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
The content of the training was empowering and reflective throughout the 3 hours of training. Kate was so knowledgeable and is an inspiring and powerful women who has given me avenues of ideas to continue to practice daily in the classroom and reflect upon.
Francesca Preedy , Finlay Community School
25 April 2022
This was the best course that i have attended in a long time
KCA Course Participant
26 January 2021
Susan was brilliant. her knowledge and understanding around the issues related to attachment was excellent and the passion for the topic areas was clearly demonstrated by facts and real work example. inspiring.
Neil Amos
5 November 2021
This was so inspiring and fantastic. I went straight back to my team enthused to tell them all about it! Thank you
KCA Course Participant
12 September 2021
Barry was a great trainer and had a wealth of knowledge.
KCA Course Participant
10 February 2023
A must-have CPD course for post-16 educators and support staff.
Lisa Shipman
3 February 2022
Very informative and valuable. Should be made compulsory for all professions who work with CYP.
KCA Course Participant
15 December 2020
I really liked the presentation of this training; much better than some online ones that I have experienced.
KCA Course Participant
29 November 2020
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
{Kate is} just such a good speaker who communicates the science and emotional information so well which empowers you.
KCA Course Participant
18 November 2022
The training was well presented with enough information recapping and new knowledge, plenty of time to discuss in small groups and plenty of opportunities to as questions throughout. Very interesting and enjoyable to attend. Thanks you
Ness Clark
1 December 2020
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
I think it would be massively arrogant of me to even think of suggesting that there could be any improvements. It was one of the most enjoyable training sessions I've ever attended.
KCA Course Participant
28 March 2022
Catherine: passionate, knowledgeable, excellent communicator, warm and caring
Rachael Brown , CY - WICS - W - EH - Sevenoaks North Tonbridge and Malling
22 February 2023
This is one of the best training sessions I have been to. Took a lot away from it. I also love the section where you used your hand to describe the brain never heard of this analogy before but its helped cement the knowledge into my own brain. Thank you
Fleur Harrison
2 December 2020
Important
Heather Beach
22 June 2019
Susan is honest, open and relatable and demonstrates the FTT model amazingly well to her audience.
KCA Course Participant
28 April 2022
Make it mandatory for anyone working in a school or learning environment!!
Hannah Knight
1 October 2019
Found to be great, thank you
KCA Course Participant
12 January 2021
A natural trainer who used the virtual platform very well
Jules Pigott
14 September 2021
I enjoyed the training, it was very useful and helped to inform my understanding of the issues children will face on returning to school.
KCA Course Participant
6 May 2020
Delivery was sharp witted and challenges were handled with tact and mastery
KCA Course Participant
31 December 2018
Understanding that young people acting out is not necessarily a bad thing for attention or 'just because' but a reaction to ACE's which has developed over time. Learning to understand this and change the way I view this and react to this verbally and non verbally will help moving forward.
KCA Course Participant
11 February 2021
Really engaging... helpful in exploring how to support families coming out of lockdown who were already suffering trauma
Susan Bugden
11 May 2020
Should be required training for all NQTs and practitioners in schools
KCA Course Participant
11 February 2019