Training
Mosaics-Of-Life Therapies offers training opportunities for staff working directly with children, young people and families as well as for parents who are interested in developing their knowledge and awareness of some key topics.
Trainings can be requested at any time throughout the year, subject to availability. We also publish dates and offers on our social media pages so follow us for all the up to date information.
Thinking about grief
How to approach topics of death and grief with children and young people
This training seeks to clarify many questions individuals have asked me about death and grief.
Whether you are a parent, a teacher, a social worker, a youth worker (amongst many more!), caring for or supporting a grieving child can be quite complex.
In this training, we will look at some key words that are often misused or misunderstood and consider ways to maneouvre the initial steps in the grieving process (ie from announcing a death to attending the funeral) with the child’s best interest at heart. We will explore how the latter can often go against our own instincts to shield them from pain, and how crucial this understanding is for grief to healthily develop.
We will cover important questions such as: What do young people need from safe adults during such times? What language and behaviours are most appropriate? How do we help someone while we are grieving ourselves?
We will draw both from lived experiences and theoretical frameworks. We will reflect on our own relationship with death, grief and loss in general, as this does impact the way we support and understand others.
For more information and to book this course please contact us.
Children cannot leave their trauma at the school gates:
Systemic approach to healing in learning environments
This training is based on my presentation at the BACP CYPF Conference on Trauma, Healing and Hope- breaking the cycle and promoting healing (March 2023).
It has been redesigned for teachers and mental health professionals to attend together, in order to promote systemic, joint thinking on how to best support one another in accompanying children and young people in their healing journeys.
For more information and to book this course please contact us.
SACRED frame of mind for professionals©:
Identifying and responding to family dynamics being unconsciously re-enacted in professional networks
The course is aimed at professionals working with children, young people and families (i.e. social worker, paediatrician, family support worker, teacher, nursery nurse and many more).
It will look at the SACRED frame of mind for professionals in more details, illustrating its concepts with clinical examples.
It will also offer an opportunity for professionals to bring their own clinical cases for discussion and reflection.
This training can be provided online or in person.
For more information and to book this course please contact us.
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What is trauma? Moving towards being trauma-informed.
Brain functioning, physiological states and trauma responses
This short training is delivered face-to-face or online to school staff and covers the following:
- What is trauma? (Trauma continuum, a psychoanalytic view on trauma)
- The effect of developmental trauma on brain structure and functioning
- How this influences behaviour (window of tolerance, hyper aroused and hypo aroused states)
- Your experience of how this may present in the classroom
- How brain functioning also impacts on our physiological states (Vagus Nerve and Vagal tones)
- Overview of what being trauma-informed is about
- Suggested readings
For more information and to book this course please contact us.
Trauma healing in schools:
What does a trauma-informed approach look like in practice?
This short training is delivered face-to-face or online to school staff who have completed ‘What is trauma? Moving towards being trauma-informed.’
It will look at practical ways of implementing a trauma informed approach by considering key points such as (but not limited to):
- Prosody
- Language (verbal and bodily)
- Classroom layout
- Co-regulations
- And many more
For more information and to book this course please contact us.
Suicide Prevention Day
Suicidal ideation in children and young people
How to spot the signs and initiate safe discussions
Every year, on Suicide Prevention Day (10th September), this short FREE seminar is opened to parents and carers. It is delivered online and covers the following:
- Ways in which young people may communicate thoughts of suicide
- How to safely discuss suicide with young people
- Safety Plans
- Next steps and support
To book your free place on the next seminar please follow our social media platforms. This is where all relevant information will be announced nearer to the next Suicide Prevention Day.
The training highlighted the importance of building relationships with our pupils.
[The training made me reflect on] how much of an impact we have on the children and [how to] ensure that I can be my best self for them.
It was interesting to [understand] the firing of neurological pathways in the brain through the everyday positive interactions we give pupils.
The training was really useful and Florence was really good at simplifying difficult concepts to make them easier to understand.
Thank you for delivering your talk yesterday – I found it inspiring and truthful. It was excellent to hear you highlighting the challenges and how to work with them. It was also fantastic to listen to the whole school approach and importance of this. As somebody at the beginning of a career as a School Counsellor I really valued attending your talk.
I opted for your talk and found it refreshing to hear as you spoke about the pressures of working with children who have experienced trauma/effects on teaching staff, building empathy and how to work collaboratively. Teachers also need to be ‘held’ safely within schools as they work with this transference day in/day out. Excellent to hear, to be realised and expressed to the counselling community. (I also appreciated your honesty.)