Dr Hayley Walker-Williams and Professor Anise Fouché from the North West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, presented the Survivor to Thriver strengths-based group intervention promoting resilience & enabling posttraumatic growth in women who experienced childhood sexual abuse in South Africa.
Sam Hart, Director of Sussex Prisoners’ Families, reports on a recent research trip to the States, in which she investigated what it means to be ‘trauma-informed.’ She hopes to show how a ‘trauma-informed’ approach can complement a resilience-building approach when working with children, young people and families who have experienced adversity, using examples from families involved with the criminal justice system.
The S2T advocates a balanced approach and draws on an eclectic mix of traditional pathogenic and salutogenic theories. It aims at re-authoring trauma narratives in a safe healing group context, where there is reflection on individual strengths and capacities borne from the struggle to cope with childhood trauma.
So there I was: slightly disoriented, a little sweaty, surrounded by thousands of other young people. All of us were listening to a performance of Lukas Graham’s ‘7 Years’. I know what you’re thinking, and the answer is no. I wasn’t at a concert or in a stuffy nightclub somewhere in London. Instead, I was in Strasbourg, France, enjoying the opening ceremony of the European Youth Event (EYE) 2016.
One of the activities within HeadStart Newham is ‘Bounce Back Newham’, a resilience behaviour change workbook and online resource based on the principles of the resilience framework. Working with the Young Foundation and young people across the borough we have developed ‘Bounce Back Newham’ as a resource which can be delivered in schools or accessed independently by young people.
The creative task ahead of us in forming a future vision was based on the Miracle Question (from Solution Focused Therapy), and is something that anybody can do. The Question is this: “What would the ideal day look like for you if all barriers were removed?”
Topic: Creating a future vision – David Wolff, Community University Partnership Programme Resources: You can download Dave’s slides and you can read our Blog. Session Summary: This session is about developing a future vision for your work using creative techniques. Based on the research project that the Community University Partnership Programme undertook on their 10 year … Read more
Prof Sue Kildea’s doing her talk on Indigenous birthing in an urban setting. Sue’s been working in this area for years now, though often out in the most remote parts of Australia. Working side by side with Indigenous Australians, she’s learnt loads about Aboriginal health and culture. I’m so excited that she’s here.
Birthing in Our Community Program. It is an intensive model of targeted early antenatal engagement, home visiting, co-ordination of services and cultural capacity building with Indigenous cultural guidance and oversight through a Steering Committee. We aim to work with families to strengthen their resilience.
Co-production in resilience research and why it’s great is on the bill for today’s Resilience Forum. Anne Rathbone, PhD student in the Boingboing group at the University of Brighton, has been working with Arts Connect, a group supporting people with learning disabilities through Arts Practices, for 18 months now. They’re doing a co-inquiry group on resilience. She’s at the podium, along with Mikey and Dominic from Arts Connect.
