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Drawing upon clinical expertise, Mad Studies scholarship and lived understanding, these workshops explore parenting while living with significant mental health difficulties. Sessions challenge stigma while promoting hope, agency and compassionate family support.

Children and young people's mental health cannot be understood in isolation. Every child exists within a family, relationships, schools, communities and the everyday experiences that shape who they are.

Sessions utilise a family-centred lens to move beyond diagnosis alone,  towards relational, strengths-based, and participation-focused care, developing practical approaches that understand the whole child and empower families to thrive.

 The earliest relationships shape how children experience themselves and the world. These sessions explore attachment, connection, emotional development and responsive caregiving, while recognising that families don't need perfection—they need relationships that can repair and grow. .

 The transition into parenthood can be joyful, overwhelming and deeply complex. These sessions acknowledge the realities of postnatal mental health while promoting compassionate, relationship-based approaches to recovery for both parents and babies. 

 Life isn't lived in a therapy room. These workshops focus on making everyday life more manageable by supporting routines, independence, participation and practical problem-solving within real family life. 

 Behaviour is communication. This training explores how sensory processing, nervous system regulation and development influence participation, learning and emotional wellbeing. Sessions take a neurodiversity-affirming approach, focusing on understanding rather than changing behaviour. 

  Relationships are at the heart of family life. These sessions explore communication, emotional safety and connection, helping families strengthen relationships while navigating conflict, change and differing needs. 

 This training challenges deficit-based models by exploring trauma, neurodiversity and behaviour through compassionate, relational and evidence-informed lenses. Participants are encouraged to move beyond compliance towards understanding, participation and meaningful inclusion. 

 Families rarely experience one challenge in isolation. This reflective training explores the intersection of neurodiversity, trauma, disability, grief, mental health and family life, recognising that complexity deserves curiosity rather than judgement.