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PACE for Individuals

Strengthen your skills, broaden your professional toolkit and build your confidence with practical training designed for professionals working with children, young people and families.

Our open courses help you deepen your understanding of trauma-informed practice and bring the PACE approach into your everyday work. It will help you respond with greater insight, strengthen relationships and support better outcomes.

Whether you’re a social worker, therapist, practitioner or other care professional, you’ll gain practical trauma-informed approaches you can put into practice straight away.

PACE for Individuals

Our OPEN courses are for individuals and are available on set day in each month.

Book the 5 course bundle for a 10% discount.

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PACE Mindset (1/5) – OPEN COURSE

£35.00 3 hours

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PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity & Empathy), is a proven therapeutic approach developed by Clinical Psychologist Dan Hughes. This mindset presents a valuable opportunity for adults to strengthen their connections with children by engaging in communication and interactions that promote a sense of safety and security. This training module emphasises building meaningful connections with children to establish a secure bond before addressing their behaviour. 

Positive Behaviour & De-escalation Skills (with Playfulness from PACE) (2/5) OPEN COURSE

£35.00 3 hours

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This is the second instalment of a vital five-part series in PACE. Children and young people who have faced neglect, abuse, or loss often struggle to trust that adults can be safe, friendly, and caring. It is vital to use playfulness as a strategy to demonstrate that there is ample opportunity for fun and relaxed interactions, even amid challenging circumstances. Engaging in playful moments effectively reduces the shame a child may feel when things go wrong and sends a clear message that disagreements are temporary and will not undermine the strength of your relationship.

Trauma-Informed Care (with Acceptance from PACE)(3/5): OPEN COURSE

£35.00 3 hours

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This transformative training module equips practitioners and carers with a deep, neurobiologically grounded understanding of trauma, attachment, and the critical role of Acceptance, a foundational pillar of the PACE mindset. Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience (including the Polyvagal framework, brain development, and the Window of Tolerance), this course reveals how chronic stress reshapes the mind, body, and nervous system. Participants will explore how to look past surface behaviours to address unmet needs, dismantle corrosive shame cycles, and build the regulating, attuned relationships necessary for healing.

Conversations for Change (with Curiosity from PACE)(4/5): OPEN COURSE

£35.00 3 hours

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Grounded in the Curiosity pillar of the PACE mindset, this transformative course equips practitioners with the skills to move from “How do I stop this?“ to “What is this child telling me?“ By weaving together Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and positive psychology, you will learn to deploy non-judgmental curiosity as an intentional, trainable skill, thereby reducing defensiveness and strengthening the therapeutic alliance, even in high-stress moments.

Compassion Fatigue, Co-Regulation & Attachment (with Empathy from PACE)(5/5): OPEN COURSE

£35.00 3 hours

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Empathy is most powerful when connection is hardest to offer and most needed. Grounded in the PACE framework, this training explores how Empathy acts as a cornerstone for therapeutic care, co-regulation, and practitioner well-being. Participants will gain actionable strategies to build secure relational bases for children while learning to protect their own emotional health against compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.

Related E-learning Courses

While standalone e-learning is ideal for self-paced study, and Zoom excels at real-time group interaction, combining the two creates a far more dynamic learning experience.

Using them together gives you the best of both worlds:

  • Flexible Foundation: Learners absorb core concepts, policy frameworks, and essential theory on their own time through interactive e-learning modules.
  • Deep Practice: Live Zoom sessions transform passive knowledge into active skills through breakout discussions, practical scenarios, and live Q&A.
  • Sustained Impact: Digital materials remain accessible for ongoing reference long after the live session ends.
  • Proven Results: Combining flexible online knowledge building with live, reflective discussion leads to significantly higher retention rates, better critical thinking during crises, and consistent standards of care across your entire workforce.
Social Care Training Solutions

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What does PACE stand for?:

Playfulness

Use a light-hearted, reassuring tone – similar to parent-infant interactions – to create an atmosphere of safety and reassurance where no one feels judged, and the child can cope with positive feelings.

Acceptance

Acceptance is about actively communicating that you accept the feelings, thoughts and internal struggles underneath the child’s outward behaviour. It is not about accepting the behaviour but helping teach the child not to feel ashamed of their inner turmoil.

