Our Clients & Credentials

Plus Dane have worked with AFTA Thought for around 5 years, during which time they have delivered drama workshops around diversity issues for around 800 employees. These have always been very positively received and been described as “thought-provoking”, “challenging” and “inspiring”.

More recently, AFTA Thought’s Chris Callander facilitated a session for Plus Dane’s employee Diversity Champions, the Something for Everyone group. This was to increase the knowledge of group members around the Equality Act (2010), thereby increasing confidence when dealing with questions or sensitive issues from colleagues. The session helped group members to understand that the Equality Act applies to us all, no matter what Protected Characteristics we possess, and that it exists to protect and promote the diversity that exists within our workplace and wider society.

The session invoked a passion in members to learn and understand more, and to apply this knowledge fairly, transparently and rationally within the workplace. It reinforced to the group the need for working positively with diversity for the benefit of colleagues, customers and partners who we work with.

“Afta Thought delivered Safeguarding Training to a wide range a staff in the council using drama. Afta Thought were chosen due to their wealth of experience and unique approach in tackling difficult subjects.

“Before the training, Mary worked closely with staff to really understand the current issues, together with the council’s policy and approach to safeguarding. This background work really paid off during the training. All staff who attended the training remained fully engaged and were able to relate to the situations that were played out. Staff feedback after the session was overwhelmingly positive, with one member of staff stating that the training was “one of the best training events I’ve ever attended. Excellent and memorable delivery of a very serious subject”. The council wanted to make sure that staff were aware of not only the range of safeguarding issues, but also the subtle signs of abuse. We genuinely feel Afta Thought helped to achieve this.

“Thank you to Mary and her team!”

Firstly I would like to thank you and your team for the excellent presentation you delivered on our fostering conference. It was a powerful, emotional and thought-provoking session. It has been great to work with AFTA Thought from planning the scenarios to the presentation on the day, all of which was tailored to our needs. Communication throughout the whole process has been excellent… We had very positive feedback from our delegates some of which I have shared below:

“An exceptional day”

“The session with AFTA Thought was without doubt the best I have ever attended in my 10 years as a foster carer.”

“Acting was outstanding!!”

“AFTA Thought was a well-organised production and well put across, really thought it was real life.”

“The presentation for AFTA Thought was innovative, interesting and very thought-provoking; it will have a lasting impact on my practice.”

“I have never seen AFTA Thought before, would recommend anyone to see them, very well done, get them back!!”

“AFTA Thought were stunning!! a very good way of delivery training.”

“The AFTA Thought presentation was very interesting and gave a good insight in to experiences of children in care”

“AFTA Thought presentation was superb. Made me reflect on my practice and hopefully enable me to improve”.

“AFTA Thought presentation was very powerful and thought provoking”

“AFTA Thought – Awesome!!”

“Cumbria have used the services of AFTA Thought so that staff can really understand what it means to apply the Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. We’ve asked them to present to multi-agency groups, to groups of care home managers and to carers, and in all of those situations they’ve enabled us to have the conversations that we actually wanted to have. The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards can be a very dry and difficult subject to explore in a training room but the actors and the scenarios means that everyone stays awake and the penny drops about what this means back in their own workplace and with their own practice.”

Approved Mental Health Professional & Approved Best Interest Assessor

I can only say a massive THANK YOU for what you did today, our staff have not stopped talking about the critical incident training you delivered.

I know our staff have dealt with similar situations on a daily basis, but this does bring it home a lot easier than integrating a two day course with streams of paperwork and booklets that no one ever reads.

Your guys are so talented, it really brought home how aware of the environment our EITC coaches need to be in their everyday roles, and how incidents can escalate if not dealt with from a very early stage. This training enables our staff to look for trigger points whilst safeguarding the youngsters and themselves.

I would like to see more football clubs use this method of incident and safeguarding training.

Your actors were really good at answering questions our Everton staff had, and acting out different scenarios. I thought it was fantastic how real you kept it all, and I can’t imagine how many youngsters and staff will benefit from the training you delivered today.

Once again THANK YOU.