Skip to content

View Details

Therapeutic Life Story Work

Venue
Webinar: Zoom, Webinar
venue
Event Tutors
Learning and Development
tutors
Admin Contact
Target Audience
Adopters / CAH Staff / Childminders / Foster Carers / Pre-Schools & Nurseries / Schools / Voluntary Sector Workers
target audience
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adopters and Foster Carers / Children and Young People
Adopters and Foster Carers subcategories
Professional Development
Children and Young People subcategories
Children's Social Care
Event description
CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE MEETING

In this training programme for South Gloucestershire, Richard Rose will work with practitioners to enhance their engagement with children and young people affected by early life trauma. Through his innovative and creative techniques, Richard will demonstrate ways of working that enable placements to become healthy and nurturing through enhanced understanding and attachment, with the goal of helping these young people achieve their full potential.

Who Should Attend?: Life Story Therapy will greatly benefit all those working with children affected by early life trauma including: those working with children in care; teachers; youth workers; therapists; and those who are involved in recovery work with children and families in need. If you are a professional working with children and young people affected by early life trauma in child protection, out of home care, youth work, education or involved in recovery work with children and families in need, this is a wonderful opportunity not to be missed.

This workshop provides participants with an introduction to the Life Story process and how this work helps children make sense of the past, so that what has happened to them does not dominate, control, or inhibit the present. Based on Richard's Rose book 'Life Story Therapy with Traumatised Children - A Model for Practice', attendees will be shown techniques that have been successfully utilised to assist children to communicate their trauma.

The workshop will be led by Richard Rose, Director of Child Trauma Intervention Services Ltd (CTIS) which seeks to engage with children affected by early life trauma and to help them achieve their full potential. Richard undertakes consultancy and training on Life Story Therapy and working with 'hard to reach' children and adolescents and develops academic training programmes in the UK and internationally. Prior to founding CTIS in 2011, Richard worked in the UK in local authority child protection and in the highly regarded residential therapeutic treatment agency SACCS, including four years as the Clinical Practice Director of the Mary Walsh Institute. Throughout his career, Richard has worked with children and their carers in out of home care and family placements, with the aim of enabling placements to become healthy and nurturing through enhanced understanding and attachment. He is the author of three books including Life Story Therapy: A new therapy for traumatised children – A model for practice, published in 2012 and Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work 2017. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University.
Learning outcomes
Participants will learn:

- Gathering and collating information

- The importance of interpretive skills

- The significance of 'magical thinking'

- Working with the 'stuck' child

- Techniques for producing the Life Story book
Start Date
Friday 3 December 2021
End Date
Friday 3 December 2021
Closing Date
Thursday 2 December 2021
Times
10:00 - 16:30
Maximum Places
20 
Cost
£80.00 
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No