The Village Square

Come and join our online community!

“There is no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone”

-Winnicott

Winnicott’s famous words remind us that we don’t develop, grow or make sense of ourselves in isolation. From our earliest moments in life, we are shaped by being seen, understood, held and responded to by others - and the same is true throughout our lives.

This online community is a place for professionals to come together - to learn, share, be witnessed, feel less alone, and discover a place where your experience makes sense; where your curiosity can thrive and where creativity is possible.

Supporting children and families is meaningful, moving and deeply human work. It can also be gritty and isolating. We, as professionals, carry things we don't always have language for; we work in systems that aren’t ready yet to be trauma-aware; we hold other people's pain in our own bodies, and of course we hold our own stories of survival and growth.

Join our Village

Join the Club
(most members start here)

Choose the payment option that feels right for your circumstances:

£20/month or
£50/month or £90/month
(Pay It Forward supporters)*

For individuals who want the full training library and the live community:

You will have access to:

The Beacon House full training library (worth £985)
Fortnightly themed panel conversations, live and archived (worth £600 per year)
One new members-only resource each month
The professional community forum – a daily place to post, share and listen
Bonus Village event invitations to connect and learn throughout the year
Certificate for every live Q&A session or course completed

*Our sliding scale reflects the values of this community. Members choosing the £50 or £90 options help fund £20 places, making The Village Square accessible to a wider range of professionals and enriching our shared space.

Join The Club

Be our Guest
(it’s ok just to visit!)

£15 per live Q&A

For individuals who want to attend specific Q&As:

Every fortnight, join Dr Shoshanah Lyons together with our Q&A host and guest speaker, for a short conversation about our chosen topic followed by a group discussion. This will be a rich learning experience so bring your curiosity! You will receive a Certificate for every live Q&A session or course completed.

Choose a Live Q&A

Access All Areas
(when more is needed)

£199 per month

For individuals who want the full training library and the live community alongside it but whose work is asking for more:

You will have access to everything in ‘Join the Club’:

The Beacon House full training library (worth £985)
Fortnightly themed panel conversations, live and archived (worth £600 per year)
One new members-only resource each month
The professional community forum – a daily place to post, share and listen
Bonus Village event invitations to connect and learn throughout the year
Certificate for every live Q&A session or course completed

PLUS

Two 2-hour clinical consultation sessions a year with a senior Beacon House clinician (worth £810)
Two live online workshops a year, 2 hours each (worth £240)

Access All Areas

Beacon House
Pre-Recorded Training

While The Village Square offers a space for ongoing learning, connection and reflection, all of our pre-recorded Beacon House trainings continue to be available to purchase individually through our Training Library.

We know that people learn in different ways and at different stages of their journey so whether you're simply looking for a specific training, or you're ready to join a wider community of thoughtful professionals committed to supporting children and families, you can choose the path that feels right for you.

Choose a Training

Please note: You must be over the age of 18 to join the village square community.

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Set up a Partnership Package

Are you part of a team?

Team Partnership Package

£30 per person, per month

For organisations and teams of 10 people or more.

You will have access to:

The Beacon House full training library (worth £985 pp)
Fortnightly themed panel conversations, live and archived - (worth £600 per year)
One new members-only resource each month
The professional community forum – a daily place to post, share and listen
Bonus invitations to connect and learn throughout the year
Two two-hour online workshops created and delivered bespoke to your team (worth £2000).
One organisational consultation to explore how to become even more trauma-responsive (worth £405)
Individual certificates for every live Q&A session or course completed

Why The Village Square?

For many years, Beacon House has offered training, resources and therapeutic services that support professionals and systems to better understand and respond to the children and families they support, through a trauma-attuned lens.

Along the way, we've learnt that the answers rarely exist within one person, and that we were never meant to hold all of this alone.

The deepest learning often happens through conversation, not instruction. The greatest insights often emerge when people bring their different experiences into the same room; and the support we need, especially when work is relational, is usually found in relationship - not in another resource, or another training course to complete alone.

The Village Square has been curated to provide a space where exactly this can happen, gently, and at your own pace.

