🏷️ £135-270
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This seminar is the third session of a 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 3:
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.

Learning outcomes:

• Recognise early signs of burnout and secondary trauma.
• Learn practical mindfulness and grounding exercises.
• Develop a personal resilience and wellbeing plan.

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Other seminars in this series include:

• 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.

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.