A social pedagogue's room is a space about relationships between people. One-to-one conversations with a student and their family, bullying prevention, social support, group work with a class, and conflict mediation — including through a school peer-mediation service and restorative circles.
The core of this room is not a desk but a circle. Mediation only works when there is no head of the table: everyone sits in identical seats and nobody is higher than anyone else. A room built around a desk turns the conversation into a summons to the principal's office.
Who it is for
- Schools and lyceums — the social pedagogue is a staff role, and the peer-mediation service is established by school order.
- Vocational schools and boarding institutions — social support and conflict work happen daily.
- Inclusive resource centres — work with families and support for a child moving between institutions.
- NGOs and youth spaces — restorative practice and work with teenagers.
Nine zones
1. The specialist's workplace and confidentiality
A social pedagogue keeps records containing personal data about a child and their family. So the set includes a lockable cabinet kept apart from teaching materials, not open shelving. Desk, chair, mobile pedestal, shelving. See storage cabinets.
2. The one-to-one conversation corner
The most important conversations here do not happen at a desk. Two soft armchairs angled towards each other, low round tables, a rug — a teenager will not speak openly across a desktop from an adult. A two-seat sofa is added for meetings with the family. See armchairs and sofas.
3. The mediation circle
Eight round floor cushions in a circle on a rug that marks the boundary of the meeting. The cushions are light — participants lay them out and return them to their wheeled holder themselves, and that is part of the method. At the centre stands a low round Flex-Space table, only 40 cm high: a shared surface that keeps everyone at the same level, with no head of the table. On it: a wooden spiral labyrinth for joint action, emotion cards and family figures for the conversation.
4. Group work with a class
A magnetic whiteboard, an easel and a mobile flipchart, so the class rules stay visible and are written by the children themselves. Plus large team games: a tower-building challenge, a floor-standing four-in-a-row, and a team parachute for larger groups. For classes that arrive already heated, KYDAI-SVITY — a set of seven illuminated target panels: a short game of turn-taking and aim, after which the group sits down in the circle as a different group.
5. Emotions, needs, self-regulation
Mediation starts with being able to name what you feel and what you need — without that, the conversation collapses into mutual blame. Emotion cards and posters for group work, Montessori emotion sets, an emotional-intelligence game, and a floor platform for working with anger.
6. Family, social roles, diversity
Family and profession figure sets, family demonstration material, a set of figures of people with disabilities — a conversation about inclusion without moralising. For younger children, a sand tray in which a child shows what they cannot yet say.
7. The trust and decompression corner
A child who has just disclosed something difficult should not walk straight back into the corridor. A transformer pod — a dome of four felt segments on a central pivot: closed, it becomes a den with round port-holes; opened, it hides a materials trolley or stacked chairs. Beside it a soft lounge bean-bag, a weighted toy and noise-reducing headphones — a few minutes to reassemble.
8. Storage and order
Labelled containers, clear boxes, a wall storage system, a 25-cubby shelf. Group materials and records are stored separately — that is about protecting personal data, not about tidiness.
9. Privacy and acoustics
A conversation in this room must not be audible in the corridor — a condition of trust, not a comfort. Acoustic panels and a partition between the circle and the workplace. A door with a narrow glazed panel: the specialist's work stays visible while the conversation stays private.
Why this solution comes from ISD
We design this room not as "one more specialist's office" but around a specific practice — the restorative circle. So there is no head seat, the circle furniture is light enough for a child to carry, and the conversation corner is separated from where the specialist works with records. These three decisions determine whether a teenager comes back a second time.
The furniture is our own production, so dimensions are fitted to your room rather than the other way round. You get a visualisation before purchase and a specification with part numbers ready for a tender or a donor application — plus team training, so the mediation service actually runs instead of staying an order in a folder.
What the ISD solution includes
- Site measurement and zone planning.
- 3D visualisation of the room before purchase.
- Furniture from our own production plus vetted materials.
- Delivery, assembly, installation.
- Team training through ISD Academy.
- A specification with part numbers, formatted for tenders or donor applications.
Three configurations
| Configuration | What it includes | Suited to |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Workplace with a lockable cabinet, two-armchair conversation corner, a six-seat circle, whiteboard, emotion cards, storage, acoustics | School, lyceum |
| Optimal | Adds a family sofa, flipchart, team games, the transformer pod and lounge pouffe, 25-cubby shelf, zoning panel | A school with an active mediation service |
| Maximum | Adds the circle rug, a waiting area, team parachute, KYDAI-SVITY (7 modules), sand tray, puppet theatre, partition shelf | Large institution, boarding school, youth space |
Send us a floor plan and we will write the specification
Room dimensions and the size of the group you work with are all we need. You will receive a zone layout, a visualisation and an itemised list with part numbers within your budget.
Request a quoteQuestions and answers
How much space is needed?
From 18 m². A circle of six needs at least 9 m² of clear floor, separate from the specialist's workplace.
How does this differ from a psychologist's room?
A psychologist works with the child's inner state; a social pedagogue works with relationships — family, class, conflict, environment. So there is less assessment here and more room for a group: the circle, the rules board, team games. Some material genuinely overlaps — if one room serves both specialists, we build a mixed configuration. See also the psychologist's room.
Why pouffes when the school already has chairs?
Because a high-backed chair creates hierarchy and a circle does not. In restorative practice participants sit in identical seats and arrange them themselves; that is part of the procedure, not an interior detail.
Can the room be equipped in stages?
Yes. The workplace with a lockable cabinet, the conversation corner and the circle come first — that is the minimum for the room to function. Team games and group equipment follow in later purchases.
Related sections
Psychology · Pouffes and soft modules · Armchairs and chairs · Rugs · Acoustic panels · All specialist rooms