Trauma through the lens of neurodiversity
Tue 25 Mar 2025 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT
Online, Zoom
Description
Join us for this experiential, online training evening, delivered by Sue Bell OBE of Kids Inspire – an experienced child and adolescent psychotherapist and qualified attachment and trauma resolution specialist. Alongside her will be our neurodiversity specialists, Karen Chivas and Helen Potter.
We offer this training session for a nominal booking fee of £10*. This fee helps us cover administrative costs and contributes to the trainer's time, ensuring we can continue to provide high-quality educational sessions. Thank you for your support!
This training is designed specifically for professionals, those working with children and young people. Examples of who this training will benefit include:
- clinical psychologists
- occupational therapists (OTs)
- special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs)
- social workers
- teachers
- teaching assistants (TAs)
If you are a parent please sign up to our 'Supporting children and young people to manage anxiety, stress and overwhelm' training.
Through this training, you will:
- participate in group activities
- have space to reflect
- create your own toolbox, using a strengths-based approach that includes the tools of stabilisation and regulation
There will be an opportunity to talk confidentially about your experience with neurodivergent, non- and pre-verbal children through the lens of trauma informed practice.
By the end of the training, you will have learned:
- some effective trauma treatments for non- and pre-verbal children
- how to help ‘high needs’ children identify and grow their superpowers
- inspiration and resources to help a child who learns differently
- how to recognise and manage sensory overload and ‘masking’
- Dan Siegal’s ‘Wheel of Awareness’ - a meditative exercise for children and parents/carers
- how to support ‘high needs’ children to manage their feelings, get organised and develop self-regulation
Please note: This course is being delivered online. The link to join the event will be confirmed to attendees on the day.
*Kindly note that in the event of a refund, standard transaction fees will be deducted from the amount refunded.
We are unable to record our sessions due to confidentiality and the sensitive nature of topics discussed.