About this Event
What is this event about?
The need to belong is a fundamental and human motivation – a sense of fitting in or feeling like you are important in the context of something bigger, such as a family, a setting, a community is part of our internal drive. In Lisa's research, 'movement' was a theme that consistently showed up across all the participants across home, education setting and community. Where movement is unavoidable, such as for those children known to the social care system, unaccompanied asylum seekers, refugees for example, then belonging is essential. The adults that those children become will invariably consider their relationship to belonging across the life course.
This event offers the attendee an original conceptual model and insight into cultivating belonging as an antidote to trauma. It raises the importance that all those working with children and young people have in considering the adult that the child will become embedding practices that make the difference to those children and young people who rely on relationships, settings and communities.
In this session you will:
- understand how 'unbelonging' has been baked into systems, services and settings
- deepen your understanding of the impact of trauma, inequity and marginalisation in services/education that further add to harm
- be provided with a working conceptual model for culture change, for cultivating belonging and for making a difference to children and young people
"This has been fabulous, interesting, stimulating and much too short (I rarely say this about anything online). Thank you so much Lisa."
"So much to reflect on. This has been such a valuable and insightful session."
"Lots to go away with and think about and try ."
Who is this event for?
Anyone interested in cultivating belonging in a setting, service or system that impacts the experience of those who use those settings, services or systems, eg. education, children's services, adult services, mental health, criminal justice.
Who is your facilitator?
Lisa Cherry is the Director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd leading a dynamic and creative organisation that provides a 'one stop' approach to delivering on research, consultancy and learning and development. Lisa is an author, researcher, leading international trainer and consultant, specialising in assisting schools, services and systems to create systemic change to the way that we work with those experiencing and living with, the legacy of trauma. Lisa has been working in and around Education and Children’s Services for over 30 years and combines academic knowledge and research with professional expertise and personal experience. Lisa has worked extensively with Social workers, Educators, Probation Workers and those in Adult Services, training and speaking to over 30,000 people around the world including in the US, Australia and Pakistan and across the whole of the UK.
Lisa has produced multiple pieces of research for various settings and Lisa's own MA research looked at the impact on education and employment for care experienced adults who experienced school exclusion as children in the 1970's and 1980's. Lisa has recently completed her DPhil research at The University of Oxford in the Department of Education, asking the research question "How do care experienced adults who were also excluded from school make sense of belonging?"
Lisa is the author of the hugely successful book 'Conversations that make a difference for Children and Young People' (2021)and ‘The Brightness of Stars’ 3rd Edition published in June 2022. Lisa is working on her latest book due for publication in 2024/2025 on Cultivating Belonging.
Event Venue
Online
GBP 30.00
