Therapeutic Storywriting is a creative, evidence-informed approach that uses storytelling as a tool to support children and young people in expressing emotions, building resilience, and making sense of their experiences.

This training is designed to equip practitioners with practical strategies to:

• Support emotional literacy and emotional regulation through story-based work
• Help children and young people explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a safe and structured way
• Use metaphor, narrative, and imagination to facilitate therapeutic dialogue
• Develop confidence in applying storywriting techniques within educational and therapeutic contexts
• Design and run individual and group interventions using storywriting as a therapeutic tool
• Develop a deeper understand of the psychology that underpins therapeutic storywriting

This flexible online training package is designed to be accessible and practical, allowing practitioners to engage at their own pace and apply learning directly to their settings.

This programme is suitable for:
✓ ELSAs and MeLSAs
✓ Teachers and teaching assistants
✓ SENCOs
✓ Pastoral and wellbeing staff

Includes:
✓ Video modules designed and delivered by specialist Educational and Child Psychologists
✓ Downloadable resources
✓ Real-life case studies and examples
✓ Certificate of completion

Therapeutic Storywriting offers a powerful and creative extension to existing support strategies, supporting emotional wellbeing through creativity, connection, and storytelling.

What is therapeutic storywriting?

Therapeutic storywriting is a creative, evidence-informed approach that uses stories, characters and metaphor to help children explore emotional experiences, develop insight and consider alternative perspectives.

By exploring experiences through a character or story, children can gain psychological distance from difficult topics, making them feel more manageable to explore.

The approach can be adapted to individual children and used alongside the wider emotional literacy and wellbeing work already taking place in schools.

Why learn therapeutic storywriting?
Children do not always have the words, confidence or developmental ability to talk directly about what they are experiencing. Through characters, metaphor and narrative, children can explore difficult experiences at a level that feels more manageable.

• Therapeutic storywriting can support:
• Emotional literacy and understanding
• Exploring difficult experiences
• Reflection and self-understanding
• Developing alternative perspectives
• Identifying coping strategies
• Personalised emotional wellbeing interventions

The course focuses on using stories creatively, intentionally and therapeutically within school-based practice.