Our Services

Duration: One full day (7 hours) or two half-days

Ideal for: New staff teams, those seeking a unified approach, or as a refresher for experienced carers.

What’s covered:

– Understanding child development (Piaget, developmental vs. chronological age)

– Attachment theory in practice – the four styles and the “Attachment Animals”

– Trauma & Trauma-Informed Care – ACEs, survival brain, six TIC principles

– Behaviour as communication – E.A.T.S. model, ABC charts, reframing

– Creating physical & psychological safety – Maslow, co-regulation, felt safety

– Introduction to psychological formulation – the 5Ps framework

– Self-harm and suicidal acts – differentiation, safety planning, the CODE system

Learning outcomes: Participants will be able to recognise trauma responses, de-escalate using PACE, co-create safety plans, and contribute to multi-agency care planning.

Format: In-person at your premises. Includes pre-training consultation and post-training follow-up.

Duration: 5 hours (one day with breaks)

Ideal for: Senior practitioners, key workers, and teams wanting to deepen their analytical skills and move from “behaviour management” to “therapeutic understanding.”

What’s covered:

– The Thor Versions framework – seeing Version A (presenting), B (broken), C (pre-trauma), and D (future healed self)

– BioPsychoSocial model & the 5Ps in depth

– Developmental history & life journey timelines – building a visual story

– From formulation to management plan – multi-agency coordination

– Co-creating a future vision & goals with the young person

– The RISE Resilience Map – a practical tool to identify and build protective factors

Learning outcomes: Participants will be able to construct a 5P formulation from a case history, create a collaborative care plan, and use the RISE map to turn strengths into actionable resilience-building steps.

Includes: Case study workshop (e.g., “Mia” – a young person in residential care) and take-home 5P template.

Duration: 3 hours (half-day)

Ideal for: All frontline staff who need confidence in responding to acute distress, self-harm, and suicide risk.

What’s covered:

– Differentiating self-harm (coping) from suicidal intent (escape)

– Understanding the “why” – entrapment, burdensomeness, isolation

– The CODE safety system – how to co-create a shame-free, predictable crisis signal

– Collaborative safety planning – from restriction to empowerment

– Staff self-care: managing your own fear and vicarious trauma

– Role-play scenarios and myth-busting quiz

Learning outcomes: Participants will be able to assess risk calmly, ask direct questions about intent, co-create a personalised safety plan, and implement a CODE system with any young person.

Duration: 2 hours (can be a standalone session or part of a larger programme)

Ideal for: New support workers or teams wanting a refresher on how to decode challenging behaviour.

What’s covered:

– The core principle: all behaviour is a message about an unmet need

– The ABC model (Antecedent, Behaviour, Consequence)

– The E.A.T.S. model (Escape, Attention, Tangible, Sensory)

– Reframing exercise – turning “defiant” into “distressed”

– Simple ABC charting for team use

Learning outcomes: Participants will be able to objectively describe behaviour, identify its likely function, and choose a response that meets the need rather than punishes the message.

Duration: Flexible – half-day, full-day, or twilight session

Ideal for: Homes with specific needs – e.g., supporting neurodivergent young people, managing placement transitions, working with trauma background, or integrating PACE into daily routines.

We can design a session around your team’s most pressing questions. Recent examples:

– “How do we use formulation during team mornings?”

– “What does co-regulation look like during a violent outburst?”

– “How do we talk to young people about self-harm without making it worse?”

Process: Free consultation call → bespoke outline → delivery → feedback & follow-up.