• Understanding and meeting the development needs of small children

    Early Years

    Maybo training provides staff with the skills and awareness required to de-escalate and manage behaviours of concern, with the aim of creating positive and safer learning environments where children can actively learn and explore

    Proven experience and expertise

    We provide colleagues with the skills required to manage challenging behaviours, with the aim of creating positive and safer environments, where children can actively learn and explore.

    This is essential in early years settings, where incidents that are not appropriately managed can impact a child’s safety, trust and development.

    Our comprehensive training is based upon the development of positive values that promote the respect and choice of individuals. These learning methods are consistent with the principles of positive behaviour support, focusing on primary and secondary strategies for preventing and defusing behaviours that challenge. This enables staff to: 

    • Better understand a child’s physiological and emotional needs that may act as a barrier to learning
    • Improve their environment
    • Engage children in ways that reduce behaviours that challenge

    We also provide training on how best to support children with additional needs.

    Maybo Training Programmes

    Explore the range of training modules in our children's curriculum below

    • Classroom

    • Train the trainer

    • eLearning

    • Blended learning

    • Understanding Children and Young People

      Developed with our partners, Headsight Therapeutic Services, this programme provides an important foundation understanding of the developmental needs of children and yonug people. It is relevant to anyone providing care, education or support to children and young people with complex needs.

      We focus on the emotional and psychological development of the young mind:

      Developmental Needs of Children and Young people

      • Developmental needs of children and young people
      • Stages of child brain development
      • How adolescent brain development impacts behaviour


      Importance of Attachment Figures

      • Why attachment is central to healthy brain development
      • Role and importance of attachment figures
      • Attachment behaviours


      Impact of Trauma and Neglect

      • Defining trauma and neglect
      • Behaviours that may develop as a result of trauma/neglect


      Higher Risk Behaviours Common in Children and Young People

      • How and why children and young people may harm themselves
      • Why children and young people are at greater risk from drug and alcohol misuse
      • Risks associated with anti-social behaviour
      • Why children and young people may pose a risk to others


      Positive Approaches to Behaviours of Concern

      • Stages of a trauma-informed approach
      • Importance of and ways to create safety and consistency
      • Providing opportunities to access learning and development
      • Reconnecting to build positive and supportive relationships

       

      Delivery methods:

      • Classroom Classroom
      • Train the trainer Train the trainer

    • Positive Approaches to Behaviour: Children and Young People

      This module provides positive and proactive approaches to managing behaviours of concern based on respect for the individual.

      Risks, Rights and Responsibilities

      • Behaviours of concern
      • Rights and responsibilities
      • Planning to reduce risks and vulnerabilities 


      Factors That Influence Behaviour

      • Common functions of behaviours of concern
      • Instinctive reactions to emotional or threatening situations
      • Potential triggers in self and others
      • Levels of escalation


      Positive Interactions and Choices

      • People's needs and expectations
      • Influencing positive outcomes
      • Overcoming barriers to communication 

       

      Delivery methods:

      • eLearning eLearning
      • Classroom Classroom
      • Train the trainer Train the trainer
      • Blended learning Blended learning

    • Safer De‑escalation: Children and Young People

      This module covers person-centred de-escalation strategies to alleviate a situation and prevent distress or behaviours of concern from escalating.

      Dynamic Risk Assessment

      • Maybo SAFER model
      • Risk identification
      • Informed decision-making


      De-escalation Skills

      • Positive, non-aggressive approaches
      • Safer positioning and teamworking skills
      • Strategies to defuse, calm and resolve


      Personal Safety and Post-incident

      • Confronting behaviours
      • Heightened risk indicators
      • Exit strategies in higher-risk situations
      • Post-event impact and responsibilities

       

      Delivery methods:

      • Classroom Classroom
      • Train the trainer Train the trainer
      • eLearning eLearning
      • Blended learning Blended learning

    • Personal Safety and Guiding: Children

      This module provides practical strategies for reducing risk and maintaining safety. It can include low arousal guiding and re-direction skills and is relevant where behaviours can present risks of harm for a child and/or those that support and care for them.

      Risks, Rights and Responsibilities

      • Defining defensive skills and interventions
      • Risks of using physical skills
      • Authority for the use of physical skills
      • Individual and team responsibilities 
      • The importance of secondary strategies to reduce the need for physical skills

      Personal Safety Skills to Avoid Assault and Disengage

      • Training and operational risks associated with the use of Maybo physical skills
      • Low arousal positioning and defensive skills to avoid assault and reduce risk
      • Low arousal skills to release from wrist and clothing grips
      • Contextual applications of Maybo assault avoidance and disengagement skills

      Low Arousal Guiding and Redirecting Skills

      • Skills to prompt or guide a child
      • Skills to re-direct a child
      • Contextual applications of Maybo guiding and redirecting skills


      This module must be preceded by Maybo's Positive Approaches to Behaviour and Safer De-escalation modules. 

       

      Delivery methods:

      • Classroom Classroom
      • Train the trainer Train the trainer

    • Before our Maybo training, the trend was to escort pupils demonstrating challenging behaviour to a less public place to deal with the issue, which often caused the negative behaviour to increase. Maybo's Open Palms approach gives a calming message that pupils will not be held or lead away and the incident is now more often calmed and dealt with without aggression.

      Downs Park School

    • Maybo training has changed the way we look at managing challenging behaviour and has led to some very positive results.

      Downs Park School

    • The most useful job-related course I have been on.

      University of Sussex - Staff Member

    • The response from our teaching team has been very positive: all staff enjoyed the Maybo sessions and said that they had learned useful and practical skills. Teachers who had been through a variety of other trainings said that this was the best that they had attended.

      Priory School - Deputy Headteacher

    • Maybo’s ‘Open Palms’ non-verbal communication signal has made a real difference in the way our staff are managing difficult situations.

      Downs Park School

    • The relevance of the training to children being first and foremost was utmost in our minds when we commissioned this package for our teams. The language use and the way of thinking about impact and understanding has been amazing. There is a real buzz in our residential homes and people keep asking for more!

      States of Jersey - Head of Service, Children, Young People, Education and Skills

    • Our staff team absolutely loved the training and found it to be the most useful and thought-provoking training they had ever been on. One person said ‘why did we not have this 30 years ago when I started?’.

      States of Jersey - Head of Service, Children, Young People, Education and Skills

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