Training & Workshops
Our Practice Programme delivers practice workshops, evidence seminars, bespoke training sessions, and conferences on cutting-edge topics, and caters to adoption professionals in all types of agencies and organisations.
Download the Practice Programme 2025-26 bookletAssessing and supporting single adopters – learning from research and good practice
Practice webinar co-delivered with Mahongo Shibemba (Team Manager) and Penny Rowntree (Team Manager) from Adopters for Adoption
Supporting Adoptive Families Parenting Autistic Children (Repeat event due to high demand)
Expert-led training session co-delivered with Dr Helen Rodwell, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a Certified Theraplay Practitioner
Assessing Prospective Adopters with Complex Mental and Health Issues: Tackling BMI, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Long-term Medical Conditions and Mental Disorders
Expert-led training session co-delivered with Ellie Johnson, a Health Consultant at CoramBAAF
Maintaining relationships’ in adoption: why does adoption need to change and how can we achieve this?
Expert-led training session co-delivered with Ruth Copson from the University of East Anglia
The Longer View: Intergenerational Dynamics and support needs in analysis of life stories of adopters (now grandparents) and adoptees (now parents).
Expert-led training session delivered by Dr Julia Rimmer (from research led by Prof. Elsbeth Neil, with Dr. Irina Sirbu and intern Emma Speer)
Keeping Birth Parents in mind throughout the Adoption Journey
Expert-led training session delivered by Kate Garside and Caroline Milner from The Adoption Journey
What Social Workers need to know when assessing and supporting adoptive parents with children affected by FASD
Expert-led training session co-delivered with Joy Hopgood- Gravett - A teacher by trade, a foster carer, turned adopter
Individualised Recruitment and Therapeutic Placement Strategy for Children waiting the longest
Practice webinar co-delivered with Senior Adoption Practitioners at St David's Adoption Service and Cardiff University : Jason Baker, Professor Katherine Shelton and Dr Amy Paine
How to be a Good Intermediary: Advice and Guidance for Intermediary Support
Practice Session delivered by Mike Hancock and Emma Crowther-Duncan from PAC-UK
Adoption, ethnicity and education: Navigating the Education System and Positive Outcomes
Expert-led training session co-delivered with Esher Williams, a founder of Anti-Racism Hub
Supporting Families with Disability Benefits – New – Short and Smart Session – 1hr – FREE
Co-delivered with Sarah Fry CEO of the Belay Foundation and Helen Willis of the Belay Foundation
Introduction to Theraplay©: Healing Relationships Through Connection and Play
Expert-Led Practice Workshop led by Jay Vaughan, CEO of Family Futures
Blocked Care: How to Support Discouraged Adoptive Parents (Repeat event due to high demand)
Practice webinar co-delivered with Lisa Biggs Senior Adoption Practitioner at Adoption Focus
Using Mentalization Tools when Matching
Practice Workshop co-delivered with Dr Polly Cowan and Dr Alice Loving
The Principles of Best Practice in Preparing more Adopters for Brothers and Sisters
Practice Session co-delivered by Leigh Smith from Adoption Focus and Leonie Hegedus from Yorkshire Adoption Agency
Post Adoption Blues/Depression
Expert-led training session led by Lynda Graham Senior Accredited Counsellor with National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
Supporting Adopted Children and their Families: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Parenting (DDP) with Kim Golding (Repeat event due to high demand)
Expert-led training session co-delivered with Dr Kim Golding, Clinical Psychologist and DDP Consultant
Emotional well-being in adult adoptees and the importance of therapeutic and peer support
Practice Workshop co-delivered with Dr Hannah Ryan and Adoption UK
A Framework for Therapeutic Life Story Work in Adoption: Building Safety into Difficult Conversations
Expert-led training session co-delivered with Katie Wrench, an experienced Therapeutic Social Worker and Psychotherapist
Impact of culture change on adopted children and their families including court decisions
Expert-led training session delivered by Adoption England and Independent Family Justice Consultant Dr Beverley Barnett‑Jones MBE and Vicky Swift, Adoption England