Join Dr Lisa Cherry in Conversation with psychic medium Nikki Leader for the final episode in this 6 part series on liminality! 

We explore liminality in the world between worlds, tracing how trauma can open intuition and how small rituals help us cross from fear to becoming. We reflect on trauma as a portal to intuition and change, and rituals as bridges for separation, transition and integration. 

Nikki gets a mention in my blog post on The New Year That Belongs to Everyone where we talk about 17th February! 

You can find Nikki's website here and she is also on Instagram and TikTok. 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Dr Jo Taylor as they explore liminality as a human constant and argue why compassion is not optional when lives sit between identities, roles and outcomes. From school supervision rooms to street-level tensions, we share tools to widen safety, practise care and make change sustainable.

In this episode we talked about fears, blocks and resistances to compassion, which are totally human. You can read more about Fears of Compassion in this seminal paper link here.
We discussed the way that checking in with - and mapping - the flows of compassion in your life and work can be helpful. You can give this a try using Jo's resource the Wheel of Compassion.

You can find Jo and learn more about his work on LinkedIn and his website is here. 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Geraldine Costello, Director of Governance and Safe Sport at British Gymnastics, where we look at the liminal space between work cultures; the police and gymnastics. What happens when a career built on command and certainty collides with a mission that depends on trust, listening and repair? We explore how safeguarding shifts from policy to lived practice when survivors are heard and institutions choose to change.

Geraldine traces her path from the police cadets to child protection and multi-agency hubs, where she discovered that careful interviewing, cross-sector teamwork, and dignity-centred practice could change lives. She unpacks the contradictions of tackling domestic abuse and safeguarding in a culture still wrestling with misogyny and the allies and mentors who helped her stand firm. Then we follow her leap into youth guiding and sport, where volunteers, community and equity reshape how influence works. No badges. No warrants. Just persuasion, clarity and relationships that make safety possible.

Inside British Gymnastics, a newly created safe sport role emerged in the wake of the White Review and a surge of testimonies. Geraldine explains how governance, complaint handling and trauma-informed processes are being rebuilt to protect athletes, support coaches and clubs and restore trust through transparency and consistent apology. 

She shares the personal scaffolding behind resilience, counselling, coaching, reflection, and how leaders can navigate the long middle of change without losing heart.

If you value thoughtful leadership, safe sport and trauma-informed practice, this conversation offers a grounded playbook for culture change. Subscribe, share with a colleague who works in safeguarding or youth sport and leave a review to tell us what resonated most.

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Continuing the exploration of liminality, join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Tracey Smith, who taught for many years in primary schools in Oxfordshire.  She was Headteacher for Bladon, Tower Hill and New Marston Primary Schools in Oxfordshire, before becoming Head of Primary Teacher Training at the University of Buckingham. Tracey returned to Headship as Executive Headteacher of two Faringdon Primary Schools before continuing working with teacher training and supervision at the University of Buckingham. Tracey is also a trainer and consultant for Values-based Education and is in the process of completing her EdD entitled 'Working-Class Teachers and the Issue of Belonging in a Middle-Class Profession'. She has co-authored a book on Teacher Training with Barnaby Lenon (Hachette) and is writing her second book entitled: A Framework for Values-Based Education: From Vision to Practice (Emerald Publishing)

In this conversation, Lisa and Tracey explore how liminal transitions shape teacher identity, belonging and retention, with a focus on working class teachers navigating middle class norms. Stories, theory and practical steps show how mentoring, culture and values-based leadership turn the uncertainty of a liminal space into growth and transformation.

Topics covered include:

• Defining liminality and communitas in schools
• Class, accent and identity pressures in early career
• Values-based leadership, psychological safety and agency
• Reading culture through staff room signals and tacit rules
• Representation as aspiration for pupils and teachers
• Gramsci, Hall and the theory behind belonging
• Practical rituals that build shared trust and ease transitions
• Leadership attention to staff wellbeing as a lever for outcomes

You can connect with Tracey on LinkedIn HERE. 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Annalisa Toccara-Jones on liminality and adoption.

Annalisa is a Doctoral researcher in Journalism at the University of Sheffield, an award-winning cultural producer, communications strategist, and graduate teaching associate. As an adoptee, her research explores how UK adult adoptees use social media to challenge dominant adoption narratives and highlight the colonial logics that shape UK adoption, drawing on decolonial theory, the theory of intersectionality, and critical adoption studies. She teaches on media, identity, and social justice, and her work spans digital storytelling, community engagement, and lived-experience-led practice. Outside academia, she supports charities and creative projects with narrative strategy and ethical communications focused on adoption, racialised care, and wider public dialogue.

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry for Episode One in this 6-Part series on liminality. Lisa is in conversation with Professor Bjørn Thomassen, Professor in Global Political Sociology at Roskilde University, to unpack liminality. They explore the in‑between phase after an old identity collapses and before a new one takes hold and why that space is powerful, precarious and everywhere in modern life. Starting from rites of passage, we look at what happens when there’s no recognised guide to carry us through and how that vacuum can invite both care and manipulation.

Together, we map the difference between chosen and forced transitions, the craft of “ceremony masters” in today’s systems,  belonging and home, showing how poorly designed services can trap people in extended liminal states. 

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References mentioned:

Horvath, A., & Szakolczai, A. (2019). The political sociology and anthropology of evil: Tricksterology (1st ed.). Routledge.

Szakolczai, A., & Thomassen, B. (2019). From anthropology to social theory: Rethinking the social sciences. Cambridge University Press.

Thomassen, B. (2014). Liminality and the modern: Living through the in‑between. Routledge.

