Welcome to the Cultivating Change workbook resources. These materials are here to support your journey as you reflect, grow, and build stronger relationships with the young people you work with. Rooted in the values we share at Jamie’s Farm – belonging, purpose, and positivity – this collection brings together videos, articles, and stories to help bring the workbook to life.
Pre-work Module
1. Watch Cultivating Change Module 1.
Understanding Behaviour
2. Read through the Guide to Decoding Behaviour.
3. Explore resources on “Decoding Behaviour” on the Cultivating Change portal.
4. Read Creating Change for Vulnerable Teens’, Chapter 4: Fight, Flight or Freeze
5. Read the following TES Article: ‘Why it matters whether your students like you’
6. Young Minds information on trauma/ACEs
7. Cultivating Change Webinar: Improving behaviour: Is self regulation really the silver bullet?
The Power of Relationships
8. Cultivating Change Webinar: Why Belonging Matters in Schools and How to Build it
9. Cultivating Change Podcast: Conditions to thrive- creating a sense of belonging
10. Belonging Schools Report 2024
11. Example from Carr Manor School in Leeds, who have embedded relational practice
12. Relational practice: Improving behaviour and school culture (SecEd 2022)
13. ‘Creating Change for Vulnerable Teens’, Chapter 5: Communication
Using a Strengths Based Approach
14. Cultivating Change Webinar: The Power of Positivity – building bridges with young people through communication and empathy
15. Cultivating Change Podcast: Resourcing Positivity
16. Cultivating Change Video: The power of fresh starts
17. Using a strengths-based approach
18. Unconditional Positive Regard: A game changer for schools?
