Small Groups
Our targeted 6‑week small groups have been designed to deliver measurable growth through relational, skills-based intervention.
Students build self-awareness, confidence, emotional literacy and safer decision-making through structured weekly themes, covering wellbeing, coping strategies, relational skills, online influences, connection and reflection.
Resilience & Wellbeing Groups
LVA’s Emotional Wellbeing Groups are structured, six-week small-group programmes that build core emotional wellbeing skills through sequenced weekly themes and clear learning outcomes.
Students develop self-understanding, practical coping strategies, and greater resilience, applying their learning to real-world scenarios and next steps.
Upon group completion, the facilitator compiles an impact report for the school's records, documenting the students' progress from the course.
Outcomes for Students
By the end of the programme, students will be able to:
Identify and articulate emotions using accurate vocabulary, including understanding the distinction between emotions and felt sensations
Apply practical strategies to manage stress, worry, and anxiety, and select coping approaches that work for them
Strengthen self-esteem and self-concept by recognising personal strengths and understanding how values shape decisions and behaviour
Improve help-seeking and connection by mapping trusted relationships and identifying sources of support
Consolidate learning through reflection, identifying what can be changed and committing to realistic next steps
Key Benefits
Belonging, safety & self-awareness: Students build a sense of belonging while developing self-awareness, learning to recognise and name feelings, and understanding why this matters for wellbeing
Practical self‑care strategies for stress: Students understand stress and its impact, explore healthy coping strategies, and identify approaches that work best for them through experimentation and practice
Confidence, connection & next steps: Students strengthen self-esteem and values-led choices, identify trusted support networks, and use reflection to focus on what they can change—setting small, achievable next steps
Built Different
Empowering boys to build emotional strength, self-awareness and integrity.
This group, designed for boys, is a structured six‑week small‑group series that supports students to think critically about identity, relationships, and decision‑making, while building emotional literacy and practical strategies for safer, healthier choices.
Each session follows a clear theme and outcome, progressing from cultural pressures and identity through relationships and online influences, and ending with reflection and sustainable self‑care.
Upon group completion, the facilitator compiles an impact report for the school's records, documenting the students' progress from the course.
Outcomes for Students
By the end of the programme, students will be able to:
Recognise societal pressures and expectations and reflect on how these influences shape beliefs and behaviour.
Clarify identity and character, understanding how values, choices, and circumstances impact each.
Identify healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviours, including recognising warning signs in themselves or others and knowing where to seek support.
Make safer choices online, understanding online vs in‑person dynamics, risks related to nudes/pornography, and the legal context of consent and image sharing.
Communicate emotional needs more effectively, with improved emotional vocabulary and an understanding of the link between feelings and physical sensations.
Use practical regulation strategies, reducing unhelpful reactivity and strengthening thoughtful decision‑making.
Apply reflection and self‑care planning, identifying coping strategies that best support individual needs and marking progress.
Key Benefits
Healthy masculinity, identity & character: Students explore cultural and social expectations of “becoming a man,” recognise internalised pressures, and develop identity/character through values, choices and reflection.
Respectful relationships & safer online choices: Students learn to identify healthy vs unhealthy relationship behaviours, know what to do and whom to go to for support, and build understanding of online risks (including nudes/pornography) and consent/the law.
Emotional self‑awareness & better decision‑making: Students build language for emotional needs, understand feelings and body signals, practise strategies to process emotions, and move from reactivity to more measured decision-making, ending with reflection and sustainable self‑care.
SEN Wellbeing & Resilience Group
LVA’s SEN Emotional Wellbeing Group is a structured six‑week small‑group programme for students who are neurodivergent and may not meet thresholds for EHCP funding, but still need targeted, practical support.
It builds emotional literacy, self‑confidence, and delivers real-world coping strategies through a clear and adaptive session structure and a supportive, tailored group environment.
Upon group completion, the facilitator compiles an impact report for the school's records, documenting the students' progress from the course.
Outcomes for Students
By the end of the programme, students will be able to:
Identify and communicate internal experiences (feelings, body signals, stress responses) using clearer language and shared vocabulary.
Recognise personal triggers and early warning signs, reducing overwhelm by noticing what’s building before it escalates.
Select and practise coping strategies that support regulation (a personalised “toolkit”), with an emphasis on strategies that are realistic and repeatable.
Build confidence and self‑concept by identifying strengths, practising positive self‑talk, and celebrating progress over time.
Use values to support decision‑making, developing a clearer sense of “what matters to me” and how that guides choices.
Strengthen help‑seeking and support awareness, identifying trusted adults/peers and rehearsing practical steps to access support.
Reflect and plan next steps in manageable, concrete ways—focusing on changeable factors and small actions that build momentum.
Key Benefits
Accessible emotional understanding: clear language and practical activities help students recognise what they’re feeling and why it matters.
Personal coping toolkit: students explore stress and self‑care strategies and identify what works best for them as individuals.
Relational behaviour: DBT (dialectical behaviour therapy) style relationship skill development.
Stronger connection and support: students identify trusted support and practise small, realistic steps towards healthier connection and help‑seeking.