The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments
Can institutional culture challenge your mental health? What if your job makes you feel shame, sadness, grief, disgust and fear? What if you are expected not to feel? Or you are expected to be relentlessly competitive? What it’s like to live or work in a prison? Does working with people who commit murder, child abuse and rape affect people who work in prisons and the wider criminal justice system? How do people survive and thrive when facing significant challenges to our emotional health over a lengthy period? How do we protect ourselves and stay compassionate, loving and trusting? Importantly, how do we find and preserve hope? Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that “The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prisons”. In this weekly podcast ,your hosts, David Jones (Forensic psychotherapist) and Dr Naomi Murphy (Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist) hope that exploring less visible aspects of prisons will help listeners see that prisons are a window into society and let us see people not only at their worst but also at their best. We feature a rich range of guests sharing snap shots of life in prisons and take a look at hospitals, schools, sport and the police in order to learn from other institutions. We learn about challenges to human integrity and hear important lessons and heart-warming stories about survival and growth when facing adversity in harsh places. We hope that sharing our conversations can help you make changes to your own relationship with institutions that might challenge your emotional health and well-being. Follow and connect with us and give us feedback. Let us know what you think works, and also what doesn’t. We want you to look forward to the podcast each week. We’ll also be extremely grateful for any reviews that you give us. A simple star or two or a thumbs up will do. Email: lockedupliving@gmail.com or connect with us on: Substack: https://lockedupliving.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/LockedUpLiving Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomimurphypsychologist/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jones-41910b12/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lockedupliving/
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
122. Shona Minson: Are you at risk of vicarious trauma?
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
The first sentence of this podcast will probably resonate with many people. Shona Minson courageously talks about the impact upon her health and wellbeing of working intimately with traumatised children and mothers. It is a very honest conversation and we are grateful to Shona for sharing her reflections with us.
Shona is currently a British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology. Since March 2020 she has been researching the impact of COVID-19 prison lockdowns on children who have a parent in prison.
She has provided training to judiciary on the sentencing of mothers and primary carers in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. In 2018 she released the film series 'Safeguarding Children when Sentencing Mothers' for sentencers, advocates, probation staff and women facing sentence in England and Wales. She has more recently been involved in a similar series for criminal justice professionals in Scotland, which was released in April 2021.
After graduating from St.Anne's College, Oxford in Jurisprudence Shona was called to the Bar of England and Wales and practised criminal and family law from 1 King's Bench Walk, London. Her professional experience led to her research interest in the points of intersection between family and criminal law.
She obtained an MSc (Distinction) from the University of Surrey in Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Research in 2012. Her Masters research explored the impact of motherhood as mitigation in criminal sentencing using interviews with members of the judiciary and an analysis of sentencing transcripts.
Shona then moved to the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford and funded by the ESRC she undertook DPhil research which analysed the place of children in maternal sentencing decisions in England and Wales. She explored the status of children of prisoners in English law and engaged directly with children and their carers to explore the nature of the impact of maternal imprisonment. She also interviewed members of the Crown Court judiciary to examine sentencing practice.
In 2017/ 2018 Shona was employed by the Faculty of Law as the Research Officer on an ESRC Impact Acceleration Award funded project in association with the Prison Reform Trust and Dr Rachel Condry. ' Addressing the Impact of Maternal Imprisonment: Developing Collaborative Training' . It built on the findings of her doctoral work and provide information, in the form of films, to sentencers and legal professionals to aid consistency and understanding in maternal sentencing decisions. The films were launched in January 2018 and are available for sentencers, advocates and probation staff. An additional film was made for women themselves facing sentence and it can be viewed here.
Shona shared her research findings with the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights in March 2018, in particular with regard to the state duty to protect children from discrimination which they may face as a consequence of the status or activities of their parents (UNCRC, Article 2). As a consequence the JCHR held an enquiry into the right to family life of children whose mother is imprisoned.
