Community of Practice: Systemic Action for Education (SAFE)
Date: 8 July 2025
When: 17:00-18:30
Where: Zoom
The SAFE Community of Practice aims to meet on termly basis to bring together systemic practitioners with an interest in educational provision for networking, training, resourcing and advocacy for inclusive, compassionate and holistic schools and colleges.
For this session we will be joined by Abbie VanMeter (co-developer of CosmoParenting and podcast host of Stories Lived. Stories Told) and Nicole Wells, a teacher and key contributor to the development of CosmoKidz. Following on from the March COP, Abbie and Nicole will share the ways in which the ideas of CMM are being used in schools via the CosmoKidz and CosmoTweenz resources. The session will invite discussion of a range of individual, class and whole school approaches and explore the factors that enable schools to develop relationship-based approaches. You can find out more about the various CMMi school resources at https://cosmoactivities.com/research/
Speaker
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Alastair PearsonCPD ContributorAlastair is currently systemic psychotherapist in a CAMHS Social Care Team. He was previously Joint Service Lead for the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service, having worked in a wide range of social work and CAMHS settings. He was an advisor on the NICE Quality Standard Committee on physical and mental wellbeing in schools, and served as a school Chair of Governors. He qualified as a Systemic Psychotherapist with IFT, where he is a Trustee and Chair of the Ethics Committee. He is a member of AFT’s Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Committee and co-edited an edition of Context exploring systemic practice in schools.