Turner, V. (1969). Liminality and communitas. In The ritual process: Structure and anti-structure (pp. 94–113). Aldine Publishing

Van Gennep, A. (1960). The rites of passage (M. B. Vizedom & G. L. Caffee, Trans.; S. T. Kimball, Intro.). The University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1909) 

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In this 6-part series, we will be exploring liminality in multiple ways, merging this understanding of in-betweenness with belonging and considering its relevance in making sense of people's experiences in education, in health and in children's services. 

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In this somewhat different episode for the podcast, Dr Lisa Cherry reads the Introduction of her upcoming book for you, which is out on 31st December 2025 and can be pre-ordered here. This book takes the reader on a journey around the country and across various different sectors to explore the aspect of Trauma Informed Practice that can be the most ignored and the most difficult to understand; collective care for those who are doing the work. 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Beth Vecchione on Care to Dance, a venture set up by Beth to bring the power of dancing to children experienced in, or experiencing care. 

Care to Dance can be found HERE! And you can connect with Beth HERE! 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry and Amelia Brunt in conversation on trauma, whether supervision is s*xy and meeting yourself more deeply!

*Since this podcast was recorded we have added a new date for the training that was mentioned which you can find here. 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry and Whitney Iles speak on growing up with trauma, to working with communities living with violence, neurodivergence and moving into her body to begin to heal. 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Lou Lebentz as they explore trauma, trauma recovery and therapy.

Lou Lebentz is a trauma educator, speaker, and creator of The Voyage® a mind-body-soul recovery framework used by clinicians, coaches, and changemakers worldwide. Lou brings over two decades of clinical therapeutic experience and her own lived journey through trauma, addiction, and illness into everything she teaches. She’s here to talk about the messy, sacred work of healing  and what it takes to move from surviving to thriving.”

You can find Lou on all the social media channels by name. 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Betsy de Thierry as we explore trauma recovery, shame and rupture & repair. 

Betsy's latest book can be purchased here and Betsy can be found on all social media platforms.

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Jules Hillier, CEO of Pause, as they explore trauma informed approaches to the organisation and how having cancer has influenced how she strives to lead an organisation where the workforce is regulated enough to do the deep work. 

Pause is a national charity that works to improve the lives of women who have had, or are at risk of having, more than one child removed from their care, and the services and systems that affect them. 

This podcast talks about cancer, cancer treatment so do take care if you need to. 

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On 9th October 2025, we are hosting our Dream Big! conference in Manchester and we are nearly sold out! So we thought we'd have a little competition for someone to win a ticket!

This conference will open up a space, providing insights and interventions, experiential moments of somatic sensations and a felt sense of being held. As a not for profit event we have ensured that you will be cared for throughout and you will learn practices that support you in your own development journey which then directly impacts your practice with those you are working with.  

Find out more abut the conference here. To enter the competition to win a ticket, please write to lyndsay@ticservicesltd.com 

The winner will be announced on 1st July 2025! 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry in converstion with Sarah Johnson as they explore belonging in education. Sarah's research is looking at belonging in alternative provisions and Lisa's research looked at belonging as understood by adults who were care experienced and excluded from school. There is a space in the middle of both of those pieces of research where they meet. Find out more about Cultviating Belonging as an antidote to trauma! 

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Join Dr Lisa Cherry and Vicki Shevlin, founder of Social Work Sorted and generous podcast host on Social Work Sorted, as they untangle how to simplify some of the more prickly aspects of social work. 

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LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/vicki-shevlin-820171256

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Dr Lisa Cherry is in conversation with social worker Ian Thomas, where we discuss lived experiences of addiction, recovery and compassion. 

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Dr Lisa Cherry is in this conversation with social worker Jonny Hoyle where we discuss how AI isn’t the future; it’s the present. Social work needs to have the difficult conversations and steer the destination rather than waiting, not knowing or misusing it.

We explore how the work around this is in two parts which should interact; technology and ethics. We need to use technology for the things we decide it should do, not necessarily for what it could do.

We also talk about record keeping and the role of AI not just for the child now, but for the adult that the child will become. 

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Dr Lisa Cherry is in conversation with Prof Richard Rose talking about the development and creation of therapeutic life story work which is now a widely used practice in much social work around the UK, Australia and many other countries. We talk about fractured childhoods, missing pieces and our deep desire to figure out who we are and where we're from. 

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Chris explores the trauma of abandonment and privilege – Elite boarding schools, their impact on Britain and the world, the wounded leaders that come from them, generational trauma and the wounds that have to be healed in adulthood.

Chris invites us to face into the abuse legacy of UK private schools, why there is much left to do and it’s not “all better now” as the schools would have us believe.

Lisa draws some parallels between boarding school and care.... 

Chris Braitch is on LinkedIn and the website is www.seenandheard.org.uk

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In this fantastic episode not only does Lisa talk to Ric Flo about music, belonging and care but we release Big and Bold.

Dr Lisa Cherry commissioned Ric Flo to create a piece of music from her research on belonging, communicating some of the themes, direct quotes and general sense of the wisdom given by the research participants.

Our conversation contextualises the whole process.

You can download the song HERE!

We also invite you to make a donation to our chosen charity for the song, who work with care experienced young adults and beyond cultivating a sense of belonging for all those who come into contact with Right Resolution. They are a small charity so every penny really matters and is used on those using the service. Lisa is proud to be the Patron. 

Find Ric Flo on Instagram, Threads and LinkedIn (search Ric Flo or Ric Diage)

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Emma Easton is the Education Manager of Spartans Community Education which provides youthwork led, trauma informed alternative education for primary and secondary children and young people, when mainstream is asking for more than they have to give. She works within these nurturing settings and leads a committed team of youth workers, teachers, volunteers and befrienders who know that relationships are at the heart of learning.