Transcript of conversation can be found here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/lockedupliving/p/are-you-at-risk-for-vicarious-trauma?r=216eb0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
121. Edson Hato - How diversity strengthens organisations
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Edson Hato is an award winning executive who transforms multi-billion global companies, start-ups and scale ups through a process called “rehumanisation”. He has 20 years experience of helping businesses transform their culture to promote talent, leadership and organisational development, performance, diversity and inclusion. He started his career at Price Waterhouse Cooper but has since worked as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Astra Zeneca, UBS, Philip Morris and ING group.
Transcript of conversation can be found here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/lockedupliving/p/edson-hato-transcription?r=216eb0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
He founded LikeMinds, a board and people advisory company to share his vision and help companies implement change. Among his many achievements, Edson is Chairman of the Advisory Board for Corporate Queer a network organisation for LGBT+ professionals to challenge the hetero-normative culture of the corporate world.
An advocate of lifelong learning, Edson is currently studying for a PhD focused on the subject of critical leader behaviours that are necessary for transformation.
https://edsonhato.nl/en
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
120. Eden, Court Reporter.Workplace bullying in response to whistleblowing
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Bullying at work is common and particularly pernicious when it comes from your manager. They can often become obsessed and expend enormous resources to catch you out or undermine your position. Todays conversation is from the heart as we touch upon matters that have personal meaning. Our guest is Eden. Eden is a court reporter and has worked as court reporter for two years now. She attends virtual employment Tribunals to take notes and share findings predominantly in whistleblowing hearings after having experienced the process of whistleblowing firsthand. Eden is from a, a writing and creative background and has recently written a graphic novel to highlight the serious silent epidemic within Society of Workplace bullying to help educate others, understand the horrendous traits of a adult bullying.
You can find a transcript of the conversation here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/lockedupliving/p/eden-workplace-bullying?r=216eb0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
119. Dean Kingham, prison lawyer: Is the parole process effective?
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Dean has practiced in prison law for around 15 years. He is often at the forefront of the main challenges protecting the rights of prisoners and viewed as someone who works tirelessly to expose injustice and a lawyer who does not shirk from representing those for whom antipathy is to be expected from the courts, or the general public.
In 2020, he was named public law legal aid lawyer of the year, which recognised the fact he is often at the forefront of the challenging advancing prisoner rights.
He is trained in the main psychological risk assessments- HCR-20 (violence) psychological risk tool, RSVP (sexual) psychological risk tool and SAPROF (protective factors tool). Being one of a few lawyers trained in these tools he is able to better question the psychological evidence given in cases by Prison Service psychologists.
Dean also holds the following roles/positions:
Committee n a member for the Association of Prison Lawyers (APL) since 2015. He is the Parole Board lead for the APL and as a result, sits on the Parole Board user group;
Vice-chairman of Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (PPMI);
Sits on the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) User Group;
Councilmember for the Human Rights Charity Justice;
Sits on the advisory panel for Inside Justice.
dean.kingham@rtw.cjsm.netReece Thomas Watson Solicitors758 Holloway RoadLondonN19 3JFwww.reecethomaswatson.com
You can find a transcript of the conversation here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/lockedupliving/p/dean-kingham-typical-lefty-lawyer?r=216eb0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
118. Caroline Purvey and Daniel Wood: The ’Total Release Experience’ programme
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Caroline Purvey has dedicated over a decade to creating a unique, sustainable, cost-effective programme to eradicate unnecessary suffering from stress, overwhelm, and trauma. Her established and trusted brand TRE UK® delivers the Total Release Experience® programme which has transformed the lives of men, women, and children globally. Author of #1 bestseller ‘Feel It To Heal It’ Caroline comes highly recommended by professionals including doctors, counsellors, therapists, and psychologists. Her validated and accredited programme is adopted by Fire & Rescue, Police, and Prison Services. Her expertise is unparalleled, as is her drive and passion
Daniel Wood, is an International Speaker, and best-selling author.
