Team of Life Resilience Programme

A unique narrative approach to building resilience aimed at children aged 7 and upwards

Team of Life helps children and young people to recognise and build their support networks and become more aware of their strengths and achievements. The use of sporting metaphors enables the development of rich strength-based stories of skill and knowledge for tackling problems, avoiding obstacles and achieving their goals in life. We have developed our Team of Life Resilience Programme for delivery by the children's workforce with groups of children. Any child can be invited to take part to help build their resilience.
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Online Course - 60 minutes learning time

Understand the principles and purpose of the core activities within the Team of Life Resilience Programme

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Why have I been invited to complete this course?

School staff are often an important part of children and young people's support network.

If you have been invited to take this course it will be because your school is delivering the programme and children you work with may be taking part. For the Team of Life to have as much impact as possible within children and young people's lives and across the school, it's important that as many members of the community as possible have 
an understanding of what it is and how they might be involved.

Even if you are not facilitating Team of Life, you may still be involved in some way. School staff are often an important part of children and young people's support network. Team of Life acknowledges the significant people in children's lives in a number of ways. When taking part in Team of Life, children may assign members of the school staff a specific role such as coach or medic and create a team card about them, highlighting the skills and special abilities that they bring to their life. School staff members may also feature on children and young people's 'teamsheets', which describe their team identity and ethos. Children and young people may celebrate the way a member of staff supported them with one of their past goal achievements or they may be called on to support them with a future goal they wish to work towards with the help of their team.  

We have also included a very brief introduction to Narrative Therapy, which is the model underpinning Team of Life, in this course. This is to help you understand what we are trying to achieve with the programme. Narrative ideas will also support you in your own conversations and approach with students.

This course takes less than 1 hour to complete and we hope you enjoy it. 

Course curriculum

    1. Purpose of this introductory course

    2. What is Team of Life?

    3. About Us

    4. Acknowledgements

    1. Introduction by David Denborough, Dulwich Centre Foundation Trust

    2. The first UK Team of Life Group

    3. Buckinghamshire Mental Health Support Team (MHST)

    4. Aims of Team of Life

    5. Use of Team of Life

    6. Team of Life Impact and Outcomes

    1. Narrative Therapy Principles

    2. Storied Experience

    3. Externalising

    4. Intentional Identity

    5. Collective Narrative Practice

    1. Programme Overview

    2. Exploring skills and values for working in teams

    3. Identifying and developing our teams

    4. Tackling problems collectively

    5. Recognising and celebrating achievement

    1. Become a Team of Life Partner School

    2. Promoting Team of Life

    3. Survey - 4 quick questions

    4. Copyright Information

About this course

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  • 24 lessons