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Creative Life Story Work Podcast

Creative Life Story Work Podcast

By: Blue Cabin CIO
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Find out how a creative approach to Life Story Work can help children and young people who have been in care make sense of their past and build a brighter future.

A new model for Life Story Work is being rolled out in the North East of England, and this podcast shares the latest learning and investigates how it could help improve the lives of care-experienced children and young people across the country.

Copyright 2025 Blue Cabin CIO
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Episodes
  • Episode 13: S4E13 - Therapeutic Life Story Work with adults
    Sep 4 2025

    Psychologist Amy Payne joins us from Australia's Blue Mountains to talk about Therapeutic Life Story Work with adults. We discuss how she has adapted the Rose model of Therapeutic Life Story Work for different ages and Amy shares examples of its use. Find out how Therapeutic Life Story Work can help adults manage transitions in life and plan for the future. Discover how to retain elements of creativity and playfulness in life story work with adults, and how it can help you map out multi-generational stories taking in grandparents, parents and children.


    Find out more about Creative Life Story Work membership here, and sign up to our mailing list here, for regular updates on our training and resources.

    Sign up to Amy's live classroom by clicking here

    Check out the other training we have coming up, with online Live Classrooms​,​ delivered by our brilliant ​expert trainers>>

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    23 mins
  • Episode 12: S4E12 - Making genograms more creative and meaningful
    Aug 7 2025

    Clinical psychologist Dr Karen Treisman MBE joins us to talk about genograms and why they matter in trauma-informed care.


    Genograms are a visual representation of a family tree, which are often used in therapeutic settings. Karen shares how we can extend the traditional genogram model to make it into something much more creative, relational and meaningful. Hear how you can incorporate different materials -- from household items to puppets -- and use genograms as a springboard to open up questions and discussions about intergenerational themes, patterns and relationships.


    Find out more about Creative Life Story Work membership here, and sign up to our mailing list here, for regular updates on our training and resources.

    Sign up to Karen's live classroom by clicking here

    Check out the other training we have coming up, with online Live Classrooms​,​ delivered by our brilliant ​expert trainers>>

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    23 mins
  • Episode 11: S4E11 - Going on a bear hunt: learning about Think, Feel, Do Sensory Bears
    Jul 3 2025

    This month we are talking about Think, Feel, Do Bears - how they were developed and how they can be used during life story work.


    Amy Payne and Karen Vance, two of the practitioners who created Think, Feel, Do Bears, join us from Australia. They take us back to 2016, when the first Think, Feel, Do bears were made, inspired by conversations at the 2016 Australian Childhood Trauma Conference.


    Find out how the bears can help children and young people talk about their thoughts, feelings and actions. Hear about some real-life examples of them being used by children, young people and adults, and learn how the bears can help children and young people's voices be heard.

    Sign up to Amy and Karen's upcoming Live Classroom by clicking here

    Find out more about Creative Life Story Work membership here, and sign up to our mailing list here, for regular updates on our training and resources.

    Check out the other training we have coming up, with online Live Classrooms​,​ delivered by our brilliant ​expert trainers>>

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    26 mins
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