Training and Speaking
Academic Research, Professional Practice and Lived Experience
Dr Lisa Cherry has been delivering training and speaking at conferences
internationally for nearly two decades, building on the previous twenty years
working across children's services and education.
She has delivered training and keynotes to thousands of practitioners, leaders
and carers across the UK and internationally. Her training draws together
academic rigour, practice knowledge and lived experience, so she can meet a
group exactly where they are, whoever is in the room.
Specialisms
Lisa has worked extensively across Education, Children’s Services and Criminal Justice. Her core specialisms are:
Belonging, Mattering and Liminality (BML) framework
Belonging and Mattering in Education
Trauma Informed Practice: An Introduction
Caring for the People Who Care (self and collective care)
Wellbeing
Working in a trauma-shaped organisation
Vicarious trauma and burnout for teams
Trauma-informed language and writing for practitioners
Compassion-focused practice for criminal justice settings
Training the Trainer
Reflective practice
Trauma-Informed Research
Each can run as a standalone session or as part of a longer, bespoke programme built around your organisation.
Built for your sector, not generic
Every session Lisa delivers is adapted to the room she is walking into. In education, that means working with headteachers, multi-academy trusts and SENCOs on exclusion, belonging and the conditions that keep children in school. In children's social care, it means case studies and language drawn from social work and residential and foster care practice. In criminal justice and probation, it means composite case studies built specifically for that context and a direct address of how compassion and belonging sit alongside risk and accountability. Where an organisation sits across more than one of these worlds, or works with a particular community, she builds the content around the needs of that organisation.
“Having attended Lisa’s training in the past and followed her work closely, when we decided on belonging as a theme for our practice week, I knew Lisa would be the best person for our keynote session. Lisa was able to provide her wealth of knowledge, expertise and wisdom at delivering a keynote speech that resonated with practitioners from education/skills and social care- which evidenced the need to work together to promote the belonging of children we work alongside and the value of bringing together our knowledge and expertise to ensure the child’s journey is at the centre of our work. In addition to supporting our reflections in how we work alongside family members and children in ways which reduces shame, blame and fosters principals of positive regard, love and care.”
Louise Spragg
Principal Social Worker
Telford & Wrekin Council
Formats and delivery
All training is bespoke to the organisation, the community being served and the needs of the attendees. For organisations wanting deeper, sustained change, Lisa also builds whole-organisation programmes delivered over several sessions, with workbooks, facilitator guides and materials staff can use to embed the work after she has gone. Whatever your needs, it starts with a conversation about what the organisation needs, not an off-the-shelf experience.
Book training for your organisation
Organisations that want their teams thinking and working differently about belonging, mattering, staff wellbeing in the context of working daily with trauma and trauma-informed practice …you’re in the right place.
Lisa delivers training and keynotes across the UK and internationally and is excited to discuss your requirements. However the conversation starts, the aim is the same; training should create and/or contribute to systemic culture change in how people work together and serve the people they are walking alongside.
To learn more, contact lisa@lisacherry.co.uk