Andy & Matt recently travelled to Derbyshire to deliver a powerful keynote around education to lots of professionals from schools who attended the Derbyshire Virtual School Attachment Relational Aware Schools Conference. Andy and Matt are on the ground in schools every week along with the Smash Life staff so designing a talk which gives key points of learning for staff around education is one Smash [...]
Foster Carer Training Feedback! Last Friday Matt & Andy we’re invited to spend the day with foster carers from Nexus Fostering in Telford We were able to use our lived experience and our many years in social care working alongside professionals and foster carers to deliver training which we hope educated, informed and inspired. We loved our time with the foster carers - sometimes like [...]
Directors Andy & Matt were in London delivering a Keynote talk for teachers, designated teachers and professionals at the Ealing Council Virtual School Conference. It was lovely to deliver a “Through the eyes of a child in care” talk to remind everyone of the realities many children that are suffering in life face - challenges we face and STILL see - beyond the school gates [...]
Directors Andy & Matt travelled to Chesterfield to deliver a talk / training to Fiver Rivers Childcare foster carers and team We spent such a great few hours with some really child centred and committed foster carers who definitely lead from the heart. Mixed with our lived experience, professional experiences / observations and what children tell our service on a daily basis through our [...]
Smash Life didn't stop during Easter ! Andy, Matt & Smash Life Mentor Dee started off in Dudley to deliver the second Smashing Life Into Independence Project to post 16 young people in care. Workshops on budgeting , car maintenance, cooking, independent living schools and much more were delivered over a two week period to an enthusiastic group identified by Dudley Virtual School - big [...]
Smash Life On Monday Matt & Andy had the pleasure of delivering a full days training for social care practitioners, early help, social workers, and student social workers as part of practice week for Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council social care What an AWESOME day we had! From fun activities to help professionals understand and relate to children in care to open and honest conversations [...]
Last Monday we had a lovely evening providing our “Through The Eyes Of A Child In Pain” CPD training for teachers, support staff and senior leadership at Millbrook Primary School in Telford. Despite already having been in work all day we were delighted with the commitment, engagement, energy and child centred passion shown by everyone attending. We were delighted with the feedback and we agree [...]
Smash Life - URGENT REQUEST: WE NEED YOUR HELP We have been notified by some of our partners that our emails have not been received & that we have not been responding - WE HAVE - however Microsoft 365 have recently had a security update- which has meant alot of our email replies or messages have gone into peoples QUARANTINE or JUNK folders . [...]
We are always happy to be asked to deliver training for different organisations all over the UK! We are even more thrilled when that training receives great feedback ! We delivered for Tameside Council recently and the feedback we got back was so positive from all their social workers on their practice week! A mixture of lived experience and a combined 45 years of professional [...]
We are delighted to announce that we now offer full day training packages! So do want the Smash Life brothers to come into your organisation and inspire your staff ? Giving them the confidence and belief with new solution focussed practice ideas on a whole range of areas including: Trauma / Trauma Informed - how this affects behaviour / mental health ACE'S Connecting with pupils [...]
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