Communication · Online course
Running a Comic Strip Intervention
From “What happened?” to “Can we work it out together?” Learn to use simple drawings, colour, Story Maps and Energy Curves to understand a child’s story.
Get the course
£39.99 2h 16m of CPD at your own pace: four topics, a training video, five printable resources and a certificate of completion
Included in Monthly and Annual membership. Members can access it in the Learning Portal.
What it is
Simple drawings, speech bubbles and colour slow conversations down, so a child can see each person’s perspective. It builds on Carol Gray’s Comic Strip Conversations (1994). For parents, carers and professionals.
- Training video
- Interactive activities
- Printable Comic Strip toolkit
- Downloadable notes
- Certificate of Completion
What learners say
“Seeing the comic strip intervention process in action was very helpful, and I will revisit this video again.”
“Excellent course as always and I am already seeing how this is going to impact my students.”
What the training covers
- See why one moment can hold many stories
- Make invisible thinking visible with drawings
- Build a child’s own emotional colour palette
- Use Story Maps and Energy Curves without blame
What you can print and keep
Five printable resources. Print, laminate and use again and again.
- My symbols chartOne A4 page: the eight symbols, with space for the child’s name
- Symbol cardsThe eight symbols as cut-out cards, plus blank cards for the child’s own symbols
- My emotions chartThree versions: an example, colours given, and completely blank
- My story mapsSix boxes or three steps, each for the problem and the solution
- My energy curveA worked example and a blank to fill in
Need more than one? Membership is £319 a year.
It includes every intervention in the shop, every resource, and everything added through the year.