Children and families

Name	Course Attended	Organisation	Comments
Margaret Anne Zaccheo	Bath	Barnardos	It was a different type of learning experience and will not be forgotten in a hurry! Really felt the feelings and remained focussed all day! Experiential, intense, very realistic, well researched, encouraging, safe and exploratory.
Sarah Chitty	Bath	Barnardos	Dynamic, powerful, safe, realistic, experiential, exploratory. Worth it!
Kay Gardner	Bexley	West Childcare Team	An excellent, well thought out and put together training course.
M. Ruckledge	Bexley	West Childcare Team	Very informative and interesting
Emma Walsham	Bexley	West Childcare Unit	Hard hitting, powerful and useful. It will definitely help my practise especially when speaking to young people.
Victor Zaal	Bexley	West Childcare Unit	Innovative, interactive, challenging, excellent
Ali McDonald	Liverpool	Wirral Women's & Children's Aid	A good chance to explore together rather than be talked at.
Rebecca Morgan	Liverpool	Wirral Women's & Children's Aid	Mind blowing!
Barbara Kelly	Liverpool		Plenty of information delivered in a dynamic and thought provoking way. Useful to look at my practice through the eyes of a young person.
Louise Quinn	Liverpool	NSPCC Children's & Young People's Centre	Excellent, the best training event I've been to. You experience what it is like to be each member of the family and the family's worker. Absorbing, thought provoking, has to be experienced.
Holly Evans	London	Branas Isaf Personal Development Centre	Powerful, moving, thought provoking - made me cry!

Social Services

 

Name	Course Attended	Organisation	Comments
Joe Rooney	Bath	Bristol SSD	It kept my attention for the whole duration. Well done!!
Brenda Green	Bexley	Bexley Centre For Unemployed	An excellent insight into the effects of domestic violence and sexual abuse on the child and how this manifests itself in adolescence from the perspective of the perpetrator as well as the victim.
Ellen Ewen	Bexley	Bexley Centre For Unemployed	Excellent!
Francis Bloomfield	Bexley	Bexley Centre For Unemployed	Very informative - thought provoking - excellent

Police & Youth Offending Teams

 

Name	Course Attended	Organisation	Comments
D.C. Kaye Cooke	Bath	C.I.D. Avon Police	Challenging, thought provoking, an opportunity to try things out with the next best thing to a "client"!
Det Sergeant Simon Brewin	Bath	Det Sergeant Simon Brewin	Much stronger message, it will stay with me longer. Training with longevity.
Stuart Maddock	Bexley	Metropolitan Police	A powerful experience.
Jo Bates	Brighton	Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Team	An excellent, innovative and creative style of training.
Jim Park	Brighton	Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Team	Brilliantly acted - a great insight into thoughts and feelings - good training for less experienced workers.
Lisa Pugh	Brighton	Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Team	The whole day was excellent, powerful and thought provoking.
Sara Radford	Brighton	Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Team	Very sparky! Holds attention from beginning to end. Workshops provide a spontaneous and good humoured way of rehearsing questions and techniques. Unique training experience.
Jan Russell	Brighton	Bracknell YOT	It differs from any other training course I have attended in a really positive way. It was stimulating, challenging and gave thoughts and feelings to the character role that is invaluable. It is a learning experience second to none.
Anna MacFarlane	Brighton	Bracknell YOT	Thought provoking, powerful and encouraging - it helps you see the situation from so many points of view.
Sue Hill	Brighton	Eastbourne YOT	Very interactive. Kept you interested right up to the evaluation sheet!
Connie Rachael	Liverpool	Tameside YOT	The training does not "teach you information", but reminds you of the devastating impact of sex offending - brings it back to a personal level, has an emotional impact, made abuse seem "real".
Lindsay Wroe	Liverpool	Halton & Warrington Youth Offending Team	Provides a depth that's missing from usual chalk/talk courses. Paul's Story brings the subject to life.
John Hough	London	Bexley Youth Offending Team	Challenging, thought provoking
Amber Foskett	London	Bournemouth & Poole YOT	More realistic view - as opposed to dry reading material. A realistic hard hitting performance.
Garry Manifold	London	Sheffield Youth Offending Team	Provides good insight into the world of the abuser and helps to see how abusers might be helped to take responsibility
Adrian Quinn	London	Solihull Youth Offending Team	Enables hands on learning by engaging the audience in the process. An engaging learning experience.
Gill Carver	London	Solihull Youth Offending Team	The opportunity to observe, participate and learn in an innovative way. Different from the normal didactic training we receive.
Kelly Brown	London	Walsall Youth Offending Service	Powerful and appropriate training that will enable you to both understand issues concerning children who sexually abuse and try out strategies of approach.
Rob Woodcock	London	Walsall Youth Offending Service	An excellent interactive approach to an issue which workers can bring many barriers to.
Debbie Taylor	London	West Sussex Youth Offending Team	I don't think I had any concentration lapses. The experience was very powerful and I believe the memories and experience will endure.
Martin Weir	London		Thought provoking, electric, intense, emotional and interactive.
Susan Tiernan	London		Moving, emotional, powerful and overall excellent.

