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Creative Life Story Work | LinkedIn Creative Life Story Work | 1,023 followers on LinkedIn. Helping care-experienced children & young people better understand their own life stories. | Helping care-experienced children & young p...

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Podcast season 5: Episode 7 - Between Chapters: exploring life story work for care leavers Exploring life story work for care leavers aged 16-25, with Mary-anne Hodd.

Life story work for care leavers: find out about new research into life story work for care leavers aged 16-25, in this interview with care-experienced independent consultant and Therapeutic Life Story Work practitioner, Mary-anne Hodd.

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Podcast season 5: Episode 6 - How play and creativity can transform life story work % - Creative Life Story Work Artist Elena Miller explains how play and creativity can make life story work more inclusive and can give children empowerment, choice and control.

NEW podcast episode: How play and creativity can transform #lifestorywork.

Artist Elena Joy Miller shares simple, trauma-informed ways to create safer, more playful life story work sessions - starting with small steps you can take tomorrow.

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Need to refresh your knowledge on life story work theory? Or learn how to use particular tools and techniques?

We have a Live Classroom for that - take a look: creativelifestorywork.com/training/

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Thank you to our wonderful funder, The Segelman Trust, for making this possible, to the brilliant team at
@kazzumarts.bsky.social for their animation expertise, and the interpreters who generously shared their experience.

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Life story work with refugee and asylum-seeking young people - Creative Life Story Work Hear what it’s like to facilitate life story work with young people who have recently arrived in the UK – and take away tools and information you can use in your own practice.

⭐ We’ll also be holding a free, online Live Classroom in May to share more about delivering life story work with refugee and asylum seeking children and young people. It’s open to everyone – book your spot here:

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Life story work resources to support refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people - Creative Life Story Work Resources to support life story work with refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people.

All the resources are designed to help ensure children and young people who are newly arrived in the UK, including those who are unaccompanied, are supported through high quality, trauma-informed life story work.

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Life story work resources to support refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people - Creative Life Story Work Resources to support life story work with refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people.

💙We’re so happy to share new resources, all about delivering life story work with refugee and asylum-seeking young people💙

We worked in partnership with @cfabuk.bsky.social and @tlswuk.bsky.social to create an animation for young people, a guide for interpreters, and a toolkit for practitioners.

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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council: giving every child life story work that’s as unique as they are - Creative Life Story Work Leanne Morgan, principal social worker at BCP Council, explains how she hopes the Council’s new method of delivering life story work will mean every child experiences an offer that’s as unique as they...

Get a behind-the-scenes insight into life story work at BCP Council.

BCP Council are the latest local authority to join us as Creative Life Story Work members, giving their team access to our resources and online training.

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Understanding eating disorders.

@psyjess.bsky.social from Trauma Informed Consultancy Services gives an introduction to understanding eating disorders and how we can respond using kindness, safety and connection, in her new blog post.

Read it here: creativelifestorywork.com/latest/eatin...

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Express, create, connect: Inclusive approaches to life story work - Creative Life Story Work Learn inclusive, creative and playful methods for helping children and young people explore their life stories, with artist Elena Miller.

And in March, we have a Live Classroom all about inclusive, creative life story work methods which you can book onto here: creativelifestorywork.com/event/expres...

We hope you can join us!

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All the resources on the Creative Life Story Work website centre play and creativity as vital tools for supporting children and young people through life story work.

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Our newsletter, with a round-up of our latest life story work resources and training, will land in inboxes later this week. If you'd like a copy, sign up here: eepurl.com/h90tcn

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Eating disorders: Understanding what’s beneath the surface - Creative Life Story Work Jess Parker gives an introduction to understanding eating disorders and how people working with children and young people can respond using kindness, safety and connection.

Understanding eating disorders.

Jessica Parker gives an introduction to understanding eating disorders and how we can respond using kindness, safety and connection, in this new article: creativelifestorywork.com/latest/eatin...

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Our first podcast episode of 2026 is with Jessica Parker, director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services. Jess joined us in our virtual studio to discuss how we can support young people affected by eating disorders:

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Happy new year everyone! There's still time to book onto our first Creative Life Story Work info session of the year, where you can ask questions about membership and meet some of our team.

It's on Tuesday next week:

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Creative Life Story Work membership information session - Creative Life Story Work Find out how you could use Creative Life Story Work in your own practice. Creative Life Story Work membership will give you access to all the resources and training on this site, all focused on helpin...

