Latest Resources from Pooky: Issue 59
Toxic stress, play, trauma-informed practice and more....
Here’s what I’ve been creating and sharing this week. It’s all free to access and share, if you’d like to support my work you can do so via Patreon, by sharing my resources with your network or booking me to speak. A bumper edition this week as I’ve been quiet whilst you had a rest for the festive period and I took some time to prioritise my own mental health.
VIDEO: Toxic Stress
Toxic stress is a helpful concept to understand so you can recognise what you might observe in the children in your care. I teach about it a lot so in today’s video I’m sharing a few slides from a recent session to help aid your understanding.
PODCAST: What's the Role of Play in Nurturing Young Minds?
In this episode of the Pooky Ponders Podcast, I take you on a captivating journey into the world of play and its profound influence on child development. Discover how play serves as a potent catalyst, enhancing cognitive development, nurturing emotional regulation, cultivating social skills, promoting physical growth, and enriching language proficiency in our young minds.
WEBINAR: Trauma-Informed Leadership
Slides and resources from a webinar exploring the principles of trauma-informed practice applied through the lens of school leadership. (To book me what or to find out more about my talks and webinars, email the lovely Ellie - Ellie@speakingofbooks.co.uk )
WORKSHEET: Tackling the Inner Voice
This is a really simple exercise but helpful both for beginning to identify some of the thinking patterns that are keeping negative behaviours locked in and starting to redress and retrain the inner voice and also, when done alongside someone, as a means of extending understanding, empathy, care and kindness to someone who maybe can't do this for themselves right now.
OOPS! Please send healing wishes
I'm feeling rather sorry for myself having dislocated my right elbow by falling over as I landed after a beautiful paragliding flight. It's remarkably debilitating and I've had to cancel my upcoming flying trip South Africa which had been a key motivator to eat and make it through winter. All my key coping mechanisms just went out the window but I hope that once the pain eases some, this is the chapter when I learn to love swimming?
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Until next time,
Pooky
Pooky Knightsmith PhD
Keynote Speaker
Speaking and webinar enquiries: Ellie@speakingofbooks.co.uk
Hope you feel less sore soon Pooky. Sending healing vibes.
I do find it fascinating that the ‘red dot’ label has gone from being an actual red dot sticker on actual films to being spelled out in type. Those red dots were the saving grace of many junior doctors in years gone by - put on by experienced radiographers as they were taking the films. We then used to play ‘hunt the abnormality on the X-ray’