SKILLS TRAININGS Recording & Confidentiality Notice: These events are designed to be live, interactive, and confidential. Because we’ll be working with real or illustrative case material and encouraging open discussion and break out activites for some sessions, we won’t be recording or distributing the sessions afterwards. All content and materials are the intellectual property of TISCUK and the speakers and are shared for your personal learning only. Please don’t record, copy, or share them without permission. A full text handout of the presentations will be shared after the event. Thank you for helping us protect the privacy of participants and maintain a safe, trusted space for everyone.
TISCUK SKILLS TRAINING WORKING WITH DEPRESSION AND SUICIDAL IDEATION
When: Wed 28th Jan 2026 9.30am- 12.30pm
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £59 per person (no VAT)
Join Dr Margot Sunderland, with experts in safeguarding and lived experience, to address causes, vulnerabilities and what makes a difference long-term, in terms of bringing back hope and meaningful human connection for teenagers and young adults who don't see a future.
TISCUK SKILLS TRAINING CAUSES OF SELF LOATHING AND SELF HATE
When: Wed 4th Feb 2026 9.30am- 12.30pm
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £49 per person (no VAT)
Through real-life case studies and practical interventions, Dr. Sunderland will show how emotionally available adults who provide empathy, connection and collaborative sense-making can transform self-hate into self-compassion. Participants will learn how to help young people reflect on their lives, in ways that build long-term embodied
self-worth. Join us for an inspiring and deeply moving session on how compassionate, relationship-based interventions can truly change lives.
TISCUK SKILLS TRAINING HOW TO BE AND WHAT TO SAY TO CONNECT WITH TEENAGERS
When: 11th March 2026, 9.30am- 12.30pm
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £49 per person (no VAT)
Are you struggling with teenagers in a professional or personal setting? The teenage brain is undergoing massive transformations, they operate in a different way to child/adult brains and we find it hard to understand and relate to them, resulting in misunderstanding and conflict. Join Dr Margot Sunderland to understand the changes in the brain, how they impact decisions and behaviour, and a host of practical strategies to support connection and communication.
“The child may not remember, but the body remembers.” KPJR Films
FILM SHOWING + FACILITATED DISCUSSION RESILIENCE : The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope
When: 19th March 2026, 8th July 2026 4.30-6.30pm
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded),
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £10 per person (no VAT)
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 cutting-edge brain science to disrupt cycles of violence, addiction and disease.
TISCUK SKILLS TRAINING SILENT SCARS: THE LASTING IMPACT OF GROWING UP IN A VIOLENT HOME
When: Tuesday 24th March 2026 9.30-12.30pm
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £59 per person (no VAT)
Led by presenters with decades of therapeutic expertise in this area, including one with lived experience, the session examines the deep physiological and psychological effects of disrupted attachment and chronic hypervigilance. Just as importantly, presenters will focus on how compassionate, timely intervention empowering children and teens can restore safety, resilience, and healing. Thanks to neuroplasticity, minds and bodies can recover. Through actual life stories and practical tools, participants will learn how to help children talk about and process their experiences. This event is for all who work to protect and uplift children and create environments where they can truly thrive.
TISCUK SKILLS TRAINING SAFEGUARDING THROUGH A TRAUMA INFORMED LENS
When: Wed 22nd April 2026 9.30am -12.30pm
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: TISCUK Practitioners only
Cost: £49 per person (no VAT)
This session takes a deeper look at safeguarding practice through the Protect–Relate–Regulate–Reflect approach. It’s designed for professionals who already understand TISCUK’s models and principles and want to strengthen how these values show up in their organisation’s wider safeguarding work.
TISCUK SKILLS TRAINING ANXIETY IN CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS: The Neuroscience, psychology and interventions for recovery.
When: 29th April 2026 (12.30-3.30pm), 30th June 2026 (9.30am-12.30pm)
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £49 per person (no VAT)
Join Dr Margot Sunderland to understand of why children, teenagers, and adults develop anxiety-related problems and how they can heal. Delegates will learn about the neuroscience and psychology of chronic anxiety, including what happens in the brain, mind and body during phobias, obsessive thoughts, compulsive rituals, catastrophising, panic attacks, insomnia, and emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA). Most importantly how relationships with emotionally available adults in schools/other settings can heal troubled minds.
TISCUK SKILLS TRAINING TRAUMA IN THE EARLY YEARS: PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION
When: Tues 5th May 2026 9.30am -12.30pm
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £49 per person (no VAT)
Join Dr Margot Sunderland Neuroscience scholar and Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist with over 30 years' experience. Author of over 20 books in child mental health including The Science of Parenting (First Prize winner British Medical Association Book Awards). Director of Education and Training, Centre for Child Mental Health. Director of Innovation and Research, Trauma Informed Schools UK
TISCUK SKILLS TRAINING TRANSFORMING BEHAVIOUR THROUGH TRAUMA INFORMED APPROACHES
When: 18th May 2026 9.30-4pm
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £85 per person (no VAT)
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 .
TISCUK SKILLS TRAINING WHERE FEAR LIVES: MAPPING TRAUMA IN THE BODY
When: 9th June 2026, 9.30am-12.30pm
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £49 per person (no VAT)
This training day offers a deep understanding of how the body communicates emotional pain—and how healing begins when we learn to truly listen.
Our presenters will explore the many ways that the body expresses unprocessed painful life experiences, from medically unexplained somatic symptoms to stress-related conditions such as: fibromyalgia, IBS, migraines, stomach pain, skin problems, body dismorphia, eating disorders
TISCUK NATIONAL TRAUMA CONFERENCE: FROM TRAUMA TO TRANSFORMATION: HOW PEOPLE CHANGE
When: Thurs 2nd July 10.30am- 4.30pm
Format: Online via Zoom, recorded
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £129 per person (no VAT)
Featuring Dan Hughes, Leslie Greenberg, Lucy Johnstone, and Margot Sunderland and workshops from frontline practitioners showcasing best practice, this day brings together fascinating cutting-edge theory with inspirational practice. With deeply moving case studies, and examples of best practice, we will address how lasting change happens after deeply traumatic experiences. Real-life examples will show how enduring change is possible even in contexts of extreme adversity, deprivation, and deep distress. It brings together world-leading experts and exceptional trauma-informed practitioners, whose work with children, teenagers and adults have significantly impacted the field of mental health and trauma recovery.
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TISCUK WHOLE STAFF TRAINING FOR TRAUMA & MENTAL HEALTH INFORMED SCHOOLS & ORGANISATIONS
When: next date tbc
Format: Online via Zoom (not recorded)
For: All all staff working across schools, charities and community organisations
Cost: individual staff £49, groups of staff £449 (no VAT)
This training is designed to support whole school/setting implementation of trauma informed and mentally healthy practices into schools and organisations. TISUK recognises the importance of the commitment and determination of the whole staff team to fully embed any approach or cultural change. This course is officially CPD accredited by the CPD Standards Office, with 3 or 6 hours of CPD awarded upon completion.
CENTRE FOR CHILD MENTAL HEALTH CPD SESSIONS PSYCHOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE OF THE CAUSES OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS & EVIDENCE- BASED ROADS TO RECOVERY
When: Start anytime to suit your schedule
Format: Recorded sessions, watch anytime
For: All welcome- professionals, volunteers, community workers and parents
Cost: £42 per session, £365 or all 10 sessions (no VAT)
A series of flexible 2-hour online recorded lecture presentations with Dr Margot Sunderland, other top psychologists and experts by lived experience, addressing the underlying causes of mental health problems and how to heal.
