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How can TLSW Practice Pocket Cards help practitioners during life story work?

Social worker and psychotherapist, Katie Wrench, shares an introduction to the importance of developmentally-appropriate life story work.

Dr Karen Treisman MBE gives an introduction to the benefits of using creative approaches to life story work when we’re working alongside children seeking asylum or those from refugee backgrounds.

Our most popular Creative Life Story Work resources for social workers, foster carers, Therapeutic Life Story Workers, and anyone who works with care-experienced children and young people.

Find out how using words and pictures as part of routine social work can make it possible to explain complex situations to very young children.

Creative Life Story Work is created and managed by Blue Cabin – a charity which focuses all its work on care experienced people. Blue Cabin director, Jenny Young, tells the story of how Creative Life Story Work was developed.

Key insights from Professor Richard Rose on trauma: its impact on children and young people, and how we can support them to move forward.

How can you support emotional regulation – both in yourself, and in the children and young people you support? Clinical psychologist and author, Dr Karen Treisman MBE, gives an introduction to emotional regulation.

How can you define attachment and trauma? And how can early experiences affect children later in life?

Blue Cabin’s Local Authority Specialist, Joanne Stoddart, shares her experience on how life story work can help adoptive parents support their children throughout their childhood and beyond.

Artist Elena Miller shares some tips on how you can help people explore their life story in ways which are inclusive, creative and empowering.

Jess Parker gives an introduction to understanding eating disorders and how people working with children and young people can respond using kindness, safety and connection.