Articles tagged as Direct work

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

Help a young person build a 'sand world' using natural objects and characters to act out their own adventures.

Stick Insects Have Feelings Too! is an activity that normalises talking about feelings with another person instead of holding them inside.

Help young people reflect on their feelings about their own journeys - past, present or future.

Help children and young people explore their inner worlds and personal journeys through mystic storytelling, character creation and imaginative play.

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.

Make a dream catcher to hold a young person’s hopes and dreams for the future.

Artist Elena Miller explains how play and creativity can make life story work more inclusive and can give children empowerment, choice and control.

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

New guidance for life story work practitioners, social workers and interpreters working with refugee and asylum seeking young people is now available.

We have worked in partnership with Children and Families Across Borders and Therapeutic Life Story Work International to create a family of new resources to support life story work with refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people.

Five ways you can incorporate play into Creative Life Story Work.