"A Living Learning Experience -An Introduction to Therapeutic Child Care"

First Mulberry Bush Training/PETT residential workshop, September 27-29, a  success!

Course Leader Linnet McMahon writes:

"We have just come to the end of our joint first residential workshop at PETT, 'Introduction to Therapeutic Child Care - a living learning experience', which went extremely well.  It was oversubscribed and we had 16 participants who were from a wide range of private and statutory settings providing residential child care or foster care, including two young Russian women from Kitezh community.

John, Jo and Maureen made sure that everyone felt well looked after and that the event  ran smoothly.  It was so good to have the Library and Archive available for particpants to use, and thanks to Craig for that. The food was excellent - thank you Sheila and everyone. Deborah and Dave led productive sessions on the Child, the Worker and the Organisation, and Teresa provided the Experiential Group.  Many found the whole programme a new and strange experience, and had many initial doubts...However all stuck with it and  I think the 'bottom line' realisation was that 'therapeutic' is not something weird and added on but about how you manage the work of the day. "