“Peer-recommended, Emotional support, Resilience and optimism, Independent service, Balance, retention, Upstream provision, allowable need, It is ok to be open and honest. Reflection informs supervision sessions, Time to reflect and to express – find their true voice” (Professionals feedback of their carer’s mentoring IFA 2024)
“[Mindful Mentoring has] blown us away with how effective it is”. “[We are] more aware of the bigger picture… a larger [view] than[just] the day to day”, “[We now have] better clarity and perspective”, “[We now take] pockets of time for ourselves – without feeling guilty”, “[I now understand] how to process my own personal grief and loss in my family life while being truly available to a traumatised child in my care” (Foster Carer Mentees Enhanced placements IFA 2024).
“Mentoring has been a more inovative version of independent supervision and has helped me to manage working as a lone Social Worker in the medical setting of hospice care. Really helped me to reflect and grow, and to begin to think more clearly about my own goals too.” (Social Worker Hospice Care 2024)
“The CPDC training was less like previous training and more of an experience that I can hold on to and remember for good! I really stopped and reflected… I think the lightbulb came on and might stay on this time.” (Social Worker Family Placement Team IFA 2023)
“I used the meditation designed for pre - interview or exam nerves from your you tube channel. I noticed the terrible butterflies in my stomach that were sabotaging my interviews and was able to calm my mind 20 mins before the interview. It went brilliantly. I was relaxed and focused and the butterflies had gone. They said it was their best interview of the day and offered me the job the same day.”
“I wanted to thank you for the brilliant mindfulness course you delivered over the past 9 weeks.
I had some experience of mindfulness before I started the course but your sessions gave me the time to practice and understand the concepts more fully. I particularly liked the idea of taking mindful moments during the day and when in nature, walking etc. The course has also helped me navigate the ups and downs of having two uni students studying from home and also working from home myself.
I shall continue to practice!”
“This course has been a life changer. I still feel so different and the course finished weeks ago. The children say they think I am different, and it’s made everything different and they want to say thank you to you too!”
“I have been on so many courses because I have been caring for a very, very traumatised child and the placement had to come to an end. I was devastated. It’s like a lightbulb has finally switched on and I realized that by participating in the MBLC at around the time that I am currently doing the Foundations to Attachment course I had suddenly started to really ‘get’ the concepts on the Attachment course at a very different and deeper level. I am really getting the training now in a way that I never did before I learnt to practice Mindfulness. It is such a relief.”
“I don’t know how I managed for all those years. It’s not just my deeper understanding and feeling so much better in myself, it is also the knock-on effect and how I am better with the people I manage too.”
