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 [...]
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 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 [...]
As we head into half term we have some woodland days to look forward to with young people and our amazing smash life staff team! We have kickstarted the year with loads of training , keynote talks and mentoring as well as our Dudley post 16 group work ! So if you have a group of young people or a staff team who would benefit [...]
Smash Life We Really do appreciate this feedback from Shropshire Council Virtual School regarding our “woodland experience” for children We BELIEVE in not just talking about connection and relational approaches BUT modelling this when it matters the most - SO the children FEEL it. A connection is earned through repetition and the children feeling safe, secure, valued and around adults invested in them. We LOVE [...]
OFSTED RATED OUTSTANDING! Smash Life were delighted to be informed by our wonderful virtual school partners at Telford & Wrekin Council that the Children’s Services had been rated ‘Outstanding’ by a recent OFSTED inspection. Why are we shouting about this? Smash Life was given its first opportunity by this local authority when a lot of other doors closed and professional’s waved away the ‘Lived [...]
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 [...]
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