Hi
I've been aware of ACEsConnections UK for a while, and a member, but not sure how best to use it. I have been researching ACEs-awareness in London [and further afield - would love to know what went on in Glasgow conference] for past 18 months or so, and have identifies some 20 projects and people who work in a trauma-informed way. A showing of Resilience in Lambeth Borough in July attracted some 250people. The time is possibly ripe for some London-wide initiative but that is beyond my capacity. Though last Saturday through a personal contact I was asked to give a presentation on ACEs to 14 educational psychotherapists - it went well and the ideas are spreading.
I have also written a review of Nadine Burke Harris's excellent "The Deepest Well" which is due for publication in the Attachment psychotherapy journal published by The Bowlby Centre in London [happy to send it to anyone, in confidence, contact me at simonpartridge846@btinternet.com ]. I am interested in the overlap between the ACEs approach and Attachment Theory and have discovered that John Bowlby first used the term "adverse childhood experiences" way back in 1981.
Dawn, I have been wondering if the UK ACEsConnections network would be more manageable if it was subdivided into its national and regional [in England] components?
Simon Partridge
Writer/research and complex trauma survivor and advocate