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Training...
Workshops and training for law, education and public sector leaders - unlocking potential, building belonging and driving systemic change.
How do we move towards a Care Aware and Trauma-Informed system, profession or world?
In this programme, Lucy trains leaders, educators, universities, lawyers and social workers on the lived and professional experience of growing up in foster care as well as how trauma impacts the brain and decision-making.
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An understanding of care experience from both strengths and weakness.
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An understanding of systemic disadvantage and discrimination.
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Ways you can empower young people in care without enabling negative behaviour.
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An understanding of trauma and intersectionality.
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Interactive workshops through case studies.
Care Aware and Trauma Informed Leadership
How can the social work / education / legal professions become more Care Aware and Trauma-Informed? How can we make this practice in our DNA?
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.
Belonging By Design: How to lead organisations with belonging in the DNA
Why can traditional diversity efforts fall short and what actually works?
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 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 of self.
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-narrativisation to help them?
Lucy bridges law, lived experience and psychology to show how systems can better support, not retraumatise, those they serve.
You’ll gain:
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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 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.
Untangling the Threads: The triple intersection of trauma, care experience and neurodivergence
What happens when care experience, trauma and neurodiversity intersect?