Curiosity

Curiosity, without judgement, is how we help children become aware of their inner life. It’s about wondering out loud without necessary expecting an answer in return. Phrases like “I wonder if…” will help the child to name their thoughts and emotions.

Empathy

Feeling a child’s sadness or distress and being emotionally available to them during times of difficulty shows the child that they are not alone and that the adult is strong enough to support them.

The results of an integrated PACE way of working

  • Through Playfulness, you're able to build the relationship.
  • Acceptance of a child without judgement helps them to feel better about themselves.
  • Using Curiosity helps a child to understand why they do what they do.
  • Empathy is a foundation for helping a child start to love themselves.

e-learning FAQ's

Micro-Learning

Respects Your Schedule: Modules are designed to take 5-10 minutes to complete. Whether it’s during a handover or a quick tea break, learning fits into the gaps of the day.

Bite-sized learning

Respects Your Schedule: Modules are designed to be completed in 30 to 50 minutes, fitting realistically into a lunch break or a downtime moment at work.

Deep dive models

Respects Your Schedule: Modules are designed to be completed in 2 to 4 hours +, these modules are designed to be deep dive subject reviews, enabling you to take a full refresher of the topic instead of a training session.

Cost-efficient at just £2 per unit per person

Cost-efficient at just £5 per unit per person

Cost-efficient at just £25 per unit per person

Boosts Knowledge Retention: Our brains aren’t built to absorb hours of data at once. Small, focused bursts of information help staff remember key teaching points.

Boosts Knowledge Retention: It’s important to actively engage with our knowledge to maintain it. These modules have been thoughtfully created to help us reinforce our understanding of essential processes and assess our retention of the information effectively.

Boosts Knowledge Retention: In these modules, we thoroughly explore each topic, providing an in-depth understanding comparable to that of a live training event. This approach ensures that you gain valuable insights and knowledge to enhance your learning experience.

Instant Application: For instance, learn a de-escalation technique and put it into practice five minutes later.

Application: This course offers an opportunity to build on key insights into trauma-informed practices and to ensure they align with best practices, fostering improvement in our approach.

Application: This course is designed to provide a comprehensive 360-degree review and engagement in the topic, ensuring that everything from theory to practice is embedded in your learning journey.

Benefits: Short, engaging content (videos, quizzes, and infographics) keeps morale high and prevents staff from feeling overwhelmed by compliance requirements.

Benefits: This module serves as a training review to consolidate your learning and help identify gaps or misunderstandings in your knowledge.

Benefits: Zoom training may not be the best fit for everyone. While live courses can offer valuable benefits to some participants, many find that self-studying at their own pace can lead to even greater efficiency and understanding. This module aims to enhance that self-directed learning experience and provide the support you need to succeed.

Yes, when you complete the course, you will be invited to download your certificate. You can then share this with your manager if required.




You have one year from the date of starting your course to complete it.

Yes, you can buy them at today’s prices and allocate them to your team members later. You have one year to do that.



Empowering Safety: Bespoke Safeguarding & Child Protection Training

Why Choose Bespoke Training?

Generic training can leave staff feeling unprepared for the real-life scenarios they face. Our tailored approach ensures the content, delivery method, and case studies are directly relevant to your sector (e.g., education, healthcare, sport, charity, corporate), your local policies, and the specific vulnerabilities and risks present in your community.

Our Specialised Training Pillars

We design engaging, practical, and compliant training across three core areas:

  • For Professionals Working with Children (Child Protection): Focuses on recognising the signs of abuse and neglect, statutory guidance (e.g., Working Together to Safeguard Children), robust reporting procedures, and the creation of a safe, child-focused culture.
  • For Professionals Working with Adults (Adult Safeguarding): Focuses on the principles of the Care Act, understanding different types of harm, promoting wellbeing, Mental Capacity Act (MCA) considerations, and ensuring person-led safeguarding responses.
  • Blended Cohorts (Safeguarding for All Ages): Ideal for organisations whose staff or volunteers interact with both children and adults (e.g., community centres, housing associations, religious organisations). This training highlights the common principles of good practice while clearly delineating the different legal frameworks, signs of harm, and reporting routes for each demographic.

Invest in training that transforms knowledge into action. Equip your team with the confidence and competence to protect those in your care proactively.

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