August Friday News
"I have felt welcomed, you are very patient, like a Mum, you are helping me develop a capacity to cope" - TFSW client feedback.
Despite seeing more clients, our therapy feedback has dropped to an all time low.
Without client feedback, we can't evidence the impact of our therapy work, which matters enormously for accountability, funding sustainability and making the case for future support.
The feedback surveys must be filled in at the start of therapy, every 12 sessions, and when ending. The survey link is in the TFSW library or you can go straight to it here.
If something's getting in the way of completing the surveys with your clients (time, format, anything else) please reach out. We're very happy to help. We appreciate everything you do for clients - the survey is just such an important way to hear directly about the difference we’re making.
Other reminders
Please send claims forms to admin@tfsw.co.uk to avoid delays with processing. Deadline: 9am, Monday 7th September.
You can find up-to-date forms, policies and room booking info in our TFSW Library. It is password protected - you’ll find a separate email containing the password in your inbox.
CPD: Bespoke legal update for the TFSW team and free-to-access public courses
Want to sharpen your understanding of the legal and political landscape our clients and supervisees are navigating right now?
Tara Wolfe from Freedom From Torture is delivering a bespoke legal update on the asylum system for our TFSW team in October. Please click on to one of the optional dates to book:
Did you know that as a TFSW team member, you can access any of our publicly listed courses for free? Simply apply the code TFSWFREE when completing a booking for any of our upcoming sessions:
Supervision: Creating the space to reflect and thrive
We received an incredible 46 responses to our annual supervision survey. Powerful testimonies were shared by supervisees about the impact of supervision on well being, resilience and trauma-informed practice:
"The first supervision made a big difference very quickly. I was waking up in the night feeling anxious, but shortly after the supervision this stopped." - TFSW Supervisee feedback.
We’re still working through the data, but respondents were overwhelmingly positive, rating the service extremely highly. Our Net Promoter Score is +77 placing the service within outstanding satisfaction and loyalty. Thank you to all our supervisors for helping make this work possible!
Client Signposting: Become a published writer or cookery teacher.
Are you or any of your clients creatives who'd like to contribute their voice to our 25th anniversary short story collection?Become a published author and help us mark 25 years of TFSW. We're inviting fiction, non-fiction and poetry on compassion, collaboration and courage, and we'd love you to share this with anyone in your networks too. Full details and the flyer here: https://www.tfsw.co.uk/stories
Migrateful is currently recruiting for their Bristol Cookery Class Teacher Training Programme, starting in September. The free training runs over 12 weeks, with 2–3 sessions per week, and prepares participants to teach paid public cookery classes with Migrateful at our Bristol Cookery School.
APPLICATION FORM or they can contact 07876 193468 if they’d like to find out more.
Keep up with the team: Anna helps shape conversation around community cohesion.
“The workshop was a fantastic collaboration between Bristol Uni and local charity sector and community partners. We discussed creative ways to respond to anti-immigration harm and shared personal stories from our work. The main themes to come out of the workshop were the importance of dialogue and feeling heard. The facilitators are now in the process of designing a follow-up project, together with a local artist, to bring different communities together in dialogue”.
If you've got news to share for next month, just email the team.
Thank you for reading this far! Now some words to take you into the weekend:
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene Debs
With gratitude,
Katherine
"I have felt welcomed, you are very patient, like a Mum, you are helping me develop a capacity to cope" - TFSW client feedback.
Despite seeing more clients, our therapy feedback has dropped to an all time low.
Without client feedback, we can't evidence the impact of our therapy work, which matters enormously for accountability, funding sustainability and making the case for future support.
The feedback surveys must be filled in at the start of therapy, every 12 sessions, and when ending. The survey link is in the TFSW library or you can go straight to it here.
If something's getting in the way of completing the surveys with your clients (time, format, anything else) please reach out. We're very happy to help. We appreciate everything you do for clients - the survey is just such an important way to hear directly about the difference we’re making.
Other reminders
Please send claims forms to admin@tfsw.co.uk to avoid delays with processing. Deadline: 9am, Monday 7th September.
You can find up-to-date forms, policies and room booking info in our TFSW Library. It is password protected - you’ll find a separate email containing the password in your inbox.
