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
Have not been on a better course. Susan, you so know your stuff!! Thank you.
Karen Linaker
17 March 2022
The training provided a real insight into how we perceive behaviours and support a child to co-regulate by having a greater understanding of how the brain is responding.
KCA Course Participant
16 June 2022
The best online course that I have been on for a long time.
Michelle Taddeo
5 November 2021
A poignant reminder of having positive, trusting relationships with the students that we work with to ensure that they have a safe place to flourish
KCA Course Participant
13 October 2022
Kate was absolutely fantastic. Best training I have attended.
KCA Course Participant
28 June 2019
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
The trainer Sally (Patterson) was absolutely brilliant and delivered a really relevant presentation.
Sarah Lloyd
14 October 2019
This training helps me support the Team in their supervisions, and in looking at who the wider Network are that a family has.
Katie Vinnicombe
24 January 2022
The break out facility really helped to break up the content and provide meaningful reflection for our own setting
KCA Course Participant
3 February 2021
A true expert, it was a real privilege to be part of the session.
KCA Course Participant
16 December 2020
No waffle and no unnecessary information, exactly what we needed to know - and I have a psychology degree!
KCA Course Participant
2 October 2018
[This course] enabled me to take better notice of behaviours and consider what they may be communicating.
KCA Course Participant
15 April 2021
Amazing and passionate delivery - great resources and good interactive tasks.
KCA Course Participant
3 February 2022
I was hooked and listening intently for the whole session ~ really great, thank you!
KCA Course Participant
25 February 2021
Kate was a fantastic trainer - she delivered the content expertly and managed to keep everyone engaged and interested (even over Zoom!). She is clearly very experienced and knowledgeable in her field and it was a pleasure to have attended.
KCA Course Participant
8 February 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
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 training style was well paced, accessible, and felt safe.
KCA Course Participant
22 February 2022
Very calming approach and positive to encourage us that we can make a difference.
KCA Course Participant
14 May 2020
I have already began to explain the emotional brain to parents and how this may impact their communication with their child
Rachael Johnson , Coventry
18 July 2023
Really engaging... helpful in exploring how to support families coming out of lockdown who were already suffering trauma
Susan Bugden
11 May 2020
Amazing training opportunity which i feel should be mandatory for all practitioners working with children, young people and families.
KCA Course Participant
9 December 2021
{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
I feel that the course was very well delivered, Susan was extremely inspiring and clearly very passionate and knowledgeable, I have already begun to incorporate this approach into my practice
Lucy Galbraith-Edge
11 February 2022
Very grateful for it and it (the training) was very thought provoking.
Crystal French
15 July 2021