Bespoke Training and Keynote Speaking

This course looks at the impact of bereavement on young people. It explores stages and models of grief. It discusses the appropriate use of language around death when it comes to young people. It explores how children grieve specifically and how this changes at different developmental points. The course addresses complicated grief that may present as the result of a traumatic death such as suicide etc.... It provides strategies that can be implemented to support young people with a bereavement. If appropriate we can include how to support a young person who has experienced a loss as a result of Covid-19 specifically. It discusses having appropriate bereavement policies in place, how to explain to a young person that someone has died and how to deal with the media should this be necessary. Lastly, it addresses delegates own self-care when supporting a young person through a bereavement.

This course looks generally at emotional well-being in children and young people and then how we as professionals and/or parents can support them to build/increase their resilience. This course will provide many strategies for building emotional literacy with young  people. This is especially important at this unprecedented and unpredictable time. It will teach children/young people how to better care for themselves and help them understand and process their feelings.

During this course professionals (or parents) will learn how to build their own resilience and how to effectively look after themselves when working with/supporting young people or other adults. 

It is recognised that those in helping professionals can experience burn out and compassion fatigue at a higher rate. This course aims to help professionals to learn some strategies that will hopefully counteract the pressures and demands that come when supporting others emotionally.

The course is delivered through a reflective approach where we explore our own self and reactions to experiences by taking part in various activities. The hope is that as delegates progress through the course they can recognise why they personally react to situations in a certain way, why some things impact on them more than others, to identify certain stressors currently present for them and how to implement effective coping strategies that they can go away and practice.

Some people who have benefitted from this course are: school staff, management teams, youth work teams, call centre staff, children's extracurricular activity club volunteers/staff and more...

This course focuses a lot on all aspects of self-care.

This course is split into two parts. Firstly it looks at the theory of attachment through interactive activities. Once delegates have gained or re-capped on prior knowledge of what attachment is and how young people can experience issues with it they will then learn how this may manifest in young people. The course will take delegates through common signs that may indicate an attachment disorder/issue is present in a young person. It will spend some time looking at the diagnosis of GAD. The second part of the training goes on to explore strategies that can be implemented to support young people who may be experiencing attachment issues or attachment disorder.

This is a very interactive course that takes delegates through activities to explore theory and also demonstrates how to implement activities to children/young people.