Training Workshops

This foundational workshop equips community-based professionals with a deep understanding of how trauma and attachment experiences shape children’s development, behaviour, and relationships. Participants will learn to recognise trauma responses, respond with relational safety, and apply practical strategies that foster regulation, connection, and healing in everyday interactions.

What Participants Will Gain:

• Insight into how trauma and disrupted attachment influence behaviour, relationships, and emotional regulation

• The ability to identify trauma responses and relational needs in children

• Strategies to strengthen co-regulation and support felt safety

• Practical approaches to applying relationship-focused interventions in everyday practice

• Skills to promote healing and resilience through consistent, supportive interactions

This workshop is designed for professionals working in residential care, foster care, and out-of-home care (OOHC) settings. Participants will deepen their understanding of how trauma, loss, and disrupted attachment shape children’s behaviour, relationships, and emotional regulation. The workshop provides practical, relational strategies to foster safety, connection, and healing, empowering caregivers to support children’s development and wellbeing in everyday interactions.

What Participants Will Gain:

• A clear understanding of how trauma, loss, and disrupted attachment influence behaviour and relationships

• The ability to recognise survival responses, relational needs, and cues for dysregulation

• Skills to strengthen co-regulation and create felt safety within caregiving relationships

• Practical approaches to applying consistent, relationship-focused caregiving strategies

• Strategies to support healing and emotional regulation through everyday interactions

This workshop supports educators to understand how trauma and attachment experiences shape children's behaviour, learning, and emotional regulation in the classroom. Practical strategies are explored to help schools create safe, relational learning environments.

Children who have experienced trauma often communicate distress through behaviour. This workshop helps professionals understand the meaning behind challenging behaviours and develop relational approaches that support regulation, connection, and emotional safety.

Participants will explore:

• The brain–behaviour connection

• Co-regulation and nervous system support

• Responding to distress with relational safety

• Practical strategies for everyday practice

Move beyond theory into applied practice. This workshop explores how to implement attachment-informed and relational approaches when working with children and young people affected by complex trauma. Participants develop skills in co-regulation, therapeutic presence, relational repair, and responding to challenging behaviour through a developmental lens.

This workshop builds understanding of how separation experiences impact young children’s emotional wellbeing, behaviour, and sense of safety. Participants will explore the role of attachment, regulation, and developmental stage in shaping children’s responses to separation.

Professionals will learn to recognise signs of separation anxiety and distress, and develop practical, relational strategies to support children during transitions, arrivals, and everyday separations. The workshop focuses on creating safe, predictable environments that strengthen connection and support emotional regulation.

This workshop equips professionals with the knowledge and confidence to recognise, understand, and respond to harmful sexual behaviours in children and young people. Participants will explore the developmental pathways, risk factors, and contextual influences that shape these behaviours, and learn how to apply trauma-informed and developmentally appropriate strategies in practice.

What Participants Will Gain:

• Confidence in recognising concerning sexual behaviours in children and young people

• Understanding of contributing factors, risk indicators, and developmental pathways

• Skills to respond safely, protectively, and in a developmentally informed way

• Knowledge of referral pathways, assessment needs, and collaborative approaches

• Tools to support children and families within a trauma-informed framework

This practical workshop builds on foundational knowledge to support professionals in responding to harmful sexual behaviour within care, education, and community settings.

Participants will explore:

• Assessing risk and safety

• Developing effective safety plans

• Supporting children who have displayed harmful behaviours

• Supporting children impacted by harmful sexual behaviour

• Working collaboratively with families and services.