Individual Membership

Get access to 12 Live Classrooms a year plus a bank of life story work tools and resources.

£180 per year (including VAT)

Membership will help you learn how to support care experienced children and young people to explore their own life stories and imagine their futures.

Creative Life Story Work membership includes:

  • 12 months’ access to all the resources on the site including toolkits and activities you can use in direct work with children and young people.
  • Admission to 12 Live Classrooms a year (worth £600). These are our expert-led, online training sessions and you can see what’s coming up here.
  • 50% off any additional Live Classrooms.

Individual membership costs just £180 a year (including VAT).

If you’d like to buy multiple memberships for your organisation, or if you’d like to pay via purchase order, just drop us an email on creativelifestorywork@wearebluecabin.com.

Membership is suitable for:

  • Professionals who work with care-experienced children and young people
  • Practice leads in local authorities
  • Therapeutic Social Workers
  • Therapeutic Life Story Workers
  • Independent practitioners
  • Foster carers
  • Social Work students

More than 1,000 people are already members

“I renewed my membership because I accessed high quality Live Classrooms training last year. The online format means I can access training experiences with nationally and internationally known speakers such as Richard Rose, Polly Baynes and Mary-anne Hodd in a comfortable space and without the time spent travelling.”

Your membership supports our work with children and young people

Creative Life Story Work is led by Blue Cabin, a charity which works to improve outcomes for care-experienced children and young people. Your membership helps to fund the Creative Life Story Work programme, helping more children and young people to understand their past and move forward to a better future.

Terms and conditions

  • All online training will be delivered via Zoom. You will need access to Zoom to attend online Live Classrooms.
  • Your 12 free Live Classrooms can not be rolled over into any future membership.

Frequently asked questions about Creative Life Story Work membership for individuals

Your membership will last for one year from the date it’s purchased. We’ll let you know when it’s due to expire by sending you an email seven days before the expiration date.

No, your membership doesn’t automatically renew but we will email you to let you know when it’s due to expire and how you can renew it if you’d like to.

When you buy your membership we’ll email you your login details for the Creative Life Story Work website. You can then log in by clicking on ‘Account Login’ at the top right hand side of the website and entering your login details. You’ll then be able to access all of the resources on the website, including content that is marked ‘Members content’.

We publish details of forthcoming Live Classrooms on the website, in the Training section. New Live Classrooms are added several times a year. To book your place in a Live Classroom, first log in to the website by clicking ‘Account Login’ in the top right corner. Then click on the event page and scroll down to where it says ‘Book tickets’. Select the number of tickets you want to book (you will only be able to book one free ticket per person as part of your membership) and select ‘Get tickets’ to complete the transaction. Your discount will automatically be applied if you are logged into the website.

 

They take place online, via Zoom. We will send you joining instructions before each Live Classroom and you can find helpful information on using Zoom here.

Once you’ve used your allocation of 12 Live Classrooms, you will get 50% off any additional Live Classrooms you book during your year’s membership. The 50% discount will be automatically applied when you book via the website, as long as you are logged in to the website when you book.

Log into the Creative Life Story Work website (see instructions above) and then you will be able to access all the resources on the site, including those which are for members only.

When you buy a Creative Life Story Work membership you’ll be able to access all the resources on the site including toolkits on topics including working with children who have experienced domestic abuse, activities you can use with children and young people and videos of training sessions.

You can email us on creativelifestorywork@wearebluecabin.com and we’ll be happy to answer any questions.

If you sign up for our members’ newsletter, you will receive our twice-monthly newsletter with details of Live Classrooms and life story work resources.

Creative Life Story Work members can access a list of Therapeutic Life Story Work Hub Leads who can connect you with a qualified Therapeutic Life Story Worker in your region. You can access the list of Hub Leads here.

Your individual membership is for the named person only.

We accept online payments via credit card or debit card, including Visa, Mastercard and American Express. We process payments using Stripe, a secure payment system which is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1. This is the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry.

We can also accept payment via BACS when required – if you would like us to raise an invoice for your membership purchase, please email us on creativelifestorywork@wearebluecabin.com and Freya will arrange this for you.