THEiA (Trauma, Health, Education International Academy) has now delivered four successful Care Excellence Programmes to over 500 carers in November & December 2024 and January & February 2025. We are now accepting applications for the course from May onwards, more details below.
If you are a professional wishing to know more about the course and what if offers your carers, then why not join Richard Rose for an informative session on 29th April 2025 – see flyer for details…
THEiA Care Excellence Programme – Professional Session – 29th April 2025
To find out more about THEiA and the Care Excellence Programme, please see flyers below for more details…
THEiA – Introduction Flyer v4 FINAL
THEiA – Care Excellence Programme Flyer
Book online now!
We are pleased to announce the following dates are now bookable via our new website, THEiA Academy – THEiA
Delegates will be required to provide a supporting professional reference and will need to have the reference proforma completed and signed by their referee prior to applying. Please note that the signature provided must be an original, not typed name. Please see a link to the reference proforma below…
THEiA Care Excellence Programme – Reference proforma v3 FINAL
This course is currently only available to UK carers and will be offered Worldwide from 2025.
THEiA – ‘Shining a light on best practice’
TLSW Storytelling Workshop with Ruth Kirkpatrick
An opportunity to explore ways to use oral, traditional storytelling in your TLSW practice. Learn how storytelling can benefit your work, enhancing a trusting relationship, building emotional literacy and whilst developing skills in problem solving and empathy. Watch this space for future dates for this workshop.
Developing Your Therapeutic Life Story Work Tool Kit to Meet the Needs of the Child
These short online practical workshops have been designed to support the development of additional TLSW Tools, with the individual needs of the child and differentiation in mind.There are three individual workshops to attend, or receive a discount if attending all three! See flyer below for more information, dates, cost and how to book your place… New dates starting in February 2025 see flyer for more details..
Developing Tools Workshop Information – 2025
Certificate in Therapeutic Life Story Work Supervision
This new course delivered by Karla Burley is aimed at those who have completed the Professional Diploma in TLSW and would like to become a TLSW Supervisor. Places are limited on this course, therefore early booking is advised. Watch this space for the next course coming soon!
Local Authority (& Fostering Agencies) TLSW Supervision Course
This new course has been created for those supporting team/staff members who have attended or are attending Professor Richard Rose TLSW Advanced Certificate 6-Day Course.
This course has been specifically designed and developed, endorsed by Professor Richard Rose, to inform you and offer you the insight, understanding of TLSW and to learn the TLSW skills and techniques so that you can support your team through their learning process of TLSW effectively and safely. This will enhance their practice from their learning on the 6-day TLSW Advanced Certificate course.See flyer below for full details, dates and how to reserve your place! New course starting in March 2025 – see flyer for more details…
2025 LA 4-Day TLSW Supervisor Course Flyer (4)
Making eBooks in Therapeutic Life Story Work
Join Suzanne McGladdery for this short workshop on how Canva and Book Creator can be used for making story books in TLSW, including audio eBooks which can be of benefit for children with complex needs.
Watch this space for the next course coming soon!
Creating Therapeutic Stories – 3 day course
Places are limited on this 3-day course presented by Suzanne McGladdery. The course aims to provide a framework for ‘Creating Therapeutic Stories’.
CTS Flyer Autumn 2025
Writing Up Your Therapeutic Life Story Work Books
Join Suzanne McGladdery on this online workshop on how to write up TLSW books.
2025 Flyer Writing up your TLSW Book Workshop
Becoming an Independent Life Story Worker
Suzanne McGladdery is providing a short course around becoming an Independent TLSW Worker, offering advice in setting up independent practice.
Becoming Independent Flyer 2025
It is always amazing to be able to support young people as they reach their dreams. Hazel has completed a major part of her third year Fine Arts Degree dissertation with this podcast.
If you are interested in spider webs and attachment click the link below to have a listen. I am very honoured to have been involved.
If it has held your interest, please let Hazel know as she can have feedback for her final paper.
Richard Rose,
Founder & Director, TLSWi
Tomás Saraceno: Webs of At-tent(s)ion. 2018
Tomás Saraceno: Free the Air. 2022
Tomás Saraceno: The Cosmic Dust. 2014
Podcast created by Will Sadler, AnyaMedia
Therapeutic Life Story Work International is excited to be able to share the recent research paper that has taken place in Australia by Deakin University evidencing that the Rose Model in TLSW supports our practice and purpose.
The overall report has exceeded our expectations, however we are delighted with the conclusion, and recommendation of the advantages and effectiveness of applying the Rose Model in TLSW, and the long-term impact that TLSW has on children and young people.
Please click the link below to access the full report…
Kendra Morris Jacobson oversees the Oregon Post Adoption Resource Centre (ORPARC). Kendra has put together a short video about Life Story Work, click the link below to watch…..
Kendra Morris Jacobson oversees the Oregon Post Adoption Resource Centre (ORPARC) In this interview Kendra talks about the history and state of the research around Lifebooks and Lifestory Work, and how this framework can be more accessible for integration into child welfare practice. Click the link below to listen to the podcast…
CASCW Podcast Channel – Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (umn.edu)
The start of February has brought with it some very positive and much needed news! It has now been confirmed from the Department for Education that the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) will continue until March 2025. See press release below.
This fund is absolutely critical for children and young people being cared for through adoption or special guardianship arrangements. Without it, a vast number of children and families would not be able to access the therapeutic interventions that assist in achieving the following positive outcomes:
The ASF has 2 fair access limits which are £2,500 per child per year for specialist assessment and £5,000 per child per year for therapy. The fund was introduced in 2015 and since then the Government has invested more than £200m and approximately 61,000 families have benefitted.
There are a wide and varied range of therapies that can be funded including; ‘extensive therapeutic life story work’ and ‘life story work with a therapeutic intervention where therapy is used to help the young person understand and cope with the trauma and difficulties that their life story work might revisit’.
This is absolutely key to our work when very often local services and regional adoption agencies do not have the local funds to ensure that children and young people receive quality life story work. So all in all a big relief and some positive news for us as therapeutic life story work practitioners but most importantly for children, young people and their families and supporters
Article by Nadine Jay, Child Centred Therapy, on behalf of TLSWi
The Adoption Support Fund (ASF) has been secured until March 2025, the Department for Education has confirmed.
This will take the ASF to its tenth year of funding. No details have yet been announced about the size of the fund or any changes to the way it operates, following a review last year.
The ASF funds therapeutic support for families whose children left care through adoption or special guardianship arrangements. These children are likely to have experienced severe trauma prior to coming into care and many need therapeutic support to help them thrive.
Press release source: www.politics.co.uk