🏷️ £135-470
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This seminar is part of an interactive four-part seminar series designed to strengthen emotional resilience, self-awareness and trauma-informed practice of safeguarding leads and professionals.

Each session will combine research, reflection and practical strategies for those working in high stakes, emotionally charged safeguarding environments.

Sessions are available to purchase as single seminars or as a full series.

Audience:
Safeguarding professionals, pastoral leads, educators, early help practitioners, health and social care staff, mental health professionals and counsellors.

SESSION 1:
Jan 20 | Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their impact on safeguarding capability
Learn how trauma and ACEs affect behaviour, learning, and resilience, both in children and professionals. Discover how to build trauma-informed practice and mitigate the impact of personal ACEs on decision-making.

Training topics will include:

• Emotional resilience, wellbeing and stress management tools to combat burnout
• Reflective insights for improved practice
• Organisational and team culture
• Safer outcomes, community trust and empathetic safeguarding cultures

Learning outcomes:

• Deepen understanding of ACEs and their lifelong effects
• Explore the neuroscience behind trauma and resilience
• Strengthen trauma-informed responses in safeguarding practice.

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Other seminars in this series include:

• Feb 23 | Domestic violence: Impact on children and how to identify coercive control
  This session examines the hidden dynamics of coercive control and its profound impact on children. Learn to identify subtle indicators and respond safely and effectively.
• Mar 17 | Burnout and vicarious trauma among professionals
  Frontline safeguarding is emotionally demanding. This restorative session combines evidence-based understanding of vicarious trauma with guided mindfulness and Qi Gong techniques/yoga to promote wellbeing and longevity in the profession.
• Apr 21 | Attachment and how it impacts you as a DSL
  Explore how attachment styles influence professional judgement, boundaries, and emotional resilience. Gain insight into how your personal experiences shape your safeguarding responses.

Speaker:

Lydia Taiwo

Lydia is a compassionate Clinical Healthcare Scientist, award-winning author, trauma-informed coach, counsellor, and psychotherapist with over 35 years’ experience supporting individuals affected by trauma, PTSD, depression, and anxiety. She specialises in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), trauma-informed practice, and safeguarding, and is an experienced Specialist Training Consultant delivering CPD-accredited programmes across the health, education, social care, and legal sectors.

As a survivor of severe childhood abuse, with an ACEs score of 7 and over 60 injuries, Lydia’s lived experience profoundly informs her work. This unique integration of professional expertise and personal insight enables her to deliver culturally competent, impactful training that builds resilience, bridges understanding, and helps break cycles of trauma.