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
Susan was extremely engaging and clearly an expert. She gave easy to understand and real life examples to bring to life the science.
KCA Course Participant
24 March 2022
This course was very relevant to the needs of current children and circumstances on the back of the pandemic. It was also good to talk to other early years practitioners in the break out rooms.
KCA Course Participant
9 January 2023
Delivery was sharp witted and challenges were handled with tact and mastery
KCA Course Participant
31 December 2018
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
Currently I am working with a young person who has suffered trauma so this has given me a better understanding of how the trauma may have affected her brain development. Also the reasons behind why she is displaying challenging behaviour.
KCA Course Participant
31 March 2021
Maria was extremely informative and her firsthand knowledge and examples were helpful ways to see some issues in context.
KCA Course Participant
21 January 2019
Excellent, professional speaker. Catherine was informative and delivered an interesting topic. Catherine certainly knew her subject as this reflected in her outstanding delivery. I enjoyed every part of the presentation. Thank you so much as I learnt a lot!!
Mark Pawsey
6 January 2023
It was really helpful, well paced and relevant but not too formal. Useful to have the breakout rooms for discussions too.
Paula Page
3 March 2021
An inspiring day
KCA Course Participant
21 February 2022
Timely and useful
Hilary Smith
8 April 2020
The opportunities for people to discuss the themes and ideas was invaluable. So often, school staff are deprived of this opportunity to embed their thinking and understanding.
Jill Joseph
4 September 2020
Tom was brilliant at delivering this course
Claire Farrand , Chadsgrove School
26 September 2018
Susan was brilliant. her knowledge and understanding around the issues related to attachment was excellent and the passion for the topic areas was clearly demonstrated by facts and real work example. inspiring.
Neil Amos
5 November 2021
Kate is an inspiring person with so much knowledge to offer from her amazing life, it was great to be able to hear this and add to the situations that we encounter during our working life working with young people
Karin Maclean , Milestone living
26 July 2022
This was a great course, well presented with great visuals. The Breakout rooms were great and the variation of activities. This was the best virtual course I have attended.
Jessica Galvin
13 November 2020
This will help me to be more present and work with the behaviours presented by young people.
KCA Course Participant
31 July 2023
A great big thank you, another colleague was on the training too and we 'met up' afterwards and my first comment was 'I really enjoyed that'...not an easy task these days with on line training. So thank you!!!
KCA Course Participant
25 February 2021
Amazing and passionate delivery - great resources and good interactive tasks.
KCA Course Participant
3 February 2022
I could have listened to Susan for hours!
Alison Mooney
16 November 2021
Thank you for delivering such an inspiring and informative day. This all makes so much sense and I have already shared the approach with the Pastoral Team.
KCA Course Participant
3 March 2022
Always engaging!
Katie Vinnicombe
24 January 2022
The combination of personal anecdotes, neuroscience, research evidence and theory was helpful and brilliant!
KCA Course Participant
13 October 2022
Really love accessing training with Susan as she keeps engaged and wanting more.
Stacey Edwards
26 August 2021
Brilliant training, Very informative and inspiring. Thank you!
Helen Cardy
16 September 2021
Tom is a fantastic and engaging trainer. He is very easy to listen to, extremely knowledgeable and the sessions are always useful and leave me with lots to think about afterwards about how we might embed this in our large secondary school setting.
KCA Course Participant
27 January 2023