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Alpiri Coaching is supporting professionals, volunteers, parents and young people who are seeking innovative and joined up ways of working together with a Learning Community where resources can be accessed easily and links made through a Whats App group.

Initially drawing on Professor Eileen Munro’s Review of Child Protection and the Social Care Institute of Excellence document ‘Think Child, Think Parent, Think Family’, Alpiri Coaching has developed a Family Wellness Coaching programme integrating science from the Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University with research on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as well as psycho-education tools that increase emotion literacy and executive function. 

The Family Wellness approach is all about joining mental and physical health - remembering the importance of exercise, sleep and diet as well as emotional wellbeing:

• Excessive stress undermines the healthy development of biological systems
• Human development is particularly susceptible to the effects of excessive stress in pregnancy and the first 3 years of life
• All learning, behaviour and health are influenced by interactions between genetic variation, different stressors in the environment, relationships and developmental time
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) increase the risk an individual will develop a toxic stress response and include issues beyond those raised by Anda and Felitti in their seminal survey (1998) eg. neurodevelopmental, poverty, exposure to discrimination or atrocities of war
• Prolonged activation of the stress response system can disrupt the development of brain architecture, affect immune systems, hormonal systems and how our DNA is read and transcribed.
• Healthy nurturing emotion validating relationships with adult caregivers protect the developing child from adversity by buffering the toxic stress response
• Adult caregivers who themselves experienced a toxic stress response whilst in the womb and/or the first three years of their life are likely to need emotion literacy support to manage their emotional and mental health and to parent effectively
• Genetic predisposition means that we are not all in the same place in terms of sensitivity to the environment – for example children with neurodevelopmental differences such as high functioning autism.

The approach  enables conversations that move away from the ‘identify and fix’ model toward a coaching model of ‘figuring out together what’s going on’ and building strengths and capabilities particularly in managing emotions.

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Very best wishes

Sarah

Dr Sarah Temple MRCGP