loading… Suzanne has been working for the National Centre for Behaviour Change for 12 years and regularly delivers training in Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Health Coaching & MECC. Through NCBC Suzanne has delivered training for a wide range of organisations such as Brighton & Hove CC, Oxfordshire & Surrey CC, YMCA, University of Brighton Academies Trust, Thrive Tribe, …

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Syane Findlay

loading… Syane is a Sussex based trainer, coach, and best-selling author whose specialisms include soft skills, leadership development and wellbeing. Over the past 9 years she has designed and facilitated face-to-face and virtual training, webinars, workshops, masterclasses, and conferences for numerous organisations in the UK and globally. She is particularly passionate about upskilling and equipping frontline and management staff working …

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Abby Perrins

loading… Abby works as a group facilitator, trainer, reflective practice facilitator and psychotherapeutic counsellor. She previously worked for over seven years as a frontline worker in homelessness and drug and alcohol services.  Abby is passionate about combining her experience and expertise to support the mental health and wellbeing of frontline workers.  She has designed and developed the Frontline Worker Wellbeing …

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Mo Lockwood

loading… Mo originally trained as a Registered General Nurse and has over 35 years experience of working with people of all ages and backgrounds, across a broad spectrum of health and social care related settings.  Most of her career has been spent in the field of Public Health and Specialist Health Promotion – working to reduce health inequalities and improve …

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Christine Glover

loading… Chris is a general nurse and a mental health nurse who has always maintained  clinical practice despite being a full time trainer for the past ten years. Her current clinical practice is as an EMDR practitioner – helping those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Chris has always worked both clinically and as a trainer throughout her long career. …

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Alison Laing

loading… Alison is an experienced trainer who has worked in Adult Social Care for over 25 years.  She is a Registered Social Worker, Best interest Assessor, Mediator, Mentor and Coach.  Alison is committed to encouraging empowering and  personalised Safeguarding practice.

James Aldcroft

loading… With over a decade of experience teaching First Aid and many years working for the ambulance service, our trainer, James, will ensure that you leave the course feeling confident to apply lifesaving skills in and out of the workplace.

Rachel Holliday

loading… Rachel Holliday is a freelance trainer with over 20 years’ experience of delivering training and a background in adult social care. Rachel has worked as a front line worker in rough sleeper and homeless hostel services as well as managing and overseeing various new and existing housing projects and support services. For the past 10 years, she has focused …

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Chris Brown

loading… Chris is a freelance trainer, facilitator and consultant specialising in suicide prevention, mental health/wellbeing and LGBTQ+ inclusion.  As one of the co-founders of Grassroots Suicide Prevention she has developed expertise in suicide prevention, community engagement and in delivering training programmes including ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills) and safeTALK (Suicide Alertness for Everyone).  Chris has also designed and delivered a …

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Jayne Knights

loading… Jayne has been delivering training in Brighton for 13 years. After qualifying as a social worker and working as an adviser in London, she finally made it to the seaside and has been in Brighton since the mid-80s, doing a variety of benefits-related jobs. Having had such a long immersion in benefits world, she is familiar with just about …

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Alex Langridge

Alex Langridge

loading… Having worked in mental health fields for over ten years, Alex is the regional coordinator for the International Stress Management Association and a qualified Mental Health First Aid Instructor. Alex is passionate about improving understanding of our mental health and works with participants in interactive and multi-sensory ways to encourage engagement and retention of learning. She has worked with …

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Kate Dawson

loading… Kate originally qualified as a social worker and has since gained 30 years’ worth of experience in the public sector and within mental health fields. Having contributed to development of the very first Adult Protection procedures in East Sussex, Kate has since managed safeguarding processes in a range of operational management roles. Now an independent trainer, she has worked …

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Graeme Borrill

loading… Graeme is a training and development specialist with 20 years’ experience of delivering leadership, management and soft skills programmes to a range of private, public and voluntary sector organisations. His trainees have included, managers from the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the Line Management Group and Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service. In 2013, Graeme attained a ILM Level 7 Certificate …

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Shaun Young

Shaun Young

loading… Shaun has been working with vulnerable clients as a frontline worker for 20 years and backs up this professional experience with an honours degree in Behavioural Science. As a trainer since 1996, Shaun has since delivered training, consultancy and coaching to a wide range of organisations, including Mind, the University of Sussex and Maersk Shipping, and in countries as …

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Phil Jameson

loading… Phil has over 27 years’ experience teaching First Aid. He spent the first 25 years of his career in HM Prison Service as a PE teacher, teaching and practising First Aid on a regular basis, and now teaches full time around the UK. He consistently receives excellent feedback for the courses he delivers for BHT, for the lively and …

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Merav Devere

loading… Merav’s training work has taken her around the world, to as far afield as Africa and South India. Having specialised in group work and counselling for 30 years, Merav has worked with a vast array of partner organisations, including the CRI, East Sussex Children’s and Adult Services and Family Mosaic, among others. Her training methods always encompass four key …

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Simon Hughes

Simon Hughes

loading… Simon has over 12 years’ experience in social care and is a member of the planning committee of the pan-Sussex multi-sector Practitioners Alliance for Safeguarding Adults group. Working throughout the UK, Simon has been directly involved in Safeguarding work with a diverse range of people including adults with physical disabilities, sensory impairment, HIV AIDS, mental health, substance misuse, learning …

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Mary Berridge

loading… Mary has been training IT applications including Excel, Access, Outlook, Powerpoint and Word for the ‘not for profit’ sector for around 15 years. Mary always gets the highest praise for her courses because they are fun, engaging and interactive. She believes that this is particularly important with IT, because engaging learning means remembering, understanding and therefore making the very …

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Claire Pooley

loading… Claire Pooley is a Traumatologist and EMDR Practitioner, with Senior Accreditation as a Humanistic Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor with the BACP. Claire registered as a Registered Mental Health Nurse in 1983 and went on to study Counselling in 1990 whilst working in the HIV field in South Africa.  Previously, an Area Manager in a  Mental Health Charity in the UK, …

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Rachel Batten

loading… Rachel specialises in delivering training for young people’s services, in particular conflict resolution, working with challenging behaviour, complex needs, and young people in gangs. She is a qualified teacher and restorative justice practitioner and has project managed youth alternate sector programmes for over ten years.  Rachel has delivered extensive training to services, including, The Home Office, the MET police, prison services, LEAP, …

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Kendelle Bond

loading… Kendelle founded the National Centre for Behaviour Change (formerly Zest Consultancy) in 2003 and has been specialising in behaviour change for over 16 years to date. Kendelle originally trained as a Midwife before moving into Public Health where she has passionately worked to integrate evidence-based practice into behaviour change interventions and practice through her one to one practice, consultancy …

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Damian Fearns

loading… Damian is a psychologist with 15 years’ experience in health and social care. An experienced team manager and service co-ordinator, Damian runs a psychotherapy practice and a training organisation that delivers courses on emotional health and wellbeing and health promotion. Having trained in solution-focussed therapy, person-centred therapy and motivational interviewing, Damian has a long-held interest in neuro-psychology and is …

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