GroBrain is passionate about infant mental health
We live in an age of mental health struggles, high anxiety, depression and stress, sadly often beginning in childhood. At the heart of Grobrain is a passion to educate and inform on how the infant brain develops and how parenting shapes the way a child will see themselves as they grow up. Using developments in scientific understanding, we want to turn the tide, break the negative cycles we see being passed on and look to raise a generation of emotionally healthy adults.
Foundations for lifelong emotional wellbeing are laid in the period from conception to the age of 3, when the brain is developing at its fastest. We help parents understand the vital part they play in 'wiring up' the connections in their baby's brain, especially the ability to manage stress.
Health professionals and Early Years practitioners use GroBrain in their work with parents, integrating our infant mental health resources into their regular practice. Our tried and tested visual resources make complex neuroscience easy to explain, even when time is short. Insights into brain development can be a strong motivation to make small but significant changes during this critical period.
Foundations for lifelong emotional wellbeing are laid in the period from conception to the age of 3, when the brain is developing at its fastest. We help parents understand the vital part they play in 'wiring up' the connections in their baby's brain, especially the ability to manage stress.
Health professionals and Early Years practitioners use GroBrain in their work with parents, integrating our infant mental health resources into their regular practice. Our tried and tested visual resources make complex neuroscience easy to explain, even when time is short. Insights into brain development can be a strong motivation to make small but significant changes during this critical period.
The resources are designed to be used flexibly, either one-to-one or in groups, giving parents:
- Increased understanding of child development, especially emotional development
- Increased sensitivity to babies' signals and cries and why comfort is so important.
- Increased motivation to talk, read, sing and play with their babies - promoting school readiness
- Understanding of how these parenting skills link with infant brain development
This website is for practitioners and anyone working with parents in the Early Years.
If you are a parent, click here for the GroBrain Parent website.
If you are a parent, click here for the GroBrain Parent website.
Foundation course
Learn how to explain brain develop to parents 1:2:1 (Face-to-face training)
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Online Foundation course
Learn how to explain brain development to parents 1:2:1 (Online training)
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Facilitator Training
Learn how to facilitate a GroBrain Baby Course (Face-to-face training)
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Infant Mental Health Package
NEW Learn to run 9 parenting sessions on infant mental health (prebirth to 3)
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Toddler course (1-3 years)
NEW course for toddlers aged 1 - 3 years coming soon!
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Posters, booklets
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GroBrain in the workplace
GroBrain is being widely used by Flying Start, a Welsh-government funded programme for vulnerable families with children 0-5. Over the past ten years we have trained hundreds of their frontline workers. The Swansea JIGSO Flying Start team has recently been awarded a prize by the Royal College of Midwives for reducing inequalities.
"GroBrain is an integral part of all we do, and can be applied to any situation. It helps young people know what they need to do to be good parents. The 'brain wiring' is just so simple for them to understand and it's the bit they remember." Mike Davies, JIGSO Manager April 2019
Why use GroBrain?
- All our materials are science-based. An updated evidence base is due in September.
- We don't just give you the underpinning knowledge. We equip you to explain the theory to parents yourself.
- We 'translate' concepts from research into pictures, diagrams and activities that parents can understand.
- The pace and style of our parenting courses makes them fun to deliver and fun for parents to attend. Our drop-out rate is low.
- GroBrain can be integrated into your regular work with parents, even when time is short.
- Our resources are highly visual, including PowerPoint/KeyNote presentations to use in groups on 1:2:1 on tablets, laminated A3 pictures to raise discussion in 'low tech' situations, unusual visual aids, Facilitator Manuals for all our courses to ensure programme fidelity, posters, leaflets for parents, evaluation forms and certificates.
- Supports ACE awareness training for practitioners and families they support.
Next Open Access Facilitator Course
Thursday 14 November near Basingstoke. For details
What people say about us!
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Contact us at info@grobrain.com
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