Since 2012 Daniel has been Releasing for his well-being and working with his mother Caroline to share their programme with thousands.
Daniel wants to raise awareness and inspire communities and organisations to engage with the TAP process (Thoughtfully Activate the Psoas). Leading them to be an inspiration for 1 million teenagers in releasing their tension as they learn to Release, Recover, Discover.
Daniel is a father with purpose. His mission is to inspire and motivate 75,000 fathers to embrace the practice so they can lead their children to have a life tool for their stress management and can all live their best life.
Their website is https://treuk.com/
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
117. Ali Coles & Neil Winter: Art Psychotherapy - making therapy accessible.
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Ali and Neil talk about the work that they did together and how the art therapy 'fitted' and helped in ways that other therapies had missed.
Ali Coles is an Art Psychotherapist with Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and Visiting Lecturer at the University of South Wales; She is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of Art Therapy; She is also co-editor of Art Psychotherapy and Innovation: New Territories, Techniques and Technologies which is due to be published in July.
Neil Winter is a Barrister in Construction Law; he’s also co-author of a chapter titled ‘Curiosity, creativity and innovation in art psychotherapy’ in Ali’s forthcoming book. Together they co-authored ‘‘The silent intermediary’: which is an exploration of a client’s experience of art psychotherapy for C-PTSD'
‘The silent intermediary’: a co-authored exploration of a client’s experience of art psychotherapy for C-PTSD
Neil Winter & Ali Coles https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17454832.2021.1898425
Art Psychotherapy and Innovation: New Territories, Techniques and TechnologiesHelen Jury & Ali Coles (eds.) https://uk.jkp.com/products/art-psychotherapy-and-innovation
Submit a manuscript to the International Journal of Art Therapy for a special issue on Art therapy with people who have experienced traumaDeadline 31 March 2023 https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/international-journal-art-therapy/
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
116. Robert Forde. Insider/outsider a critical perspective on forensic psychology.
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
I was brought up in Belfast and London, and have since lived all around England, and for 10 years in West Berlin (five years before the Wall was opened and five years after). I went to university in the late 60s, and went to work as a prison psychologist in 1971, based in several different prisons, before going to the Home Office Research Unit in London in 1978. In 1980 I left the Home Office and became a househusband for a couple of years. I then spent a couple of years as an education welfare officer (chasing truants around the estates of Milton Keynes) before my late wife accepted the deputy headship of the forces secondary school in West Berlin in 1984. We stayed there until the withdrawal of British forces in 1994. I had ambitions to be a writer, and my first novel was published in the UK in 1990. I also became a feature writer for the army newspaper there. Unfortunately, my career as a novelist is still waiting to take off! I have, however, published several novels on Amazon Kindle (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Forde/e/B00C4BJQGW/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk).
After returning from Germany I had no job and no recent work experience in psychology, so my wife and I bought a B&B in North Devon, and ran it for three years. In 1998 I went back to university and did a Masters degree in health psychology, and began working for an old prison service colleague who now had his own consultancy. In 2001 he retired and wound up the business, and I went into business for myself, providing services to lawyers. Mostly, this consisted of expert witness work, providing reports on individuals for courts. Initially, quite a bit of this was in the family courts, and some in criminal cases. Following a court ruling, a great deal of work was generated in the parole field, and this subsequently became most of what I did. This continued until I retired in 2016.
In 2018 my book "Bad Psychology" was published (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Psychology-Forensic-Science-Behind-ebook/dp/B0713WJXFH/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SZ3S6Y44S9Q3&keywords=Bad+psychology&qid=1669024629&s=digital-text&sprefix=bad+psychology%2Cdigital-text%2C74&sr=1-1). This was pretty much my last professional work in psychology. My latest novel is the "The Psychopath’s Checklist", which is inspired by (rather than based on) some of the characters I've met, and also examines some of the criteria used to diagnose them!
