Matt & Andy travelled up North to deliver some trauma informed training to a secondary school near Manchester to start off the new school term with a bang! The feedback from this day has been incredible from senior leadership teams. Smash Life does not only aim to deliver a powerful lived experience story of growing up in the care system but solution focussed messages [...]
WHAT IF THE TRAINING YOU DELIVERED DID MORE THAN JUST TICK A CPD BOX? What if it changed the way someone sees a young person? What if it gave a member of staff the confidence to respond differently? What if one conversation helped change a life? At SMASH LIFE, we bring together trauma-informed practice, lived experience and professional experience to deliver keynotes and training that [...]
Directors & Smash Life Founders Andy & Matt have been out on the road during a packed out May 2026 delivering keynotes and training to thousands of professionals up and down the country. It has seen them deliver in Telford, Shrewsbury, Leicester, Rutland, Preston, Knowlsey and Norwich ! They have even delivered a virtual seminar for a huge fostering company Foster Network to 300 staff! [...]
We are delighted to announce that we are delivering a keynote talk at the MAT Networking event at the Shrewsbury Town Football ground - we can't wait to network and inspire professionals who work in the educational sector within multi academy trusts! 100 professionals will be attendance and we can't wait! Matt is also appearing on a virtual masterclass alongside other care experienced young [...]
We were delighted to be booked to deliver training to Shropshire Council Fostering Panel - we spent a morning with the people who approve foster carers delivering our interactive training which combines elements of our Lived Experience story , asking participants to reflect on their own practice and how they write reports, how they show up in practice, the little extras which make a huge [...]
Smash Life Directors Andy & Matt travelled to the North East last week to deliver a powerful honest lived experience and professional keynote talk and a one hour interactive training session at a Primary School Headteachers Conference in Gateshead. Delivering an interactive session where participants had to work together to think about ares of their practice where they had to self reflect and work together [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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