I am available to provide training, awareness presentations and 

round table discussions for your organisation or group

Awareness/training sessions include: 

• Trauma awareness - working towards becoming trauma informed, with a focus on staff wellbeing and vicarious trauma. 

 In this awareness session we will be looking at trauma with a large focus on staff wellbeing. Working in complex environments and seeing/hearing/reading about traumatic incidents can have a profound effect on us. We all come into this work because we are passionate about helping others, but we must protect ourselves to be able to keep doing that. In this session we will be covering;

• • • •  What is trauma? - Defining what trauma is

      • Myths about trauma – dispelling some myths about trauma

      • Types of traumas – exploring the different types of traumas

      • What is vicarious trauma? – explaining what secondary trauma is

      • How to spot vicarious trauma – signs to look out for to protect ourselves (and others)

      • What can we do about vicarious trauma – how to deal with vicarious/secondary trauma

      • What is mentalization? – why is it so important we know about mentalizing?

      • What is reflection? – why it is so important we understand how to reflect?

      • How to reflect effectively – how to reflect and not dwell or overthink things

      • What are the principles of trauma informed working – covering 6 key principles to trauma informed working

      • The stages to become trauma informed – the process by which you will become trauma informed

      • Benefits of trauma informed working – why it is so important for staff to work in a trauma informed way not just for their participants but for themselves too.

• Stepping up to inclusion - an interactive, thought provoking introduction to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) awareness.

In this session we look at Equity, Equality, Diversity an Inclusion

• • • • • The session starts with a story

        • We work out who we think it to blame

        • What did you hear, why it is so important to listen properly?

        • Protected characteristics

        • Barriers to inclusion

        • Equity vs Equality, what is the difference?

        • Unconscious bias

        • Privilege 

        • Why do we need Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

        • Lets look at labels, why inclusion is so important to me

        • What next? 

• Hear my voice/story - Empowering patient voice, supporting safe and effective storytelling.

  • • • • What is a story?

        • Confidence building

        • Barriers to telling your story

        • Breaking barriers

        • Good and bad communication

        • Looking after yourself

        • Protecting yourself (and others)

        • Reflective practice

        • How to structure your story

        • Have a go

        • How did it feel?

        • What next?

• From Patient to Peer Leader - Looking at a persons journey and allowing their story to be told, but then to be used for progress to the systems. 

  • • • • Helping people build up their story

        • How to pitch your story

        • Parking your story but using your voice for organisational change

        • Promoting lived experience 

• Mental Health Awareness - Talking candidly about mental health and why we need to talk about it more to reduce the stigma. 

• Social Prescribing - What is it and why it might help people might feel the benefit of a social prescription or the use of a link worker.

• Suicide awareness and prevention - Openly discussing suicide and offering more trauma informed ways to speak about it. Helping to reduce stigma. 

• Using Creative approaches for health and wellbeing - Supporting the use of creativity for all. Supporting staff to stay well through creative approaches.

• Peer Support - Supporting lived experience both internal and external to the NHS and why it is so important we value people with lived experience

• Recovery and hope in mental health - from surviving to thriving, what recovery means and how we can promote people to live a life worth living.  

• Neurodiversity and mental health - What is the difference? How we can support people with their diagnosis 

• What's in a label? - Looking beyond the diagnosis, see the person first and the diagnosis second. How important it is to look holistically at people. 

(Please note these can be altered/co-produced according to your needs & requirements).

Fully qualified KUF trainer/facilitator providing sessions across the Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber regions

The Knowledge and Understanding Framework is a co-led concept that focuses on working compassionately and effectively with people who identify as having complex emotional needs/personality disorder.

KUF Courses available include:

• 3-day Multi-Agency including; NHS mental health, social care, Charities, VCFSE and housing 

• 2-day Criminal Justice, Forensic Mental Health, Police, Probation and Prison staff

Fees on application 

Discounts available for peer or user led groups