I have two adult daughters and three grandsons. My late wife was diagnosed with cancer in 1999 and died in 2005. In 2010 I remarried, acquiring a stepson. Now happily retired, I am still writing novels, am a singer-guitarist and also sing with a sea shanty group called the Dorset Wrecks. As we are on the brink of moving to Sheffield, the latter will have to stop.
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
115 Libby Nugent on group analysis, psychology and storytales.
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Dr Libby Nugent is a Clinical Psychologist and group work practitioner of Group Psychoanalysis. She specialises in sexual health, complex trauma and group psychology. She has a longstanding interest in the need to connect with creative ways of thinking deeply about ourselves, each other, our society and the many identities we live.
Libby has an online workshop series January 2023
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fairytales-and-formulation-in-psychology-and-psychotherapy-tickets-458257770327
Libby has a strong interest in Jungian and Group Analytic Psychoanalysis. and she is training to become a group psychoanalyst. Much of her work now is to provide reflective spaces for both members of the public and also professional groups such as senior clinicians and pre-clinically qualified psychologists; 'Providing creative ways to think deeply about ourselves, each other, our society and the many identities we live.'Webpage : Welcome to the Homepage of Dr Libby Nugent
Blog: https://www.libbynugent.com/
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
David first had the pleasure of meeting Dalton when visiting Ripon House, an exceptional approved premises for women in Leeds. Dalton had left the hostel some time earlier but returned to share some of his experiences with me and my colleagues. Dalton Harrison is the founder of StandFast Productions (a collective of ex-offenders who use art and performance to tell their stories) and has worked as a teaching assistant with the Inside-Out Project at Durham University.Dalton has written articles for Inside Time, Pink News and Sister Magazine x TGN, and has delivered poetry workshops alongside Durham book. He has performed at Leeds Poetry Festival s. He continues to take talks on prison issues using poetry across the country. His poetry has been published in the award-winning anthology Bloody Amazing and TransVerse II: No Time For Silence. The book The Boy Behind the Wall is his first solo collection.
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
112. Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes. The human consequences of prison architecture
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Video link which includes Alberto's diagrams is here: https://youtu.be/qDRqJ93shLM
Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes, originally from Chile, holds a PhD in prison architecture from the University ofSheffield. He is a Lecturer in Construction in the partnership program of the University ofBath Spa and GBS in Manchester, UK. He is also a Lecturer in prison built environment atthe Centre for Public Innovation in Latin America (InnovaPublica), and an internationalconsultant in prison architecture. As a consultant, he is currently working on the evaluation ofcarceral conditions and their alignment with the Nelson Mandela Rules in the prison servicesof Bolivia and Honduras.Alberto has a BSc in Construction Engineering and a BSc in Industrial Engineering. After fiveyears of managing constructions for the private sector, he worked for 15 years in the Bio-Bioregional office of the Chilean prison service, as head of planning and heading thearchitecture and construction office, working on the delivery of capital refurbishments andupgrades of 24 prison and probation facilities across 13 cities in the region. In 2012 he co-organised the first conference in prison architecture held in Chile and co-edited the book 1stSeminar of Prison Architecture for Social Reinsertion, published by the University of Bio-BioHe left his country in 2014 to start studies of PhD in the UK, conducting a cross-continentalstudy in prison architecture, which is the base for his book, recently published by Routledge,called Health and Well-Being in Prison Design A Theory of Prison Systems and aFramework for Evolution. Alberto investigates how the health and well-being of prison usersare addressed by designers, prison services authorities, and international prison advisers ineight countries across Europe, North America and South America.
Book Chapter being published in a volume named “What works in prison architecture”,edited by Dominique Moran and Yvonne Jewkes. Currently in process of final revisions by editors.Chapter title:Prison architecture in Chile: A Critical Realist analysis of prisonarchitectural outputs through the lens of organised hypocrisy theory.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
111. Diane Wills: Working with those who have comitted sexual offences.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Diane is a former probation officer, a social worker and a psychotherapist. She now works independently in a variety of roles offering therapy, consultation, professional supervision, quality assurance and training for individuals and organisations. She is a Trustee for Circles South West. Diane also offers support to other practitioners working in the area of risk assessment and management.
