Connection Seeking Children and the need for Potential Seeking Adults

Join us for the Connection Seeking Children and the need for Potential Seeking Adults workshop and gain insights that will transform your practice. This dynamic workshop will explore the journey of a looked after child through a trauma informed lens delivered by a lived experience leader. Through engaging storytelling and interactive discussions, we’ll uncover the impacts of parental loss and separation, inconsistent caregivers, and the absence of potential seeking adults on the surviving and developing child. Learn how traumatised children navigate education, build healthy relationships, and develop a positive sense of self when practitioners provide psychological safety in all services children and young people encounter.

Learning Outcomes 

• Understand the behaviours exhibited by looked after children in survival mode and the impact of trauma on their development.
• Recognise the impacts of parental separation, inconsistent caregivers, and the absence of potential-seeking adults on looked after children and their view of the world.
• Identify strategies for supporting looked after children in navigating education, building healthy relationships, and developing a positive sense of self.
• Recognise key moments crucial to support healing through positive safe connections into, through, and out of care for children and young people.