Fegans Training

12 November & 26 November 2021 - 9.30am to 12.30pm

£85

This workshop offers a general introduction to working with clients in this area. It aims to offer a conceptual framework for understanding the misuse of food, using attachment theory, and then to offer a wide range of strategies for working with clients. Central areas for consideration include, emotional language, attachment history, self esteem, body esteem and identity, relationships and self soothing. The workshop is active and interactive; participants should be willing to reflect on their own eating behaviour and attachment history as well as that of their clients.

Julia Buckroyd is Emeritus Professor of Counselling at the University of Hertfordshire and a therapist in private practice, specialising in working with people with all sorts of problems with food, weight, shape and size. She is particularly interested in the meaning and function of the manipulation of food and looks for triggers to episodes of food misuse. She believes that clients are unlikely to abandon their eating habits unless they learn alternative means of life management and so focuses on helping clients develop better means of emotional regulation.

28 January 2022 - 9.30am to 4.30pm

£85

Tracy Bennett is an independent social worker with over 22 years of experience supporting both birth and foster families and their children. She specialises in equipping caregivers whose children are affected by Developmental Trauma with the tools to effectively support their children.

Underpinned by extensive research in the fields of Attachment and Neuroscience, this course provides valuable insight into the key factors which enable children to develop resilience and those factors which increase their vulnerability. Exploring the incredible plasticity of the brain and the way it develops rapidly throughout childhood, shaped by relational and environmental factors, this course considers how participants can support children and their families and increase their individual and collective resilience. It introduces the PACE Model by Dr Daniel Hughes as an effective way of connecting with children and families affected by trauma to strengthen the parent/child bond and build children’s resilience.