This workshop will focus on the challenges that adults face when having to explain difficult things to children in a way children can comprehend. We will explore the use of stories and child friendly ways of presenting information and also explain how children process this kind of information, and therefore what can be helpful and what might not be helpful.

We will consider adult attitudes and beliefs around talking about difficult things to try to understand where adults might be coming from and their anxieties and fears. Delegates will receive some written ideas that can be adapted to different children and families depending on circumstances.

This training session is brought to you by NSPCWT & The Sunflower Network. The trainer, Naomi Moore, trained as a play and creative arts and child/parent therapist. She runs the weekend play provision and volunteer mentoring at Great Ormond Street Hospital and runs training for GOSH, international children's charities and in schools on play, children's emotional wellbeing, mental health and trauma informed education.

Prior to her therapy career, she worked in early years and primary education specialising in nurture group work with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. She has worked with children and young people of all ages and their families internationally, as well as in the UK, across both state and private sectors including specialist adolescent inpatient units, orphanages, refugee camps, palliative care and severe medical trauma. She has also written a number of children’s books.

This is a free training event for parent carers of children with additional needs and/or disabilities within North Somerset. This event is also open to professionals who work with children/young people with additional needs and/or disabilities in North Somerset. Priority on place allocation will be given based on the criteria above.

We would like to thank the Pears Foundation whose philanthropic support of NSPCWT has made this training freely available.

The funding is being granted through Pears Foundation’s trusted, long-term Partners to ensure funding gets to frontline organisations and their communities.

The funding is part of the Government’s £750m charities package.