Ghanaian educators, counsellors urged to embrace SEDS qualification
The Social Emotional Development Specialist (SEDS) qualification is the world’s only regulated professional qualification in Social Emotional Development Practice.
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The curriculum is grounded in rigorous science, with blended learning resources validated through the Social Emotional Skills Academy (SESA) Initiative internationally.
The qualification sets a new vanguard and it is independently regulated by a leading global organisation expert in emotional development and has a lineage straight into the science and research of the behavioural science.
The call was made by James Kwesi Addison, the first Ghanaian EQ coach and the co-founder of the SESA initiative, a SED Institute initiative.
Mr Addison was speaking at Ajumako Enyan Esiam District in the Central Region after an emotional resilience workshop attended by over 110 guidance and counselling coordinators of senior high and basic schools in the district.
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He explained that the professionals who were ‘SEDS’ qualified to join a progressive 24-month Continuous Professional development (CPD) process to refine their skills and expertise within real-life, with over 50 hours of supporting evidence of practice and continuous learning required in order for the SED Institute to re-qualify specialists.
SED Institute is an international Learning, Development and Research infrastructure deployed globally and dedicated to social emotional development across all realms of education, care and community support.
According to Mr Addison, there was very little in place within Africa for such specialist formal training/qualification - the area of emotional wellbeing and resilience. Looking around in Ghana/West Africa where many societal and family challenges existed.
To him, the area of social emotional development was a sensitive and far-reaching expertise which entailed dealing with the practical development of people’s emotions and their emotional needs, then enabling them to build key social emotional skills (EQ) that empowered them to cope well with life and build optimistic future.
He further observed that many professionals or voluntary workers in Ghanaian public, private and third sector environments had not formally qualified to work with the emotional wellbeing of young people/young adults.