The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments

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The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments episodes

December 15, 2022 112. Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes. The human consequences of prison architecture
Video link which includes Alberto's diagrams is here: https://youtu.be/qDRqJ93shLM
Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes, originally from Chile, holds a PhD in prison architecture from the University ofSheffield. He is a Lecturer in Construction in the partnership program of the University ofBath Spa and GBS in Manchester, UK. He is also a Lecturer in prison built environment atthe Centre for Public Innovation in Latin America (InnovaPublica), and an internationalconsultant in prison architecture. As a consultant, he is currently working on the evaluation ofcarceral conditions and their alignment with the Nelson Mandela Rules in the prison servicesof Bolivia and Honduras.Alberto has a BSc in Construction Engineering and a BSc in Industrial Engineering. After fiveyears of managing constructions for the private sector, he worked for 15 years in the Bio-Bioregional office of the Chilean prison service, as head of planning and heading thearchitecture and construction office, working on the delivery of capital refurbishments andupgrades of 24 prison and probation facilities across 13 cities in the region. In 2012 he co-organised the first conference in prison architecture held in Chile and co-edited the book 1stSeminar of Prison Architecture for Social Reinsertion, published by the University of Bio-BioHe left his country in 2014 to start studies of PhD in the UK, conducting a cross-continentalstudy in prison architecture, which is the base for his book, recently published by Routledge,called Health and Well-Being in Prison Design A Theory of Prison Systems and aFramework for Evolution. Alberto investigates how the health and well-being of prison usersare addressed by designers, prison services authorities, and international prison advisers ineight countries across Europe, North America and South America.
Book Chapter being published in a volume named “What works in prison architecture”,edited by Dominique Moran and Yvonne Jewkes. Currently in process of final revisions by editors.Chapter title:Prison architecture in Chile: A Critical Realist analysis of prisonarchitectural outputs through the lens of organised hypocrisy theory.
1 hr 1 min
December 14, 2022 111. Diane Wills: Working with those who have comitted sexual offences.
Diane is a former probation officer, a social worker and a psychotherapist. She now works independently in a variety of roles offering therapy, consultation, professional supervision, quality assurance and training for individuals and organisations. She is a Trustee for Circles South West. Diane also offers support to other practitioners working in the area of risk assessment and management.
A Practical Guide to Working with Sex Offenders
by Diane Wills and Andrew Wills
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Diane-Wills/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ADiane+Wills
1 hr
December 07, 2022 110 Simon Millington:Can sport prevent or reduce offending?
Can sport prevent young people from offending? Do elite footballing academies exploit children? Simon is the founder of Delamill Tutoring which offers Mental Health 1st Aid training and training in Mental Health Awareness & Sports Leadership. He is a UEFA A licence football coach who has worked for Portsmouth FC, Fulham FC and more recently for The FA as a Coach Developer and has worked as a Youth worker for Portsmouth City Council.