A Practical Guide to Working with Sex Offenders
by Diane Wills and Andrew Wills
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Diane-Wills/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ADiane+Wills
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
110 Simon Millington:Can sport prevent or reduce offending?
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Can sport prevent young people from offending? Do elite footballing academies exploit children? Simon is the founder of Delamill Tutoring which offers Mental Health 1st Aid training and training in Mental Health Awareness & Sports Leadership. He is a UEFA A licence football coach who has worked for Portsmouth FC, Fulham FC and more recently for The FA as a Coach Developer and has worked as a Youth worker for Portsmouth City Council.
Simon Millington is a football coach educator and coach developer for The FA who is passionate about utilising sport as a vehicle for social change.
Simon was born in Birmingham but moved to Portsmouth after his parents separated and his father then took his own life.
Simon has used these challenges in his formative years to drive himself to be the best that he can be. However, it wasn’t all was like this and Simon was in trouble with the police for petty crime during his late adolescents.
It was these experiences that drove Simon to change his lifestyle and peer group and get into football as a part-time coach.
Simon worked within social inclusion projects within Portsmouth where he grew up because he wanted to try and support young people to not stray into criminality and to take more positive steps to gain employment.
Simon gained all the necessary football coaching qualifications and moved to the borough of Lambeth in London where he followed his passion for supporting young people and coaches from disadvantaged backgrounds. He also completed an Open University Foundation degree in Sports coaching to formalise his knowledge and to deepen his understanding of sports coaching and the different elements.
He then went back to Portsmouth to work for the local authority overseeing their sports provision in the local youth clubs and housing estates across the city. This youth work role provided Simon with invaluable knowledge and skills for supporting adolescents through their teens, and helped him to further understand the challenges teenagers face.
Simon then returned to London to take a role with The FA that was created to target teenage boys and girls who had dropped out of football. It was at this time that Simon first started delivering coaching courses to grassroots football clubs. This developed into Simon’s dream role because he could influence greater numbers of people to embed a player centred approach to coaching and player development. Simon also completed a PGCE with Worcester Uni in sports coaching and he developed an even deeper understanding of learning and development. This confirmed to Simon that he his experience of coach education wasn’t best practice, and it helped him further refine how he started to develop the coaches he worked with.
1n 2019 Simon close friend died from suicide and this really affected Simon and inspired him to utilise hid tutoring skills to teach Mental Health 1st aid courses. Simon completed his training with MHFA England and started tutoring youth mental health first aid courses straight away.
Simon was made redundant by The FA during the pandemic and had to find another course of income because no one was hiring in his niche field in Kent at this time. He started to deliver more mental health courses online during the pandemic and he also started to assess professional football scholars for their Sport in Excellence course.
Simon and his family returned to Broadstairs in Kent from Spain in February 2022 and he and a colleague have designed an NCFE Cache Level 1 in mental health awareness and sports leadership. This course is for anyone aged 14+ years of age, and it combines everything that Simon is passionate about, mental health, sports and supporting young people to improve their mental health and wellbeing and their lifeskills. If you're interested in connecting, you can find Simon here:
https://www.delamillwellbeingcoachingandtrainingsolutions.com
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
109. John Nassoori: Psychology in the world of sport
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
What can psychologist's learn from journalists about communication? Can a journalist represent the work of psychologists better than psychologists do themselves?
John Nassoori is a freelance journalist who writes about performance psychology's role in sport for publications including the BBC and The Guardian. He tells stories on subjects ranging from the first World Cup-winning psychologist to weightlifting beauty queens and produces The Mind Room, a weekly newsletter covering psychology-focused stories from around the world of football.
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
What's it like to use the Family Court to resolve custody battles? Where can you find help if your partner puts up barriers to contact with your children.
