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The sensory systems are a complex array of sensors and pathways throughout the whole body that enable us to understand the world around us and what is happening inside our bodies. The senses are how babies in the womb and infants make sense of their worlds in their early years. Children’s sensory systems are impacted when they survive extreme loss, trauma or attachment disruption. They can become ‘stuck’ over-experiencing or under-experiencing their senses. This affects how they move, play, communicate…in fact all aspects of their everyday lives.
This creative, practical, online training will introduce you to the eight sensory systems, giving an overview of what they are, how they develop and what happens when there is early disruption. It will explore what happens in the sensory systems when children are responding to their environment from the survival (fight, flight, freeze or collapse) part of their brain and how you can use this knowledge to support children when words, logic and reasoning won’t work. Participants will be offered a range of hands-on ideas and practical tools to support children at home, in the classroom and in other settings. This is a real ‘how to’ training, which will help any adult supporting a child with sensory disruption to co-regulate and settle their brain and body.
9.30am - 4.30pm
This training is for all parents/carers, teaching staff, therapists, social workers and any other professionals who are supporting children and young people who have experienced trauma, loss and adversity.
On payment of your training place, you will receive:
We bring together an inspiring and innovative combination of theory, stunning original art-work, lived experience examples and practical ideas. These will be delivered by our trainers over Zoom. We have digital support available on the day to ensure the training is problem free and straightforward.
This training is live and needs to be accessed on the training date
£120 per person
Candia Slaughter is a Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist at Beacon House. Throughout her career in the charitable sector and at Beacon House, Candia has always had a passion for trauma-informed interventions. She recognises the importance of understanding developmental trauma and its huge impact on everyday life. She enjoys working with families through sensory intervention, play, movement and connection.
Mel Campbell is also a Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist at Beacon House. She combines her interests of the body and mind, with her knowledge of the sensory systems to help children with developmental trauma feel safe in their bodies. Through the lens of sensory, attachment and regulation, Mel supports children and their families to come together through play and fun. She is passionate about developing accessible regulatory strategies which can be embedded into everyday life.
Helen Townsend is the artist and Specialist Creative Designer here at Beacon House. She collaborates closely with Mel and Candia to bring together their specialist content into a creative, beautiful, resourceful online training experience. As an adoptive parent herself, Helen is inspired by her experience living with trauma and loss in how she portrays the learning through her artwork.
Your certificate will be sent to you with your training pack via email.
Please book online using the link. Everything you need for the training will be emailed to you prior to the live training day. Please ensure you are able to access Zoom and have updated the app (if using) prior to the training to ensure you can have a stress free start to your training with us.
Refunds: Our live webinars and training are refundable until 21 days prior to the training date.
International Transactions: We will deduct any bank charges or fees from any requested refunds.
We work very hard to keep our training and resources free or as low cost as possible. We ask that participants keep the training link for your sole use only.
Our online training must not be reproduced or shared with another party without prior permission from Beacon House Therapeutic Services & Trauma Team. Copyright | Beacon House Therapeutic Services & Trauma Team | 2024
