Healing Spaces
Want to make lasting change across your organisation? Here's how to become a Healing Spaces Champion...
To ensure Healing Spaces can really become embedded in organisations across the UK and help staff work in trauma-informed ways with their refugee clients, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ UK is launching its 2025 Cohort of Healing Spaces Champions.
What is a Healing Spaces Champion?
The course will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate Healing Spaces sessions in your settings. Champions will also join a growing network of professionals committed to trauma-informed practice and peer support working with refugee and asylum-seeking children and youth.
We are looking for past participants to join us on our mission to create Healing Spaces across the UK. HS Champions are active staff members from all career stages that are willing to lead training for their peers. They will also act as a point of contact between staff and the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ and help instill Healing Spaces techniques and knowledge across each activity and service provided by their organisation.
What will the initiative look like?
The initiative will include the launch of our new training of trainers programme, where you will attend a two-hour workshop learning how to lead effective training in your context. Following this workshop you will be expected to lead Healing Spaces training for your colleagues. To support you in this we will provide a package of materials including access to our PowerPoints, free printed handbooks, a digital trainer’s manual and more!
We also run quarterly meetings with the cohort to discuss key issues, showcase brilliant projects and plan upcoming events. Our first meeting will take place in September 2025 where we will get to know each other and discuss key issues being faced and addressed.
What will be expected of me?
To become a Healing Spaces Champion, you must:
- Have completed one of our trauma-informed courses (preferably the Healing Spaces course)
- Attend four online quarterly meetups with ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Education Officers and other Champions
- Complete the trainer’s workshop (2 hours long) and review the trainer’s manual in your own time
- Lead Healing Spaces training sessions for your colleagues and gather staff feedback after each one to send to ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡
- Optional – work with our communications and digital team to share your story to be turned into newspaper articles, social media posts or online ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ articles and help support our advocacy work
- Optional – join us in the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ office in London for events and meeting to help us evaluate our programming to ensure HC is as useful and sustainable as possible for UK educators
- Optional – ongoing 1-1 support from ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ on Teams, Zoom or via email
- Optional – collaborate with ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡'s international team.
How do I sign up?
If you’re willing to commit to the above expectations and have checked with organisation's leadership about allocating staff meeting time to lead HS sessions, please register your interest on this . Please note we only allow one staff member per organisation to join this course.