Emma taught English in mainstream secondaries for 23 years and was a Literacy
Development Officer for the City of Edinburgh Council. She is an associate tutor on the Edinburgh University PGDE course and has published one journal paper in the Scottish Affairs journal on ACES looking at the practical ways in which Spartans ‘Builds the Bridge of Trust’ with young people. She joined The Spartans Community Foundation’s Alternative Education team 9 years ago and has a particular interest in supporting the mental health of all young people and is on a journey to understand more about the presentation of autism and adhd in girls and women.

Emma Easton:

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In this three part, one off series, Dr Lisa Cherry is in conversation with Nikki Leader, close friend, energy healer and Sound Therapist, as they navigate cancer together. Join them as they explore the trauma of diagnosis, inner strength and allowing the beauty from within to shine!

This episode has a sharp focus on endings and beginnings, self awareness with a discussion on death so do take care if that feels like that might be a lot for today.

Episode One is here.
Episode Two is here. 

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In this three part, one off series, Dr Lisa Cherry is in conversation with Nikki Leader, close friend, energy healer and Sound Therapist, as they navigate cancer together. Join them as they explore the trauma of diagnosis, inner strength and allowing the beauty from within to shine!

This episode has a sharp focus on self care, collective and energy!
Episode One is here and Episode Three is here. 

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In this three part, one off series, Dr Lisa Cherry is in conversation with Nikki Leader, close friend, energy healer and Sound Therapist, as they navigate cancer together. Join them as they explore the trauma of diagnosis, inner strength and allowing the beauty from within to shine!

Episode Two is here and Episode Three can be found here.

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In conversation with Lisa Cherry today is Colby Pearce who is a Clinical Psychologist who lives and works on Kaurna (pronounced “Garna”), Nurungga (pronounced as it reads), and Nukunu (pronounced “nookunoo”) country in the land known as Australia. Across the last twenty-eight years Colby has worked continuously with children and young people recovering from a tough start to life, and adults who interact with them in care and professional roles. He maintains three busy psychotherapy clinics, but also finds time to write and deliver programs intended to enhance awareness of the experience, needs, and therapeutic care of young people who have experienced complex childhood trauma, including in Ireland. Colby also works with teams that support kinship carers of Australian Aboriginal Children, the stabilisation of kinship care arrangements, and family reunification. Colby is looking to expand his work with individuals and teams working in the child welfare space, and write more!

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The Bio: "Smash Life was formed by Matt and Andy Smith who spent their childhood in the care system. The brothers were unfortunately abused in care but have spent a combined 40+ years working in various roles in social care to ensure their past pains have been used as a purpose to be a listening ear, voice and advocacy for many children navigating through their own care journey now. Both are “being who they needed when they were younger” Smash Life is an award winning company that leads from the heart and provides mentoring, experiences, events, group work, inspirational talks and training."

W: http://smashlifeuk.com/

And the promised music by Matt: https://www.sonnetsmith.com/sonnetsmith-music/

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Lisa Cherry is in conversation with Emm Irving,  Senior Programme Manager for Improving Population Health, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board who leads on the Adversity, Trauma and Resilience Programme. The ambition is for the whole of West Yorkshire to become Trauma Informed by 2030. Lisa and Emm discuss the challenges, dealing with overwhelm and facing our own traumas alongside why we need to start with the workforce! 

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Join Lisa Cherry and Karen Treisman in a live webinar conversation about changing organisational systems, services and cultures.  

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Join Lisa Cherry in conversation on a live webinar with Peter Blundell and Danica Darley on boundaries and relational practice. Professional boundaries are there for the safety and security of service users and professionals. However, there are factors that can increase professionals' use of boundaries that can lead to defensive and distance-based practice rather than relational and effective practice.

The best professional social care practice is relational, yet boundaries (if used ineffectively) can interfere rather than foster those relationships.

We are advocating for relationship-based professional boundaries practice, rather than a practice that is distance-based (i.e., creates barriers to relationships and change). We openly advocate for system change.

We support safe, reflective and professional practice and are not supportive of practitioners working against systems unsupported, or in ways that could cause them or service users harm.

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In this episode, Lisa Cherry is in conversation with Alex Kemp exploring professional kindness, culture and leadership. 

Alexander Kemp has been working with children and families for over 20 years. He holds a degree in social work and a masters of public administration.  He lives in Brighton with his husband who is a doctor working in intensive care.  Alex is care experienced. 

Alex has worked in senior roles within large organisations specialising in the provision of services to children and families who need help and protection and with children in care and care leavers.  Alex worked at Cafcass, the largest employer of social workers in the UK, as an assistant director for a large geographical area of England.  In this role, he worked in partnership with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in supporting the British Overseas Territories to develop and improve services for children and families.  He trained and coached senior leaders abroad to support their development.   

Alex’s last role was in the UK as one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of children’s social care; he is the first known care experienced person to have held this position.  He inspected local authorities and other organisations including fostering agencies and children’s homes. 

Alex is one of only a handful of care experienced people in the UK who have progressed into such senior roles in large organisations responsible for providing help and support to children and families. He believes strongly that expertise by experience is undervalued.  He has recently established an organisation which aims to support organisations and practitioners across the helping professions explore how and kindness and reflection influence the way in which professionals work.  Alex also hopes to spend some time speaking, training and writing. 

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Luke Billingham, part-time researcher, part-time youth worker, talks all things about shifting the lens on how we view youth violence, the significance of mattering and how we need to step away from 'boundaries receptacles for blame'.

