Room 4

25/04/2024

When it comes to our minds, awareness is often the solution itself.
Matt Haig

21/04/2024

Of course this also applies to boys and men 💜

21/04/2024

05/04/2024

Room4… were delighted to be given The High Sheriff Award in recognition of the work we do in the local community.

18/03/2024

22/01/2024

✍️Gabor Maté: Too often, today’s parents struggle to provide for their children emotionally and physically while increasingly isolated from the traditional supports of extended family and community

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11/08/2023

Sometimes all we can do is to try and be kind to people. It doesn’t feel enough. And sometimes we can be grumpy when we are trying to be kind. But we can try. That helps and helps everything?!

Well done to those of you who need a holiday and it looks like everyone else is having one and you are staying there caring for others with no one to say well done. Well- well done …. 🥇🏆

11/08/2023

So important! 🧡

11/08/2023

"Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical beings on earth, for what they believe is what they will become."
Quote: Brooke Hampton

11/08/2023

Quote of the Day

11/08/2023

Understanding Our Kids' Development is Key
Stating the obvious: our kids can only work with what they have got to work with. Their brains cannot support them in functions that are not 'on line' yet because the 'brain hardware' hasn't grown and developed. Yet.
"Behind every meltdown is an amazing person overwhelmed by a challenging world. Meltdowns require understanding not judgement."
Stalen's Way

10/08/2023

Dance with me in the Heart ❤
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Play Builds Brains
"The truth is that play seems to be one of the most advanced methods nature has invented to allow a complex brain to create itself."
Dr Stuart Brown, play researcher
Keep saying it: "Play builds brains." If we say it often enough eventually people will come to value play in and of its own right.

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10/08/2023

This is true.

𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐩𝐓 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬.
https://bit.ly/3rg92fr

10/08/2023

We all mess up, we all forget things, we all do dumb things. So how can we create work cultures, team cultures and home cultures where it is not painful for people to admit where we have made mistakes and say sorry and ask to try and put things right?! Let’s wrestle with this as groups and see what works?

Transparency and honesty and vulnerability are vital ingredients for humans to thrive. The opposite of those ways of being are cultures of secrecy, avoidance, deceit, awkwardness, shame and anxiety- and no one thrives in those settings…

03/08/2023

We at Room4 would like to let you know about our upcoming training event 'Self-Harm and Hidden Despair' with David Taransaud.
David presented 'Rage for Life' for Room4... which people bravely attended on one of the hottest days of the year last year and the feedback was amazing.

I managed to book David for some more amazing training in September, in the hope that you will be feeling rejuvenated after your summer break.

David is infectious and inspirational, and changed my way of working!

Follow the link and book your place!

Hope to see you there! Feel free to message Room4 if needed.

Hannah and the Room4team

Working empathically with children and young people who cut themselves.

06/05/2023

We can’t expect children to be curious and reflecting and keen to learn when they don’t feel emotionally safe. The priority is to help a child feel emotionally safe and then they naturally begin to be curious and keen to learn. We need to be curious about what is going on with the kids we are supporting!

31/12/2022

One of the major difficulties associated with trauma is that when it's unresolved, new events that are stressful or might trigger certain emotions can ex…