is a personalised plan of physical activities and accommodations designed to meet a child’s sensory needs. But what would it look like in a school day? Let’s find out!
Fidget Toys
Neuroscience tells us how effective ‘fidget toys’ or rather learning aids – can help children maintain focus, regulate emotions, and have more opportunities to stay in the classroom without the need to regulate in another space.
Multi-Sensory Toolkits
This approach explores how we can use sensory tools to help children meet the needs of their system. By doing this – they can feel more balanced.
Mini Yoga
Our Mini Yoga Videos are a simple, accessible tool to help children manage both stress and energy. By combining calming and energising poses, you can help any child stay within their window of tolerance.
Sand Play
Sand Play
Discover the magic of sand tray-based therapy training, designed to help non-therapists connect with children who find it hard to talk about their feelings.
Sand Play Stories
Sand stories focuses on using a book on a particular theme – such as friendship, new school, anxiety, or loss and re-telling it through the Sand Tray
Restorative
Managing Demand Avoidance
Managing a child unable to cope with any demand put on them, is very challenging and isolating. This talk explores effective approaches used in educational settings.
Restorative Justice
In this training, we will explore behaviour management systems within education and dissect the basic principles of Restorative Justice, distinguishing its differences from conventional approaches.
Theory of Mind
Theory of Mind (ToM) is crucial for fostering empathy, effective communication, and successful social interactions. The training aims to equip educators with the knowledge and tools necessary to help their students understand and navigate the social world more effectively.
Solution Circles
In this webinar attendees will understand the principles and philosophy behind restorative practices, learning how to facilitate restorative circles and foster meaningful dialogue.
Different Behaviour
This webinar helps attendees understand why children exhibit different emotions at home versus school, why they may struggle to maintain composure throughout the day, and the neurological processes behind emotional dysregulation, including the “flip lid” response.
Our Goal
- To become the missing piece that pulls everything together
- To understand the ‘why‘ behind a child’s dysregulation
- To put effective interventions in place to meet that need
- To support the capacity to heal a dysregulated nervous system
- To adapt the environment to support the child’s needs
- To explore trauma informed approaches to regain and build trust
- To help the child build internal capacity to deal with challenges and grow
4 Simple Ways to Access our Interventions
Purchase Individually
Or look at deepening your knowledge by becoming a BOUNCE Practitioner.
Become a BOUNCE Practitioner
Interested in learning these approaches at Practitioner Level? Then why not consider accessing our courses:
Join the Members Portal
Interested in access ALL of these Interventions? Then join our Members Portal now!
Don’t forget – we offer Bespoke Memberships, so that you have the option training key members of staff.
Arrange Bespoke CPD
Interested in learning how to incorporate these interventions in your setting, then why not book a bespoke CPD session for your staff.
This option is highly popular among settings with existing Nurture Groups and ELSAs that are looking to expand their toolkit of provisions.