Zac Fine shares his own experience of fighting for contact in court and advice that ceasefire and collaboration is best for the children and the adults involved.
Zac Fine is a psychotherapist with a special interest in masculinity. He practices online https://zacfine.co.uk and runs a programme for separated fathers in crisis called Ceasefire Method https://zacfine.co.uk/blog/f/your-ex-weaponises-the-kids-is-court-the-right-move. He has a blog https://zacfine.co.uk/blog and a YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vhSyHNSP14F5jvt0gZgMg. Zac mentors young men involved in the criminal justice system with the charity A Band Of Brothers https://abandofbrothers.org.uk/ .
Article about my therapeutic approach https://www.centreformalepsychology.com/male-psychology-magazine-listings/a-therapist-who-has-survived-the-family-court-process-shows-other-men-how-they-can-get-through-it-too?
The deeper reasons for the crisis in fatherhood https://zacfine.co.uk/blog/f/the-western-war-on-the-father-archetype
How to survive family court: Lessons from my own experience https://zacfine.co.uk/blog/f/your-anger-disgust-and-rage-is-as-natural-as-the-ocean-and-rocks
Points from the Pod
I really wouldn't advise anyone to go to family court
If you have to there's ways of doing it that can be affordable and much less likely to create unnecessary conflicts.
There is no point in throwing mud if you are the father and having some kind of match about who's the worst person.
Ideally represent yourself, get a Mackenzie friend if you need more support. A Mackenzie friend is someone who isn't professionally qualified as a lawyer, but they , know their way around a system
Check out Families need Fathers
Keep saying the same thing. I want to have a, a predictable and regular contact with my child because that's in their interests
There's loads of research to show that child outcomes suffer as a result of fatherlessness or motherlessness
Get yourself to a, a men's group
Join a band of brothers, which is all over England. They, do online men's circles free of charge.
If you can afford it, get some one to one therapy or coaching
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
107. Dr Naomi Fisher: Is school the best way to educate your child?
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Is our education system based in theory of how best to learn? Does our education system cause children to be labelled? What happens if your child doesn't fit well with the schooling system? Is school really the best way to learn? What does home education look like and is it a poor substitute for school? Are children who are home educated destined to be society's drop outs? What are the consequences of school-based trauma for adult learning? Might referring to offending behaviour interventions in prison as "courses" run by "tutors" backfire when people had troubled relationships with school?
Dr Naomi Fisher is both an expert in the conventional sense and an expert by experience as she talks about her own time at school and her later challenges in understanding the pros and cons of home educating children.
Naomi is an independent clinical psychologist and EMDR consultant. She specialises in trauma, autism and alternative approaches to education. She works with children, adolescents and adults.
She is the author of ‘Changing our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of their Own Learning’ (Robinson, 2021 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Changing-Our-Minds-children-learning/dp/1472145518/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670952068&sr=8-1)
and ‘A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education’ to be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in 2023.
She runs online courses to support parents whose children struggle to attend school and offers training for professionals.
https://www.naomifisher.co.uk/
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
106. Kennath Widanaralalage. What’s the effect of sexual violence on male survivors
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Dr Kennath Widanaralalage is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster. He is a qualitative researcher interested in understanding: How do male victim-survivors make sense of their sexual victimisation? What coping strategies do male survivors of sexual violence use? How do male survivors of sexual abuse access support? What prevents male victims reporting their experiences to the police and involving the Criminal Justice System? What are some of the rape myths that are perpetuated about victimisation of males? Why is qualitative methodology particularly suited to exploring the experience of sexual abuse of males? What are some of the ethical issues in researching the impact of sexual abuse?
During his PhD, Ken explored men’s experiences of rape and sexual abuse in adolescence and adulthood. Working with men made him increasingly interested and committed to understanding and supporting marginalised, seldom-heard groups, using qualitative methods to provide a platform where individuals can tell their stories and break their silence. He believesin the value of personal experiences and the transfer of knowledge to help others and wants to create a better society for survivors and their close networks.
