Applications open for SHIFT: UK’s first Trauma Conscious Leadership Programme for people working in homelessness and housing
Museum of Homelessness at dusk
Museum of Homelessness has launched the UK’s first survivor led trauma conscious leadership development programme for people working in homelessness and housing.
Applications are now open and will close on 16th May 2025.
SHIFT is an intensive 10 month leadership development programme for 10 exceptional people working in homelessness and housing which will run from July 2025 to March 2026.
Thanks to funding from the Sarah Jane Leigh Charitable Trust the first year of SHIFT will be free for participants.
SHIFT is the first survivor led trauma conscious leadership programme for homelessness in the UK, born in response to the significant challenges we are facing as homelessness continues to spike. The programme content will include:
Structural trauma and the front line; exploring dehumanised perception and how trauma shows up in organisations.
Exploring the importance of a personal practice and its relevance to social action work led by trauma survivors.
Working with emotions, memory and the body.
Working with personal boundaries, grief and distress.
Working with trauma and the nervous system.
Working with coping mechanisms: Fresh and compassionate approaches to working with addiction, self-harm and suicide ideation.
Unlocking creative problem solving in your everyday life.
Guest facilitators and speakers will include writers, artists, scientists, community organisers and psychotherapists
Our current confirmed list of contributors includes:
Abdirahim Hassan, Founder, Coffee Afrik CIC
Aderonke Apata, Founder & CEO, African Rainbow Family, campaigner and MoH Trustee
Brad Hardie, Co-Founder of Moving the Human Spirit
Christopher Scanlon and John Adlam, psychotherapists, authors and psychosocialists
Dan Glass, Author and Activist
E-J Scott, Founder, Museum of Transology
Gill Taylor, MoH crew and consultant
Jacob V Joyce, Artist
Dr Lasana Harris, Social Neuroscientist
Surfing Sofas MoH Poet in Residence
lead facilitators for the programme are jess and matt turtle, directors of museum of homelessness
In the course of founding and developing MoH, both Matt and Jess have undertaken a lot of development and training focused on trauma. Jess has complex childhood trauma. She also has an MA in Psychosocial Studies and has undertaken the 1 year professional training in Compassionate Inquiry from Dr Gabor Mate and Sat Dharam Kaur. She is trained to Level 1 in Internal Family Systems and is a Trauma Informed Coach (TICC). Matt is also a certified Trauma Informed Coach and has trained with the Polyvagal Institute. SHIFT will be co-ordinated by Miranda Keast who is also a certified Trauma Informed Coach and the programme will be supported by the wider MoH team.
KEY DATES FOR THE PROGRAMME
Successful applicants will be required to attend in person at all dates.
All events and intensives will take place at the museum’s site in Finsbury Park.
March 2025 – Applications open
16th May 2025 – Applications close
30th May 2025 – Successful applicants notified
9th and 10th July 2025 – Summer possibilities, 2 day intensive
17th and 18th September 2025 – Autumn intentions, 2 day intensive
October – April: Regular coaching sessions for participants
14th January 2026 – Winter check in and care session, 1 day recharge space
18th March 2026 – Spring send off, 1 day programme completion & celebration
If you have any questions on the programme please contact miranda@museumofhomelessness.org