Events
Events
Blue Smile has a range of events taking place all year round; from fundraising events, clinical training events, awareness days and conferences.
A great way to support Blue Smile is by taking part in our planned events or by organising your own event – raising awareness of our work or fundraising for us.
Fundraising Events
By organising a fundraising event ‘your way’, you can raise funds and awareness of Blue Smile while bringing people together to do what you love best! This might be baking cakes, dancing or playing music – whatever you choose!
To get you started, we’ve created a fundraising pack with lots of great ideas of how to raise money for Blue Smile.
Once you’ve decided on how you will raise money, you can create a dedicated fundraising page to show help your supporters:
Clinical Training Events
Blue Smile is passionate about supporting the development of clinical trainees and qualified practitioners so they can continuously improve the skills needed to work effectively with children, schools and families. We draw on our own expertise in children and young people’s mental health as well as that of external trainers to provide high quality, regular clinical training workshops throughout the year. Our full and half day ‘Skills in the Room’ workshops combine theoretical and experiential learning, incorporate the use of arts and play and are open to practitioners from various organisations as well as those within Blue Smile.
Our training workshops cover a wide range of topics including:
- Using mindfulness with children
- Understanding and working with self-harm
- Working with ADHD
- Sand tray work
- Bereavement and loss
Forthcoming events
Please check back soon for more upcoming events.
Past events
- Priscilla Bacon- Offering Groups for Parents
- Ditty Dokter – Negotiating Boundaries or Reinforcing Borders?
- Clair Lewoski – Gender, Sexuality and Gender Questioning
- Clair Lewoski – Mindfulness
- Anna Zeffertt – Working with Ill Health
- Michelle Miller – Self-harm in Younger Children
- Lynne Souter-Anderson – Poking fun and packing punches: using clay with children and adolescents to work through relational conflicts
- Biddy Barclay – Tiny and Vast: Worlds in the Sand-tray
- Amy O’Leary – Understanding and Responding to Child Sexual Abuse
- Dr Joanne Holmes – Working with ADHD
- Clair Lewoski – Working with Defences
- Raven Kaliana – Puppets do the Talking: Transforming Trauma with Puppetry
- Dr Gina Gomez de la Cuesta – Building Bricks for Autism: An introduction to Lego based Therapy
- Vince Hesketh – We are not Alone: Working with Family Systems
“Excellent training – good mix of practical with discussions and amazingly generous experience shared with the group.”
“Blue Smile cares about developing its staff and volunteers and provides opportunities for high-quality training.“
“Excellent, highly engaging presenter direct from the field“
Open Days
Current Events:
There are currently no Open Days planned
Past Events:
Volunteer Open Morning- Wednesday 22nd January 2020
Blue Smile conferences
“Thank you to all involved today. You inspired and educated me. About to type up some notes for colleagues. I feel incredibly passionate about mental health and well-being.” Conference attendee