Simon Millington is a football coach educator and coach developer for The FA who is passionate about utilising sport as a vehicle for social change.
Simon was born in Birmingham but moved to Portsmouth after his parents separated and his father then took his own life.
Simon has used these challenges in his formative years to drive himself to be the best that he can be. However, it wasn’t all was like this and Simon was in trouble with the police for petty crime during his late adolescents.
It was these experiences that drove Simon to change his lifestyle and peer group and get into football as a part-time coach.
Simon worked within social inclusion projects within Portsmouth where he grew up because he wanted to try and support young people to not stray into criminality and to take more positive steps to gain employment.
Simon gained all the necessary football coaching qualifications and moved to the borough of Lambeth in London where he followed his passion for supporting young people and coaches from disadvantaged backgrounds. He also completed an Open University Foundation degree in Sports coaching to formalise his knowledge and to deepen his understanding of sports coaching and the different elements.
He then went back to Portsmouth to work for the local authority overseeing their sports provision in the local youth clubs and housing estates across the city. This youth work role provided Simon with invaluable knowledge and skills for supporting adolescents through their teens, and helped him to further understand the challenges teenagers face.
Simon then returned to London to take a role with The FA that was created to target teenage boys and girls who had dropped out of football. It was at this time that Simon first started delivering coaching courses to grassroots football clubs. This developed into Simon’s dream role because he could influence greater numbers of people to embed a player centred approach to coaching and player development. Simon also completed a PGCE with Worcester Uni in sports coaching and he developed an even deeper understanding of learning and development. This confirmed to Simon that he his experience of coach education wasn’t best practice, and it helped him further refine how he started to develop the coaches he worked with.
1n 2019 Simon close friend died from suicide and this really affected Simon and inspired him to utilise hid tutoring skills to teach Mental Health 1st aid courses. Simon completed his training with MHFA England and started tutoring youth mental health first aid courses straight away.
Simon was made redundant by The FA during the pandemic and had to find another course of income because no one was hiring in his niche field in Kent at this time. He started to deliver more mental health courses online during the pandemic and he also started to assess professional football scholars for their Sport in Excellence course.
Simon and his family returned to Broadstairs in Kent from Spain in February 2022 and he and a colleague have designed an NCFE Cache Level 1 in mental health awareness and sports leadership. This course is for anyone aged 14+ years of age, and it combines everything that Simon is passionate about, mental health, sports and supporting young people to improve their mental health and wellbeing and their lifeskills. If you're interested in connecting, you can find Simon here:
https://www.delamillwellbeingcoachingandtrainingsolutions.com
54 min
December 07, 2022 109. John Nassoori: Psychology in the world of sport
What can psychologist's learn from journalists about communication? Can a journalist represent the work of psychologists better than psychologists do themselves?
John Nassoori is a freelance journalist who writes about performance psychology's role in sport for publications including the BBC and The Guardian. He tells stories on subjects ranging from the first World Cup-winning psychologist to weightlifting beauty queens and produces The Mind Room, a weekly newsletter covering psychology-focused stories from around the world of football.
55 min
November 30, 2022 108. Zac Fine: Family Court & Child Custody - Creating collaborative rather than conflictual relationships
What's it like to use the Family Court to resolve custody battles? Where can you find help if your partner puts up barriers to contact with your children.

Zac Fine shares his own experience of fighting for contact in court and advice that ceasefire and collaboration is best for the children and the adults involved.

Zac Fine is a psychotherapist with a special interest in masculinity. He practices online https://zacfine.co.uk and runs a programme for separated fathers in crisis called Ceasefire Method https://zacfine.co.uk/blog/f/your-ex-weaponises-the-kids-is-court-the-right-move. He has a blog https://zacfine.co.uk/blog and a YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vhSyHNSP14F5jvt0gZgMg. Zac mentors young men involved in the criminal justice system with the charity A Band Of Brothers https://abandofbrothers.org.uk/ .

