Special Education Therapy - Accredited C.M.A. Certificate

Name: Special Education Therapy - Accredited C.M.A. Certificate
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Empowerment for Teachers, A.P.'s, Parents to develop powerful therapeutic processes for students & inclusive classrooms.

Created byAmanda Mcgregor

Last updated 1/2025

English

What you'll learn

An introduction to power dynamics, attachment theory, history of education, distortions of power, the need to form a culture of equality and respect.
Recognising personal power, legitimate power, developing an understanding around relating, building trust, understanding and meaningful dependancy.
Looking at attachment styles and emotional intimacy, how care and trust play a role in the development of strong bonds. Developing 'comfort' and 'safety'.
Why students use manipulation, control, possession, dominance, objective behaviour, passive-aggressive behaviours to find ways to manipulate the power dynamic.
'Empowerment Therapy' to develop understanding and coaching around primary survival needs, therapy and the development of a level playing field.
Recognising distortions of power on a relationship and student level and an understanding survival needs, human need in every day living and work experience.
Understanding bullying, communication styles, developing the culture, behaviour into your space, developing values and intentions.
Creating safety for both parties, sharing equality, mutual respect from a place of trust and understanding. Leading into a space of kindness, authentic voice.
Understanding Performance Demand Avoidance and its mimic to Narcissism, understanding the exaggerated forms. Developing risk assessment and safe guarding.
Recognising triggers on a subconscious level and working with the collective in developing a culture around high values.

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 2h 53m total length

Introduction, Power Dynamics, Changes to the Law, History, Learning Environments25:31
The course elevates teaching and development skills through understanding the role of therapeutic education by prioritising the nurturing of each student’s unique needs, empowering them in their sense of autonomy and their learning journey through a deep and meaningful experience that centres on their cognitive process, behaviour science and understanding around control and power through a complex understanding of primary survival needs. By respecting personal power and fostering autonomy, students are not only taught content but are supported in developing critical life skills, such as self-awareness, emotional regulation, and the ability to form healthy relationships.

This process acknowledges power dynamics and that learning is deeply intertwined with the student’s mental and emotional state and that growth flourishes in environments that respect individual agency and align with United Kingdom 2015 Anti Slavery Laws and Human Rights that are there to nurture the ‘work force’ in to further agency, freedom and autonomy through genuine self empowerment respecting diversity, equality and neuro-divergence. Moving into a future that the next generation is able to operate to integrate with these laws is essential in developing a high value culture.

The whole course, includes downloadable resources and exercises, with print off pages for therapeutic use. The course is available in the resource area of lecture one, as a downloadable PDF to enable accessibility and for you to read the content in your own time. The resources on the next sections of the course will be specific to the modules and curriculum.
Different Thinking styles - Thinking into Freedom and Autonomy3:33
An exercise of self reflection in the way you assert yourself and you power, to check in with your voice of authority in the lean in to power dynamics. Awareness around different forms of neurodivergence and cognitive processing.
Attachment Styles and Learning Environments5:53
An introduction to attachment styles and how they are seen or experienced in the learning environment. Downloadable exercise in recognising your own attachment style.
Therapeutic Communication and Empathy7:19
An introduction to the different therapeutic processes associated with communication and therapy. Ways to develop therapeutic language, with a focus on non- violent communication and empathy.
Empowerment Therapy - Coaching into Self Empowerment46:06
Working with Special Education Therapy and Empowerment Therapy, building up an understanding around Primary Survival Needs and their relationship to power and control. Work sheets in respect to developing a therapeutic process, concerns and risk assessment with aims to understand the power dynamics of a student, person or patient.
Inspiring through Values1:35
Understanding distortions of power, building up understanding around 'vulnerabilities' of unmet needs. Working with values to develop a culture of high values and a vision for a space, room or classroom environment.
Extra Sensory Perception and Empathy9:57
Using Empathy and an understanding of Sensory Perception, Intuition to empower understanding around anothers sense of 'vulnerability', to create compassion and kindness. The resources include exercises for children, support in language, questions that enable empathy.
Emotional Intimacy0:09
The development of emotional Intimacy enables a higher quality of relationship experience in which a more meaningful sense of depth and awareness can be understood, by fostering empathy it is possible to reach out and engage with students and persons that feel disengaged, a drift or are avoiding. Reconnecting can enable a sense of belonging. The resources are for adult awareness in recognising the different behaviour styles and creating a space that helps to develop trust, safety, inclusion and belonging. This section just has extra resources in concluding Empathy, Emotional Intimacy and Attachment.
Bullying and Undermining28:38
This sections helps to bring confidence and assertive language around bullying and undermining. The resources - Bullying 1 is a document around bullying and how it fits with survival needs, the document is designed for adults. The later - Bullying and Undermining is self reflection, understanding and application of knowledge when dealing with undermining and asserting oneself with an authentic and authoritative voice. Assertive Language helps to identify and clarify concerns.
Pathological Demand Avoidance, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Narcissism0:54
Collective Forms of Abuse, working on a Subconscious Level17:20
The wider picture, enables us to see how historically the pathological path of some stories can escalate, by creating early interventions we create a high level of safeguarding the future. The course explains techniques to help bring self reflection and find 'authentic' voice.
Revise and Reflect - Self Empowerment Exercise2:52
The resource is the whole course and the questions for revision.
Emotional Clearing, Reclaim your Power10:36
***Optional *** - This meditation helps to clear any feelings or triggers, so that you are able to empower yourself and self govern. Use the resources and EFT mentioned in the link to download the free manual to develop an emotionally clearing technique.
Meditation - Present with your Emotions9:32
***Optional*** - a meditation to help in emotional processing, self reflection and self awareness.
Reading List0:04
A reading list, to support further research and acknowledge influencing authors.
Conclusion - Well done !3:40
Well done for completing the course, please send me three case studies, do message me about 'Empowerment Therapy'. I will send you a valid certificate with signatures, with your name and date.