CPD: Bespoke legal update for the TFSW team and free-to-access public courses
Want to sharpen your understanding of the legal and political landscape our clients and supervisees are navigating right now?
Tara Wolfe from Freedom From Torture is delivering a bespoke legal update on the asylum system for our TFSW team in October. Please click on to one of the optional dates to book:
Did you know that as a TFSW team member, you can access any of our publicly listed courses for free? Simply apply the code TFSWFREE when completing a booking for any of our upcoming sessions:
Supervision: Creating the space to reflect and thrive
We received an incredible 46 responses to our annual supervision survey. Powerful testimonies were shared by supervisees about the impact of supervision on well being, resilience and trauma-informed practice:
"The first supervision made a big difference very quickly. I was waking up in the night feeling anxious, but shortly after the supervision this stopped." - TFSW Supervisee feedback.
We’re still working through the data, but respondents were overwhelmingly positive, rating the service extremely highly. Our Net Promoter Score is +77 placing the service within outstanding satisfaction and loyalty. Thank you to all our supervisors for helping make this work possible!
Client Signposting: Become a published writer or cookery teacher.
Are you or any of your clients creatives who'd like to contribute their voice to our 25th anniversary short story collection?Become a published author and help us mark 25 years of TFSW. We're inviting fiction, non-fiction and poetry on compassion, collaboration and courage, and we'd love you to share this with anyone in your networks too. Full details and the flyer here: https://www.tfsw.co.uk/stories
Migrateful is currently recruiting for their Bristol Cookery Class Teacher Training Programme, starting in September. The free training runs over 12 weeks, with 2–3 sessions per week, and prepares participants to teach paid public cookery classes with Migrateful at our Bristol Cookery School.
APPLICATION FORM or they can contact 07876 193468 if they’d like to find out more.
Keep up with the team: Anna helps shape conversation around community cohesion.
“The workshop was a fantastic collaboration between Bristol Uni and local charity sector and community partners. We discussed creative ways to respond to anti-immigration harm and shared personal stories from our work. The main themes to come out of the workshop were the importance of dialogue and feeling heard. The facilitators are now in the process of designing a follow-up project, together with a local artist, to bring different communities together in dialogue”.
If you've got news to share for next month, just email the team.
Thank you for reading this far! Now some words to take you into the weekend:
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene Debs
With gratitude,
Katherine
Welcome to the Friday News!
Hello, and welcome back to our Friday News! You'll still be hearing from me on the last Friday of every month. If you've got news to share for next month, just email the team.
Important reminder
July claims forms are due early - no later than Monday 3rd August. This means payments will be earlier, by the end of next week.
Don’t forget to claim for your time participating in our strategy shaping or recruitment sessions.
New TFSW Library is open
You’ll want to bookmark this new web page - it holds everything you need in one place: up-to-date forms, policies, our NEW interpreter contact list, and other important information to support your work with us.
Please note: The library is password protected - so please check your inbox for a separate email containing the password.
We’re hiring - therapists and supervisors
If you know someone who'd be a great fit - or a network, training provider, or platform where we could promote this, then please share the link below.
Applications close: Monday 17th August, 9am.
Continuing Professional Development
New course: Boundaries Without Borders
Join us on 8th September when Katherine will explore how we negotiate and define boundaries across different roles and settings, and why they matter so much in practice.
Reminder: All courses are free for our TFSW team! Simply apply the code TFSWFREE when completing your booking.
Learning from the wider sector
From thoughts on supporting people seeking asylum and refugees from our peers at Solace, to a new guide on the lasting impact of torture and trauma-informed practice. Click on the below images to access these new resources.
Client Signposting
ACH Summer Programme - Bristol
Click the image to view the full programme of summer workshops and activities at the Welcome Hub St Chad's Church 172 Rodway RD, Patchway, BS34 5ED. Note: Gardening club will be closed next week, but open every other Tuesday through summer from 1.30pm - 2.30pm
Live and Work Well - Bristol
An 18–22-week training programme to support women to enter employment that begins on the 8th of October. You can find out more about the programme here and download the referral form. You can also read some case studies from women who have taken part in previous programmes here.
Free Weekly Climbing and Bouldering - Bristol
With borderlands in BS5 at the Mothership climbing gym. Bus tickets reimbursed, beginners welcome and encouraged!
