THE DAY

Belonging, Mattering and Liminality is Dr Lisa Cherry's original framework, developed through her own doctoral research, lived experience and years of practice across education, children's social care and criminal justice. It rests on three questions that sound simple and turn out to hold most of what matters in the work.

“So much to reflect on, incredible day which has hit me personally and professionally.” Social Worker, Children’s Services.

• How does this person/team/organisation experience a sense of belonging?

• In what ways does this person/team/organisation experience mattering?

• And is this person/team/organisation in a liminal space and is it destructive or transformative?

Tailored to your specific setting and exploration, with each person having their own workbook to take away with them, we will move between theory and practice using real-world case studies, research and explorations of our own positionality, developing ways to pick the framework up and put it to work immediately.

“I love the idea of trying to take the idea of belonging and mattering into the life story books I make and how we can make this felt with all relationships - birth family, foster carers and adopters.” Social Worker, Children’s Services

What Attendees Leave With in Their Hands and Hearts

Attendees will leave with a shared language for the children and adults who are easy to miss, a way of reading a situation that makes it legible rather than baffling and a set of protective, practical moves that hold up on a Monday morning, not just in a training room. The framework in informed by and sits firmly underneath the umbrella of trauma-informed practice.