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
Tom kept me engaged all day
Maureen Burrell , Chadsgrove School
5 September 2018
Really interesting content, clearly and expertly delivered with perfect balance of group delivery and break out rooms, well done and thank you!
KCA Course Participant
16 December 2020
I have learnt more in an hour than I have on full day courses.
KCA Course Participant
31 January 2023
Jo facilitated this course in a very sensitive and thought provoking way, thank you!
KCA Course Participant
14 June 2023
The content and delivery were incredibly inspiring and motivating!
Chris Hussey
5 March 2021
Thought Susan was amazing, such energy and knowledge and passion. Within our small group we remarked how we would need to try and channel her enthusiasm to motivate others when we come to share our learning. She kept the day flowing beautifully.
KCA Course Participant
4 March 2021
I was hooked and listening intently for the whole session ~ really great, thank you!
KCA Course Participant
25 February 2021
Found to be great, thank you
KCA Course Participant
12 January 2021
Excellent trainer and very interesting content, I am inspired to learn more about this subject!
Helen Godfrey
3 March 2022
Kate was absolutely fantastic. Best training I have attended.
KCA Course Participant
28 June 2019
Very helpful training, both looking at how to support the children but also reflect on our own practice and how we have an impact on the children's behaviour.
KCA Course Participant
12 September 2021
I think that the training has helped me understand what it is that I am already doing, helps me to explain it better to parents
KCA Course Participant
31 July 2023
Kate is a very good trainer. She delivers a very knowledgeable, interesting and enjoyable training session. Her lived examples are also really useful.
Reda Charles
2 August 2019
Anisha explained everything so well and made it interesting by teaching good strategies to put in place. Thank you.
KCA Course Participant
22 March 2023
We are starting baby groups up again and the new training has given me more confidence.
KCA Course Participant
18 January 2021
This was an excellent day of training.Nicky was vibrant, and an excellent presenter. She gave a lot of information in a very accessible way. She made everything relevant to the children in our setting and gave us lots of ways in which we could include what we we were learning in the classroom.The day was fast paced and went too quickly ! Thank you.
KCA Course Participant
6 January 2020
I have given Kate the highest score possible as I have never attended training, especially that over Zoom, that was as engaging and motivating as hers was. She is clearly very knowledgeable and it was a pleasure to have attended.
KCA Course Participant
8 February 2021
A really helpful training session. Susan was an engaging, relatable presenter - I felt I learned a lot and hope to embed this learning into my day to day practise so it becomes second nature.
KCA Course Participant
24 January 2022
This course gives me a useful understanding of attachment, which is useful for working with my foster children, who have attachment disorders.
KCA Course Participant
4 December 2018
The training was inspiring. information was presented in a remarkable way. Enjoyed every second of it. Lots of valuable information and such a perfect balance between science and human experience.
KCA Course Participant
31 October 2022
Superbly relevant and useful and underpins my whole teaching ethos.
KCA Course Participant
24 September 2018
Our trainer had a lovely inclusive approach to every member of the group. The day went quickly.
Emma Moorhead
4 March 2021
Full of great first-hand experience
Jenna Poole
13 January 2022
Very grateful for it and it (the training) was very thought provoking.
Crystal French
15 July 2021
Amazing and passionate delivery - great resources and good interactive tasks.
KCA Course Participant
3 February 2022