Training for Professionals
Understanding what sits underneath behaviour
Trauma-informed, nervous-system-informed training for the people who support children, girls and women: schools, domestic abuse services, social care, family justice and community organisations.
Adding a Layer
Most professionals already know the principles of trauma-informed practice. What's often missing is the why underneath them: what stress and threat do to the body and brain, how that changes communication, memory and participation, and what shifts when the person in front of you is neurodivergent.
Our training fills that gap. We bring together nervous-system understanding, current research and lived experience, and turn them into practical adjustments you can use the next working day.
We also include YOU.
The same stress systems run in practitioners too, and noticing our own responses is part of good practice.
Our training
Family Transitions: Supporting Children Through Change CPD
For primary schools, including headteachers, SENCOs, Family Liaison Officers and Learning Support Assistants.
Many pupils are living through separation, divorce, bereavement or illness at home. Family Transitions trains your staff to deliver nervous-system-informed small-group sessions that help children understand their bodies, navigate big feelings and know they're not alone without having to discuss personal experiences.
We use a train-the-school model. We train your team, and your team delivers to pupils, which builds lasting capacity in your school. The training includes twenty evidence-informed practices built around the S.H.I.F.T. Method, plus seven creative activities.
CPD certified by The CPD Certification Service (Provider No. 22284).
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Changing the Lens: Neurodivergence, Trauma & Domestic Abuse Survivor Experience
For domestic abuse professionals, including IDVAs, advocates, and refuge and community support staff. Can be adapted for social care, mediation, family law and health.
What a professional sees in an appointment is only one part of a survivor's experience. A calm voice, a changing account, a missed call or a quick "it's fine" can easily be read as low risk, unreliability or disengagement, when something very different may be going on.
Changing the Lens looks at where neurodivergence, prolonged threat, physiology and professional communication meet. Participants explore:
what an appointment does to the stress response, and why the hardest moments often come well after someone seems settled
how stress affects working memory, flexible thinking and recall, and why gaps in someone's account aren't a sign that it isn't credible
the experiences autistic and ADHD survivors describe, including masking and abuse that turns someone's neurodivergence against them
how to separate what we observe from what we assume, in conversation and in case notes
practical adjustments across communication, environment, choice and our own responses, always within existing safeguarding and risk procedures
Format: 2-hour interactive workshop · in person or live online · up to 20 participants
You'll leave with: a desk-reference handout of practical adjustments, a personal action plan, and a six-week follow-up.
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Bespoke training and consultancy
We also design sessions around your team and setting. Examples include an introduction to nervous-system regulation for school staff, regulation-first approaches to behaviour and attendance, or a staff wellbeing session for teams who work with distress every day.
We can deliver a single session, a series, or ongoing consultancy as you build trauma-informed practice into your policies, templates and processes.
Meet the team
Our training is developed and delivered by SHIFTwithin's co-founders.
Tara Flynn is a Qualified Yoga Therapist with specialist child and adolescent (CAMHS) training, a Qualified Family Mediator and Divorce Coach, and a Kent & Medway Domestic Abuse Champion with Level 2 and 3 safeguarding training.
Kim Rojas-Powell brings more than a decade of work in women's rights, equality and survivor support. This includes frontline work with the Metropolitan Police and Rape Crisis South London, and expertise in trauma-informed facilitation, programme development and evaluation.
Our work is also shaped by our own lived experience of domestic abuse, neurodivergence and relationship breakdown. It informs how we teach, though we never present it as representative of anyone else's.
Working together
As a Community Interest Company, our paid training helps fund free support for girls and women in Kent. When you book training with us, you're building your team's practice and supporting our community work too.
Every booking starts with a conversation. We'll talk through your team, your setting and what you'd like to learn, then agree the format, timing and any adjustments your participants need.
Get in touch: hello@shiftwithin.co.uk