Commissioned Training

Richard Rose offers professional training and consultancy to those who are requiring high level, excellent rated professional development.
To commission a course in-house for your organisation, please contact Nicola Ball via nicola@theia.ac.

About the course

All About Me

This short course is aimed at all those who would like to undertake life story work for children and young people where the story is taken at the point of family/residential/school placement. In particular, carers, social care staff, counsellors, school SEND, Residential staff, SGOs and Adopters.

All About Me helps children and young people explore who they are today, what is important to them, their culture, education, friends and how they see their future. When repeated every 6 months, the story becomes an autobiography of their journey through care. Once they leave, or move, they are able to take their story with them as a unique passport to their adult world.

Learning Outcomes

An insight into what it’s like for children and young people to take part in the All About Me process – attendees will have the opportunity to complete their own
Increased confidence in carrying out the work, and an introduction to communication skills to assist the intervention
An understanding of the importance of the All About Me process and how it can provide more informed awareness of the child and their journey, and opportunities for improving attachment and security for all those involved

Delivered in-house by Richard Rose for your organisation at a venue of your choice or online via Zoom. Please contact Nicola Ball via nicola@theia.ac to check availability and costs.

About the course

Attachment, Trauma & Recovery

The course provides an opportunity to consider attachment theory; application and intervention; trauma theory; impact and assessment; and recovery planning and assessment.

This one-day course is designed with the specific aim of informing, engaging and delivering attachment-based intervention within casework for child and family social workers, residential care professionals and family placement professionals.

Drawing on child development and attachment theory the course will use a detailed case study, and guide attendees through a clear and useable framework to enhance skills and confidence in this key area of social work and practice.

Learning Outcomes

Awareness of attachment theory
Skills for assessment of attachment styles
Introduction to attachment intervention Models
Understanding trauma theory
Assessing the impact of trauma
Introduction to trauma informed practice
Definition of recovery
Creating planning and assessment tools
Recording, writing and presenting

Delivered in-house by Richard Rose for your organisation at a venue of your choice or online via Zoom. Please contact Nicola Ball via nicola@theia.ac to check availability and costs.

About the course

Communicating & Direct Work with Traumatised Children

This one-day course provides an opportunity to consider communication techniques for traumatised children aimed specifically at those working with children between 3 and 18 years of age. The course will introduce theories and practice rich in examples as well as inviting contribution and group engagement.

Those who attend will have the opportunity to try out these techniques and to actively consider their current work and evaluate how these approaches might benefit their service users. The day will include 20 different approaches and those who attend will be able to use many of these in their day-to-day practice.

Communicating & Direct Work with Traumatised Children - THEiA

Learning Outcomes

Techniques for reaching the ‘hard to reach’ child
Listening and interpretive skills
The significance of feelings and ‘magical feeling’
Trauma and recovery
Techniques for communicating and recording
Issues of Confidentiality
Addressing sensitive issues and providing appropriate responses

Delivered in-house by Richard Rose for your organisation at a venue of your choice oronline via Zoom. Please contact Nicola Ball via nicola@theia.ac to check availability and costs.

About the course

Complex Case Analysis

This practical workshop will provide an opportunity to explore ‘live’ cases with Richard, who will offer guidance and practical tasks to support your work and approaches.

All those registered for this workshop will be invited to send in anonymous real case studies involving complex issues and these will be incorporated into the session.

This small interactive workshop will provide attendees with new perspectives, techniques, shared ideas and a series of strategies to immediately put into practice.

This training is aimed specifically at social workers and practitioners undertaking and supporting direct complex case work.

Learning Outcomes

Understand cases from a variety of perspectives
Consider a range of techniques and strategies that support effective case work
Awareness of approaches in planning and families assessment to affect best outcomes for children

Delivered in-house by Richard Rose for your organisation at a venue of your choice oronline via Zoom. Please contact Nicola Ball via nicola@theia.ac to check availability and costs.

About the course

Making Sense of Fragmented Lives Through Life Story Work

This one-day course provides an in-depth understanding of the Life Story process and how this work helps children to make sense of their past so that what has happened to them does not dominate, control, or inhibit the present.

Based on Richard Rose’s book, ‘Life Story Therapy with Traumatised Children – A Model for Practice’, attendees will be shown at least 15 techniques which have been successfully utilised to assist children in communicating their trauma.

Making Sense of Fragmented Lives Through Life Story Work - THEiA

Learning Outcomes

Gathering and collating information
The importance of identity and meaning
Listening and interpretive skills
The significance of ‘magical thinking’
Working with the ‘stuck’ child
Techniques for producing the Life Story book

This course can also be delivered as a two-day which offers an enhanced introduction of Therapeutic Life Story Work.

Delivered in-house by Richard Rose for your organisation at a venue of your choice or online via Zoom. Please contact Nicola Ball via nicola@theia.ac to check availability and costs.

About the course

More About Me

This introduction day is aimed at all those who would like to undertake a therapeutic life story approach based on our work with children and young people.

More About Me is a short intervention of 10 to 12 sessions that are designed to help children, young people and adults who have been impacted by traumatic events that continue to negatively define their lives and current emotional presentation. Many children and young people do not need a full life story intervention; however, they may struggle to understand a situation, behaviour or social challenge, but are otherwise settled.

As an example, a 2-year-old placed in the care of her grandmother, as her parents were unable to meet her needs. She understands that is the situation and let us say 8 years passes and she is now subject to a Special Guardianship Order. Her birth mother has matured out of her challenges and becomes pregnant – after an assessment, the baby can stay with her, she can meet her baby’s needs. How does the now 10-year-old make sense of this – she wants to go home but can’t? “If mum can look after a baby, she can look after me surely?”

Sadly, or rightly, she cannot go to live with mum, it is not safe for the baby, for her or for her birth mum, that her grandmother is now her legal guardian and is her secure base. More About Me is designed to answer these questions and to help understand single issues.

Training Outcomes

The model, theory and practice of More About Me, as a stand-alone intervention
An insight into what it’s like for children and young people to take part in the More About Me process – with examples and anecdotes
Increased confidence in carrying out the work, and an introduction to the practical tools and direct practice
An understanding of the importance of the More About Me process and how it can provide opportunities for improving understanding of the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and how?
How to collate the direct work into an age appropriate book with examples

Delivered in-house by Richard Rose for your organisation at a venue of your choice or online viaZoom. Please contact Nicola Ball via nicola@theia.ac to check availability and costs.

Training opportunities for carers and social, education and health professionals providing support to children, young people and adults

Learn about our courses

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Introduction to Therapeutic Social Work

This introduction day will introduce tools and skills for social workers with the intention that a professional certificate will follow later in the year.

7 total hours
Remote

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Sibling Sexual Abuse Issues in Therapeutic Life Story Work: Some issues to consider

This webinar considers how children whose lives have been affected by sibling sexual behaviour, might need help to understand more about this topic in order to process and understand.

6 total hours
Remote