Training Course for Therapeutic Specialists
I have come to know a fair bit about trauma... through my various therapeutic trainings, Masters research and real life lessons! From this combination of knowledge and real-lived experience I want to help more therapeutic professionals understand how trauma impacts a...
read moreUNDERSTANDING TRAUMA ~ Course for School Leaders + Influencers
I have come to know a fair bit about trauma... through my therapeutic training and 11 years experience, Masters research and real life lessons! From this combination of knowledge and real-lived experience I want to help more professionals understand how trauma impacts...
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Who is working with your children? (on Broken Boilers and Brain Surgeons)
In real life, if your boiler is leaking you need a plumber. If you need brain surgery you don't call on your dentist. A recent conversation with some delegates on one of my courses has had me pondering. Why is it, if in the rest of life when we need specialist help...
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Transition in Action – Positive Feedback from a School after using ideas from my previous article on supporting children moving up a year
This was the comment posted by a senior member of staff from a primary school after she read the pre-summer TRANSITION article. Her staff all read the article and discussed it together with the suggested activities, and this was some of their learning. WOW!!! Have a...
read morePLAY THERAPY ~ TASTER DAY
Have you heard about PLAY THERAPY? Have you thought it might be something for you? Are you keen to learn some new approaches to enhance your current work with children? Have you wondered what it actually is and what type of children actually benefit? Are you...
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‘Transition’ – What Does it REALLY Mean?
The last few weeks of school and most staff are counting the weeks if not days, or should I say more specifically, 'get ups'. Time speeds up...so many extra things to get done, reports, trips, sports days, assemblies, parties (or graduation balls- still can't get my...
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We Will Remember – How Trauma Might Impact a Generation
I don't think I was alone yesterday as I reached for a tissue (or 3) watching the DDay 70th anniversary commemorations from Normandy. The rows upon rows of white gravestones in the cemeteries, the dwindling numbers of veterans who are still alive 70 years on, the...
read moreHow Old Are You? – The Reality of Trauma in School
One of the children I have been working with has survived numerous horrible things in his first few years of life. When I say survive I mean it literally. He has done the amazing thing of staying alive through multiple experiences that could have ended very...
read moreWhat is Play Therapy?
"Amazing" "Magic" "Profound" "Lifeline" These are some of the words I have heard people use to describe the changes in children after they attend Play Therapy sessions. If a child is ready to process things that may have happened to them in the past,...
read moreThe Impact of Trauma…from a child’s perspective…
Sometimes adults find it hard to understand children who have experienced trauma...and in not understanding...even 'professionals' let them down. Maybe it would help to try looking at it from a different perspective... Ok. So imagine you were 6 years old, and you had...
read moreMore than Words
Just a few of the words that flow through everything that CHEW Initiatives is about. The reason it exists ... the vision and the values are all in there. Enjoy pondering them. I have tried lots of times, but have to say it is impossible for me to consider these words...
read moreRunning Lighter
Jo R. is a mum in the Midlands. Although she is a runner, she still felt the 'weight' of carrying too much excess around with her, and was a self-confessed sugar addict. She allowed a friend's journey to inspire her and started out on her own road to better health....
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