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 [...]
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 [...]
We were delighted to be invited by Worcester Virtual School to deliver our post 16 smash life into independence project to young people in the care system. The four days were fun and full of education , we forcussed on lots of topics for the young people like healthy eating, budgeting, car maintenance, relationships, managing loneliness and mental health, team building games, inspirational talks [...]
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 [...]
Last week Matt & Andy travelled to Salford to provide training for social care practitioners from Salford Council. It was brilliant to have time to deliver interactive training, have some open and honest conversations, discover people’s why, raise each other with stories of hope and positivity and also collectively inspire and raise practice with strategies and ideas to connect and care - ultimately to [...]
Yesterday Andy & Matt travelled to knowsley council to deliver x 2 2 hour keynote / training for social care, teachers, professionals from Knowsley Council It was a brilliant day engaging over 300 practitioners ensuring the session was engaging, interactive, real, informative and also FUN - YES we need to see more fun in social care as well as raise great practice and people [...]
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