Strengthening Connected Relationships
KCA is here to enable people to build and strengthen connected relationships, using evidence from research to improve everyday interactions, everywhere.
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Five to Thrive is a way of understanding how connected relationships are fundamental to human wellbeing, helping to build resilient communities, and how we can promote these attachment bonds
Mending Hurts promotes recovery from trauma by enabling people to notice what they, or other people, do in their most effective interactions with people when they are more vulnerable or traumatized. When we notice ourselves doing something well, we become more conscious of our activity and more competent in it
Creating Connections between human beings lies at the heart of individual and community resilience, and, indeed, at the heart of KCA’s work. Our resilience mapping tools open up conversations about the network around people when they are feeling more vulnerable. This can offer insights that guide intervention and support.
Holding Together offers a systemic intervention to build resilience in the team around a child when they are more vulnerable or traumatised
I found the course fascinating and the delivery exceptional. Some of the most engaging learning I have been fortunate enough to be a part of. Every single human being needs this training!
Tracy Parsons
12 March 2021
As a trained psychotherapist I am very used to working with people that are experienced unregulated states. However, I found your approach consistent with methods I use as a therapist to help people regulate themselves and think this training would be very useful for key individuals across many organisations
KCA Course Participant
30 June 2023
Very interesting content and lovely calm delivery from Barry!
KCA Course Participant
27 April 2022
The explanation of how the way the brain works in terms of attachment and resilience was absolutely fascinating and so we'll presented to make it understandable to someone who knows little about brain development.
KCA Course Participant
7 December 2021
Susan is honest, open and relatable and demonstrates the FTT model amazingly well to her audience.
KCA Course Participant
28 April 2022
The course helped me look and think more widely the context of collective trauma. I have had several courses on trauma and attachment prior to attending, but being in the course gave an opportunity to pause and reflect on my own practice working with children with with challenging behaviour in schools.
KCA Course Participant
19 April 2023
The normalising of trauma, is a wonderful perspective and something I will share with clients and colleagues.
KCA Course Participant
28 May 2022
It has given me a better understanding of how the brain functions and how function is impaired during times of stress. I believe this will help me to support my team more effectively both directly and in their work with our service users.
KCA Course Participant
7 March 2023
Brilliant!!
Sue Pattison
13 January 2021
Barry was a lovely individual who was clearly very passionate and knowledgable about trauma informed practise. He kept the training simple which was fab and easy to understand.
Andrea Hector
9 February 2023
Sue was lovely and open. She knew what she was doing and did it well.
KCA Course Participant
30 September 2018
As a Guardian coping with a child with possible ASD I found this course amazing and I took so much away with me, I found the [information on] brain functioning extremely helpful in understanding why my child behaves the way he does. For me this course was absolutely vital.
Noreene Reece
29 September 2022
Simply put, easy to follow and thought provoking
Pauline Carrick
21 February 2022
The best online course that I have been on for a long time.
Michelle Taddeo
5 November 2021
I found this session really helpful for both my work and personal life. Understanding what happens in the background can help to support those things which affect our day to day actions. I think Barry is a really good lecturer; engaging and interesting.
Claire Stroud
7 March 2022
It was very well presented, in an open and apprachable way. Tom was very engaging and extremely knowledgable, his passion for emotional coaching really shone through and inspiring us to think about our practice in a very guided way. Thank you.
KCA Course Participant
17 April 2023
Working with students, this is invaluable training in order to support them when they are experiencing stressful/traumatic situations and how to process and think about the triggers/emotions situations raise
Christine Stanbridge , Kent CC
22 June 2022
Very well delivered, messages were clear and concise, loved some of the simple anologies and phrases - like put your own oxygen mask on first, every interaction matters etc
Joanna Mawer , Wiltshire Council
1 February 2023
Totally loved Susan's delivery, style, confidence, knowledge and all round approach to this material. Thank you.
Karen Linaker
3 February 2022
Very engaging and lovely and passionate facilitator
Kay Bowen
9 March 2022
As always KCA has responded to the ever changing challenges and provided a webinar and resources of the highest quality. I am privileged to able to access this and want to encourage a wider group of people to do so.
KCA Course Participant
13 April 2020
A poignant reminder of having positive, trusting relationships with the students that we work with to ensure that they have a safe place to flourish
KCA Course Participant
13 October 2022
The combination of personal anecdotes, neuroscience, research evidence and theory was helpful and brilliant!
KCA Course Participant
13 October 2022
100% pure brilliant
Joanne Redmond , Moat House
6 January 2020
Rarely have I attended training where I feel there are so many points which I can implement as of tomorrow. Thank you, Susan. A superb session with lots of immediate positive feedback from colleagues around me.
KCA Course Participant
2 November 2020