The Secure Start® Podcast
In the same way that a secure base is the springboard for the growth of the child, knowledge of past endeavours and lessons learnt are the springboard for growth in current and future endeavours.If we do not revisit the lessons of the past we are doomed to relearning them over and over again, with the result that we may never really achieve a greater potential.In keeping with the idea we are encouraged to be the person we wished we knew when we were starting out, it is my vision for the podcast that it is a place where...
The Secure Start Podcast Episode 12: Lar Nossa Senhora do Livramento
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is the core technical team of a residential child care home in Portugal which has provided a home and support for girls and young women for more than two hundred years.
My guests, and I say guests because there are five of them, are Ivone, Maria, Bruna, Carla, and Liliana, from Lar Nossa Senhora do Livramento.
About Livramento
The Fundação Lar Nossa Senhora do Livramento (FLNSL) is a no...
The Secure Start Podcast Episode 11: Lisa Cherry
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is an author, researcher, and leading international trainer and consultant, who specialises in assisting schools, services and systems to create change to the way that we work with those experiencing and living with, the legacy of trauma. My guest is also one of the most longstanding care experienced campaigner for a better life for children and young people who could not be safely cared for at home.
My guest this episode is Dr Lisa Cherry.
...Special Episode: Exploring Attachment, Self-Worth, and Shame
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In this special episode of The Secure Start Podcast I am releasing an interview of me, conducted this past week by Edmund Hill-Thompson, Head of Learning at Blue Sky Network Social Care in the UK. What began as a discussion about attachment pivoted to an exploration of its role in building self-worth and alleviating shame amongst deeply hurt and troubled children and young people.
We hope you like it!
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The Secure Start Podcast Episode 10: Dr Kiran Modi
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is a highly respected figure in child and family welfare in India and beyond.
My guest this episode is Dr Kiran Modi.
Kiran’s Bio
Kiran has a PhD in American Literature from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Kiran founded Udayan Care, a non-profit organization, in 1994. Since then Udayan Care has delivered programs at national and international level, with a focus on family strengthening and care refo...
The Secure Start Podcast Episode 9: Simon Benjamin
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. Joining me for this episode is an experienced leader and consultant in the complex care sector.
My guest this episode is Simon Benjamin . . .
Simon’s Bio
For two decades, Simon experienced a wide range of care models in disability, mental health, special education, out-of-home care and Aboriginal childcare services.
This included caring for deeply traumatised children in both community-based and state-run residential care homes.
More than 10 years of this time was spent immersed in the well-established therapeutic mili...
The Secure Start Podcast Episode 8: Lynne Peyton
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is a vastly experienced leader and consultant to top teams in the child safeguarding and community services sectors.
My guest is Lynne Peyton.
Bio
Born and educated in Belfast Northern Ireland, Lynne’s spirit for adventure was fostered in the Officers’ Training Corps where she participated in a wide range of adventure training and leadership activities, including a transfer to the Virginia National Guard during a temporary social work positio...
The Secure Start Podcast Episode 7: Graeme Kerridge
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is a highly experienced executive and consultant in international health development who, at the beginning of his professional career, worked in the Cotswold Residential Care Community for deeply troubled young people.
My guest this episode is Graeme Kerridge . . .
Graeme’s Bio
Graeme is an international health development consultant who has worked in over 25 countries throughout Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and in the countries of the former Soviet Union. He h...
The Secure Start Podcast Episode 6: Adela Holmes
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. Joining me for this episode is a highly experienced, expert practitioner here in Australia in the childhood trauma and out-of-home care sector.
My guest this episode is Adela Holmes.
Adela has a career spanning 52-years, during which she has worked in the child protection, child & family welfare & out of home care fields for both the Victorian state government and the non-government sector.
Adela has a well-established track record in designing, developing and delivering complex trauma grounded therapeutic care services for the mo...
The Secure Start Podcast Episode 5: Lisa Etherson
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In this podcast, my guest and I take a deep dive into shame.
Lisa is a qualified psychosexual therapist with over a decade of experience in private practice. Currently, she is also a PhD researcher. Her research focuses on developmental shame, and compulsive sexual behaviour in adult men, leading to the development of her innovative Shame Containment Theory (SCT). Her clinical work and research have cultivated a strong interest in the impact of childhood experiences on adult behaviour. Lisa is the author of Jake and his Shame Armour, a children’s bo...
Secure Start Podcast Episode 4: Catherine Knibbs
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Join me for a highly engaging and thought provoking conversation with Catherine (Cath) Knibbs, as we discuss the scope of harms children and young people may experience when online, Cath's reaction to the Netflix series, Adolescence, and Cath's question to me without notice about how we are failing boys in contemporary western society and discourse. I hope you like it!
About Cath:
Cath is a Researcher, Psychotherapist, Author, Speaker, and Doctoral candidate looking at the real harm children suffer in a world of technology, which is advancing qu...
Secure Start Podcast Episode 3: Dr. Nicola O'Sullivan
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is a respected member of the child protection and social care community in Ireland.
Before I introduce my guest, I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land I am meeting on, the Kaurna people, and the continuing connection they and all aboriginal people feel to land, waters, culture, and community. I would also like to pay my respects to their elders past, present, and emerging.
My guest this episode is...
The Secure Start Podcast Episode 2: John Whitwell
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is a respected former leader in residential and therapeutic foster care in the UK. I say “former”, because he is now retired, and has been for the past ten years. Nevertheless, I could not pass up this opportunity to talk with him and anticipate that listeners will enjoy our conversation to.
Before I introduce my guest, I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land I am meeting on, the Kaurna people, and the...
The Secure Start Podcast Episode 1: Sally Rhodes
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Welcome to the Secure Start Podcast. I am Colby Pearce, and joining me for this episode is a highly respected practitioner in my home jurisdiction.
Before I introduce my guest, I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land we are meeting on, the Kaurna people, and the continuing connection they and other aboriginal people feel to land, waters, culture, and community. I would also like to pay my respects to their elders past, present, and emerging.
My guest this episode is Sally Rhodes . . .
Sally h...
