RESTA Support

RESTA is a whole organisation approach to building resilience in students using the latest research from relational and trauma aware practice and underpinned by psychological theory. Using a three-tier approach we aim to provide your organisation with the tools to support learners to build their educational resilience and in doing so improve educational outcomes.

What We Do

RESTA is a whole organisation approach to building resilience in students using the latest research from relational and trauma aware practice and underpinned by psychological theory. Using a three-tier approach we aim to provide your organisation with the tools to support learners to build their educational resilience and in doing so improve educational outcomes.

What We Do

What is RESTA and where did it come from?

Since 2018 we have been researching and developing programmes of support to enhance Educational Resilience in learners. We recognised that often programmes of support fail to acknowledge the system that surrounds the learner as instrumental to developing educational resilience. We began developing a programme that aims to support the whole system surrounding a young person to have the maximum impact on educational resilience.

Using action research, the programme has been through a number of revisions to ensure a robust approach to developing educational resilience. Whilst RESTA began as an individual programme it is now a whole organisational approach. An approach that includes all setting staff and parents and is overseen by a highly trained and supervised, licensed practitioner (RESTA) who is a member of setting staff.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them

Maya Angelou

The principles of RESTA?

Educational Resilience is a collection of protective mechanisms which develop from the systems that surround the young person.

What is a RESTA?

Resilience Support Teaching Assistants (RESTAs) are staff members of your education setting.

What is a RESO?

RESO is a whole educational organisation that has undertaken a two-day training programme in building educational resilience.

What students say about RESTA

“It was great for the student to actually see their coping strategies, even allowing us to see how many of those were healthy/unhealthy coping strategies. It gave us an opportunity to really see things we can work on together to better equip her when feeling challenged/unsafe.”

Feedback from a student

“This has been so much better than the counselling I’ve had in the past, it feels more helpful. Just talking about my problems has never helped because I came away not knowing how to change the behaviours that were causing me distress. I feel excited I have the tools to do this myself. I’m not broken or a bad person that bad things happen to.”

Feedback from a student