Here's a link to the "Terrifying abyss of insignificance" paper: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1185/1395

Worth mentioning that the title of that paper is a quote from a brilliant book by Tony Ellis: https://www.routledge.com/Men-Masculinities-and-Violence-An-ethnographic-study/Ellis/p/book/9781138040274)

Here's a link to Against Youth Violence (available for pre-order; out in October): https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/against-youth-violence

Here's a link to Hackney Quest's site, where Luke works part-time: https://www.hackneyquest.org.uk/

Here's a link to the research project Luke is working on with the OU: https://changingviolence.org/

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What happens when youth work, the decimation of preventative services and a community that feels left behind collide? In this collaborative book, Cut Short; Why we’re failing our youth – and how to fix it, Ciaran charts life during the most challenging years of the last decade. The emergence of the VRU in London is recorded as are the real lives of those living in their community as violence escalates against the backdrop or even in response to, the ideology of austerity and a changing political landscape.

I absolutely loved this book and as far as I'm concerned, it is a must read inviting a very real and ongoing call to action.

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Paperback out on 30th June

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Dr Amanda Taylor-Beswick’s main research interest is in the area of digitalization and professional education, in particular, how social work education socializes and equips students for practice in an emergent and complex digital social world. Research projects include: an examination of the contribution of social work education to the preparedness of students for practice in the connected age; navigating digital contact for children in out of home care; the design and development of a wearable device to help to reduced drug deaths in high risk populations in Northern Ireland; a youth-co-research project designed to test out activism as a mental health intervention for young people; academic advisor to a project investigating ‘The Digital Capabilities of Social Workers in England’ in order to improve practices in this area. She is also currently working with the NISCC, HSCB and the 5 NI Health and Social Care Trust to progress digital understandings in and for social work education and practice.

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Steven Russell, is the founder of Elements SEMH Support. As a child, he lived with 9 foster families, was placed into two children’s homes and attended 5 schools. With this in mind, he decided to turn his “Pain to Purpose” by creating Elements.

As a child, growing up in the care system, and an adult working in the care system. Steven has become an effective communicator with children living in care.

His authentic style enables him to build rapport with children and young people with ease.

Combining the elements of his professional and personal experiences to create “Elements SEMH Support”. Steven has been able to inspire hundreds of children to become more optimistic about their lives despite their adverse experiences

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Sheina Rigg a Scottish social worker, living in Belfast permanently since 1990 has been seconded to a Trauma Informed Practice Project in 2018 as one of a team of 4 implementation managers, project manager and project lead. Now a smaller project, more embedded in the SBNI structure, they support organisational change using a transformation model devised from a service user perspective, their journey through services and apply a trauma lens/trauma principles to that journey from 'entry' to 'exit'. 

Pilot projects have been supported in a range of settings. Covid and lockdown has had its impact, not least on the systems being supported to change however in some ways staff wellbeing has never been so talked about so some doors are more open than they were!

Resources: 

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Sean, who features in the new section of The Brightness of Stars 3rd Edition, shares with us a little bit of history of 'care', why community is everything and why speaking about the care experience is hard yet so important! 

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Sparked by a Twitter conversation, Lisa and Andi deep dive in a more nuanced way than Twitter allows, into thinking about childhood adversity and trauma in the context of criminal justice. How do we ensure that the public are safe, that people take responsibility for their actions and that there are interventions in place that support healing from childhood trauma and adversity? 

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The 3rd Ed of The Brightness of Stars is out in May 2022 and this short series of videos introduces you to some of the contributors.

Meet Dianne, one of the original contributors talks about how writing about her experiences 'opened a door', heightened her awareness and the impact that the experience of being in care had on her. 

The 3rd Ed has brand new contributors bringing the book up to date, additional reflections from the original contributors and poetry.

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The 3rd Ed of The Brightness of Stars is out in May 2022 and this short series of videos introduces you to some of the contributors.

Meet Isabelle, one of the youngest contributors sharing why contributing a chapter was so important to her, the act of processing trauma through writing her chapter and the importance of sharing shared lived experiences. 

The book has brand new contributors bringing the book up to date, reflections from the original contributors and poetry. Isabelle is one of the new contributors. 

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The 3rd Ed of The Brightness of Stars is out in May 2022 and this short series of videos introduces you to some of the contributors.

Meet Pav, one of the original contributors talk candidly about our time on Women's Hour, the healing power of being involved in the book, life as a Muslim in the children's home and how we should never stop reaching out to children and young people even when they won't let us! 

The 3rd Ed has brand new contributors bringing the book up to date, additional reflections from the original contributors and poetry. 

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The 3rd Ed of The Brightness of Stars is out on 22nd May 2022 and this short series of videos introduces you to some of the contributors.

Meet Jamie, sharing the impact of finding people with similar experiences and how that has led him to focus on community, connection and collaboration. He also begins to explore the intersection of care with sexuality. 

The book has brand new contributors bringing the book up to date, reflections from the original contributors and poetry. Jamie is one of the new contributors. 

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The 3rd Ed of The Brightness of Stars is out on 22nd May 2022 and this short series of videos introduces you to some of the contributors.

Meet Tim, one of the original contributors from the 1st Ed written back in 2013/2014 sharing the reflective process of looking back at where he was and where he is now. 
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The 3rd Ed of The Brightness of Stars is out on 22nd May 2022 and this short series of videos introduces you to some of the contributors.

Meet Shaunna, one of the youngest contributors sharing why taking part was so important to her. The book has brand new contributors bringing the book up to date, reflections from the original contributors and poetry. Shaunna is one of the new contributors. 

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A deep discussion on parenting, the menopause and translating the science of neurobiology.

Kate on Twitter : @katesilverton
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Kate's Book: There's No Such Thing as Naughty

Lisa on Twitter: @_lisacherry
Lisa's Book:  Conversations That Make A Difference for Children and Young People

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A short interview about the book Conversations That Make a Difference for Children and Young People by contributing organisation, To The Moon and Back.

