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
Excellent, professional speaker. Catherine was informative and delivered an interesting topic. Catherine certainly knew her subject as this reflected in her outstanding delivery. I enjoyed every part of the presentation. Thank you so much as I learnt a lot!!
Mark Pawsey
6 January 2023
Amazing and passionate delivery - great resources and good interactive tasks.
KCA Course Participant
3 February 2022
Have not been on a better course. Susan, you so know your stuff!! Thank you.
Karen Linaker
17 March 2022
Kate is an inspiring person with so much knowledge to offer from her amazing life, it was great to be able to hear this and add to the situations that we encounter during our working life working with young people
Karin Maclean , Milestone living
26 July 2022
The learning will impact on lots of children I work with and how I respond and interact with them.
Emma Kelly
19 January 2021
I think all teachers and educators should have training in Emotion coaching
Caroline O'Halloran
13 January 2022
This was a fantastic course delivered exceptionally well by an extremely knowledgeable trainer with the ability to explain things simply with good practical examples.
KCA Course Participant
3 March 2022
A really helpful training session. Susan was an engaging, relatable presenter - I felt I learned a lot and hope to embed this learning into my day to day practise so it becomes second nature.
KCA Course Participant
24 January 2022
Amazing training opportunity which i feel should be mandatory for all practitioners working with children, young people and families.
KCA Course Participant
9 December 2021
The presenters enthusiasm was engaging and motivating, coupled with her background knowledge made for a very interesting course.
Neil Chamberlain
19 January 2022
So pleased to see this being delivered to so many practitioners across different disciplines. This is VITAL work if we are to help HEAL
Barbara Shires
3 February 2022
I liked that I could see the video of Kate as well as the slides. It helped me to engage with what she was saying.
Dawn Delmaine , Dursley Primary Academy
9 April 2020
No, she was excellent. She was very aware of the group and great at interacting with everyone.
Emma Moorhead
4 March 2021
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
Really interesting content, clearly and expertly delivered with perfect balance of group delivery and break out rooms, well done and thank you!
KCA Course Participant
16 December 2020
I thought the trainer was wonderful - Kate Cairns was approachable and warm and I was riveted throughout the 90 minutes - best course I have attended throughout my 16 years as a nurse
KCA Course Participant
21 September 2022
Stimulating and thought - provoking.
KCA Course Participant
19 April 2023
Susan was brilliant at explaining everything clearly so we could relate it to help us with our delivery of services and within ourselves.
Luisa Burgess
9 March 2021
Thank you Susan, I could listen to any information about brain development and emotional health all day long! Wish I had this training when I started out working in a school 17 years ago, it would have made a huge difference for those little 4 year olds
KCA Course Participant
25 August 2021
A great big thank you, another colleague was on the training too and we 'met up' afterwards and my first comment was 'I really enjoyed that'...not an easy task these days with on line training. So thank you!!!
KCA Course Participant
25 February 2021
Really informative course. Lots of opportunity to discuss your thoughts with your own colleagues so you didn't feel that you were sitting and listening the whole time. This also meant that you could always apply what was being discussed to your own school.
KCA Course Participant
4 February 2021
Susan was very descriptive when explaining - her tone was calm and enjoyable to listen too.
Rosie Dyte
23 February 2022
This is an incredibly useful area of study; useful for line and team managers in care services as well as anyone working in a therapeutic setting.
Lesley Binks
15 February 2021
There is so much to cover, understand and learn. Susan is brilliant. she has great knowledge and is able to detail things well
KCA Course Participant
1 December 2021
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