The best training to help you provide the best care.

Comprehensive video training for adults who care for children who have suffered trauma and adversity.

Tried and tested methods

A course developed over 30 years and delivered to thousands of foster carers, adopters, residential childcare staff, and teachers, by a trainer who has worked in six countries on three continents.

Easy to learn

Through a series of short videos that are yours to keep. A step by step guide to what you need to know. Five and a half hours of training divided into 49 easily understood 2 - 10 minute chunks.

The best available answers to important questions

What causes troubling behaviour? How to respond. How to prevent and de-escalate behaviour. How to help a child recover from trauma and adversity.

Module One

What causes troubling behaviour in children and young people who have suffered trauma and adversity?

The clear, easily understood answers from twenty first century neuroscience. Eight videos, 50 minutes.

Module Two

What is a therapeutic approach?

What to do, and equally important, what not to do, when helping a child. Seven videos, 45 minutes.

Module Three

What is active listening?

Learn active listening as not just good listening, but as a way of listening to show that you are trying to understand. Eleven videos, 70 minutes.

Module Four

How to prevent troubling behaviour

Strategies to prevent outbursts, avoid friction over the daily routine, and how to use consequences constructively. Ideas that are simple and easy to follow. Six videos, 43 minutes.

Module Five

How to respond to troubling behaviour.

Traps to avoid when responding. How to connect with a child and de-escalate behaviour from minor agitation to violent outbursts. Seven videos, 57 minutes.

Module Six

How to help a child recover from the effects of trauma and adversity.

A range of ideas to help children learn to relax, boost positive emotions, overcome social difficulties, and learn to control outbursts. Ten videos, 70 minutes.