Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege
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Boarding School Survivors
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Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege: Boarding School Syndrome
An introductory day on 21st November with Nick Duffell and the Boarding School Survivors’ team on the clinical challenges of working with ex-boarders.
9.45 to 16.30 on Zoom; early birds £85, ‘later birds’ (after 21/10/26) £99. Fee refunded to those who attend the full Diploma training, ‘The Un-Making of Them’. (See below for details.)
The team’s aim with these events is to make the Boarding School Syndrome and the Strategic Survival Personality better understood within the profession and thus broaden the network of colleagues to whom they can make informed referrals.
The Un-Making of Them – Postgraduate Diploma Training
8 day specialist training for qualified therapists held in London over 4 weekends May to November 2027. Cost £1545 payable in advance or by installments.
While some commentators propose that only ‘some children are damaged by boarding’, our experience over 29 years at Boarding School Survivors suggests that all children have to survive the rupture of attachments and institutionalisation, and that this cannot be achieved without a cost.
The problems for ex-boarders are only beginning to be properly recognised, and many therapists still overlook boarding issues in their caseload. Moreover, the combination of learned functioning and privileged abandonment makes boarding school survivors extremely challenging clients to work with. Working therapeutically with boarding school survivors is particularly challenging for many reasons, but chiefly because it involves helping the clients to live without the learned defences of a lifetime, to take down the Strategic Survival Personality that has been their best friend and protector.
This is what we mean by ‘the unmaking of them’. Such delicate work requires specialised knowledge and skills: hence this training.
Early application is advised.
There are limited places and there is already a waiting list for the 2027 intake for this popular course. Applications are also being accepted now for the 2028 intake.
See https://www.boardingschoolsurvivors.co.uk/for-therapists/ for further information.
Register your interest for both these events by completing the contact form on the website.
