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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Andy & Matt went down a storm at the first ever annual Gateshead Virtual School Conference ! The lads travelled up north to deliver a powerful and dynamic keynote talk to a room full of professionals and the feedback has been amazing ! The lads have been booked for lots of training and keynote talks in 2025/26 and can't wait to get out there and [...]
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 [...]
Smash Life Welcome back everyone to the Academic Year 2024/25 - we have certainly arrived back with a BANG ! We were invited on Monday to travel to Dudley and deliver our “Through The Eyes Of A Child In Pain” training to Milking Bank Primary School & a neighbouring school - it was lovely to provide this training to the WHOLE school as supporting, caring [...]
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 [...]
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