Strengthening Connected Relationships
KCA is here to enable people to build and strengthen connected relationships, using evidence from research to improve everyday interactions, everywhere.
We draw on the expertise represented in our core approaches of ‘Five to Thrive’, ‘Mending Hurts’, ‘Holding Together’ and ‘Creating Connections’, whilst including the latest developments from neuroscience.
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Five to Thrive is a way of understanding how connected relationships are fundamental to human wellbeing, helping to build resilient communities, and how we can promote these attachment bonds
Mending Hurts promotes recovery from trauma by enabling people to notice what they, or other people, do in their most effective interactions with people when they are more vulnerable or traumatized. When we notice ourselves doing something well, we become more conscious of our activity and more competent in it
Creating Connections between human beings lies at the heart of individual and community resilience, and, indeed, at the heart of KCA’s work. Our resilience mapping tools open up conversations about the network around people when they are feeling more vulnerable. This can offer insights that guide intervention and support.
Holding Together offers a systemic intervention to build resilience in the team around a child when they are more vulnerable or traumatised
The speaker was always clear and informative, I felt involved throughout and the chance to discuss with others on the table who had more and different experience benefited my knowledge.
Amy Morgan , Alvaston Infant and Nursery School
27 September 2022
Barry was a great trainer and had a wealth of knowledge.
KCA Course Participant
10 February 2023
A fantastic course that was delivered well and will definitely be promoting this training within my work place.
Rebecca Probert , Children's Services
15 March 2023
This was a brilliantly taught and highly informative course, with strategies that I can use across the next year.
KCA Course Participant
24 April 2020
I enjoy Kate's down to earth and very knowledgable approach.
KCA Course Participant
5 May 2020
Catherine was excellent and had a superb blend of professionalism and presentational skills whilst being real, authentic and down-to-earth in her delivery of training. Very impressive and engaging.
Stephen Cresswell
9 October 2023
{Kate is} just such a good speaker who communicates the science and emotional information so well which empowers you.
KCA Course Participant
18 November 2022
Trauma is recoverable, with healthy environments Children respond better to compassion You can be authoritative and compassionate Importance of open body language
Wilf Brooke
5 January 2024
Simply put, easy to follow and thought provoking
Pauline Carrick
21 February 2022
An inspiring day
KCA Course Participant
21 February 2022
A very interesting course which was delivered perfectly and with great knowledge. Alex was enthusiastic and very professional, we took away lots of information from this course. Thank you
Kerry Snell
30 January 2024
A great big thank you, another colleague was on the training too and we 'met up' afterwards and my first comment was 'I really enjoyed that'...not an easy task these days with on line training. So thank you!!!
KCA Course Participant
25 February 2021
Really inspiring and made me think about how I currently make use of this and how I can improve its use in the future with my new knowledge
Kirsty Pearce-Bramley
3 February 2022
Professionally I deal with children that have SEN needs but also children who we know have trauma in their early childhood so this training will enable me to communicate and interact with them more effectively through the 5 to thrive module
Ailish Templeman
4 January 2024
Inspiring training such as this alerts you to what you don't know and what you'd like to find out more about.... Anything relating to brain development and environments which help children to learn and grow.
Helen Hogg
26 February 2023
The normalising of trauma, is a wonderful perspective and something I will share with clients and colleagues.
KCA Course Participant
28 May 2022
It was really great - best and most useful event that I have attended in some time!
KCA Course Participant
27 January 2023
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Presenter was great and very knowledgeable.
KCA Course Participant
19 July 2023
Very grateful for it and it (the training) was very thought provoking.
Crystal French
15 July 2021
Susan was brilliant at explaining everything clearly so we could relate it to help us with our delivery of services and within ourselves.
Luisa Burgess
9 March 2021
It was very interesting to learn new information. I thought having been a police officer over 30 years it would be a bit boring and I would know it already but I learnt lots of new skills
KCA Course Participant , Police
29 January 2021
No i just wanted to thank Sally for a great group it is so important for the work we do.
Amy Luddington
31 January 2024
I have given Kate the highest score possible as I have never attended training, especially that over Zoom, that was as engaging and motivating as hers was. She is clearly very knowledgeable and it was a pleasure to have attended.
KCA Course Participant
8 February 2021
We have introduced this to the staff and it was very effective
KCA Course Participant
8 February 2024
Ann created a learning environment as was very welcoming to other views and suggestions regarding the mapping game incorporating child friendly language
Juliet Elugbadebo
17 November 2023
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