Welcome to Lisa’s blog…
Live Webinar With Dr Warren Larkin
In this week's conversation, we explore ACE's, the tragedy of the medical model and the wave of social change. We could have talked for hours and much time was spent unpicking the programme recently aired called What's The Matter With Tony Slattery. Grab a cuppa, sit...
Trauma Informed Self Care
We can only meet someone as deeply as we have met ourselves. I must have read a sentence similar to that somewhere years ago and if you have read any of my writing, attended any of my courses or simply had a conversation with me, you will know that this sentiment runs...
Navigating Relationships in a Very 21st Century Pandemic
A quick anecdotal peruse around Twitter conversations suggests to me that our collective patience is running very thin. My own experience this week as I consider my inbox, my responses and chats with friends supports this view too. The reduction of real life...
Live Webinar With Dr Karen Treisman
A deeper conversation looking at trauma, social injustice and organisational capacity for holding the space during the pandemic. Make a cuppa and then relax into this discussion. You might need a notepad and a pen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqbKq9UBHU * Live...
Attachment in School Settings Post Lockdown
When We Emerge When we emergewith cleaner cupboardslonger hairunphased by Zoomspeaking more French,or playing the guitar When we can meet and hugand laughand share reliefand grief When we no longer fearfor relatives in careno longer hesitateto pick up...
Dr Karen Treisman and Lisa Cherry In Conversation
At the beginning of 'lockdown' which has been affectionately renamed 'safe keeping', I spent a lot of time thinking about how I could serve you. You may or may not know that I host a rather fab podcast that creates the kind of conversations that make a difference. The...
Living In A Digital World During A Pandemic
I was made for living in a digital world. I remember that moment when someone explained the World. Wide. Web. to me in, I think, around 1997. My eyes widened, my jaw dropped and I said with an enthusiasm usually ascribed to discovering that the cake I just ate was...
Post Pandemic Nurture; The Transition Back To School
As school leaders begin to ponder how best to prepare for a return of the school community, the confusing enormity of their task is unfolding. They are accustomed to integrating vulnerable children from complex backgrounds at the beginning of a new school year, but...
Talking To Children About Grief and Loss; Parents and Teachers
One area that stands out for me during this whole experience of Covid 19 is grief and loss. As we settle into week 6 (or 7 if like me you made the decision slightly ahead of the Government) of this new normal, we can locate the loss of so much which sits alongside the...
A Guided Meditation
A 10 minute guided meditation from Lisa Cherry. Follow these guidelines when using this meditation. Make sure you are in a safe and comfortable place, and that there is no danger from being sleepy or relaxed.Begin by closing your eyes and taking a series of long...
Staying Close Physically Distant. Life On The Frontline
Who knew we would end up here, in a topsy turvey world where finally rubbish collectors, supermarket workers and carers would at long last be recognised as an integral feature of a society's infrastructure. That NHS workers from cleaners to consultants would be...
Social Distancing During Covid 19; A Crisis Or An Opportunity
Opinion Piece Social distancing reminds us that we're in a period of time, that will one day be assigned to part of humanity's history that we will look back upon and wonder what we learnt, whether we changed and in what capacity. It is a time that is asking us to...