What is 'Positive Education' and how does it help children?

As part of our mental health series, ITV Central has been learning about 'Positive Education' and how it helps children build up their emotional resilience.

Coalville organisation, Worth-It, uses the technique in schools to promote and protect young people's wellbeing.

What is ‘Positive Education?’

• Positive Education combines the development of skills for wellbeing and skills for achievement and success through a range of integrated approaches and techniques.

• The approach to Positive Education is focused around solutions for early intervention; to build children and young people’s resilience and promote mental wellbeing.

• The interventions can be applied to the whole school community, school staff, within classes, or with individuals. These include the development of personal strengths and resources, positive emotions, positive relationships and interactions, creating a safe space for learning, learning, living, teaching and embedding skills for wellbeing and resilience’s.

CEO of Worth-It, Liz Robson-Kelly, is at the forefront of researching Positive Education.

Her current research projects include ‘whole school approaches to developing resilience and emotional wellbeing’, ‘second wave positive education’, and ‘integrating coaching and positive psychology to support young people at risk of developing mental health problems’.

• Liz will be a guest on our programme tonight at 6pm