Your Own Place is an award-winning social enterprise delivering Money, Housing, Tenancy and Employability support to prevent homelessness
Training & Development Opportunities
For over a decade, Your Own Place has developed and delivered human, values-led approaches that create meaningful and lasting change. Our training is rooted in meeting people where they are, recognising and building on existing strengths, and creating inclusive learning environments where people feel heard, respected, and start to believe in themselves and their ability to make sustainable change.
Drawing on our experience — both in embodying these approaches and investigating why they work — we have designed a programme to introduce, explore, and provide experiential opportunities to practise these skills before embedding them in your everyday working life.
Upcoming Workshops
Unlocking Strengths – An Asset-based Approach
What if the key to better outcomes already exists within the people you support?
Participants will gain the confidence and skills to apply an asset-based approach in practice, focusing on what people can do, the support networks around them, and the opportunities these strengths create for sustainable change.
Building Confidence Through Restorative Practice
What changes when we stop doing things for people and start working alongside them?
Discover the power of the restorative approach by experiencing it throughout the workshop. Through hands-on learning and reflection, you’ll explore how collaborative conversations can unlock confidence, capability and self belief.
Why A Values-led Approach Matters
Whether you work in housing, homelessness prevention, support, health, youth work, somewhere in the wider VCSE sector, or volunteer in the community supporting people, these workshops will help you feel more confident navigating difficult conversations, building authentic relationships, and working with people in ways that increase agency, self-advocacy, and long-term resilience.
By embedding asset-based and restorative approaches into everyday practice, we believe that “helping” can move away from “doing to” or “fixing” people and instead create spaces where people feel heard, respected, and able to recognise their own strengths and choices. This can lead to stronger engagement, better outcomes, improved trust in services, and ultimately, earlier and more sustainable homelessness prevention.
We believe that one of the most effective ways to prevent homelessness is to equip more people across our sector with the skills and values-led approaches that genuinely support people to thrive. The more people who are able to support others in relational, restorative, and empowering ways, the stronger, more connected, and more self-sufficient our communities become.
FAQs
This training is particularly relevant for (but not limited to):
Each three-hour group workshop is currently delivered in person – but please speak to us directly if you’d be interested in attending an online session.
The workshops are visual, interactive, colourful, and discussion-based. We explore techniques and approaches through structured discussions and participatory activities so you can experience the ideas first-hand before putting them into practice.
All our workshops prioritise a relaxed, flexible space so you can participate in a way that feels comfortable, supportive, and meaningful to you. Our facilitators will speak to each participant before the session to understand how we can best support you to get the most from the workshop.
One three-hour workshop costs £95
Yes – we offer a discounted rate if you book more than one workshop at a time
Each workshop is designed for 6-8 participants. We require a minimum of 5 participants for the workshop to go ahead. If a workshop is cancelled, you will be offered the next available workshop or a full refund.
Yes – not only will you leave each workshop prepared to embed the approach, but you will also have access to a Padlet that includes further reading, reminders and tips from us, and helpful tools. These are available on our resources page.
The Impact So Far
Over the years, we have trained more than 200 mentors, volunteers, and partners in values-led, restorative, and asset-based approaches. Participants regularly tell us that the training has been useful in building their confidence, strengthening practical skills, and helping them reflect on how they support people to create sustainable change in their own lives.
“I valued his low key and participative style of delivery – sometimes you can feel “lectured at” and since there are always things you do know from experience as well as things to learn, the method of sharing what other people do at different Centres as well as learning from the YOP way of going about things was so much better and meant that I felt engaged all morning.”
– Diss Foodbank Volunteer
I just wanted to share how inspiring and refreshing I found the short asset-based and restorative session you and your team ran at the Homes for Cathy event. Our daily commitment to ensure people have access to their rights and tireless work to solve someone’s immediate, often pressing, homelessness challenge can sometimes mean we don’t explore with them their agency or capacity for self-advocacy fully. I very much look forward to working with you to share this with our whole team.
– Lesley Burdett, Shelter
‘I think with it being a small group as well it makes it easier for me to get involved. You don’t have anyone just sitting and observing, everyone has played their part’.
Our Mission
To prevent homelessness through innovation, collaboration, and the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive
Our Vision
Everyone has a safe and sustainable home
Get in Touch:
Office phone: 07927 433895
Email: ceo@yourownplace.org.uk
Your Own Place,
Level 4, Carrow House,
Norwich, NR1 2TG
©Your Own Place CIC. We are registered in England and Wales. Company number 08751344. All our profits go to back into the business.