Article about my therapeutic approach https://www.centreformalepsychology.com/male-psychology-magazine-listings/a-therapist-who-has-survived-the-family-court-process-shows-other-men-how-they-can-get-through-it-too?
The deeper reasons for the crisis in fatherhood https://zacfine.co.uk/blog/f/the-western-war-on-the-father-archetype
How to survive family court: Lessons from my own experience https://zacfine.co.uk/blog/f/your-anger-disgust-and-rage-is-as-natural-as-the-ocean-and-rocks
Points from the Pod
I really wouldn't advise anyone to go to family court
If you have to there's ways of doing it that can be affordable and much less likely to create unnecessary conflicts.
There is no point in throwing mud if you are the father and having some kind of match about who's the worst person.
Ideally represent yourself, get a Mackenzie friend if you need more support. A Mackenzie friend is someone who isn't professionally qualified as a lawyer, but they , know their way around a system
Check out Families need Fathers
Keep saying the same thing. I want to have a, a predictable and regular contact with my child because that's in their interests
There's loads of research to show that child outcomes suffer as a result of fatherlessness or motherlessness
Get yourself to a, a men's group
Join a band of brothers, which is all over England. They, do online men's circles free of charge.
If you can afford it, get some one to one therapy or coaching
1 hr 24 min
November 23, 2022 107. Dr Naomi Fisher: Is school the best way to educate your child?
Is our education system based in theory of how best to learn? Does our education system cause children to be labelled? What happens if your child doesn't fit well with the schooling system? Is school really the best way to learn? What does home education look like and is it a poor substitute for school? Are children who are home educated destined to be society's drop outs? What are the consequences of school-based trauma for adult learning? Might referring to offending behaviour interventions in prison as "courses" run by "tutors" backfire when people had troubled relationships with school?
Dr Naomi Fisher is both an expert in the conventional sense and an expert by experience as she talks about her own time at school and her later challenges in understanding the pros and cons of home educating children.
Naomi is an independent clinical psychologist and EMDR consultant. She specialises in trauma, autism and alternative approaches to education. She works with children, adolescents and adults.
She is the author of ‘Changing our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of their Own Learning’ (Robinson, 2021 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Changing-Our-Minds-children-learning/dp/1472145518/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670952068&sr=8-1)
and ‘A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education’ to be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in 2023.
She runs online courses to support parents whose children struggle to attend school and offers training for professionals.
https://www.naomifisher.co.uk/
55 min
November 16, 2022 106. Kennath Widanaralalage. What’s the effect of sexual violence on male survivors
Dr Kennath Widanaralalage is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster. He is a qualitative researcher interested in understanding: How do male victim-survivors make sense of their sexual victimisation? What coping strategies do male survivors of sexual violence use? How do male survivors of sexual abuse access support? What prevents male victims reporting their experiences to the police and involving the Criminal Justice System? What are some of the rape myths that are perpetuated about victimisation of males? Why is qualitative methodology particularly suited to exploring the experience of sexual abuse of males? What are some of the ethical issues in researching the impact of sexual abuse?
During his PhD, Ken explored men’s experiences of rape and sexual abuse in adolescence and adulthood. Working with men made him increasingly interested and committed to understanding and supporting marginalised, seldom-heard groups, using qualitative methods to provide a platform where individuals can tell their stories and break their silence. He believesin the value of personal experiences and the transfer of knowledge to help others and wants to create a better society for survivors and their close networks.
52 min
November 09, 2022 105. Kierra Myles:Should someone who was convicted of violence as a child be allowed to work with children?
How do we treat young people and children who break the law? Does the criminal justice system show compassion for children who end up in trouble with the police? Can sport improve our ability to manage our emotions? Can sport provide a pathway of hope for troubled children?
Kierra Myles is a Mentor Co-ordinator working with children in care and care leavers. She was first arrested when she was just 11 years old and remanded into a secure home when she was 13, before receiving her first custodial sentence at just 15 years old. Kierra has fought hard to break down the external barriers that prevented her from securing a role working with young people and is now helping others to do the same. Kierra is also a keen martial artist and competes at an elite level as an award winning athlete in Brazilian Jiujitsu.
52 min
November 02, 2022 104. Karen Stallard: How can art therapy and game playing help people heal?
Karen Stallard is a registered Psychotherapist with UKCP, registered Counsellor with BACP and registered Art Therapist with HCPC. She trained at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education where she gained a Masters in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy. Her private practice is called Feeling Found, which is based in Highbury and Islington, London. Karen's career journey began as an actor with a passion for the performing arts, storytelling and communicating creatively. She then trained to be a member of the clergy of the Christian church, where she worked mainly in pastoral care particularly within mental health. Karen has also worked an honorary therapist at the Women’s Service in Oxley’s NHS Trust for over four years and as a spiritual and cultural care coordinator at the East London and City Mental Health Trust for seven years. Karen founded ‘The Geoff Ashcroft Community’ in Tower Hamlets to support people suffering from mental health issues in the community, and has been a Board Member of various charities including Crossroads Counselling Service, Margins Homelessness project and Union Chapel Project. Karen is also co-chair for a bi-annual conference called ‘Continuing the Journey’, which provides training to therapists and spiritual leaders. She is the Director for Child Counselling Skills Certificate course at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education and the designer of 20 Dreams a card game which promotes creativity and emotional intelligence.

20 Dreams is a crazily creative card game that challenges your imagination, tests your dream telling skills and stretches your emotional intelligence to bring you endless entertainment and hilarious outcomes! Visit https://www.play20dreams.com to find out more.
53 min
October 26, 2022 103. Heidi Rose Tranter: Why do people join the military? What happens when military personnel retire?
Why do people join the armed forces? How do they meet these needs when they're no longer serving in the military? Why are there so many former veterans in prison?
Heidi Rose Tranter talks about her reseach exploring men's motivations for joining the armed forces. Heidi is a PhD student at the University of Central Lancashire. Alongside this, she works as a Research Associate at GMMH NHS Foundation Trust and delivers on the Inner Strength Programme (which supports individuals experiencing domestic conflict). Previously, she’s worked within CAMHS, primary care and forensic services, providing therapeutic support to both children and young people as well as adults. She’s also been involved in research exploring the effects of experiencing adversity during childhood on emotional resilience.
43 min

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