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
Tom is a fantastic and engaging trainer. He is very easy to listen to, extremely knowledgeable and the sessions are always useful and leave me with lots to think about afterwards about how we might embed this in our large secondary school setting.
KCA Course Participant
27 January 2023
Timely and useful
Hilary Smith
8 April 2020
Excellent trainer and very interesting content, I am inspired to learn more about this subject!
Helen Godfrey
3 March 2022
Totally relevant to the work that I do.
KCA Course Participant
18 January 2022
Really helpful - one of the best training sessions I have attended. Very useful for helping students and I also found it enlightening for my own mental health struggles.
Jessica Steinberg
18 March 2021
Trainer very knowledgeable and explained everything really well. Diagrams and links to outside resources were very helpful also
KCA Course Participant
16 November 2021
Make it mandatory for anyone working in a school or learning environment!!
Hannah Knight
1 October 2019
Please pass on huge thank you to Hilary Smith. The training will definitely have a positive impact on the lives of our children...and ourselves as we fill our emotional wells!!
KCA Course Participant
8 January 2020
It would be good to encourage other colleagues to watch this webinar. It has helped me to think about shaping individual work with adults on my caseload
Sue Carter
7 July 2020
I found the tutor really engaging and easy to listen to. I really enjoyed this training and will definitely be using what I have learned in my work as a children's social worker
Juliet Thomas
5 November 2020
Would recommend that anyone and everyone in a school type setting would benefit from the training. Especially from such a passionate insightful individual.
KCA Course Participant
2 September 2019
I found the session very useful as it was specific to our needs. The resources and support provided have been fantastic and it is always great to have training with you as I always leave feeling positive, motivated and keen to increase my learning.
Stacey Edwards
26 August 2021
This was a brilliantly taught and highly informative course, with strategies that I can use across the next year.
KCA Course Participant
24 April 2020
Amazing training delivered by a knowledgeable, compassionate and considerate woman. I feel that I learned a great deal and consolidated other knowledge. I could have listening to Kate teach for hours!
Toni Goodall
12 June 2019
Susan really made the content easy to understand and talked through it is a clear way that i could follow. i have completed previous learning around the brain but she has made this simple to understand and utilise
KCA Course Participant
4 March 2021
The trainer really knew her stuff and was able to tailor the sessions to the questions and needs of the group
Tonia Vincent
24 January 2019
Tom kept me engaged all day
Maureen Burrell , Chadsgrove School
5 September 2018
Very informative, I am looking forward to going away and implementing things into my practice!
Jasmine James
4 March 2021
The trainer Sally (Patterson) was absolutely brilliant and delivered a really relevant presentation.
Sarah Lloyd
14 October 2019
Totally loved Susan's delivery, style, confidence, knowledge and all round approach to this material. Thank you.
Karen Linaker
3 February 2022
Susan is honest, open and relatable and demonstrates the FTT model amazingly well to her audience.
KCA Course Participant
28 April 2022
This is totally what we need as a service to empower our parents and improve outcomes for their children. I love how practical this training is: the examples, resources and development of a shared language. For me, personally, I need to know the 'whys' first -so this training was perfect for me! Thank you
Sarah Milward
9 March 2021
The training style was well paced, accessible, and felt safe.
KCA Course Participant
22 February 2022
Jo (McAndrews) is a wonderful presenter - so enthusiastic.
Jane Arundell
3 July 2019
Anisha explained everything so well and made it interesting by teaching good strategies to put in place. Thank you.
KCA Course Participant
22 March 2023