Requirements

The course is open to all but designed for learning providers that want to develop therapeutic processes with an understanding of behaviour science.
This is a foundation course, that highlights the areas to be concerned about in developing a healthy learning environment. The course in about healthy ways of understanding and relating to students.
The course is accredited by the Complementary Medical Association, a certificate will be awarded on completion.

Description

Elevate your approach to childhood education, whether you’re a teacher, therapist, alternative education provider, homeschooler, or parent striving to nurture family dynamics. This groundbreaking course empowers you to teach and parent from a therapeutic role model perspective, building profound communication skills, grounded in behaviour science. Wheels of Change, Surviving to Thriving by Amanda McGregor is now available as a workbook on Amazon, giving every support in working through the course and enjoying the learning.

Master the art of understanding neurodivergent students, addressing trauma and navigating power dynamics, while fostering a level playing field for all. Gain practical tools to create an empowered dynamic through a deep focus on student's primary needs, respectful communication, cognitive processing, and the science of behaviour.

This course helps address behavioural challenges, understand historical influences and develops heightened awareness of power, safety, language and a developed approach to risk assessment.

'Educational Therapy | Empowerment Therapy', is both special educational therapy and empowerment therapy for teachers, alternative providers, parents to enable students to thrive, giving an understanding and the foundations of a regulated 'therapy' around therapeutic processes in addressing social and classroom dynamics; addressing bullying, undermining, attachment disorders, behaviour concerns, communication styles. Educational Empowerment Therapy brings understanding and process, when students are controlling, dismissive, avoidant, vulnerable, disengaged, withdrawn or seek to disturb the learning experience.

The course is developed by Amanda McGregor, through decades of experience in working with trauma, neurodiversity, exclusion and helping people with bullying or undermining. The course gives learning providers and trainers the skills they need to be fully aware of concerns in class room and learning settings and enables them to have a foundation certification of regulation to empower the teacher, learning provider, therapist, or parent. The course then goes on to bring further insight to areas to work with in creating powerful change and transformation.

The course has the power to make real change in developing an enthusiastic culture by focusing on transformation and high values, enabling a foundation of prosperity in community life. The course has been validated by Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists and the Complementary Medical Association and is considered essential in understanding behaviour science in education, learning environments and home settings giving an in depth understanding and invaluable awareness. Gain a certificate in Educational Therapy | Empowerment Therapy - Copyright Insight Education 2024, Amanda McGregor all rights of copyright and distribution, reserved. The course has a workbook, Wheels of Change, Surviving to Thriving available on Amazon by Amanda McGregor available U.K. and U.S.A.. (It is not necessary to purchase this workbook, to do the course, but if you would like to work in a book at the same time, it does add to the experience).

Who this course is for:

This course is for teachers, parents, key workers and people in complex working conditions in which power dynamics can cause distortions and create complexity in the conditions of learning and teaching.
The course is also very helpful for adult relationships but its designed for learning providers.