What kind of training can I book? What do you offer?

Bespoke courses on and around the topics of Online Harms and Cybertrauma, and how to Safeguard Children using Tech.

The courses listed are a brief description of some of the training I can provide, however if you want to combine two or more, or focus on a different aspect, I will do my best to accommodate you.

These courses are perfect for schools, groups of child facing professionals, and parent groups. I can do the training over Zoom, or in person within the UK, so location is not an issue.

Please browse the course descriptions below to pinpoint what you need.

Safeguarding in a World of Technology: why this is more than e-safety or standard and contextual safeguarding.
Suitable for DSL’s, Teachers, Social Workers, Police and Therapists

This training goes beyond standard online safety training and looks to the nuances of working with safeguarding issues that appear online and how you as the professional can have conversations with children and young people and keep them safe and recognise issues that relate to the online world away from the screen. Topics covered include sensitive issues, stalking, trolling, grooming, gender spaces online, access to age-restricted products and services, circumnavigation of parental controls, contextual issues and an introduction to the course ‘accessing adult material’.

What are your responsibilities and what do you need to do when encountering these topics when working with children? The course will guide and reassure you in safeguarding protocols and policies.

Daring & Courageous Practice: When children view adult material. What’s the harm anyway? Porn Viewing in Children and Young People: How to Safeguard After Viewing!

When working with children it is now part of practitioners thinking to include online spaces which include access to “adult” material (pornography). The course enables frank conversations about children’s access to this material, where this occurs, why this gets missed and whether you should ask, or not!

This course will provide practitioners (teachers, therapists, social workers, or police officers etc) with background theory and research on Porn viewing in children and young people, what you need to know about the industry and what children can and do see, where and why. You will also be equipped to discuss this topic with children as young as 5 or 6 and those children who accidentally happen upon this versus those who actively seek this material. You will learn about appropriate safeguards and policies, procedures, and resources to help you feel courageous and confident in this space and your role

Online Behaviours – Why We and Children Do What We Do Online:
An update to cyberpsychology which includes Child Development and Attachment

This course is an in depth, theoretical and philosophical expansion of my book recently published by Routledge. The course will explain how technology is changing us as relational beings and how this impacts our development and conversational abilities online and beyond.

This course will look at the data and theory around these issues and how this affects young people, and how this is revealing a new form of trauma that is evolving to include an impact on child development and attachment processes.

Technology for Trauma

This course introduces you to various forms of technology from gaming to VR to Biofeedback. The course will provide learners with a range of technologies and the background theory that underpins their use when applied to working with people who are suffering from trauma related issues. The course looks at; When and where to use HRV or Games, versus how you can support your clients to use tech they already own to support their healing and progress. There will be an emphasis on the legalities of data protection and safety for clients, especially children in the UK. And a unique approach to the use of advacnes in technology for personalised medicine, health and wellbeing.

This course runs on a face to face basis so you can try the equipment for yourself!

Online Safety, Online Harms and Cybertrauma for Child/Adolescent Therapists: KCSIE 2022 and beyond; New Legislation and the role in Schools/NEET.

This course will equip practitioners working in schools or around education settings to be both fully updated with new legislation and to have digital safeguarding training that covers the online world and the harms children face. New legislation requires all staff in schools, which includes the visiting therapist to understand the online space. The work you conduct as a therapist includes the digital lives of children and as such this will help you maintain your essential safeguarding requirements for working within schools and keeping up to date with new laws and issues that relate to this space and give you the tools and resources to manage this issue.

Ethics, Law and Keeping Children’s Digital Data Safe

This training is for anyone who wishes to work online with children and young people; this includes the how to do this safely and what your roles and obligations are as the practitioner.

Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking and Trolling – A child’s Point of View, a New PTS Issue

This course will look at the data and theory around these issues and how these affect young people and how this is revealing a form of trauma that is evolving to include an impact on child development.

Geekery, Gaming and Meeting Young People Where They Are

This course is an introduction only, bringing the world of phrases you may have heard like Twitch, Streaming, Marvel Comic Characters and more to you and explaining what they mean. Do you know your DND from MMORPGs? Emphasis will be on helping you become a Geek Therapist through a sister company who are the world leaders in this area; helping you meet your clients where they are.

This course can help practitioners identify and work with geek-based hobbies and interests such as gaming, tabletop gaming, engineering, maths, train spotting and more. The course is a half-day workshop delivering some advice and signposting towards a sister company’s course to become a certified ‘Geek-Therapist.

This workshop works best in person as play is the nature of the day! [technology, games and resources are used in training]