TISUK NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2025

SCHOOLS AS PLACES OF HEALIING AND LEARNING: A VISION FOR CHANGE

This conference challenges the notion that schools should solely be places of learning and explores the incredible benefits—both for individuals and society—when schools also serve as places of healing. This includes ensuring schools provide appropriate training and implement key relational interventions.

Children spend around 13,000 hours in school. Failing to offer an enriching culture for all and a sanctuary for those facing difficult lives is a missed opportunity. Contrary to concerns about time, cultivating a healing culture can actually save time by reducing behavioral issues and stress for both staff and students. Join us for a truly inspiring conference featuring experts in the field and those with lived experience.

Speakers include: 

Dr Katriona O’Sullivan: University Professor/psychologist

Julie Jones: Schools & Prisons Lead: Invisible Walls CIC

Julie Harmieson: Director of Education and National Strategy, TISUK

Dr Margot Sunderland: Director of Education and Training Centre for Child Mental Health

Aliyah Ali: CEO Daddyless Daughters

Travis George: Britain's Got Talent Finalist 

TISUK SKILLS DAY: TRANSFORMING BEHAVIOUR THROUGH TRAUMA INFORMED APPROACHES

This one-day training addresses trauma-informed ways of working with children and teenagers whose behaviour challenges. 

The expert presenter will discuss how zero tolerance approaches/ isolation rooms are proven to be harmful to both mental health and the developing brain.  The presenter will then explore evidence based relational models that address the causes of behaviour,  bringing you a wealth of solutions that work. Delegates will be supported to evaluate their practice, with practical strategies to begin to implement a way of supporting behaviour that is relational and reflective .

Trauma Informed Schools have worked with over 20,000 teachers and 7000 schools with interventions that dramatically decrease both exclusions and staff stress related illness,  and dramatically increase attendance.

Don’t miss this day, which is full of fascinating theory and  practice, along with moving case studies from schools who haven’t looked back.

BOOK UPCOMING DATES:

11th Feb 2025

12th May 2025

FILM SHOWING + FACILITATED DISCUSSION

RESILIENCE : The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope

“The child may not remember, but the body remembers.” KPJR Films

Join TISUK Director Julie Harmieson for a rare opportunity to watch KPJR's film Resilience: the biology of stress and the science of hope. RESILIENCE chronicles the birth of a new movement among pediatricians, therapists, educators and communities, who are using cut- ting-edge brain science to disrupt cycles of violence, addiction and disease.

The original research was controversial, but the findings revealed the most important public health findings of a generation. RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress. Now understood to be one of the leading causes of everything from heart disease and cancer to substance abuse and depression, extremely stressful experiences in childhood can alter brain development and have lifelong effects on health and behavior.

However, as experts and practitioners profiled in RESILIENCE are proving, what’s predictable is preventable. These physi- cians, educators, social workers and communities are daring to talk about the effects of divorce, abuse and neglect. And they’re using cutting edge science to help the next generation break the cycles of adversity and disease.

Tickets £10, book your place here.