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Dr Dan Hughes - It Was That One Moment

  • by Worth Publishing/CourseWeDo
  • 14 Jul, 2020

Recorded webinar: 10th July 2020

Worth Publishing/CourseWeDo with Dr Dan Hughes (danielhughes.org), focussing on his very personal book of poems and reflections on his long career of working with children and adolescents in care: 'It Was That One Moment'.  Dr Hughes  in conversation with a number of people who have found his poems resonate with their personal and professional experience, as well as reflecting on them himself from the perspective of recent developments in neuroscience, his practice, and current events.

Hosted by Andrea Perry, Commissioning/Content Editor, Worth Publishing/CourseWeDo

With Guests
Ann Dix, Dramatherapist and author, specialist in domestic violence Little Mouse Training
Leticia Gracia, Director, Institute of Childhood Trauma & Attachment at the George Hull Centre
Hannah Sun-Reid, Psychotherapist, Play Therapy and DDP trainer and supervisor
Sian Phillips, Psychologist specialising in children and adults who have experienced relational trauma; international DDP consultant and trainer
Kim Golding, Child & Adolescent psychologist, DDP trainer and supervisor, DDP network
Dee Bamford, Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, Family Futures
Jay Vaughan, State Registered Dramatherapist, a Certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist (DDP), a Theraplay Therapist and trainer as well as a Somatic Experience Practitioner. Jay is Registered Manager and CEO of Family Futures
Jon Baylin, Clinical psychologist in Delaware and co-author with Dan of Brain Based Parenting and The Neurobiology of Attachment-focused Therapy.  
Eugene Ellis
, Clinical Specialist,  founder of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network BAATN
Graham Music PhD
, Consultant Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre and adult psychotherapist in private practice. See Graham's website

You can purchase It Was That One Moment from worthpublishing.com or by clicking on BOOKS at the top of our website
Comments from the webinar

Best webinar I've 'attended' since started working from home in March!

Love how therapeutic this webinar is!

So helpful especially struggling with maintaining the therapeutic working remotely and trying to support adopters at this particularly difficult time.  Really useful to reflect and think with such experienced panel

Such a profound way in which others can take on such a lot of empathy and understanding of others feelings and emotions! Really lovely reading, thank you!

I have sung Dan's poems to music! - in some sessions with parents

Thank you ALL so much for this excellent session. I quoted Dan as a student, now I refer to him to my own students (trainee teachers) and will refer to all speakers now. Thanks

What a stunning webinar. Thank you all.

So important for teachers to know this work and PACE

I wonder if people have experience of sharing the poems from the childrens perspective with adopted children or children in care?

Thank you to Dan and to all readers. The poems are very therapeutic & revealing.

Thank you so much to all of you. So emotional and powerful in enabling voices to be heard. It has been so interesting hearing about all of you, this session will stay with me for a long time.

This has been a very moving session for me, spending so much time reflecting on these poems and the memories of children I have worked with and adults supporting them at home and school. I have been stimulated in my mind and my body. Thank you everyone who has contributed. I will be sharing these poems again in my trainings.

Thank you for such a moving and inspiring session

Thank you so much. I'm sorry I have to leave but will enjoy watching the recording and hearing the wonderful poems and reflections again.

This session has been therapeutic and has left me feeling more curious. Thank you everyone for your time. Moving forward I will share this learning with the young people I work with and my colleagues.

This is so helpful, thank you.

I still have my hand on my heart and tears in my eyes from The Belly Laugh. Thank you all again.

Thank you so much... excellent session.

Thank you, loved every bit of it!

What a treat! Many thanks for your generosity :-)


Thank you everyone for a very, very special time this afternoon!

Thank you so much. What an inspiring way to spend time with such lovely people.

Thanks for webinar, hoping for another 😊

Thank you all very much, really inspiring to hear from the people behind some of the books which have informed my work!

These are brilliant events. Such a privilege to see such a fantastic and learned panel. I will be using this poetry with our Designated Teachers for Children Looked After. Thank you. Take care

So refreshing to see creativity being used to express experiences in a way that connects so much deeper than just hearing the theory. Thank you so much for reminding me of this!

Made me cry - absoloutely brilliant - thank you

Thank you for an interesting and stimulating webinar

What a lovely end to the week - thank you everyone for sharing the poems so sensitively and to Dan for changing the narrative around our children and families.

Thank you for an excellent webinar.

Thank you so much this has been amazing and I have loved every moment will be purchasing the  book and use it in school in UK also look for training. Thank you so much


Thank you, it has been lovely. I hope that adding poems into our staff training will help make it more real to people...and I'm so excited about doing my DDP level 1 soon!

Fab, thanks all, very moving & thought provoking :)

Thanks to all and lovely to listen to you.  As an adoptive mum, I can tell when the stress has got me when I get annoyed by Dan’s cheerfulness!  
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