Description
This opening workshop sets the tone for the whole series. It places sensory integration at the heart of everyday school life, not as an added extra, but as something that shapes participation, belonging, movement, play, emotional safety, attention, and access to learning. It helps participants move beyond strategy-led thinking towards participation-led reasoning, which is easier to explain in schools and more useful for reports, planning, and collaborative work.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- describe how sensory integration can influence participation across the school day
- identify links between sensory integration, praxis, relationships, and access to learning
- discuss participation-based examples from their own school contexts
- reflect on how participation-focused language may strengthen communication with schools and families
- identify one way to shift from strategy-led thinking to participation-led reasoning in practice
Participants will learn it through focused teaching, discuss it in tutor groups, apply it to real school examples, reflect on what it means for their own role, and take it back into practice through participation-focused thinking.
We know that school based practice can look very different depending on your role, setting, and service model. Our small tutor groups are matched, as far as possible, by professional and practice context, for example mainstream schools, specialist schools, visiting services, or integrated school based roles. This helps OT, PT, SLT and wider AHP colleagues explore ideas in ways that feel relevant, supportive, and easier to take back into everyday practice.
Learn it. Discuss it. Apply it. Reflect on it. Take it back into practice.
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