This workshop explores how carers can actively support children and young people to make sense of their past, understand their identity, and build a coherent personal narrative. Life Story Work is not just a scrapbook—it is a therapeutic, relational process that helps children organise memories, integrate experiences, and strengthen their sense of belonging. Carers learn how to navigate difficult histories, support cultural identity, and create safe, meaningful opportunities for children to express their story on their own terms.
- What Life Story Work is and is not: myths vs. best practice.
- Brain development, trauma, and memory: why fragmented stories affect behaviour and emotions.
- How to support identity development in children with multiple placements or complex histories.
- Practical Life Story tools: timelines, sensory memories, genograms, memory boxes, digital story platforms, creative expression.
- Responding safely to questions about family, abuse, neglect, and separation.
- Culturally safe storytelling: respecting heritage, community connection, and spiritual identity.
- Maintaining ongoing Life Story Work—not a one-off task, but an evolving process.
Delivery mode:
- Self-paced, online workshop
