Training and Webinars
You bring immense love to your role as a foster parent, adoptive parent, or care professional in a residential children's home, but sometimes love isn't enough to heal deep wounds.
If you're exhausted by behaviours that don't make sense, you need more than traditional parenting advice—you need a trauma-informed roadmap. Our focused, concise training helps you stop guessing and start understanding. Master the healing power of PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy) and learn to read behaviour as a call for connection.
Stop surviving the day-to-day. Start building a therapeutic relationship. Sign up now and change the narrative for the child in your care.
PACE in practice
This training introduces the powerful, trauma-informed parenting model of PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy). It helps you move beyond ineffective discipline by shifting your perspective to understand your child’s behaviour as an expression of their past trauma, allowing you to build a secure, healing connection.
Trauma-Informed Parenting
This essential training offers a concise introduction to the trauma-informed mindset, instantly equipping you to shift from reactive discipline to responsive care. You will learn how early adversity affects the brain's alarm system, giving you immediate, practical de-escalation strategies to understand and manage intense behaviours, reducing family stress and fostering a sense of safety and calm.
Attachment 101: Building Secure Bonds
This training provides a concise overview of attachment theory, specifically how early trauma and loss impact a child’s ability to trust and connect. It teaches you practical, daily strategies to move away from insecurity and toward a secure attachment, focusing on routines, emotional attunement, and the crucial process of relational repair after conflict.
Behaviour & De-escalation Strategies
This training focuses on understanding challenging behaviour as a form of communication related to past trauma and unmet needs, not willful defiance. It equips you with practical techniques to calm and safely de-escalate intense situations, replacing reactive responses with intentional, connection-focused strategies.
Coping with Ambiguous Loss
This training explores the profound, complex grief—known as Ambiguous Loss—that affects everyone in the foster and adoption constellation, from children missing a family who is "absent but present" to parents grieving a "dream child." It provides a clear framework and practical strategies to acknowledge, validate, and move forward without the need for final "closure."
Navigating Technology & Social Media for Adopted/Foster Teens
This training addresses the unique challenges for foster and adopted teens navigating the digital world, where social media can complicate identity, boundary setting, and contact with birth family. You'll gain practical tools and scripts for managing digital safety, supporting their online identity exploration, and fostering open, healthy communication about their searches and connections.
Advocating for Your Child in School
This training focuses on turning school stress into success by providing foster and adoptive parents with key advocacy skills. You'll learn to clearly communicate the impact of early trauma on learning and behaviour, effectively collaborate with educators, and navigate systems (like special education) to ensure your child receives the specific, trauma-informed support they need to thrive academically and socially.
"This training should e available for everyone who has / cares for children. The information from the training course was above and beyond anything we could have ever expected"
Adoptive Parents