Life Story Work Half Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting your colleagues, young people who are in care, education and other settings. The course aims to provide learners with underpinning knowledge and skills to facilitate life story work for young people and children. Content is person centred and allows practitioners to facilitate discussions and activities that provide a safe space for children and young people to express and reflect on their experiences to better understand their emotions. Training provides information and asks learners to reflect on the barriers faced and techniques to overcome them and highlights the importance of identity when thinking about life stories. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Consider the impact of children’s earlier experiences on their capacity to express their feelings and needs, and the relevance of Life Support Work
• Understand the importance of Life Story Work and the emotional impact on Children and Young People and their carers
• Gain knowledge on legislation, the principles and aims of Life Story Work
• Enable learners to recognise the barriers to Life Story Work and how we can overcome them
• Become aware of the importance of identity with Children and Young People including ethnicity and disability when discussing Life Story Work as a whole