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Life Work Training

‘Supporting young people in thinking and talking about their life stories and their identity’

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This course will look at life story work as an ongoing process and journey to support the development of young people’s sense of self and identity. We will explore the importance of life story work as a way of helping children and young people process and integrate their past within their present. The course offers participants an opportunity to further develop their skills in how to engage children and young people in thinking about their life experiences. We will discuss how to talk with young people about their experiences at different ages alongside offering extensive creative ideas for undertaking life story work. 

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On completion of this course, participants will have an understanding of:

• Why it is important to help young people talk about their life experiences

• The roles and responsibilities within life work

• Some of the challenges they may encounter (within themselves, the child, the wider network)

• How to build the child’s story over the years (scaffolding exercise using a case example to explore how to approach life work at different ages )

• Different mediums for life work – for example the use of tree of life model, memory boxes, life paths, therapeutic stories, using post its and luggage tags to capture shared experiences etc

• How to support the creation of life story books

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Duration: 4 hours

Maximum amount of Participants: 15 

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