Sandstories is underpinned by published research and academic commentary, in addition to Sue’s own practice experience.

The combination of the very visual, and often moving, experience of the Sandstories presentations and the background studies which inform them, demonstrates powerfully the value of bringing together different learning styles.

There are exciting developments in the pipeline for the delivery of Sandstories!

For many years Sue has travelled the length and breadth of the UK, sharing her powerful Sandstories training with multi agency practitioners and their managers.

The Testimonials speak for themselves about how well this unique training has been received.

More recently, Sue has tried to work a little closer to her home in Yorkshire.

But this has created great disappointment for loyal commissioners, who are based further afield and have requested Sandstories for their workforce.

Sue has always found it extremely difficult to turn down any requests because delivering this training is not simply a source of earning a living.

It goes much deeper than that.

Sue puts her heart and soul into Sandstories.

And now comes the exciting part …

As Sue can only be in one place at a time, planning is now underway to capture the power of Sandstories on film – to create virtual and affordable access to this special training. A very talented film production company is working with Sue to harness the deep meaning and humanity of this unique style of storytelling, by using some very clever camera work and technology.

There will also be a reflective narrative from Sue, to accompany the storytelling, so that the insight and wisdom contained in the learning objectives are preserved.

When the film is ready for launching, additional material will be added to this website as an accompaniment to the training experience.

Guidance on how to access this new format of Sandstories, either individually or collectively, will be posted on the website, in due course.

Sue will also contact previous commissioners with details of this new Sandstories format, so that they will be aware of how they can reintroduce Sandstories to their training calendar, if they wish.