Yesterday Andy & Matt travelled to knowsley council to deliver x 2 2 hour keynote / training for social care, teachers, professionals from Knowsley Council It was a brilliant day engaging over 300 practitioners ensuring the session was engaging, interactive, real, informative and also FUN - YES we need to see more fun in social care as well as raise great practice and people [...]
Andy and Matt travelled to Crewe recently to deliver to around one hundred and fifty professionals for the Malbank school annual staff conference. The title of the two hour interactive keynote was 'The Power Of Talk.' With fun interactive tasks to get everyone involved so it wasn't death by powerpoint! We had some powerful feedback from the headteacher who stated 'that this presentation today has [...]
Last week we made the long trip to Northumberland and provided a keynote speech at the @nlandcc virtual school conference. We presented on “Relationships and Language that cares” to professionals from social care, early help and schools from the area” We were able to weave stories, strategies and inspiration from: - Our childhood in care / lived experience (feeling how others connected and what they [...]
Yesterday Director Matt was on the road at 5am, travelling solo to Barnsley, booked by the Youth Justice Team at Barnsley Council to deliver Smash Life training on the power of language and the words we use with young people and the words we write about them in reports. Andy who usually joins Matt was also booked to deliver training elsewhere that day so this [...]
Director Matt was flown to Poland by The Informed Perspective (Jenny & Penny) to host a conference at the American school of Warsaw - Jeremy Indika delivered the conference and it was entitled 'Are You Really Listening?' - tickets were bought by parents and young people . It proved to be a powerful event where Matt not only hosted but shared elements of his journey [...]
We are delighted to announce that we are to feature in this months Foster Talk magazine - which has a 40,000 subscription base - we are so grateful for this opportunity to share our messages to foster carers who are looking after amazing young people now - pick up your copy today or read it online ! Thank you for the opportunity Foster Talk [...]
Andy & Matt had the privilege to travel to Wilmslow & attend Care Today Leadership conference and deliver a motivating and empowering keynote. It was lovely to be invited after a representative from Care today saw us deliver at the Children’s Homes Association conference earlier this year. Care Today are the largest family run residential childcare organisation in the UK and have been working extensively [...]
Last week Matt travelled to Barnsley and delivered to over 100 professionals at Barnsley Council social care staff development forum. The theme was Language, the words professionals use, how they write, record why it matters, how things are recorded & how it feels from a care experienced professional reflecting on what was said & written in our files - it becomes your internal voice… Matt [...]
We had a brilliant day delivering three keynotes at the Amethyst Trust staff conference at Wolverhampton Racecourse We had the pleasure of speaking to over 600 members of staff across the trust delivering motivation, Strategies and inspiration before they welcome the children back after the summer break this week! We believe every adult can be a champion to children - “leading from the heart is [...]
Affinity’s Got Talent !! 🎤🎶🎸 Matt woke up super early and travelled down South heading to Ingatestone Hall the home of the fantastic AFFINITY FOSTERING SERVICES LTD as he was booked by this amazing company to deliver a motivational interactive talk to all the foster / birth children from the families that this super company that goes the extra mile support ! The weather was [...]
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