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Award-winning keynote speaker and systems changer on care experience, identity and trauma-informed systems.
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"All children, especially the ones we misread, have innate potential waiting to be nurtured."
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Keynotes...
(Lucy's Signature Keynote)
In this keynote, Lucy challenges assumptions around care experience, social mobility and potential. in an uplifting way Blending lived experience, law and insight to shift how we see talent. You'll gain:
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A new lens on potential and opportunity;
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Practical ways to challenge limiting beliefs;
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Tools to unlock underestimated talent.
The Advocate Within: Rewriting the Narrative of Potential
What if the stories we tell about young people are mislabelled? How can we foster a sense of a child feeling seen and heard?
Following on from Lucy’s TEDx talk, this keynote unpacks the Drama Triangle and shows how to move from rescuing to coaching. As pioneered by Lawyers Who Care and The Care Leaders.
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How to spot Rescuer behaviours rather than Coaching behaviours.
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A framework for empowering others, especially young people.
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How to help young people become Creators, not Victims.
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How to Challenge rather than Persecute.
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Practical tools to build confidence and agency.
Coach, Don't Rescue: Breaking the Dreaded Drama Triangle to Empower Healthy Identities
Are you empowering - or unintentionally disempowering - the people you support?
Lucy bridges law, lived experience and psychology to show how systems can better support, not retraumatise, those they serve.
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A practical understanding of trauma-informed leadership.
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How systems can unintentionally harm.
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Clear actions to create safer, more effective environments.
Trauma-Informed Leadership in Practice - Bridging Law, Lived Experience
and Systems Change
What does trauma-informed leadership actually look like in practice?
Lucy shares the proven model behind Lawyers Who Care (currently mentoring 126 care-experienced mentees), showing how mentoring, lived experience and community drive real inclusion and retention.
You’ll gain:
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What effective mentoring really looks like.
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How to build belonging (not just representation).
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Strategies to develop and retain diverse talent.
The Science of Lawyers Who Care: Fostering Lived Experience Leadership, Mentoring, Community and Belonging
Why can traditional diversity efforts fall short and what actually works?
Lucy shares her "utterly moving" video of her Dear Future Self videos she filmed when she first fell of the Care Cliff at 16. She explores how identity is formed and how rewriting the narrative can transform confidence, aspiration and outcomes.
You’ll gain:
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How self-belief is shaped (and limited).
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The impact of narrative on behaviour.
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Tools to support healthier identities.
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Uplifting but emotional footage of a young care leaver and her journey.
Dear Future Self: The power of narrative in shaping identity and belonging
How do the stories young people tell about themselves shape who they become? How can we use self-narrativeisation to help them?
Lucy explores how overlapping identities can shape behaviour, symptoms and outcomes, and why traditional systems often miss the full picture. Blending lived experience, psychology and law, she challenges common misunderstandings and offers a more nuanced, human-centred approach.
You’ll gain:
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Insight into the intersection of care experience, trauma and neurodiversity.
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Understanding of how systems can overlook layered needs.
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Practical ways to better support and empower individuals with both neurodiversity and care experience.
Double Jeopardy - Understanding Care Experience, Trauma and Neurodiversity
What happens when care experience, trauma and neurodiversity intersect?
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