Children's Services

  • Social Workers
  • Family Liaison Officer
  • Adoption or Fostering
  • Transition from Care Teams
  • Youth Offending Teams

Drawing and Talking empowers providers who support communities to respond to children and young people with additional or complex mental health needs, who aren’t currently receiving support from specialist mental health services.

The attachment-based intervention is playful in practice but serious in solutions.

Whether you're a Youth Worker, Domestic Abuse Practitioner, Bereavement Support Worker, whoever you are and however you support people, you can train up the be a Drawing and Talking Practitioner and provide children and young people with access to this work and their inner world as part of your work with them.

The formation of secure attachments creates a secure base for children and young people to not only explore but also seek emotional guidance from, which is particularly powerful as in many cases this will not already exist, and likely not at the deep level that Drawing and Talking facilitates.

The creation of safe spaces allows children and young people who access Drawing and Talking the opportunity to feel that world can be and is a safe space for them. The unique skills and set up taught on the foundation course equips practitioners with the skills needed to facilitate this, which can lead the stronger and longer lasting positive feelings towards the others and potentially help where engagement is a pre-existing concern.

The combination of secure attachments and safe spaces that Drawing and Talking can create for children and young people can facilitate internal processing of pain or trauma. This is not cognitive or logic based work. Support staff are often sent to support the same children and young people again and again, frequently with little to no success. Despite being simple to deliver, Drawing and Talking can influence the way the brain’s neural pathways and body’s nervous system operate and respond, creating lasting effects. It’s not magic, just human connection.

Transform your settings approach to supporting children and young people with their mental health and emotional wellbeing by implementing our unique attachment-based intervention.

Education

  • Teaching Assistants
  • Learning Mentors
  • Family Support
  • SENCOs
  • Nurture Groups

Charities

  • Children’s Charities
  • Hospices and Bereavement
  • Women’s Refuges
  • Refugee Charities
  • Mental Health Charities

Children's Services

  • Social Workers
  • Family Liaison Officer
  • Adoption or Fostering
  • Transition from Care Teams
  • Youth Offending Teams

Health Care

  • CAMHS
  • Mental Health Nurses
  • Therapists
  • Counsellors
  • Education Mental Health Practitioners

Education

  • Student Support Specialists
  • Guidance Counselors
  • Teachers Assistants
  • Special Education Teachers
  • Behavior Aides

Children's Services (or Child Welfare)

  • Social Workers
  • Family Support Workers
  • Mental Health Technicians
  • Foster Care Specialists
  • Child Protection Specialists

Community Support

  • Youth Care Workers
  • Community Support Workers
  • Family Advocates
  • Refugee Support Specialists
  • Bereavement Coordinators

Health

  • Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Mental Health Clinicians
  • Behavioral Health Professionals
  • Child Life Specialist

Courses tailored for you

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Foundation to Drawing and Talking Therapy

This one-day programme provides the necessary theory and practical knowledge to certify delegates as D&T Practitioners.

1 day (9.00am to 3.30pm)

£299 + VAT (per delegate)

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Advanced Knowledge in Drawing and Talking

This one-day programme provides participants with a deeper understanding of the theory involved in the practice of Drawing and Talking.

1 day (9.00am to 3.30pm)

£299 + VAT (per delegate)

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Review Your Drawing and Talking Practices

Following the training you will have up-to-date knowledge of risks to children, safeguarding trends and child protection procedures.

2 hours

£80 + VAT (per delegate)