The Solace Blog
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Top tips for supporting asylum seekers & refugees
Read more: Top tips for supporting asylum seekers & refugeesTop tips for supporting asylum seekers & refugees Working in the current climate can be very challenging for therapists supporting asylum seekers and refugees. Solace has come up with nine top tips to help.
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Sharing 20 Years of Learning
Read more: Sharing 20 Years of LearningSharing 20 Years of Learning Our CEO, Kathryn Ashworth, reintroduces our monographs highlighting our commitment to share our expertise working with asylum seekers and refugees.
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How Maslow missed the mark
Read more: How Maslow missed the markHow Maslow missed the mark Solace Clinical Director, Anne Burghgraef writes about Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how it doesn’t fit when describing the experiences of sanctuary seekers.
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Hearing what’s important through the hostility
Read more: Hearing what’s important through the hostilityHearing what’s important through the hostility Solace CEO Kathryn Ashworth reflects on the increasing hostility from many people who hold positions of power and influence towards people fleeing persecution, and the powerful impact of actively listening
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A Response to the Afghan Crisis
Read more: A Response to the Afghan CrisisA Response to the Afghan Crisis Long serving Solace therapist Paul Wood has been working to support Afghan arrivals in the region. Here’s Paul’s observations. Although for many of us in the West the Taliban resurgence and takeover in Afghanistan was unexpected and surprisingly fast, the Afghans I speak to tell me it was not unexpected; inevitable even. The high levels of corruption in…
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Art Therapy at Solace
Read more: Art Therapy at SolaceArt Therapy at Solace As part of our 15 Years Anniversary programme, we gave art therapist Aimee Hickman the opportunity to work therapeutically with clients to produce their own works of art thinking about ‘their journey’. Aimee’s Art Project We set up an Art and Wellbeing group and invited participants, living in Sheffield, who had an existing relationship with Solace. The theme of the…
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The Usefulness of Measurement Tools
Read more: The Usefulness of Measurement ToolsThe Usefulness of Measurement Tools At Solace we make use of a number of standardized measurement tools – quantified assessments of psychological and emotional well-being or distress. There are always challenges converting subjective information into data that can be measured and it is important to remember both what it can be useful for and also the constraints and limitations on how it can be…
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Solace Volunteer Janet host a Women’s Wellbeing Group for Solace’s Refugees and Asylum Seeker Women in Leeds
Read more: Solace Volunteer Janet host a Women’s Wellbeing Group for Solace’s Refugees and Asylum Seeker Women in LeedsI like to think this group is one of the positive effects of the pandemic and lockdown. For many of our Solace clients, this year must have been more difficult than for most, but still they bring a warmth and life to the Zoom meetings each time, choosing to participate and take from it whatever helps them; maybe just seeing other people even on…
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Meet Solace’s new recruits to the region’s Children and Families Wellbeing team
Read more: Meet Solace’s new recruits to the region’s Children and Families Wellbeing teamOur four new therapists answer a few question about their background Hello, my name is Gayle Clark, I am a BACP accredited counsellor using an integrative humanistic approach. I began my professional counselling career in 2008 working for the NHS in both secure and community settings then moved to the Specialist Therapy team, where I was also part of the Reflective Systemic Family Therapy…
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Resettled Refugee Families Mental Health Support – Yorkshire and Humber Conference
Read more: Resettled Refugee Families Mental Health Support – Yorkshire and Humber ConferenceWednesday 21st October 2020 This October, Solace therapists collaborated in sharing their experience and expertise by producing a suite of professional skill share demonstrations on the following subjects: Supporting refugee students through group-work and staff training in schools Working with Children in Schools Working systemically with resettled refugee families They presented these sessions at Migration Yorkshire’s inaugural Children and Families Conference. The conference, held…