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Here is a review found on Amazon from Dr Christopher Moore:

What an achievement by Lisa Cherry. This book is a must-read for anyone who has a vested interest in the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people.

Lisa provides a brief introduction to the areas of attachment, adversity and trauma. These set the scene for the subsequent conversations in each of the three parts of the book. She also provides frequent reflections and points for discussions. I found that there was a real momentum to each chapter. They often left me with food for thought and I was eager to begin reading the next conversation.

One of the greatest strengths of this book is how it dips into various contexts and disciplines and yet the discussions remain accessible and relevant to a range of educators and professionals within health and social care. I have little experience of the criminal justice system, but I found Andi Brierley’s chapter very applicable to common issues such as preventative and multi-agency working. Similarly, the chapter with Pauline Scott and Laura Devennie will speak to those grappling with whole-school and whole-service thinking around staff wellbeing.

The conversational nature of this book is really unique, and this allows it to provide a really rich space for exploring and challenging a range of issues. It goes further than many books about similar topics, as it pulls back the curtain on the complex journey that these headteachers, social workers, therapists and managing directors (to name just some of the professional backgrounds) have experienced.

I appreciated the fact that the conversations did not shy away from the difficulties and setbacks which occurred on these journeys. Change is hard. Systems can be rigid. People can be hesitant to view the world and their own background with a different lens. It is truly refreshing to see these issues discussed openly and honestly. Lisa and her contributors really help to make these experiences tangible. There are also universal themes revealed across this spectrum of conversation which provide hope for the future. Compassion. Understanding. Empathy. Relationships. This book will undoubtedly help you to feel that you can make a difference.

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A live Book Launch event recorded on Zoom with 5 authors releasing books this year on the subject of trauma, relationships and connection.

Lisa's Book:
http://bit.ly/conversationswithyou​

and a FREE chapter download:
https://bit.ly/chapter4you​

Andi's Book:
http://bit.ly/andibrierley​

Mark's Book:
http://bit.ly/markfinnis​

Karen's Book:
http://bit.ly/karentreisman​

Adele's Book:
http://bit.ly/adelebates

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**Warning for listeners** This Episode references violence and abuse towards women and children throughout.

This conversation, while booked weeks ago, is recorded in light of Sarah Everard’s body being found and a Met Police Officer being charged and named.

Reclaim These Streets, having organised the Clapham Vigil which has since been considered illegal by the Met Police, have set up a page to raise £320,000 to donate to women's charitable causes. 

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/reclaimthesestreets

https://www.whiteribbon.org.uk/

Website – www.madeleineblack.co.uk
Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unbroken-Journey-Shattered-Violence-
Survival/dp/1786062763
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Dee and Rosie join Lisa Cherry to talk about a new Digital Archive called Care Experience and Culture.

Twitter: @CareExp_Culture

Press Release: https://careleaversinfiction.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/care-experience-culture-2/

Dee Michell is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Criminology & Gender Studies at the University of Adelaide. She was made a Ward of the South Australian State in 1960 and remained in foster care for 15 years. She worked as an administrator for a multi-national corporation before going to university in her 40s, when she combined study with primary care for her three children. Dee is the first in her families (family of origin and foster family) to go to university.

Rosie Canning is a PhD Candidate Uni of Southampton. The focus of her research is the representations of orphans and care leavers in fiction. She is examining the research through the lens of both creative and critical practice.

Rosie recently worked as a Research Assistant for Aoife O’Higgins in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. They worked on Conversations for care a knowledge exchange project and Care in the time of Covid a project that explored the day to day lives of care experienced adults in the UK during COVID-19. We wanted to know how the care community is coping and what helps them. We also wanted to record their experiences in history.

A Portrait of Care was a collaboration between Dr Aoife O’Higgins, Rosie and The University of Southampton Widening Participation department. It was an online exhibition that ran during National Care leavers Week (NCLW) via Instagram using self-portraiture as a way to combat the negative stereotypes people have about children in care.

Dee and Rosie met online in 2018.

 

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In this episode, Kathy Evans, CEO of Children England interviews Lisa Cherry on her new upcoming book "Conversations That Make A Difference To Children and Young People; Relationship Focused Practice From The Frontline" out in May 2021.

You can pre order the book here:
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Kathy Evans  on twitter: 
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Website:
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In this unique book, international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education, social work and healthcare to engage in conversations on a range of pertinent topics and issues affecting children and young people today.

Divided into three main parts, which introduce attachment, adversity and trauma, each discussion places an emphasis on emotion and the understanding that we have as humans for compassion, empathy and connection. By encouraging collaboration between sectors and exploring a range of intersecting themes, the conversations take the reader on a winding journey to broaden their depth of thinking, reflect on their practice, and to consider the central message: that we can bring about social change, one interaction at a time.

This book is a call to action and an opportunity to look around and decide what kind of service we want to provide, what kind of community we want to live in, and what sort of legacy we want to leave. At a time of ever-present social and political challenges, this book will stimulate conversations on current practice and professional development for the future and is a must-read for everyone working with children and young people.

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In May 2021 Lisa Cherry's next book, Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People
Relationship-Focused Practice from the Frontline, will be released. 

Lisa asks contributors why they felt that contributing to the book was important. In this video, Angela Hunt and Alison Kindred-Byrne from To The Moon and Back Fostering talk about love and fostering. 

You can pre-order your copy here:
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After the year we've had, how could we celebrate all the work of those on the frontline and those who support them? A Christmas HUG seemed the best way forward and what emerged was a hour of poetry, music and pure love.

Sit back, soak it all up and remember that we will always be better together.

#love #education #socialwork #careexperience #christmas #connection #relationships #relationalactivism

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In May 2021 Lisa Cherry's next book, Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People
Relationship-Focused Practice from the Frontline, will be released.

