FOUNDER

Camilla has been a leading developer and trainer in parenting for over 25 years. She was instrumental in the national development of the Positive Parenting programme in the 1990s, creating the Time Out series and training teams to deliver parenting support in the community..

An early advocate of brain science communication in the UK, Camilla founded GroBrain in 2008 to disseminate learning for practitioners and parents. She has drawn on her skills as a course developer, practitioner trainer, parent and artist to translate complex scientific theories into simple visuals which practitioners find easy to use and parents find easy to understand and implement.

DIRECTOR

Rosie is a child and family practitioner with a wide range of experience working with children aged 0-18 and their families. She has delivered intensive therapeutic services and family support to children on the edge of care, in care, post-adoption and excluded from education, in a range of local authority and voluntary sector services. Before joining Grobrain in 2012, Rosie specialised in working with families antenatally and postnatally facing multiple and complex adversities, to support families to keep their baby with them where possible. Using her family therapy experience, Rosie has worked with families experiencing mental health difficulties, domestic abuse, substance misuse and in the safeguarding arena. This included being part of the Parents under Pressure RCT evaluation, a collaboration between NSPCC and Professor Jane Barlow. Rosie brings to GroBrain her talent for translating complex science into practice and devising engaging training techniques alongside her own experience of being a parent.

TRAINER

Having spent over 35 years working with children and families in health and educational settings, Rebecca has experienced first hand the power of early intervention and the enormous potential it holds to change the tangential direction of a child’s life course.

Her work as a nurse, midwife, health visitor, infant feeding specialist and UNICEF project lead has brought a broad depth of experience.

Rebecca has worked with families right across the societal spectrum - from families with safeguarding concerns, those experiencing the toxic triad, those with safeguarding plans and children in the care system - through to teenagers suffering with depression, anxiety and eating disorders.

Reading ‘Why Love Matters' was a lightbulb moment for her and has influenced her passion for supporting families to understand their child’s emotional development and to know how best to manage each passing phase.

Rebecca is currently studying psychotherapy with a focus on the forming relationships between parents and infants”.