Attachment and how it impacts you as a DSL
🏷️ £135-270
📍 Online
This seminar is the final session of our four-part interactive 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 4:
Mar 17 | Burnout and vicarious trauma among professionals
Explore how attachment styles influence professional judgement, boundaries, and emotional resilience. Gain insight into how your personal experiences shape your safeguarding responses.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand core principles of attachment theory.
- Identify how your own attachment style affects professional interactions.
- Develop reflective strategies to maintain empathy and objectivity in safeguarding roles.
Previous sessions included:
- Jan 20 | Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their impact on safeguarding capability
- Feb 23 | Domestic violence: Impact on children and how to identify coercive control
- Apr 21 | Attachment and how it impacts you as a DSL
Speakers:
Dr Mariya Ali, Director, SACPA
Mariya Ali is Director of SACPA and an internationally recognised safeguarding and child protection expert. With over two decades’ multidisciplinary experience in legal, academic, advisory, and leadership roles, she is strongly committed to advancing child rights and welfare. Formerly Deputy Minister in the Maldives, she led national reforms in child protection policy and legislation. Internationally, she has worked with UNICEF, Save the Children, and Lumos Foundation on child sexual abuse, exploitation, and systems reform across South Asia and beyond. An academic and practitioner, Mariya has published widely and specialises in trauma-informed, survivor-centred, and systems-based safeguarding approaches.
Gaelle Sullivan, Director of Research, Inclusion and IELA
Gaelle is Director of Research, Inclusion and IELA and joined the BSA in January 2023. She is an experienced senior leader and has worked in a range of state and independent schools. She is a qualified SENCO and holds a Masters Degree in Inclusive Education. Prior to joining the BSA, Gaelle was Deputy Head Pastoral, DSL and Head of Boarding at an all-girls independent school in the South-East.
