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 [...]
Affinity’s Got Talent !! 🎤🎶🎸 Matt woke up super early and travelled down South heading to Ingatestone Hall the home of the fantastic AFFINITY FOSTERING SERVICES LTD as he was booked by this amazing company to deliver a motivational interactive talk to all the foster / birth children from the families that this super company that goes the extra mile support ! The weather was [...]
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 were delighted to travel to Barnet and deliver an afternoon of Smash Life Training to the virtual school professionals - what a lovely welcome we received! The feedback we have got back has been amazing ! We have been booked up all across the country for training and Keynote talks - we have refreshed our talks and training to include more insights and powerful [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Andy & Matt are delighted to be some of the guest speakers at ARC's National Conference in Birmingham in a few weeks ! Tickets for the 2023 Annual Conference are now sold out! The Attachment Research Community 2023 Annual Conference: “Supporting the journey to an emotionally informed education” will take place live on Tuesday 21st November 2023 at The Birmingham Conference and Events Centre, with [...]
We delivered our brand new post 16 journey presentation and training to a care home company in Preston last week! This was the first time we told our post 16 journey and the challenges we faced ! The feedback we received was fantastic and we can't wait to add to it and roll it out to more professionals and staff teams across the UK ! [...]
We are delighted to announce that we have released our BRAND NEW MENTORING MENU ! We understand that every child is different and each child may require a slighlty different mentoring service from us. We now offer FIVE different bespoke mentoring packages and new and exclusive for the West Midlands DRAWING & TALKING a Brand New Way of mentoring, ideal for children who have gone [...]
Our Brand New Music Video has been filmed! The song 'It's So Easy' written and sung by director Matt is about remaining positive despite what life may throw at you. Containing lots of positive messages in the lyrics - again another free resource that will professionals can show young people. The video is currently being edited and will be released in the next few months! [...]
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