Weaving a Web of Belonging: Developing a Trauma-Informed Culture for All Children - Lisa Cherry

Weaving a Web of Belonging: Developing a Trauma-Informed Culture for All Children

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Buch | Hardcover
180 Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-73084-4 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Combining professional practice, the ‘science’ behind it, and powerful lived experiences, this book offers a true insight into cultivating belonging as an antidote to trauma. It is an essential read for all those who are supporting children and young people, including education practitioners, leaders, social workers, CAMHS and families.
The need to belong is a fundamental and human motivation yet many children and young people’s experiences of belonging are ruptured across many domains. This essential book explores the different spaces in which children and young people belong and shows how we can cultivate a sense of belonging within our services, schools, communities, and within children themselves.

Chapters break down key research and introduce practices which will inspire change, develop a trauma-informed culture, and show how a relational web of belonging can be built for life. Drawing from the lived experiences of those who have spent time in care, the book highlights everything you need to deepen your understanding of the impact of trauma, inequity and marginalisation in children’s services and education. Advocating for the power of language, leadership, and collective care, a working conceptual model for cultivating belonging is shared, which considers the ‘faces’, ‘spaces’ and ‘places’ that can make a lasting difference. Reflections and practical takeaways are woven throughout to offer an accessible, informative, and thoughtful read, with the child at the centre.

Bringing together professional practice, the ‘science’ behind it, and powerful lived experiences, Weaving a Web of Belonging offers a true insight into cultivating belonging as an antidote to trauma. It is an essential read for all those who are supporting children and young people, especially those who are the most vulnerable, including education practitioners, leaders, social workers, CAMHS and families.

Dr Lisa Cherry is a leading international trainer, specialising in assisting professionals working with vulnerable children and families to understand trauma, recovery and resilience. She is the Director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services, an organisation which provides a holistic approach to supporting those working in universal, targeted or specialist settings, services and systems. Lisa brings over three decades of working in educational and social care settings and a 30-year journey of recovery in overcoming her own experiences of trauma.

Foreword

Collective Care

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Weaving The Web of Belonging. The historical weaving of unbelonging

Chapter 1 – It Starts With Us

My Relationship with Belonging

School Exclusion and Belonging

Education and Belonging

Professional Experience and Belonging

Data or Wisdom

Chapter 2 – Carrying the Burden of the Past

Historical Exploration

Legislation

Unbelonging

Education and children’s social care

Recent Legislation

Chapter 3 – The Stigma Wound

Research Themes

Stigma and Movement

Types of Movement

Types of Stigma

Trauma and Stigma

Memories

Stigma and Power

Aspects of Power

Chapter 4 – The Impact of Unbelonging

Language

Language and Labelling

Children in Care

School Exclusion

Exclusion and Children in Care

Trauma

Belonging

Underpinning theoretical frameworks for thinking about belonging

Contemporary Comprehensions of Belonging

Developing a Trauma Informed Culture

Part 2: Reconceptualising Weaving The Web: Contemporary Opportunities to Weave

Chapter 5 – Language That Heals

Historical overview

Importance of language

Where Does Language Sit in Practice?

Speaking in Acronyms

Interpretation and Internalisation

The Language of Trauma of Stigma

Self-forgiveness

Chapter 6 – Leadership is a Verb

Being a Leader is more than a Job Title

Creating Meaningful Connections

Emotional Intelligence

Chapter 7 – Intersection and Intersectionality

Care as a Defining Experience

Positionality

Additional Needs

Mental Health, ‘SEND’ and Wellbeing

Naming Exclusion

Racism

Endurance

Part 3: Reconceptualising Weaving The Web: Faces, Spaces and Places

Chapter 8 – Faces That Make a Difference

FACES

Finding Faces

Chapter 9 – Spaces That Make a Difference

Movement

Finding belonging

Chapter 10 – Places That Make a Difference

Chapter 11 - Beyond Practice

Doing Better in Policy

Doing Better in Practice

Doing Better in Research

Chapter 12 - Closing Words

Prologue

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.5.2025
Zusatzinfo 8 Tables, black and white; 18 Line drawings, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10 1-032-73084-6 / 1032730846
ISBN-13 978-1-032-73084-4 / 9781032730844
Zustand Neuware
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