Training “A Sibling Perspective” “An estimated 37% of children with a sibling – that is 20,000 children – are separated from a sibling when placed in care” - Children’s Commissioner 2023 This is stark reading. We ALL know that a sibling relationship can be a protective factor for children in care and it can often bring: - A strong emotional connection, with an emphasis on [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We are delighted to announce we will be speaking at ARC's South West Regional Conference in Bath in July 2025. The theme of the conference is relationships and belonging and we can't wait to jump on stage and deliver another motivational keynote speech with some powerful messages based on our lived experience and combined 50 years in practice with young people in and out of [...]
We are very fortunate we have developed our mentoring service over the last six years. We have been mentioned in two Outstanding OFSTED reports for Children & Young Peoples Services. We have also supported well over 1000 young people in that time in mentoring and our group work projects. So when our old corporate parent who we have been working alongside and supporting young people [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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