Trauma | Resonance | Resilience

Send us Fan Mail Sonya McMullan joins us from Women's Aid Northern Ireland to share some of the particular challenges for women and children during 'lockdown' and some of the local 'wins' that are making a difference. Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a time....

Send us Fan Mail Helen Kemp joins me in conversation about the menopause and how it can intersect with trauma and mental health and what might be coming up during Covid 19 https://twitter.com/Menopause_Cafe Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a time. If you're feeling it, then leav...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Lisa speaks with Nikki on finding safety through a lens of astrology, holistic health and spirituality. Nikki has been working in the field of holistic self-development, wellbeing with a particular interest in our connection to the universe for over 20 years. She is a speaker,  spiritual mentor, guide,. Reiki Master, Healer (with a particular connection to ho...

Send us Fan Mail Gulwali Passarlay talks with Lisa about his 12 month journey from Afghanistan to the UK as a 12 year old and the reality of seeking refuge in the UK. Unpicking the network of traffickers, the fragility of life and building the empathy muscle. But his book and indeed the conversation is so much more than a story about a journey. It is a story of hope, of friendships and of the powe...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Muna Abdi is a Leading Education consultant and independent researcher with over 10 years of experience in education, research and community engagement. She has previously worked as a youth worker and university lecturer and is currently the Director of MA Education Consultancy. Muna's work focuses primarily on educating practitioners in various fields on anti-oppressive a...

Send us Fan Mail Lucy joins the podcast where we look at alternatives to thinking about mental health other than the medical model in the context of Psychiatry. We look at lived experience and voices, the Power Threat Meaning framework, trauma informed care, the power of the medical model, drop the disorder and relational activism.  Suggested further resources: 'A disorder 4 everyone' ev...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we bring voices of lived experience together with therapeutic discourse and deepening our understanding about the realities of being a birth parent. We also touch on systemic challenges that do not seek to help but rather add to harm. Joanne is on Twitter and you can buy the book here and Adoption Plus can be found here. Support the show Thank you for listening! Pl...

Send us Fan Mail David Richmond the Director of the recently created Cabinet Office for Veteran Affairs talks with me about PTSD & combat trauma, the intensity of relationships and settling back into life after service.  For the edited version of this conversation please head over to the podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts by searching for 'Lisa Cherry Trauma, Resonance, Resilien...

Send us Fan Mail Karen Treisman joins us on the podcast this week to explore trauma, systems and organisational change with some deeper diving into Institutional Trauma and creating trauma-informed environments. We talk through power, privilege and social justice as an underpinning to trauma awareness. https://twitter.com/dr_treisman https://twitter.com/_LisaCherry http://www.safehandsthinkingmind...

Send us Fan Mail Bev Thomas, Author & Clinical Psychologist, speaks candidly about her debut novel which asks us to consider whether the lies we tell ourselves are in fact the greatest lies of all... A compassionate and multi layered look at the messy reality of what it is to be human in the context of the private and professional spaces we inhabit.  Twitter - @bevthomas20 Twitter - @_lisacher...

Send us Fan Mail A deep conversation on relational activism in social work. Thinking collectively, interdependently and relationally. We unpick power, vulnerability, co-production, humanity and community.  Read more about Relational Activism from Becca and Tim here:  https://ssir.org/articles/entry/becoming_unstuck_with_relational_activism Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrMichaelHClar1 https://twitt...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! What's coming up next in 2020? What are the themes that we are going to be looking at? Season Two is coming SOON!  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a time. If you're feeling it, then leave a comment too! L earn more about Lisa here: www.lisa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Lisa Cherry is interviewed by Jon Reid from Oxford Brookes School of Education, to conclude this hugely successful Season One. Together they reflect on the last year drawing conclusions about what might lie ahead.  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a...

Send us Fan Mail Sally Donovan, parent, adoptive parent and writer on therapeutic parenting, talks about child exploitation and the world of county lines and the impact that this has had on her family, on all children/young people and the erosion of it into our town centres. The reticence to deal with this is raised as a call to action.  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and s...

Send us Fan Mail Nick Hardwick, Professor in Criminology, former CEO Centrepoint, former CEO Refugee Council and Former Chief Inspector HM Prisons, shares his wisdom on the prison system, homelessness and what a lifetime of working in these areas can teach us.  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one con...

Send us Fan Mail Anna Carlisle, Senior Lecturer from Goldsmiths University on education, inclusion and diversity. Anna takes us on a journey around schools, school exclusion and LGBT Inclusion. Creating shifts, embedding into cultures.  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a time. If you...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is about as Relationships Focused as it gets! Dr. Robert Loe is the Founder and Director of Relational Schools. A former teacher and senior leader, Robert now researches, writes and speaks on the importance of fostering positive relationships between key stakeholders in schools.  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Kim Golding shares her journey and wisdom around how she came to become a certified DDP Practitioner through Dan Hughes work. Working with children who have endured early childhood and developmental trauma, Kim needed to find a model that placed safety and connection at the heart of this work. Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the...

Send us Fan Mail Breaking the cycle is the amber nectar for so many people who come through the care system, school exclusion, addiction and the criminal justice system. Andi shares his journey from living in the system to working in the system, writing a book and being a parent! Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create soc...

Send us Fan Mail Kiran Gill talks about her charity 'The Difference' which works with teachers who have stopped working in mainstream schools to work on developing their leadership potential to take up posts in alternative provisions.  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a tim...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your child is taken into care, removed from birth by the local authority that once has been your own 'corporate parent'? 'Annie' talks about the impact on her, her family and how this has spurred her on to relentlessly help others and support Social Workers in delivering the best practice. Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share...

Send us Fan Mail Stuart Guest, a Birmingham Head Teacher, shares how he came to develop and lead an attachment aware school carrying The Timpson Award, what adoption has taught him and why inclusion is the answer for ALL pupils.  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a time. If you'r...

Send us Fan Mail Sue Saunders joins the podcast from the Human Givens Centre in Dublin and talks about Human Givens as an effective therapy for trauma recovery and how it is not necessary to talk about the trauma, making it a gentle and safe approach. Sue shares some of the key areas of this therapeutic intervention. Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice...

Send us Fan Mail Mike Armiger shares his work with athletes, education and with Mental Health professionals. Together we explore how best to support someone sharing their suicidal thoughts and not medicalising normal responses to distress. Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a time. If...

Send us Fan Mail Elly Chapple, facilitator of the hashtag #flipthenarrative explores how we can understand each other better and live better together as humans so that we can create more compassionate communities. Twitter:  https://twitter.com/elly_chapple Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connecti...