When: Thursdays 12pm-1pm | Where: TCA Mothership, Lawrence Hill, BS5 0FD
TheKing’s Trust (16-30 years) - Bristol
Get Started in Music: One-week programme (24th - 28th August) offers the chance to explore creativity, gain music production & lyric writing skills and work as a team to creatively collaborate on an original piece. Suitable for those seekingto build their confidence, work with like-minded creative individualsand build their soft skills in teamworking and communication.
Get Started in Nature: One-week programme (10th-14th August) to explore nature, get outdoors and engage in a variety of tasks including pond dipping, mammal footprint traps and practical conservation activities. This programme is suitable for those seeking to build their confidence, meet new people and get outside in nature!
Walk the final miles with me!
Join us on Sunday 8th November, 12pm, as I complete my 1,280 mile Soul to Sole journey in Bristol! You can choose to meet me at the Suspension Bridge, and walk down together, or find me at the finish-line at the Watershed, where we'll have a table reserved. Come for a coffee, stay for lunch, or just drop by and say hello.
RSVP to Soul to Sole welcome party
Thank you for reading this far! No some words to take you into the weekend:
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
With gratitude,
Katherine
Hello, and welcome back to our Friday News! You'll still be hearing from me on the last Friday of every month. If you've got news to share for next month, just email the team.
Important reminder
· July claims forms are due early - no later than Monday 3rd August. This means payments will be earlier, by the end of next week.
· Don’t forget to claim for your time participating in our strategy shaping or recruitment sessions.
New TFSW Library is open
You’ll want to bookmark this new web page - it holds everything you need in one place: up-to-date forms, policies, our NEW interpreter contact list, and other important information to support your work with us.
Please note: The library is password protected - so please check your inbox for a separate email containing the password.
We’re hiring - therapists and supervisors
If you know someone who'd be a great fit - or a network, training provider, or platform where we could promote this, then please share the link below.
Applications close: Monday 17th August, 9am.
Continuing Professional Development
New course: Boundaries Without Borders
Join us on 8th September when Katherine will explore how we negotiate and define boundaries across different roles and settings, and why they matter so much in practice.
Reminder: All courses are free for our TFSW team! Simply apply the code TFSWFREE when completing your booking.
Learning from the wider sector
From thoughts on supporting people seeking asylum and refugees from our peers at Solace, to a new guide on the lasting impact of torture and trauma-informed practice. Click on the below images to access these new resources.
Client Signposting
ACH Summer Programme - Bristol
Click the image to view the full programme of summer workshops and activities at the Welcome Hub St Chad's Church 172 Rodway RD, Patchway, BS34 5ED. Note: Gardening club will be closed next week, but open every other Tuesday through summer from 1.30pm - 2.30pm
Live and Work Well - Bristol
An 18–22-week training programme to support women to enter employment that begins on the 8th of October. You can find out moreabout the programme here and download the referral form. You can also read some case studies from women who have taken part in previous programmes here.
Free Weekly Climbing and Bouldering - Bristol
With borderlands in BS5 at the Mothership climbing gym. Bus tickets reimbursed, beginners welcome and encouraged!
When: Thursdays 12pm-1pm | Where: TCA Mothership, Lawrence Hill, BS5 0FD
TheKing’s Trust (16-30 years) - Bristol
Get Started in Music: One-week programme (24th - 28th August) offers the chance to explore creativity, gain music production & lyric writing skills and work as a team to creatively collaborate on an original piece. Suitable for those seekingto build their confidence, work with like-minded creative individualsand build their soft skills in teamworking and communication.
Get Started in Nature: One-week programme (10th-14th August) to explore nature, get outdoors and engage in a variety of tasks including pond dipping, mammal footprint traps and practical conservation activities. This programme is suitable for those seeking to build their confidence, meet new people and get outside in nature!
Walk the final miles with me!
Join us on Sunday 8th November, 12pm, as I complete my 1,280 mile Soul to Sole journey in Bristol! You can choose to meet me at the Suspension Bridge, and walk down together, or find me at the finish-line at the Watershed, where we'll have a table reserved. Come for a coffee, stay for lunch, or just drop by and say hello.
RSVP to Soul to Sole welcome party
Thank you for reading this far! Now some words to take you into the weekend:
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
With gratitude,
Katherine