We'll be starting 2026 with one of our membership info sessions for anyone who wants to know more about what’s included in Creative Life Story Work membership. It's friendly, no-pressure, and we'd love to see you there!

Book your spot here: creativelifestorywork.com/event/creati...

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Podcast season 5: Episode 4 - Therapeutic letter-writing % - Creative Life Story Work How can therapeutic letters support healing, truth-telling and connection?

Can letters help us say things that might be difficult to discuss in person?

In this episode of our podcast, Ciara McClelland from shares her perspective on letter-writing techniques. Listen online, or wherever you get your podcasts: creativelifestorywork.com/resource/pod...

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More than 1,000 people are already Creative Life Story Work members, giving them access to all our life story work tools and resources.

Find out if membership could be useful for you: creativelifestorywork.com/become-a-mem...

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Therapeutic Letter Writing - Creative Life Story Work Explore how therapeutic letter writing can be a powerful tool for healing, care and truth-telling within fostering and social work settings.

Lots of you have booked onto our January live classroom, on therapeutic letter-writing with Ciara McClelland, in the last few days💙

If you haven't booked yet, there are still places available and everyone is welcome. Book your ticket here: creativelifestorywork.com/event/therap...

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Life Story Work Training For Social Workers & Foster Carers | Creative Life Story Work Online training led by experts in life story work for care-experienced children and young people. Boost your knowledge now.

You’ll still be able to book Live Classrooms via our website, and access life story work resources. There are tickets available for our sessions in January and February (info here creativelifestorywork.com/training/) and we'd love to see you there!

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❄️The Creative Life Story Work office will be closed for a two week break, from Monday 22 December 2025 to Friday 2 January 2026. We'll be back from Monday 5 January. We wish everyone a peaceful, restful time this Christmas and New Year!❄️

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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council: giving every child life story work that’s as unique as they are - Creative Life Story Work Leanne Morgan, principal social worker at BCP Council, explains how she hopes the Council’s new method of delivering life story work will mean every child experiences an offer that’s as unique as they...

We're so happy to welcome @bcpcouncil.bsky.social as Creative Life Story Work members!

Here's principal social worker, Leanne Morgan, on how the Council’s way of delivering life story work will mean every child experiences an offer as unique as they are.

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Therapeutic Letter Writing - Creative Life Story Work Explore how therapeutic letter writing can be a powerful tool for healing, care and truth-telling within fostering and social work settings.

Booking now: An introduction to therapeutic letter-writing, with Ciara McClelland

Join us for this online Live Classroom in January. Book your place: creativelifestorywork.com/event/therap...

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The healing power of therapeutic letter writing - Creative Life Story Work Trainer and arts psychotherapist, Ciara McClelland, offers some guidance on writing letters which are trauma-informed and which build trust and connection.

New: The healing power of therapeutic letter writing.

Get some tips to help you write trauma-informed, therapeutic letters, in this new article by Ciara McClelland from Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd. Thank you Ciara!

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🩷 This is one of our favourite recent pieces of feedback for our Live Classrooms (this is from the session @drkarentreisman.bsky.social delivered on genograms).

We're happy to hear it inspired you!

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💌Where to start with therapeutic letter-writing. 💌

This month Ciara McClelland is our podcast guest, discussing how letters can help young people feel seen, heard and understood.

Listen to the full conversation here: creativelifestorywork.com/resource/pod...

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What to consider when developing a life story work policy and procedure - Creative Life Story Work Blue Cabin’s Local Authority Specialist, Joanne Stoddart, discusses the role of foster carers in life story work with care-experienced children and young people.

⭐ Six things to consider when developing a life story work policy ⭐

Here's our local authority specialist, Joanne Stoddart, with her tips on developing a policy from scratch.

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Welcome to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, who have joined us as a Creative Life Story Work member!

We're looking forward to welcoming your team members to our Live Classrooms and supporting you all to make use of our life story work tools, guidance and resources.

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Virtual Memory Box: A new digital tool for regional adoption agencies - Creative Life Story Work Find out how a digital solution to capturing and storing memories is being rolled out to regional adoption agencies, with Christian Brock, founder of Virtual Memory Box.

Just a few days left to book for this free Live Classroom with Virtual Memory Box, all about how this digital tool is being rolled out to regional #adoption agencies.

Book your spot here:

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