Foster Care & Residential

Name	Course Attended	Organisation	Comments
Shelley Zagwojska	Bath	Social & Housing Services	More dynamic and powerful way to deal with difficult subject matter.
Cheryl Metcalf	Bexley	Children's Placement Service	I will have a greater understanding of children who are placed in foster care who may be the victim and perpetrator of abuse.
Janice Wilson	Bexley	Leaving Care Team	Extremely powerful. Cannot help but learn from this course.
Richard Hunter		NCH Slough Leaving Care Team	You feel the emotions and pain of Paul and his family which gives you a better understanding of why abuse can occur.
Mylene Marshall	Liverpool	SWIIS Foster Care	The performance really brought home the story, especially listening to what is going on in Paul's head. Its hard for the children I work with to articulate like that and it helped me to understand more about them.
Darren Johnson	Liverpool	St Helens MBC	Terrific use of time. Excellent training tool. Powerful in your face approach, which puts you in the driving seat.
Geoffrey Owen	Liverpool	St Helens MBC	The story is extremely realistic and could be a typical example of abuse by various family members which can escalate and lead to awful problems.
Graham Sherwood	Liverpool	St Helens MBC	All of the content was relevant to the setting in which I work. More "hands-on" especially useful to have the opportunity to guide/assist the worker during her interviews/sessions with Paul.
Janette Turner	Liverpool	St Helens MBC	Paul's Story brings the experience of sexual abuse by and to young people into sharp focus in the way that reading a case study cannot. It challenges your perception of young people who sexually abuse.

Young People's Support Services

Name	Course Attended	Organisation	Comments
Christine Palacio	Bath	Young People's Support Service	Experiential. Stirs the emotions not just the brain cells. Enables one to be empathic - in order to understand we need to step into other people's shoes - this experience helps one to do just that!
Pat Ball	Bexley	Cruse Volunteer Counsellor	This was an excellent day in every way. Challenging, interesting, engaging and thought provoking. A wonderful and much needed antidote to tabloid hype and thoughtless hysteria.
Louise Friend	Bexley	SOVA	Totally engrossing. Excellent way to learn and put difficult points across.
Gwen Rumble	Bexley	SOVA Mentor	Extremely thought provoking insight into the trauma of a young victim of abuse.
Pauline MacDonald	Bexley	SOVA Young People's Project	Absolutely essential for anyone working with young people. So true to life.Hard hitting, to the point and powerful.
Nicola Parrick	Bexley	YPSS	Emotive, very valuable training. Excellent, very real.
Lorraine Webster	Bexley	YPSS	A moving experience, which challenged me and offered me much to consider.
Pat Marshall	Bexley	YPSS	An excellent training day. Great to work with so many other agencies. Very gripping, very real issues for young people. Powerful performances.
Alison McCaldon	Liverpool	Connexions	A unique piece of art and without a doubt exceptional value for money! A once in a life time experience but an experience that will influence your life!
Fiona Dulson	Liverpool	Connexions	Excellent performance - very useful day. Gives you the opportunity to reflect on your own working practice. Very useful that the play looks at both an "abuser" and an abused. Often training is focussed on either a victim or the perpetrator, giving you a one-sided viewpoint.
Jonathan Pike	Liverpool	YMCA	Drama is a very effective tool to get across the emotions felt by the young person.

Health Care

 

Name	Course Attended	Organisation	Comments
Jenny Griffiths	Bexley	Queen Mary's Hospital	Excellent!
Marcell Booth	Liverpool	Aintree Hospital NHS Trust	Powerful and thought provoking performance. Very useful to interact with other agencies.
Faran Ashraf	Liverpool	Aintree Hospital NHS Trust	A realistic, powerful and moving way story of the effects of sexual abuse. Thought provoking and interesting throughout the day.
Julie Nixon	Liverpool	Aintree Hospital NHS Trust	Excellent. You must attend.
Paul Kelly	Liverpool	Aintree Hospital NHS Trust	Paul's Story allows you to think around the process, so it opens your mind and your views.
Timothy Flynn	London	ART Service - Lewisham	Excellent, powerful, effective, well thought out. It touched my insides. It was less intellectual and more emotional - we have the facts already - this helped interpret those facts.

Domestic Violence

Name	Course Attended	Organisation	Comments
Ali Ward	Bexley	Bexley Women's Aid	This intense, dynamic and thought provoking course is relevant to all professionals who work with families, children and young people.
Clair Johnson	Bexley	Bexley Women's Aid	This course was fantastic. Well written and researched. An insightful way to approach a sensitive subject
Nicola Shanahan	Liverpool	Domestic Violence Team	One of the best training courses I have been on. An effective tool for people to remember what is being taught. A thought provoking day and far better than being lectured to.

Other

Name	Course Attended	Organisation	Comments
Antoinette Lavelle	Bath	Writhlington School	Emotionally draining! Felt fully engaged throughout. Emotional experience.
Katie Henjes	Brighton	Chrysalis Team	Don't attend if you want a peaceful ride!
Rosie German	Brighton	Chrysalis Team	Good mix of learning tools and able to contribute through group working and hear others questions as well. Interesting, powerful and very useful to our work with young people with sexually problematic behaviour.
Kate Newman	Liverpool	Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch	The theatrical approach held my attention all day (unusual for me!). It is an innovative approach, real and though provoking.
Denise Edwards	Liverpool	Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch	Real. Gets you to take notice. Stops individuals going off on their own soap box!
Brian Hogan	London	Oberstown Boys School	A dynamic hard hitting quality event - A good learning experience