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A Place to Learn, Grow and Connect

The Village Square brings together therapists, teachers, social workers, foster carers, psychologists, family support workers and other professionals who share one thing: a passion and commitment to understanding and holding children and families in trauma-response ways.

Everything inside sits under one shared framework - the SAFE Method - distilled from over a decade of Beacon House's own practice:

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Inside the community, and always at your own pace, you can:

Work through the full Beacon House training library, at whatever pace feels sustainable for you.
Join fortnightly live panel conversations (Wednesdays 1 – 2pm, term time) in The Village Square, with our Founder and Director, Dr Shoshanah Lyons and her colleagues, or simply listen back later. Part discussion, part open floor – this is a great place to learn and give! See here for our upcoming panel topics.
Bring daily questions, curiosities, and your knowledge and experience to our Village community forum, without needing to have it all figured out first.
Receive an exclusive members-only resource each month.
Influence the Village community and your learning within it – tell us what you’d like live conversations and resources about!

If you ‘Access All Areas’ you’ll also be able to:

Attend two bonus workshops a year
Book two consultations a year with one of our specialist therapists

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More Than Professional Development

The Village Square is built on the belief that professional development isn't just about gaining knowledge. It's about connection; to the work, to each other, and back to yourself.

The work we do with children and families is deeply relational. The way we understand ourselves, tend to our own nervous systems, and make sense of human experience shapes everything we're able to offer someone else. You cannot pour from an empty, dysregulated cup and we don't expect you to try.

The Village Square creates space for those conversations, at a pace that respects what you're already carrying and what you already know. A place where learning is practical, thoughtful, and unmistakably human.

Who Is The Community For?

The Village Square is for anyone working with children, young people and families - wherever you are in your journey with this work, including:

Therapists and counsellors
Educational, Clinical, Counselling Psychologists
Teachers and education staff
Social workers
Foster carers
Family support practitioners
Health professionals
Any professional working with children and families who wants to deepen their understanding and feel less alone doing this work

You don't need to be an expert to belong here.

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What Makes It Different?

Many online spaces focus on information. The Village Square focuses on people - on presence, not just content.

It is carefully held by Beacon House and grounded in the values of curiosity, compassion, connection and shared learning. Nothing here is designed to make you feel behind, or not enough. It's designed to help you feel accompanied.

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Common FAQs

Any professional working alongside children, young people and families - from newly qualified to many years into practice, to those without a formal qualification.
- Guest is pay-as-you-go, no subscription.
- Join the Club gives you the full library and the live community, on a sliding scale.
- Access All Areas adds personal clinical consultation and live workshops for people whose work is asking for more
Yes you can! Our Partnership Package for £30 per person per month is for teams of 10 people or more. Each team member has full access to our training library and live community, and an incredible opportunity to co-create with us a bespoke online training session twice a year for your team.
Live panel conversations are term time, fortnightly, Wednesdays 1pm – 2pm; with replays available if you can't make it live.
Yes! We would love to hear from you in our online forum. Post, and see, comments, videos, articles, resources from the community.
No, our conversations are grounded in clinical thinking and experience, but this is not clinical training, and you don't need a clinical qualification to belong here.
Whatever you have capacity for. Some members join the fortnightly live panel conversation and nothing else; others work steadily through the library when they have the energy. There's no attendance to keep up with, and nothing to feel behind on.
The very heart of this community is that its villagers influence where our energy flows. Tell us what topics you’d like our live panels about; tell us what themes you’d love resources on; share with us how we can, together, create an even richer and more fruitful space together.
We are intentionally holding communities for professionals, and for parents/carers separately so that we can tend to each one thoughtfully. We hope to build a parent/carer community soon.
The Village Square is held and moderated by our Founder and Director, Dr Shoshanah Lyons. If you have any concerns about the community, you are welcome to contact Shoshanah directly.

Join Us

If you've ever wished for a place where thoughtful conversations continue after the training ends, where your questions are welcomed rather than judged, and where professionals can learn and grow together - we'd love to welcome you, whenever you're ready.