These Restorative Practice Masterclasses are for staff who work with babies, children, young people and their families in Newcastle. They can be attended as standalone sessions or as a series of 3. The masterclasses are designed to deepen understanding of relational and restorative practices, and to provide practical tools to support you in adopting this...

Restorative Practice is a proactive strength based approach that reinforces the importance of building and maintaining positive relationships by seeking to understand the needs of the people in your community. In this session we will look at the pro-active behaviours and skills that you already use in your practice, to create these long-lasting relationships, as...

Target Audience: This is a bespoke course for anyone who has a Trustees role within a voluntary or community sector organisation and will need to know how to ensure their safeguarding policies and procedures are robust. Please note, dates are not routinely offered for this course as we work with individual organisations to agree how...

When working with families, services can get into a pattern of assessments and short term interventions that end when there have been improvements. However, families often need help again. Rethink Formulation uses an evidence based model of case formulation to help us organise information and structure our conversations to reach a shared understanding of a...

This half-day session will cover: Basic human needs: what 'good enough' parenting/development/childhood looks like; the impact of ACEs on the concept of 'good enough'; the, often, profound consequences when ACEs are multiple and/or repeated. The neurobiology of threat: the developing brain; the specific vulnerabilities of children and teenagers to psychological trauma forming and 'deforming' their...