What is VERP?

  • Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP) is a method of professional development where practitioners are sensitively supported to reflect on their practice using real life videos. The aim is to give individuals a chance to reflect on their interactions, pay attention to elements that are successful, and use these positives to make changes where desired.
  • VERP course participants receive some group teaching to help them to understand the Principles of Attuned Interaction and Guidance. VERP can also be used to support turning other training into practice, for example applying nurture principles or enhancing early literacy skills.
  • Each participant analyses short video clips of their own practice and shares and reflects on these, usually in groups or sometimes 1:1. VERP focuses on reviewing work by each participant, and their identified goals for change.
  • VERP is based on the importance of relationships and is useful for any professional who has contact with other people.

    • Why Choose VERP?

  • VERP is a very personalised training course which is tailored to each individual, setting or team, focused on what they want to change.
  • VERP intentionally raises awareness of professional strengths, skills and capacity for change, starting from a foundation of strength and building from this point. We aim to empower others.
  • NICE recommends video feedback approaches for autism, attachment and social and emotional wellbeing for ages 0-5.
  • VERP appears in the psychological matrix for early interventions, rated highly for both usability (4) and strength of evidence (3+/4) for ages 0-5 and 6-12. Further studies are needed in older age ranges.
  • VERP focuses on real life and has the potential to improve wellbeing and confidence at the same time as improving practice. VERP ensures that theory is truly embedded into practice.
  • Research has shown VERP to have significantly more impact than one off training. (Kennedy, Landor and Todd; 2015).

    • We currently have a team of accredited (or working towards accreditation) VERP practitioners delivering across the region. This includes Educational Visitors: Marion Linwood, Alison Reid, Fiona Welsh, Sam Rushton, Angela Anderson, Vicki Dunlop and Pam Abraham and Educational Psychologists: Fiona Irving, Wilma Stoker, Lynne Fernie, Alexander Ratchford and Anne-Marie Walker.

    If You Want to Learn More

    Please visit the VERP Sway for more infromation.