Lisa asks contributors why they felt that contributing to the book was important. In this video, Fiona talks about connection!

You can pre-order your copy here: https://www.routledge.com/Conversations-that-Make-a-Difference-for-Children-and-Young-People-Relationship-Focused/Cherry/p/book/9780367644017

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Jancis Andrew, Leeds Virtual Head and Chair of the National Association of Virtual School Heads joins Lisa Cherry to talk all things education, looked after children, children in need and having tricky conversations. We talk about what Virtual Schools are and what they are definitely not! 

Jancis can be found on Twitter on:
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and NAVSH can be found
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In a follow up to Part 1, we dive even more deeply into talking about power, suffering and empathy. The conversation on adversity and childhood suffering is not an easy one and both myself and Suzanne have times where we really struggle to articulate ourselves. What you'll hear is a compassionate, honest and thoughtful discussion about ACEs, trauma and adversity. 

References to books that arose in conversation: 

Children's Homes: A History of Institutional Care for Britain s Young
by Peter Higginbotham  | 30 Jul 2017

The British Betrayal of Childhood
by Al Aynsley-Green | 28 Sep 2018

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Lisa on Twitter - @_lisacherry
www.connectedbaby.co.uk

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Why is the conversation about ACE's (Adverse Childhood Experiences) so challenging? In this conversation, we explore power, polarisation and suffering along with much discussion about the role of theory in making sense of data.  

For more of Suzanne's work:

Website: www.suzannezeedyk.com
Twitter: @suzannezeedyk

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Craig Pinkney is a Criminologist, Urban Youth Specialist and Director at Solve: The Centre
for Youth Violence and Conflict CIC (UK). Craig is an experienced Youth Worker and
academically holds a BA (Hons) in Youth & Community Development (JNC), Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning, Post Graduate Certificate in Research, Masters in Criminology and is currently a PhD Researcher in Social Sciences at Birmingham City University. 

Craig has over 16 years of experience as an outreach worker, transformational speaker,
international gang exit strategist, mediator, mentor and filmmaker. He is well known for
working with some of the countries most challenging young people, potentially high-risk
offenders, victims of gang violence and youth who are deemed most hard to reach.
Craig is also the UK lead for the EU Gangs Project, an advisor for the Ministry of Justice in
Jamaica, and a visiting lecturer, specialising in Youth Violence, Urban Street Gangs, Social
Media, Trauma-Informed Practice, Race and Crime and Black men’s desistance.

Social Media Handles:
Twitter: @RealActionUK
Website: www.solvecyvc.com
Linkedin: Craig Pinkney

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Lisa Cherry and Pooky Knightsmith dive deeply into mental health, anorexia, autism relationships that make a difference and what it means to bring the professional, the academic and the personal into the arena.

An internationally respected face of child and adolescent mental health, Pooky works tirelessly to ‘be the change she wants to see’. A prolific keynote speaker, lecturer, trainer and author, she develops and shares practical, evidence-informed approaches to promoting mental health – arming health, social care and education staff with the skills, understanding and knowledge they need to support the children in their care. 

Pooky has a PhD in child mental health from the Institute of Psychiatry, is the author of many books, is the research and development director at Creative Education and is a former chair of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition. She lives in South London with her two daughters, husband, mother-in-law and three dogs.  She’s a keen climber an amateur knitter and a tenor in her local choir. She lives with PTSD and autism.

Twitter: @Pookyh & @_lisacherry
Instagram: @PookyH & @lisa_cherry_speaker
Website: www.pookyknightsmith.com & www.lisacherry.co.uk
YouTube: www.youtube.com/pookyh 
Email: pooky@inourhands.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pooky

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Lisa Cherry is in conversation with Warren Larkin about the frustrations of applying the medical model to trauma, the purpose of the ACE study and how we continue to affect social change.

T: @_lisacherry
T: @warren_larkin

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Karen and Lisa in conversation about organisations during Covid 19, keeping trauma informed practices at the heart of how we work and remaining curious not furious.

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Talking to Children about Grief and Loss during COVID-19.

COVID-19 has not only disrupted every aspect of our daily lives, and locked us down, it has also magnified losses that were pre-existing, and opened up the topics of death, loss and grief, making them part of our daily conversations. If we found these conversations difficult before COVID-19, and avoided having them, thinking grief and loss were topics for ‘another day’, they are even harder now, as the issue of mortality has threatened our sense of safety, challenged our capacity for change, emotional resilience, and questioned how we find peace of mind.

Added to this are the ‘big little losses’ - our children can’t see and socialise with friends and family, attend school, after school clubs, be at places of play, safety and refuge, all of which has thrown them, and us (parents and educators) into a state of grieving for our familiar routines, relationships, and human connections. 

As we find ourselves in this new state of uncertainty and unbalance, not waving but almost drowning in grief, feeling angry one minute, and in denial the next, the question becomes - how do we talk to our children about grief and loss, and enable them to feel a sense of safety, and peace of mind? How do we find this for ourselves?


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In this episode, inspired by June Sarpong's series "To The Woman That Saved Me", Lisa Cherry reads a letter to her Grandmother in an episode that is a little different to the usual podcast content. We hope you like it and feel inspired to consider which woman has saved you, shaped you or supported you. Maybe it also gives you a chance to reflect upon how we don't always say, that which needs to be said when we really should have said it. Of course, regretting what we didn't say or indeed know, when someone is not with us anymore is one of life's tragedies. A letter seems a poignant solution to that. Thank you June for the inspiration...

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In conversation with Lisa Cherry, Mary and Steve on Returning To School From A Trauma Perspective. What might this look like? How will pupils, families, staff and communities have changed post Covid 19? In this conversation we focus on relationships, connection, transitions and community.

