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SHIFT: Trauma conscious leadership for troubled times

SHIFT: Trauma conscious leadership for troubled times

SHIFT: Trauma conscious leadership for troubled times

Thursday, March 20, 2025

SHIFT is an intensive 10 month leadership development programme being launched by Museum of Homelessness, for 10 exceptional people working in homelessness and housing. Thanks to funding from the Sarah Jane Leigh Charitable Trust this inaugural year of the programme is completely free for participants. SHIFT will run from July 2025 to March 2026 and will include:

  • 2 x 2 day intensives at Museum of Homelessness in Finsbury Park.
  • A 1 day recharge and reflect space
  • A 1 day celebration event
  • Trauma conscious coaching
  • A therapeutic bursary and
  • Access to the museum’s archive and collection, networks and resources.

 

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Key Dates:

Please hold all these dates in your diary.

Should your application be successful we will require attendance in person at all dates.

All events and intensives will take place at the museum’s site in Finsbury Park.

  • March 2025 – Applications open
  • 16th May 2025 – Applications close
  • 30th May 2025 – Successful applicants notified
  • 9th and 10th July 2025 – Summer possibilities, 2 day intensive
  • 17th and 18th September 2025 – Autumn intentions, 2 day intensive
  • October – April: Regular coaching sessions for participants
  • 14th January 2026 – Winter check in and care session, 1 day recharge space
  • 18th March 2026 – Spring send off, 1 day programme completion & celebration.

 

Who is it for?

SHIFT is a leadership development programme. This programme is for you if you:

  • Are working at mid career within the homelessness sector, in a role that directly supports people experiencing homelessness or supports a team which includes people who are working frontline (e.g. hostel manager, outreach manager, project coordinator, commissioning officer, care navigator, area manager, housing manager, service manager.) This will vary depending on the size of your organisation; the most important thing is that you can demonstrate leadership potential.
  • Have demonstrable passion and commitment for developing trauma conscious solutions to structural challenges
  • Are frustrated or tired of facing the same challenges, and are looking for new ways of thinking, practicing and being within your role and organisation
  • Are committed to playing an active part in a learning programme, challenging your own thinking and supporting others.
  • Are dedicated to bringing your learning back to your organisations to influence and support wider practice within the sector.

What will I gain?

The programme will help you:

  • Learn about what trauma is and how it affects the nervous system, endocrine system and emotional regulation.
  • Understand more about how trauma plays out on an individual, institutional and structural level in the UK.
  • Find ways of filling your cup with creativity and compassion, even in the current climate.
  • Connect with peers who are working in similar ways to bring justice and healing led work into a compromised system
  • Develop practices that support you in your work rather than burning out
  • Learn how we can work better with people in crisis: working with relapse, suicidal distress and radical safeguarding
Find out more on the Museum of Homelessness website.

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