What you get: What you get: a recorded CPD webinar with the PowerPoint slides, companion notes and a CPD certificate to download. Watch it straight through, or build it into staff INSET or twilight training and take as long as you like over the discussion points. You’ll get instant access to everything as soon as you buy.
Session Overview
Why demand avoidance isn’t defiance, and what helps
Most staff have met a child who can’t do what’s asked and read it as defiance, rudeness or attention-seeking. Rewards and consequences get reached for first, and reliably make things harder.
This recorded CPD session gets underneath demand avoidance as anxiety rather than defiance, and what changes when the adults around a child adjust how they communicate and respond. It’s practical throughout, built for whole school staff with no prior knowledge of PDA, with companion notes for anyone who wants to go deeper. It covers the foundations and then the honest questions staff actually ask: why a strategy works one day and not the next, what to do when a demand genuinely can’t be removed, and how your own regulation changes the outcome.
What you’ll learn:
- Why “won’t” is almost always “can’t”
- The small language changes that take the heat out of a demand
- Why capacity fluctuates, so a strategy works one day and not the next
- What to do when a demand genuinely can’t be removed
- How to repair the relationship after things go wrong
- Why your own regulation matters more than your script
Who this is for:
Teachers, teaching assistants, lunchtime supervisors, office staff, SENCOs and school leaders, with no prior knowledge of PDA needed.
What’s included
- 50 minute video session
- Companion Notes
- Session Slides
- Certificate of CPD
Licence Information
Individual Licence (£20 + VAT)
For personal professional development and individual viewing.
School Licence (£100 + VAT)
For internal use within a single school, including staff meetings, twilight training and INSET sessions.
Need a larger licence?
For MATs, local authorities, conference organisers or organisations wishing to use this session across multiple sites, please contact me for a bespoke quotation: [email protected]
Book Pooky Live
If you’d like me to deliver this session live for your school, trust, conference or organisation, or if you’re looking for a keynote, webinar or staff training on a related topic, I’d love to hear from you.
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