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https://marymered.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/five-ways-to-help-children-heal-when-schools-reopen/
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James Docherty speaks with Lisa Cherry about addiction, trauma and how we can self regulate during Covid 19. Speaking from his home in Glasgow, James explores how found different solutions to trauma than using drink and drugs.

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Ian Thomas, patron of BASW,  joins me in conversation about Covid 19 and the potential for Social Work, liberation and leadership. 

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In this episode we take a look at how one organisation has responded to the needs of care leavers and care experienced people since Covid 19 took hold. The Rees Foundation is a national organisation and they work with people of all ages.

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Sonya McMullan joins us from Women's Aid Northern Ireland to share some of the particular challenges for women and children during 'lockdown' and some of the local 'wins' that are making a difference.

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Helen Kemp joins me in conversation about the menopause and how it can intersect with trauma and mental health and what might be coming up during Covid 19

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In this conversation, Lisa speaks with Nikki on finding safety through a lens of astrology, holistic health and spirituality.

Nikki has been working in the field of holistic self-development, wellbeing with a particular interest in our connection to the universe for over 20 years.
She is a speaker,  spiritual mentor, guide,. Reiki Master, Healer (with a particular connection to horses)

She is the voice of the journeys Into Stillness meditation programme, the founder of awakening events and in 2012  offered a talk called 'wake up the world is changing' so pretty relevant at this time of change and challenge.

All these modalities have helped hundreds of people reconnect to their inner world despite what is going on in their external world.

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Gulwali Passarlay talks with Lisa about his 12 month journey from Afghanistan to the UK as a 12 year old and the reality of seeking refuge in the UK. Unpicking the network of traffickers, the fragility of life and building the empathy muscle.

But his book and indeed the conversation is so much more than a story about a journey. It is a story of hope, of friendships and of the power of kindness.

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Dr Muna Abdi is a Leading Education consultant and independent researcher with over 10 years of experience in education, research and community engagement. She has previously worked as a youth worker and university lecturer and is currently the Director of MA Education Consultancy.

Muna's work focuses primarily on educating practitioners in various fields on anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice as well as offering equity coaching and support as they embark on the challenge of creating anti-oppressive workspaces/practices. She suggests that there is little understanding or recognition of how historic trauma which is cumulative and collective, has an impact on an individual's experience in the workplace. She would be interested to explore this further, particularly in relation to the multiple challenges people of colour may face in the workplace.

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Website: http://ma-consultancy.co.uk/

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Lucy joins the podcast where we look at alternatives to thinking about mental health other than the medical model in the context of Psychiatry. We look at lived experience and voices, the Power Threat Meaning framework, trauma informed care, the power of the medical model, drop the disorder and relational activism. 

Suggested further resources:

'A disorder 4 everyone' events and resources: www.adisorder4everyone.com

'A straight talking introduction to psychiatric diagnosis' https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/sti-diagnosis

Psychiatric diagnosis has become one of the most contested practices in mental health services today. Lucy Johnstone asks 'Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis?' This book will help you to decide. A revolution is underway in mental health. If the authors of the diagnostic manuals are admitting that psychiatric diagnoses are not supported by evidence, then no one should be forced to accept them. If many mental health workers are openly questioning diagnosis and saying we need a different and better system, then service users and carers should be allowed to do so too. This book is about choice. It is about giving people the information to make up their own minds, and exploring alternatives for those who wish to do so.

A video about the Power Threat Meaning Framework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWAv4IBsCjc

Other resources and information about the Power Threat Meaning Framework: https://www.bps.org.uk/news-and-policy/introducing-power-threat-meaning-framework

Lucy is on Twitter at @ClinPsychLucy.
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In this episode we bring voices of lived experience together with therapeutic discourse and deepening our understanding about the realities of being a birth parent. We also touch on systemic challenges that do not seek to help but rather add to harm.

Joanne is on Twitter and you can buy the book here and Adoption Plus can be found here.

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David Richmond the Director of the recently created Cabinet Office for Veteran Affairs talks with me about PTSD & combat trauma, the intensity of relationships and settling back into life after service. 

For the edited version of this conversation please head over to the podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts by searching for 'Lisa Cherry Trauma, Resonance, Resilience' and irritated dogs and fire alarms will have been edited out! 


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Karen Treisman joins us on the podcast this week to explore trauma, systems and organisational change with some deeper diving into Institutional Trauma and creating trauma-informed environments.

We talk through power, privilege and social justice as an underpinning to trauma awareness.

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Bev Thomas, Author & Clinical Psychologist, speaks candidly about her debut novel which asks us to consider whether the lies we tell ourselves are in fact the greatest lies of all...

A compassionate and multi layered look at the messy reality of what it is to be human in the context of the private and professional spaces we inhabit. 

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A deep conversation on relational activism in social work. Thinking collectively, interdependently and relationally. We unpick power, vulnerability, co-production, humanity and community. 

Read more about Relational Activism from Becca and Tim here: 
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Happy New Year! What's coming up next in 2020? What are the themes that we are going to be looking at? Season Two is coming SOON! 

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In this episode, Lisa Cherry is interviewed by Jon Reid from Oxford Brookes School of Education, to conclude this hugely successful Season One. Together they reflect on the last year drawing conclusions about what might lie ahead. 

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Sally Donovan, parent, adoptive parent and writer on therapeutic parenting, talks about child exploitation and the world of county lines and the impact that this has had on her family, on all children/young people and the erosion of it into our town centres. The reticence to deal with this is raised as a call to action. 

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Nick Hardwick, Professor in Criminology, former CEO Centrepoint, former CEO Refugee Council and Former Chief Inspector HM Prisons, shares his wisdom on the prison system, homelessness and what a lifetime of working in these areas can teach us. 

