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 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
Kate's words of wisdom and team of researchers need more credit in the world of teaching.
Francesca Preedy , Finlay Community School
25 April 2022
Trainer very knowledgeable and explained everything really well. Diagrams and links to outside resources were very helpful also
KCA Course Participant
16 November 2021
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
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
I found the course leader to be friendly and approachable which encouraged participation from delegates.
KCA Course Participant
12 February 2021
This is one of the best courses I have done as it teaches about the responsibilities of a carer and how to work as a team. Rewards for training are refreshing.
Maegin Zindi
18 September 2019
I think this course managed to explored some really complex aspects of neurobiology - theory and research, in an accessible, informative way.
KCA Course Participant
27 January 2021
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
The quality of the talk, the presentation, the take home booklet: all wonderful!
Hannah Knight
1 October 2019
The best and most informative training session I have ever attended, wish they could all be at the same level. thank you
Kim Clements , Dorset
6 January 2020
Great inspiring training and delivered at a pace that engaged
Becky Owen
18 January 2022
It will be useful not just for work but also as a lifelong learning topic to see/ observe us as human beings.
KCA Course Participant
22 July 2022
Really engaging... helpful in exploring how to support families coming out of lockdown who were already suffering trauma
Susan Bugden
11 May 2020
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
Susan was great and so engaging!
Jodie Barrett
2 March 2022
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
My approach to dealing with different behaviours will be better considered, as well as my consideration of what these behaviours may be telling me about any possible past or current trauma,
KCA Course Participant
4 January 2023
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
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
This was a great course, well presented with great visuals. The Breakout rooms were great and the variation of activities. This was the best virtual course I have attended.
Jessica Galvin
13 November 2020
Brilliant!!
Sue Pattison
13 January 2021
Superbly relevant and useful and underpins my whole teaching ethos.
KCA Course Participant
24 September 2018
Make it mandatory for anyone working in a school or learning environment!!
Hannah Knight
1 October 2019
Currently I am working with a young person who has suffered trauma so this has given me a better understanding of how the trauma may have affected her brain development. Also the reasons behind why she is displaying challenging behaviour.
KCA Course Participant
31 March 2021