Anchored Minds partners with teams and organisations to provide reflective practice spaces that sustain practitioners, enhance wellbeing, and ultimately enrich the quality of care for those they provide a service to.

At Anchored Minds, we believe that creating spaces to think and feel in frontline work with children and families regardless of professional role is critical to meaningful and effective practice. Our team has been providing reflective practice groups to services and professionals for many years. Our Reflective Practice Groups are grounded in a strong theoretical framework and supported by skilled facilitation. These spaces offer practitioners the opportunity to reflect on their experiences, make sense of the challenges they face, and strengthen their resilience in complex work. Our approach draws on the Work Discussion Model (Rustin & Bradley, 2008), Professor Gillian Ruch’s Case Discussion Model (2007), and the more recent work of Arabella Kurtz (2020), all of which inform a systems psychodynamic framework for understanding and supporting practitioners. We are particularly focused on supporting those working in health, social work, social care, family support, adoption and fostering, and community-based services. We recognise the emotional impact of frontline practice and the importance of spaces that offer containment.