The Mercian Trust’s Post

Grit CEO Ellie Garraway led a workshop at The Mercian Trust Youth Violence Awareness and Reduction Conference yesterday. “It was great to be amongst a room of such varied roles and organisations – from school staff to youth workers, youth justice teams, police, charities and mental health specialists – yet all with a strong sense of common ground. I really enjoyed working with attendees to look at the challenges involved in creating the space for young people to get to the heart of what’s going on for them. We looked at how our inner critic is often at the heart of why we get so stuck in certain ‘ruts’ in life and feel paralysed to bring about change, we also looked at how a coach can play such an integral role in disrupting those ruts. The group did an amazing job at throwing themselves in, and even in the short period of time, made great insights about their own coaching and how to develop it. A real pleasure of a day.” Thanks Mark Goodwin for the opportunity. Liz Robinson Stacey Salt Dr Herminder Channa OBE NLE Rhiannon Goodeve Gareth Williams Keziah Featherstone FCCT Imran Khan BA(Hons), MCCT, NPQH Daniel Edmonds Kellie Brooke Tara McVey Tiff Baxendale Oli McVeigh