Participants are required to have their cameras on for an interactive experience.
Maximum of two people per screen
Sessions are recorded for quality assurance purposes. They are only viewed by SCTS staff and deleted within 14 days.
£35.00 3 hours
This is advanced-level training within our five-part PACE for Professionals programme. Participants must have completed a minimum of the PACE Mindset (Module One) before attending this course, as it builds on the shared relational foundations established across the programme.
Empathy is central to effective work with children and young people who have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma or loss. It communicates to the child that their feelings matter and that they are not alone during difficult moments. While empathy does not always resolve situations immediately, it plays a critical role in maintaining connection, safety and trust.
Sustaining empathic practice requires emotional resilience. Professionals working in high-stress, emotionally demanding roles must be able to manage their own emotional responses in order to remain available to others. Without adequate support, the cumulative impact of this work can lead to compassion fatigue, emotional exhaustion and disengagement.
This module supports practitioners to strengthen empathic connection while protecting their own wellbeing, enabling safer, more sustainable trauma-informed practice.
This training explores empathy as both a relational skill and a protective factor. Participants develop a deeper understanding of attachment, co-regulation and compassion fatigue, and how these influence professional effectiveness and personal resilience.
The module supports practitioners to recognise early warning signs of emotional overload, apply co-regulation strategies and build supportive professional networks that sustain reflective, empathic care over time.
Participants will develop the ability to:
Deepen understanding of attachment theory and its impact on personal and professional relationships
Reflect on personal attachment patterns and consider how these may influence caring roles
Explore how attachment patterns can change and develop over time
Understand co-regulation: what it is, why it matters and how to apply it in practice
Identify challenges and effective skills within therapeutic and relational care
Explore how changes in family dynamics, including fostering, can increase stress and emotional demand
Analyse factors that contribute to compassion fatigue
Recognise key signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue
Identify coping strategies that build emotional resilience
Develop practical ways to seek support and provide support to colleagues
This module completes the full PACE for Professionals suite, bringing together relational understanding, emotional regulation and professional sustainability. Completing all five modules supports consistent, trauma-informed practice while reducing the risk of burnout, drift and reactive responses under pressure.
Our PACE for Professionals suite is suitable for a wide range of roles working with children and young people who have experienced trauma or disrupted attachment. Annual refreshers are recommended to support reflective practice and emotional sustainability.
This training is suitable for:
Social Workers: Case managers, safeguarding and community-based roles
Caregivers: Residential care staff, foster carers, adoptive and kinship carers
Mental Health Professionals: Therapists, counsellors and clinical practitioners
Educators: (Please also see "PACE for Schools") Teachers, school counselors, and special education professionals.
Birth Parents: Please refer instead to "PACE for Parents"
⚠️ This is workforce development training. Some content may be emotionally challenging and is not suitable for addressing individual therapeutic needs within a group setting.
You can take a look at what people are saying about our training HERE.
Those seeking to be certified in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) or to further explore PACE in action, are invited to visit the founder's website.
You can read feedback from professionals who have attended our training HERE..
Delivery: Live training via Zoom
Format: Taught input, small group work, paired activities and whole-group discussion
This training is suitable for Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Participants receive a certificate of attendance and reflection prompts to support CPD recording in line with Social Work England guidance and similar professional frameworks.
Resources: Downloadable handouts and resource library provided
Those wishing to pursue formal certification in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) or to further explore PACE in action are invited to visit the founder’s website.
This option is aimed at an audience with prior knowledge of the subject and isn’t suitable for. Those that are new to the subject would be better with our standard course.
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.
We design engaging, practical, and compliant training across three core areas:
Invest in training that transforms knowledge into action. Equip your team with the confidence and competence to protect those in your care proactively.
We recognise that sometimes groups need more time for discussions and group work. This can mean that a two-hour session is just not long enough to explore the curriculum and engage in question and answer sessions. So we are you offering the opportunity to extend the session by an hour to allow your trainees the chance to explore the curriculum fully!
