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A thinking space this afternoon around ways of integrating some of my parenting patchwork & trauma deck of cards in assessments within social services (I have online modules which go through these too)

Tomorrow is coeliac awareness day as part of awareness month. I was diagnosed with refractory celiac about 22 years after a long time of being very unwell. There is so much misunderstanding. Thanks for helping spread awareness & becoming more informed.

Back with HR professionals & allied teams supporting our ambulance service. Our 3rd one today thinking about our own wellbeing & emotional immune system; & trauma infused approaches at a practice & team/ org level

Recording 2 podcasts this afternoon on very different topics and meeting one of my lovely groups I offer thinking spaces too. Also designing some new images & thinking of creative ways to teach teenagers about relationships.

Lovely to be back with a fab organisation as a “creative hat”-❤️these types of projects & v up for more. The team give me slides & a brief of what they are trying to train or teach on & the parts of the curriculum they are finding a bit dry or flat & need a bit of something:) and

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Lived experiences of migrant and refugee parents: Challenges encountered during their journey and settlement in Europe

With Barnsley children’s services this morning delivering an abridged session on the power of language (my fave workshop)

An afternoon thinking space following a series of training and then supervision not snoopervision with 2 fab practitioners working in adoption and a meeting with one of my doctoral students about their research. Still full of lurgy so time to switch off now:)

A day focused on organisational and system trauma, stress and much more with NHS practitioners. Such an important topic and area which is often sidelined

A day with TACT focusing on trauma informed & infused fostering panels- such an important part of the fostering journey- so much richness in the room and golden nuggets for taking forward. And again highlights the power of pause and having thinking spaces

familiesinharmony.org.uk/cf-report a report by Sharon McPherson on the relationship between the Windrush economic migration & the current lived experience within the UK and Caribbean kinship care communities.

This is such a special and unique course for social workers as a small and nurturing group which we love doing- it’s not just a training but an experience- and really has become a community. Hope to see some of you join

Lovely long weekend in the sun, long walks, swimming, lots of book writing/editing, fab chats, more reading on healing/wisdom and adversarial growth, & listened to some great podcasts. Now back with my lovely Hillingdon virtual school for our 1-2-1 thinking spaces. Been doing

A day focusing on the power of language within a trauma context with a group of Speech and Language professionals

I have loved being bought in to some organisations & teams recently as a Creative Concept-to-Creation Psychologist (their creative hat)- they share a principle, value, concept, message, content & I support them to find ways to make it more engaging, creative & visual. Through

A day with a group of colleges and prison educators in Ireland focusing on the power of language and also some of the nuances and textures of “boundaries”.

An event coming up on creative ways of exploring and enriching feelings- eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-way… my only public one on this topic this year

So many conversations, thinking spaces and workshops expanding and exploring the nuances and layers within this