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
How do we treat young people and children who break the law? Does the criminal justice system show compassion for children who end up in trouble with the police? Can sport improve our ability to manage our emotions? Can sport provide a pathway of hope for troubled children?
Kierra Myles is a Mentor Co-ordinator working with children in care and care leavers. She was first arrested when she was just 11 years old and remanded into a secure home when she was 13, before receiving her first custodial sentence at just 15 years old. Kierra has fought hard to break down the external barriers that prevented her from securing a role working with young people and is now helping others to do the same. Kierra is also a keen martial artist and competes at an elite level as an award winning athlete in Brazilian Jiujitsu.
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
104. Karen Stallard: How can art therapy and game playing help people heal?
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Karen Stallard is a registered Psychotherapist with UKCP, registered Counsellor with BACP and registered Art Therapist with HCPC. She trained at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education where she gained a Masters in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy. Her private practice is called Feeling Found, which is based in Highbury and Islington, London. Karen's career journey began as an actor with a passion for the performing arts, storytelling and communicating creatively. She then trained to be a member of the clergy of the Christian church, where she worked mainly in pastoral care particularly within mental health. Karen has also worked an honorary therapist at the Women’s Service in Oxley’s NHS Trust for over four years and as a spiritual and cultural care coordinator at the East London and City Mental Health Trust for seven years. Karen founded ‘The Geoff Ashcroft Community’ in Tower Hamlets to support people suffering from mental health issues in the community, and has been a Board Member of various charities including Crossroads Counselling Service, Margins Homelessness project and Union Chapel Project. Karen is also co-chair for a bi-annual conference called ‘Continuing the Journey’, which provides training to therapists and spiritual leaders. She is the Director for Child Counselling Skills Certificate course at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education and the designer of 20 Dreams a card game which promotes creativity and emotional intelligence.
20 Dreams is a crazily creative card game that challenges your imagination, tests your dream telling skills and stretches your emotional intelligence to bring you endless entertainment and hilarious outcomes! Visit https://www.play20dreams.com to find out more.
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Why do people join the armed forces? How do they meet these needs when they're no longer serving in the military? Why are there so many former veterans in prison?
Heidi Rose Tranter talks about her reseach exploring men's motivations for joining the armed forces. Heidi is a PhD student at the University of Central Lancashire. Alongside this, she works as a Research Associate at GMMH NHS Foundation Trust and delivers on the Inner Strength Programme (which supports individuals experiencing domestic conflict). Previously, she’s worked within CAMHS, primary care and forensic services, providing therapeutic support to both children and young people as well as adults. She’s also been involved in research exploring the effects of experiencing adversity during childhood on emotional resilience.
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
102. Kerry Hopkins . Activist, animal rights campaigner, journalist and entrepreneur
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Kerry Hopkins is an acomplished journalist and a determined spirit who cares greatly about the important things in life. She has fought against ageism, sexism and particularly strongly for animal rights.In this conversation she talks about the important influences in her life and how she carved out her unique career pathway. Trigger alert, some mentions of cruelty to animals can be upsetting.
Kerry Hopkins is the founding CEO of the Broadcast Academy Ltd. She is a Board public relations strategic advisor specialising in broadcast, and has advised 22 FTSE 100/NYSE/NASDAQ listed companies, football clubs, A-list celebrities including David Beckham, actors, athletes, Members of Parliament (MPs),
https://broadcastersacademy.com/about/
Why 'Locked up Living?'
David is a psychotherapist who has worked leading therapeutic communities in English prisons and in Millfields, an NHS forensic setting in East London. Naomi is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic psychologist who was, for many years, clinical lead at The Fens, a treatment programme for serious offenders at HMP Whitemoor. We had both experienced painful and destructive forces in our work and so we set out to discover what things make a positive difference for staff and service users and what is it that makes things go wrong. Of course we found out that there is no easy answer but there are many fascinating and valuable experiences to be heard.