Every child deserves to see the full picture of who they are.

What is Light Lens?

Light Lens is a simple, visual way of helping children notice, name and build a picture of who they are - their qualities, interests, capabilities, relationships, values and growth.

It gives trusted adults a shared language for noticing and reflecting that Light too, so that over time children can increasingly recognise and own it for themselves.  

It is designed to be simple enough to remember, practical enough to use, and flexible enough to become part of the everyday relationships and routines already surrounding children.

Two simple words

Light Lens begins with one memorable metaphor:  

Light - who I am.
Stones - difficult things I experience.  

The distinction is simple, but important.  
The things that happen to me are part of my story.
They are not the whole picture of who I am.  

The focus of Light Lens is on helping children gradually build that fuller picture - noticing and collecting the many things that make up their Light.  

Simple hand movements, visual resources and repeatable routines make the language easy to remember and easy to bring into everyday life.  

No app. No specialist equipment. No complicated programme.  Just a simple language that can grow with the child.

Why so simple?

Because some of the things that help children thrive don't need to live only inside specialist interventions.

The guiding question behind Light Lens is:  

How simple can we make some of the things we already know help children, so that more children can experience them?  

That question shapes every part of Light Lens.  

It is designed to be:  
- visual rather than abstract;
- experiential rather than theoretical;
- memorable rather than complicated;
- practical rather than prescriptive;
- simple enough to learn quickly;
- and flexible enough to become part of existing relationships and routines.  

From classrooms to family support.
From Early Years to foster care.
From families to youth and community settings.  

The same simple lens, adapted to the relationship and the child.

Designed to travel

Light Lens was created around a simple possibility:

What if children encountered a language for seeing who they are across more than one of the relationships and settings in their lives? 

In school, Light can become something children routinely notice.  

At home, it can become part of small, everyday family moments.  

Within Early Help, Family Support, foster care or other targeted services, a practitioner can help a particular child build and revisit their picture of Light more deliberately over time. 

Because the core language is simple, it has the potential to travel between the places and trusted adults surrounding a child.

Different relationships. Different levels of support. The same lens on the child.

For organisations

Light Lens is designed to fit naturally into relationships, conversations and routines that already exist around children.  It provides a simple shared language and a small set of practical ways to notice, collect and build Light.  

Organisations receive:  
- short, experiential training for staff;
- simple resources for introducing Light Lens to children;
- practical routines adapted to the age, role and setting;
- opportunities for staff to practise noticing and reflecting Light;
- support to choose a small number of practices to implement;
- and implementation support, reflection and learning as the approach is tested in practice.  

Light Lens can be implemented universally, for example across a school or Early Years setting, or more deliberately within targeted helping relationships, such as Early Help, Family Support, social care or foster care.

Minimal training. Minimal resources. Designed for everyday use.

Work with Light Lens

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