The Working With Others approach is based on promoting positive peer relationships, group learning, social skills and respect. Working both nationally and internationally, Working With Others has been successfully introduced with pre-school children as young as 8 months old.

By encouraging opportunities for children to share, take turns, use each other’s names, develop eye contact, play games and action songs together we have found that this builds greater inclusion, confidence, self esteem, independence, and awareness of others, even with very young children.

With ongoing support, adults can build positive inclusive relationships between children and develop open ended questioning to promote the children’s thinking and problem solving skills.

Through positive reinforcement and intervention, children are made more aware of the impact of what they say and do on those around them.

By being listened to and experiencing respect for them as individuals, children are able to develop positive communication skills. 

From the feeling of safety and security that is generated in a calmer classroom, children can learn how to communicate and interact positively with those around them.

With increased confidence and self-esteem, children mix with new groups, face new situations more readily and make smoother transitions to other classes and starting school.

Working With Others has an excellent positive impact on staff teams as well as individual practitioners, and has helped to re-energised many organisations.

For independent nurseries we recommend our Basic Training or Embedding Membership training package, and for those that form part of a larger group we also offer more Network related activities that enable the whole staff team to meet on a more regular, local basis. 

To find out more or book a meeting please contact Dr Cathy Ota on 01273 704918 or email cathy.ota@workingwithothers.org.