We have crafted successful and powerful training sessions for the likes of the NHS, Premier League football clubs and County Councils. But we can also create sessions suited to small independents with considerably fewer members of staff
Find out more about who we’ve worked with and what they’ve had to say about our sessions.
Afta Thought’s worked extensively with both the public and private sector over the last 30 years. We’ve been involved with all sorts of training through drama, from safeguarding and dementia to conflict resolution, performance management and customer excellence.
We’ve worked with a range of clients across different sectors, including shipping (CMA-CGM), healthcare (BUPA), pharmaceutical and research (Unilever), 40 health and NHS trusts, culture (NML), housing and the public sector, where we’ve worked with 38 local authorities so far, and counting…
These are a few examples of our recent work; you can see our complete training list here, or can keep up to date with our latest news and events by taking a look at the blog.
- Our work with the Regenda Group
- Safeguarding work in the Premier League
- Our work on dementia with National Museums Liverpool
- Customer excellence training with the Baa Bar chain
- Organisational development with Helena Partnerships
- Welfare Reform – New Charter Housing
Who we work with
Ian Thomas, National Personal Development Manager, The Professional Cricketers’ Association“After observing AFTA thought enhance a training day at another environment I was extremely keen to use them within the delivery of our personal development and welfare programme. Annually we deliver a rookie camp for all newly signed professional cricketers. This acts as a formal and interactive induction to the profession and life ahead of them. The day has many topics and messages, The team at AFTA thought did an amazing job in putting together a script and acting delivery that reinforced these messages for us. If you are looking to add value to a training day and want to make it as interactive as possible, I highly recommend them.”
Lisa Cooper, Deputy Director of Quality & Safeguarding – NHS EnglandAFTA Thought delivered a number of scenarios at our first annual conference focusing on CSE (Child Sexual Exploitation). The emotional content delivered on the day was truly powerful which at times left our audience stunned in silence. As a team they highlighted various ways vulnerable young people are targeted and used for adult gratification. Throughout the day the conversations held as a result were directly influenced by the material they had seen by the AFTA Thought team.
Along with our other speakers and presentations the team helped powerful learning take place, empowering professionals to tackle the issues head on.
“AFTA Thought – Made it real for me and how I can spot the signs of CSE and help children.”
“AFTA Thought – what a powerful session truly heart-breaking and really made me think.”
No doubt AFTA Thought’s input will have a lasting effect on the healthcare professionals who attended the CSE conference this year.
Paul Nagle, Social Inclusion Manager, Everton in the CommunityI 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.
Paul O’Donnell – Professional Advisor – Mental Health Legislation (Cumbria)“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
Dan Jolley, Project Manager, League Football Education“AFTA Thought have delivered a number of My Future Today training events in conjunction with League Football Education and Dame Kelly Homes Trust.
These events were developed for football apprentices to promote personal development to become a well-rounded person and player. The apprentices found themselves emotionally connected to the training material which meant that strong messages and key training points hit home. The MFT (My Future Today) project was delivered across the country to every Football League club, working with their apprentices at a time when personal development is hugely important. We have worked with AFTA Thought to help develop interactive training scenarios that are both powerful and relevant to the football apprentices. Their input has been invaluable and the feedback from the young players has been very positive”
Dan Jolley, Project Manager, League Football Education
