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Thrive Fronting The Challenge (ftc) Projects

The Thriveftc Approach and on-line programme have been devised by a multi-disciplinary team which is able to draw on substantial experience of working with children and young people in a wide variety of educational, youth, social work, care and community health and hospital settings.

We have worked with child professionals from many disciplines including teachers, teaching assistants, secure unit staff, child psychotherapists, social workers, foster carers and adoptive parents and project workers in health and care settings. The on-line program is a dynamic resource that is the culmination of the contributions from all these committed workers. We are very grateful and deeply indebted to them for their unswerving support, commitment and interest.

Acknowledgements

We particularly acknowledge the inspiration, support and encouragement we have received from:

Jean Illesley-Clarke, Margot Sunderland, Helen Nicholls, Jude Bishop, Karen Turner, Gill Frances, Suzie Franklin, Debbie Yates, Jane Inett, Louise West, Julie Harmieson, Rachel Hill, Anne Barnes and Sally Randell. We value the practical, IT and administrative support generously given by Stevie Smith and the innovative approach to the engineering of the program taken by Jerry Kew and Rob Duncan of Artery Solutions.

Jan Banks

CSW; CTA (Certified Transactional Analyst); UKCP Registered Humanistic Psychotherapist.
Jan was a social worker and now has a psychotherapy practice. She works  with both children and adults, including some clients who are adoptees and vulnerable adults who have learning disabilities. She was a partner for many years of ‘Consultants in Social Work’ in which she developed courses for parents of adopted children and foster carers that considered ways for helping traumatised and troubled children at home and at school. Jan also developed courses and provided training focused on issues including Loss and Bereavement, Therapeutic Approaches to Challenging Behaviours and Counselling across a range of client groups.

Julia Bird
(MSc Gestalt Psychotherapy (GPTI), BEd (Hons), Cert and Dip in Counselling, UKCP registered).
Julia is an independent consultant whose passion is how training teachers in emotional development impacts on children and young people’s behaviour and learning. A former teacher, LEA and OFSTED inspector, her experience includes working with LEA’s and schools to help them understand how children develop emotionally and socially. She has supported adults in schools and other organisations to use THRIVEftc, to trial the materials and to amend them based on information gained directly from users.
Julia is also a psychotherapist working with adults, children and young people. She is a co-director of  a MA degree in 'Emotional Literacy for Children' and a creator of various resources addressing equalities, inclusion, behaviour and the curriculum. She is the co-author of ‘Promoting the Emotional Health and Well-being in Secure Units’ and ‘Promoting Emotional and Social Development in Schools’.

Lynne Gerlach
M.Sc. Integrative Psychotherapy; Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy (Metanoia); UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapy; Accredited team member for OFSTED Inspection of Schools. She has been trained by Cruse in Bereavement Counselling; the Terrence Higgins Trust in Counselling for HIV / AIDS and BACUP for Counselling for Cancer.
Lynne was a teacher, advisor and LEA Inspector in education, a UK ‘Expert’ on Citizenship to the Council of Europe and a Consultant Evaluator for DfEE projects on truancy and disaffection. She has been a Consultant Associate of the International School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre (ISEIC) Institute of Education, University of London and the Centre for Education Leadership and School Improvement (CELSI). She is a partner in Sowelu Associates (see above) and Co-Director of the UK’s first MA Education : Emotional Literacy for Children. She was Co-Director of the MA Integrative Psychotherapy at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE) from 2007-2009 and also contributes to the training of child pyschotherapists. Lynne has published a number of articles and contributed to books on topics including the promotion of emotional and social development in schools, Human Rights Education, anti-racist / anti-discriminatory practice and working with marginalised and disenfranchised groups. Lynne has a private psychotherapy practice.

Roe Lovelock

BA (Hons); CQSW; AASW; APT; MA Social Work Education and Training.
Roe tutors and practice teaches social work students who are studying for their Diploma in Social Work at Brunel, Kingston and Royal Holloway Universities. In conjunction with Jan Banks, as ‘Consultants in Social Work’, she has developed courses for parents of adopted children and foster carers that consider ways of helping traumatized and troubled children at home and in school. Roe has also developed other courses and provided training focused on issues including Loss and Bereavement, Therapeutic Approaches to Challenging Behaviours and Counselling across a range of client groups.