Nurtured Heart Approach® Training
September 22nd, 2026 | 23-27 St Andrews St
The Nurtured Heart Approach (NHA) is a highly acclaimed, relationship-focused methodology in action across the world — in classrooms, in therapeutic work, and in family homes. If you are looking to transform your relationships with children and young people in schools, youth settings, support work or within family homes, this training is for you!
This one-day course on the Nurtured Heart Approach is delivered by Advanced Trainers from The Benjamin Foundation, who have embedded the Nurtured Heart Approach into everything they do — including childcare settings, emotional wellbeing sessions, youth work, and supported accommodation services for young people at risk of homelessness. There will be interactive sessions, breakout groups, experiential exercises, social activities and plenty of time to network with others.
Ticket Information
Your ticket includes lunch and refreshments! Should you have any questions, please get in touch with us at events@benjaminfoundation.co.uk
Further Details
23-27 St Andrews Street, Norwich NR2 4TP
The Benjamin Foundation Head Office
TIME HERE
Lunch and refreshments provided
Your Trainers
The training will be led by Kirsty Pitcher and Julie Mears from The Benjamin Foundation, a youth charity that has been using the Nurtured Heart Approach in all their services since 2013. Kirsty and Julie have worked closely with Howard Glasser (creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach) for many years and bring unique perspectives from using NHA in work with children and young people, parents, staff teams and whole organisations, as well as in their personal lives.
Kirsty Pitcher
Julie Mears
Kirsty Pitcher is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at The Benjamin Foundation. Kirsty’s professional background was in Education Welfare and later as a qualified Social Worker. Kirsty returned to her home county of Norfolk in 2010 to start working at The Benjamin Foundation as a Parenting Specialist and has embraced a variety of management and leadership roles since then before being appointed as CEO in October 2023.
Kirsty is an Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach and is passionate about sharing this approach which challenges people to recognise their qualities of greatness and reframe challenging situations.
Kirsty lives in North Norfolk where she enjoys the vast, often completely empty beaches and the big sky although she does like going to hilly places on holiday
Julie Mears has over 40 years’ experience of working with children and young people, particularly providing emotional wellbeing support. She uses the Nurtured Heart Approach to help children in developing strength-based strategies to manage issues such as anxiety and also to recognise their unique greatness. She is an Advanced Nurtured Heart Trainer within the Benjamin Foundation and a certified NHA Mentor and has trained hundreds of families and professionals, helping them recognise what is going right in every situation and teaching the principles of ‘reset’.
Julie lives in a village just outside Norwich with husband Andy, two hens and their cheeky cocker spaniel who has also mastered the art of ‘reset’