Window Training® is about different approaches, experiences and perspectives about domestic abuse. Window Training® is needed to reframe, enhance and improve current approaches.
Do you really understand domestic abuse?
- Build on your knowledge
- Improve your professional approaches
- Learn how to integrate your relationships with other professionals
- Improve your interventions
- Improve safety
- Improve outcomes
Training Context
Both historic and recent safeguarding case reviews have continuously reported critical failings in multiagency approaches to child victims of domestic abuse. These failings have resulted in meaningless child deaths.
Efforts to repair failures in interventions and safeguarding responses, review panels have identified the following repeated concerns within their serious case reviews.
“A lack of focus on the child as a victim”
“There is over emphasis on physical violence rather than identifying abuse in its many forms”
“An absence of a coordinated multi-agency approaches”
“Improvement is needed in how safeguarding partners work with specialist services”
“A simplistic and optimistic approach to domestic abuse is evident in serious cases”
“Practitioners are using the term domestic abuse without knowledge and understanding of the real impact on children”
One such resolving recommendation, calls for experts in experience to be involved in the strategies and service development of multi-agency approaches, in order to ensure an informed and uniformed response is achieved.
However, research has suggested that limitations remain, services continue to fail to integrate together effectively and safety remains compromised.
My Observations and Approach
By both research and observation, my findings lead to the suggestion that one gap in our knowledge base and responses may lie within the limitations of our consciousness and self-awareness.
The value in my training is my capacity to use the powers that lie in therapy, to demonstrate to you, in the context of your work, the deeper and more complex layers that remain obstacles to our current way of responding to the child’s needs.
My training does not, and will never replicate a text book. The root of my delivery will always come from personal experience and my way of creating a concept that will support you in your understanding of the reality, and challenges of these children of the impact of exposure or witness.
In addition, I bring my knowledge from the award of a master’s degree in domestic abuse, and my observations and experience from the facilitation of many thousands of clinical practice and supervision hours both with children and young people, and the practitioners and services who are committed to supporting them.
I will challenge you to look deeper and consider perspectives outside of your own. I will demonstrate to you how insidious domestic abuse can be to the child’s sense of self, and how damaging it can be to have been exposed to this kind of environment.
I aim to enhance traditional trauma informed approaches, to expose the challenges to intervention, and to contribute to the current and future provision of ethical, safe effective support, together with, coordinated, integrated multi-agency interventions.
There are many broken and outdated systems in place for responding to child victims in legal, supportive and educational services. We are all accountable to understand the reality of what domestic abuse is and what it may feel like to a child.
Children are not just the powerless victims to abuse, they can then be at risk of being subjected to assumptions, judgements and labels from the professionals who lack knowledge as to the legacy that is left behind. Not only do children carry forward the legacy of unresolved trauma, but often this is together with a label that may be detrimental to their identity.
My input extends to authorities, practicing professionals and services who work with abused children. I wish to demonstrate to you what it means to a child to be within a dysregulated household, the resulting legacy they will live with, and how they may go onto show up in society without specialist help.
Specialist help, has to mean specialist help, my belief is that this is specific training for professionals in actual, not just in text book terms.
My background and my motivations to improve knowledge and services
My interest in training in specific areas, mirrors certain personal experiences. This is a powerful motivator for me, and a strength as it gives me the ability to provide you with personal insight into what it feels like to be a child in a dysregulated household.
I feel that it would be wrong of me not to use my unique creativity, together with my personal and professional insight to play my part in educating professionals responding to child abuse and in turn giving the abused child a voice.
My own journey, has reflected my determination to find a way to shake off the abusive legacy and to take my rightful place in the world.
I am now able to use my voice within my work. Through my training, I am able to use my experience to support children who may have too found themselves in situations where they are unable to have their basic needs met and instead find themselves traumatized. It is their right to shake off this legacy too, and in improving our knowledge as professionals we gain the capacity to play our part in supporting this process.
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