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Anna Carlisle, Senior Lecturer from Goldsmiths University on education, inclusion and diversity. Anna takes us on a journey around schools, school exclusion and LGBT Inclusion. Creating shifts, embedding into cultures. 

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This podcast is about as Relationships Focused as it gets! Dr. Robert Loe is the Founder and Director of Relational Schools. A former teacher and senior leader, Robert now researches, writes and speaks on the importance of fostering positive relationships between key stakeholders in schools. 

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In this episode Kim Golding shares her journey and wisdom around how she came to become a certified DDP Practitioner through Dan Hughes work. Working with children who have endured early childhood and developmental trauma, Kim needed to find a model that placed safety and connection at the heart of this work.

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Breaking the cycle is the amber nectar for so many people who come through the care system, school exclusion, addiction and the criminal justice system. Andi shares his journey from living in the system to working in the system, writing a book and being a parent!

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Kiran Gill talks about her charity 'The Difference' which works with teachers who have stopped working in mainstream schools to work on developing their leadership potential to take up posts in alternative provisions. 

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What happens when your child is taken into care, removed from birth by the local authority that once has been your own 'corporate parent'? 'Annie' talks about the impact on her, her family and how this has spurred her on to relentlessly help others and support Social Workers in delivering the best practice.

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Stuart Guest, a Birmingham Head Teacher, shares how he came to develop and lead an attachment aware school carrying The Timpson Award, what adoption has taught him and why inclusion is the answer for ALL pupils. 

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Sue Saunders joins the podcast from the Human Givens Centre in Dublin and talks about Human Givens as an effective therapy for trauma recovery and how it is not necessary to talk about the trauma, making it a gentle and safe approach. Sue shares some of the key areas of this therapeutic intervention.

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Mike Armiger shares his work with athletes, education and with Mental Health professionals. Together we explore how best to support someone sharing their suicidal thoughts and not medicalising normal responses to distress.

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Elly Chapple, facilitator of the hashtag #flipthenarrative explores how we can understand each other better and live better together as humans so that we can create more compassionate communities.

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**Please have this screen watched by a friend if you think you may find the content of this interview triggering**

Psychotherapist, Cyber Trauma Expert and PhD researcher talks about all the things that we simply don't like talking about and argues that not talking openly about consent, what can happen to child images online and the accessibility of p*rn*graphy, does little to safeguard our children.

https://cyber-trauma.co.uk/
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Kathy Evans on commissioning, policy work and the frustrations of campaigning for the importance of early intervention over the last 30 years.

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Eavan Brady on some of the findings from her PhD which focused on looked after children and educational outcomes across the life course and we ask what are the implications of emerging research?

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In this week's podcast we ask is gambling the addiction that has been left behind? What does the road of recovery entail? And Owen speaks candidly about the trauma that preceded his experiences of addiction.

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Social Worker Tracey asks has 'resilience' become too individualised? What are the implications of this for people who have experienced trauma and those working in the helping services? An intimate conversation looking at the dual status of 'lived experience' and 'professional' and how that plays out in 'relationship'.

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Has 'zero tolerance' gone too far? Does it epitomise inflexibility and lack understanding about what developing children and young people really need to learn? Lisa is in conversation with Mark Goodwin exploring these questions while holding in mind the impact for the children who are affected by this ideology. Mark explains that he has learnt more in the last year than he did in the last 19 years!

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Diagnoses of ADHD, Autism and Dyslexia, to name a few, are rising. Why? Niki shares her work on Reflexes and offers simple things to do in the classroom to help children with this diagnosis, awaiting a diagnosis or simply struggling with writing, focus and speech.

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Daniela Shanly on her adopted children and how she ended up having to build her first child a school after he was excluded from nursery! Now in its 6th year, Beechwood teaches 40 pupils with expansion plans for up to 100 providing a bustling community preparing children for life as adults.

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Jules Daulby, Inclusion and Literacy specialist explores the Timpson Review, punitive approaches to behaviour and the concern that inclusive schools are punished financially and in inspection categorisation. How do we square that round hole? Is it possible?

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In conversation with Sarah Dove, teacher and consultant for PRU's and Alternative Provision settings for nearly two decades. How can we create some flexibility in mainstream schools around behaviour and develop radical multi agency working that improves the education experience for those who need it most?

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In conversation with Criminologist Ross Deuchar whose shares his knowledge from his international work around gang violence. What has worked in Glasgow?  What lessons can England learn? What does meditation and the Gangs of Los Angeles,  Hong Kong and Denmark have to do with each other?

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Liz Gregory, Joint Head of Psychological Services for Children and Families explores CAMHS through a lens of relationships and alternative approaches to medicalising 'growing up'.

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How do we protect our children from cyber harm? How do parents, teachers and carers stay up to date with what is happening online?

Join me as I speak to Cath Knibbs about Cyber Trauma and how to better understand today's online world.

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Rachel shares her work as a Head Teacher in creating a school that has no Behaviour Policy but rather has a Relationship Management Policy. Having led this approach for 9 years at her school Barrowford in East Lancashire, Rachel takes us on this journey. 

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Rachel shares her work as a Head Teacher in creating a school that has no Behaviour Policy but rather has a Relationship Management Policy. Having led this approach for 9 years at her school Barrowford in East Lancashire, Rachel takes us on this journey. 

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Chrissy Kelly speaks about her direct work with young people and talks about exclusion, creating safe schools and the impact of exclusion.

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Mellissa Berry talks about her work with Bruce Perry that brings together the Neurosequential Model and Sport!

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Animation of the Neurosequential Model, Repairing Early Trauma by Beacon House:
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