Growing Stronger Together - Wave 5

Growing Stronger Together is a Fully Funded 3-Day Train the Trainer course for colleagues working in Liverpool.

This training will equip you to deliver a 4-session model for working with adults who have experienced adversity in their childhoods, aiming to improve their quality of life. The 4-session model can be delivered to groups of adults within communities across Liverpool and as staff training as part of the continued professional and personal development. We will support you to integrate Growing Stronger Together into your existing work with adults.

This project is building on from previous work around ACE’s as part of the Liverpool Aces Strategy: Growing Stronger (growing-stronger.org) Growing Stronger is a campaign developed in partnership with School Improvement Liverpool and Liverpool City Council, with the aim of helping people of all backgrounds and ages within the local area build resilience for and protection from Adverse Childhood Experiences.

The strategy has three main goals:

• Preventing ACEs from occurring

• Supporting children who may be affected by ACEs

• Supporting adults who may be affected by their own ACEs

The training offer has been developed with Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Limited Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd (ticservicesltd.com) and is suitable for multi-agency colleagues working with adults to improve outcomes for all. We look forward to working collaboratively with you to address the third aim of the Growing Stronger campaign’ Supporting adults who may be affected by their own ACEs’ – evidence tells us that working on this aim will positively impact on the first two aims.

Sample Feedback from Waves 1, 2 and 3

Very informative yet uplifting ways to learn new strategies to deliver to our local community. Thank you for being so informative and thorough in your delivery. I really enjoyed this course and look forward to putting it into practice. Tricia – The Lodge Wellness Centre

No matter what training / experience you have had, this course will teach you something that will transform your thinking both professionally and personally. Do it now whilst its free. Kate McGing, Assistant Headteacher, Hope School, Liverpool

The delivery has been really good, really useful tools shared. This has been designed as a training model anyone can understand. It supports you to unpick things with greater understanding of people’s past and how this cant be changed but positive steps can be made to accept this. Thinking of ACEs in a more hopeful way that’s not scary to talk about, they don’t define you. Sarah PSS (3rd Sector Charity)

A very informative course, well delivered, warm and safe.

Excellent training lots of resources, slides, information & knowledge. Friendly, approachable & passionate about the programme. Thelma – Independent Social Worker, Counsellor

A really enjoyable course, lots of interactive activities. Learned new techniques for self-regulation. Thank you Kate, Hayley – Senior Lecturer

An amazing course which balances practical and theoretical components really well. The trainer was approachable and knowledgeable which made the course really exciting and a privilege.

Growing Stronger Together - Compassionate approaches for working with adults affected by their own ACES breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma...

If you want to learn more about how to implement a trauma informed approach into your everyday practice, and develop a network with likeminded colleagues across Liverpool, this course is for you!

Reserve your place now on this fully funded 3-day Train the Trainer Course aimed at front line practitioners wishing to develop evidenced based strategies whilst strengthening their existing skills in supporting ADULTS whose lives have been affected by their own Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Our training offer includes clinical skills group supervision, which is developing into a network of trainers across the city, delegates also develop skills in peer supervision and reflective practice – which supports you to weave theory into your everyday practice in.

Our course is warm, friendly, experiential, and interactive and takes a relational approach to foster a sense of belonging and safety. Utilising a compassionate / evidenced based understanding of how ACEs affect brain development which removes blame and shame, helping adults improve the quality of their lives. Growing Stronger Together draws from a range of psychological theories including person centred (Carl Rogers) CFT – (compassion focussed therapy, Paul Gilbert) ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy, Russ Harris) CAT (cognitive analytical therapy, Tony Ryle & Steve Potter).By signing up to this 3 day train the trainer course you are agreeing:

• to take part in a Liverpool John Moores University evaluation of the training offer
• to deliver the course to adults once in the first 3 months, and again within 6 months of completing the training
• that you work with adults and / or families in Liverpool who have or are experiencing Adverse Childhood Experiences
• that your line manager has approved your training request

Thank you, we look forward to working with you soon.