Beacon House is passionate about developing freely available resources so that knowledge about the repair of trauma and adversity is in the hands of those who need it. Please feel free to use our resources in your home or work setting.
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A Wormhole Back In Time: The Body Remembers
Bottom up Brain Development Diagram
Brainstem Calmers: Moving a Child to their Thinking Brain
Chameleon: When I’m Fine Really Means…
Connection: Re-connecting In Tolerable Ways
Developmental Trauma Close Up Article PDF | Revised January 2020
Developmental Trauma Close Up Article Word Document | Revised January 2020
Developmental Trauma Summary Sheet
Dissociation in Children & Teens Article
Dissociation Conversation Cards: What Does it Feel Like?
Grounding Texts (Dissociation): Remote Grounding Tool
Lightening the Load In Lockdown: Ideas from the Beacon House Team
Parenting a Child with a Sensitive Fight Response
Side By Side: A Therapeutic Journey Through Secondary Trauma
The Christmas Storm: Surviving & Thriving At Christmas
The Polyvagal Theory: How the Nervous System Copes With Threat
The Space In Between: How Is The Support You Offer Influenced By Your Attachment Strategies
The Truncated Response: Survival Responses Trapped in the Nervous System
Threat Detectors: Other People Through the Eyes of a Traumatised Child
What if… It was a survival strategy behind the label?
What if… We are curious about behaviour?
Hand Gym Video and Hand Gym Resource: Improving Fine Motor Skills
Making an obstacle course: Regulating the Body
Postural Control & Core Stability Exercises
Screen Savers: Looking after your eyes, body and mind when using screens
Sensory Processing, Coordination & Attachment Article PDF
Sensory Processing, Coordination & Attachment Article Word Document
Attachment Strategies In The Classroom: What Can You See? What Does It Mean
Helen Oakwater: Why Are These Children Any Different?
Moving From Behavioural to Relational Responses
Supporting Transitions: How To Weather The Transition Storm
Building Resilience Training Aid
Connection Card: Print and send to someone who needs it
Dan Hughes 24 ‘S’s’: A Simple Guide To Raising Your Sensitive Child
Drowning With Help: Thinking About Collaborating Around A Client
Hidden Needs: The Iceberg Analogy
Making Space: Accepting ALL Feelings
Projective Identification: Taking On Feelings As If They Are Your Own
Simple & Safe Questions (when talking about upsetting things)
Survival Care: Taking nourishing micro moments
Survival:Fight/Flight. What are you feeling?
Survival:Freeze/Collapse. What are you feeling?
The Relational Regulation Game
Therapeutic Story Cubes: Exploring Story Telling
The Relationship to Help: How Our Motivations Are Understood By Others
Begin Again by Jeanette Encinitas
Brave Space by Micky ScottBey Jones
Don’t Change Extraordinary One by Rachel Macy Stafford, 2014
Enough is Enough by Dan Absolom
One day at a time by Lemn Sissay
“People, not programmes” quote by Dr Bruce Perry
Click here to view our animated version of Repair of Early Trauma: A Bottom Up Approach Told to us through the voices of children, this unique animation teaches us that by putting together the seven-piece jigsaw puzzle of ‘Developmental Trauma’ we can repair it using the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics.
Click here to view our animation ‘The Window of Tolerance’ Find out how a traumatised child swings from fight/flight to freeze/collapse, and what adults can do to help bring the child back into their window of tolerance so they can be at their personal best.
Click here to view James’ story – a story about how a childhood of trauma and adversity led James to feel despair, loneliness and rage. Walk with James through his pain to a new chapter in his life where he begins to heal, and create a new and hopeful future. James’ story and the images you’ll see may trigger powerful feelings, look after yourself as you walk by his side.
Click here to view ‘Don’t Change Extraordinary One’ written by Rachel Macy Stafford and illustrated by Beacon House
Click here to view ‘Brave Space’ written by Micky ScottBey Jones and illustrated by Beacon House
We are proud to share some creative resources produced by one of our adoptive parents, Helen Townsend at innerworldwork.co.uk
What Survival Looks Like At Home (Developmental Trauma)
What Survival Looks Like At Primary School (Developmental Trauma)
What Survival Looks Like At Secondary School (Developmental Trauma)
Trauma, PTSD and Attachment
www.saia.org.uk (Scottish Attachment in Action)
www.istss.org (International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies)
www.estss.org (European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies)
www.estd.org (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation)
www.isst-d.org (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation)
www.ukpts.co.uk (UK Psychological Trauma Society)
www.trauma-pages.com
www.understandingdissociation.com
www.nctsn.org (National Child Traumatic Stress Network)
www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk (Birth Trauma Association)
www.janinafisher.com (Janina Fisher’s Trauma Pages)
www.familyrelationsinstitute.org (Patricia Crittenden’s Attachment Pages)
www.iasa-dm.org (International Association for the Study of Attachment)
Young people’s mental health
www.childmentalhealthcentre.org (Child Mental Health)
www.childline.org.uk – 0800 11 11 (Childline)
www.youngminds.org.uk (Young Minds)
www.headspace.com/ (A Mindfulness app for relaxation)
www.smilingmind.com.au/ (Relaxation made easy)
www.gires.org.uk (Gender Identity Research and Education Society)
www.mermaidsuk.org.uk (Support and information for gender variant children and teens)
switchboard.org.uk (Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard was established in 1975 and is here to listen to, inform and support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people)
Adult mental health
www.samaritans.org – 08457 90 90 90 (The Samaritans)
www.mind.org.uk (Mind)
www.ntw.nhs.uk/pic/selfhelp (Cognitive Behavioural self-help strategies)
www.llttf.com/index.php (An online self-help service)
www.getselfhelp.co.uk/links2.htm (Links to other useful website and self-help strategies)
www.headspace.com/ (A mindfulness app for relaxation)
www.sussexrecoverycollege.org.uk/
Fostering and adoption
www.baaf.org.uk/info (British Association of Adoption and Fostering)
www.adoptionplus.co.uk (Adoption Plus)
www.pac-uk.org/ (Post adoption Centre)
Abuse and child safety
www.nspcc.org.uk (NSPCC)
www.ceop.police.uk (CEOP – online safety)
www.safelives.org.uk (Safe Lives)
Parenting and Parent-Infant mental health
www.parentskool.co.uk/
www.nct.org.uk/
www.aimh.org.uk/
www.zerotothree.org/
www.breakthesilence-pni.org/
www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk
www.pandasfoundation.org.uk/
www.brightpip.co.uk (Parent Infant Psychotherapy Service based in Brighton)
Occupational Therapy
www.sensoryattachmentintervention.com
www.sensoryproject.org/through-the-senses
www.sensoryintegration.org.uk/What-is-SI
www.zonesofregulation.com/index.html
www.hwtears.com
www.sosapproach-conferences.com
