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
Outstandingly delivered
KCA Course Participant
8 May 2023
100% pure brilliant
Joanne Redmond , Moat House
6 January 2020
The best online course that I have been on for a long time.
Michelle Taddeo
5 November 2021
Susan is a fabulous presenter - she has an ease of style and makes the hour go quickly!
KCA Course Participant
27 January 2022
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
Very informative, I am looking forward to going away and implementing things into my practice!
Jasmine James
4 March 2021
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
I thought that it was fantastic. The speaker was a pleasure to listen too. Soft voiced, full of knowledge, enthusiastic. I really enjoyed the session.
Keely Franklin
16 September 2021
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
Jo facilitated this course in a very sensitive and thought provoking way, thank you!
KCA Course Participant
14 June 2023
Brilliantly presented. Informative. Challenging. Practical applications along with fascinating neuroscience.
KCA Course Participant
27 January 2021
Inspiring training such as this alerts you to what you don't know and what you'd like to find out more about.... Anything relating to brain development and environments which help children to learn and grow.
Helen Hogg
26 February 2023
The speaker was always clear and informative, I felt involved throughout and the chance to discuss with others on the table who had more and different experience benefited my knowledge.
Amy Morgan , Alvaston Infant and Nursery School
27 September 2022
I found all aspect of the content of the training useful. One sentence that will stay with me for a while is .how compassionate curiosity will not ask what is wrong with people but what is happening to people'
KCA Course Participant
19 April 2023
As a mentor for a lot of children with trauma, this training has helped us as a team to form some action plans on how we can move forward to support these children and staff
KCA Course Participant
15 December 2020
This will help me to be more present and work with the behaviours presented by young people.
KCA Course Participant
31 July 2023
The learning will impact on lots of children I work with and how I respond and interact with them.
Emma Kelly
19 January 2021
Very engaging and lovely and passionate facilitator
Kay Bowen
9 March 2022
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
I work with secondary students and many will have ACEs and find the current situation very traumatic. This has let me reflect on my practice and my practice going forward in terms of these children and some of the difficulties they will be facing currently and when we return to 'normal'.
KCA Course Participant
25 April 2020
To adapt our school's Behaviour for Life and Learning Policy and to use the shared vocabulary to coach staff through tricky situations!
Kay Bridson
13 January 2021
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
Most wonderful resources to refer to during the day... and afterwards too - amazing!!
Hannah Knight
1 October 2019
I think all teachers and educators should have training in Emotion coaching
Caroline O'Halloran
13 January 2022
The quality materials shared and information to enable me to effectively share them with the staff team.
Simon Sackwild , Shaftesbury High School
8 June 2023