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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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