Guest Speaker: The hidden dynamics of relationships: The Drama Triangle
At a glance
Guest speaker
Dr Suzanne Zeedyk
Webinar duration
2 hours
Suitable for
Thrive Licensed Practitioners
CPD
Worth 5 CPD points
Price per place
£78 excl. VAT
Course outcomes
During this 2-hour session, you will:
- Develop theoretical knowledge of the Drama Triangle and its role in relational dynamics.
- Identify patterns and responses that can create or maintain Drama Triangle dynamics.
- Recognise how behaviour policies in educational settings may unintentionally foster Drama Triangles.
- Apply this understanding across classrooms, early years environments, family homes and professional relationships.
- Explore more creative, compassionate and helpful responses to behaviour.
Who is it for?
This session is suitable for Thrive Licensed Practitioners working with children and young people across all settings.
Introducing guest speaker: Dr Suzanne Zeedyk
Dr Suzanne Zeedyk is a research scientist fascinated by babies’ innate capacity to communicate. Since 1993, she has been based at the University of Dundee, Scotland, within the School of Psychology, where she now holds an honorary post.
In 2011, she stepped away from full time academic work in order to set up her own independent training enterprise to disseminate what she calls the Science of Connection. Humans beings are born connected, and as a species we have a physiological need for emotional connection in order to lead happy, healthy lives. Suzanne thought the public deserved to understand the science that gives depth to these insights. She brings to her work her awareness of the latest discoveries on infant communicative capacities and brain development, as well as her own research expertise on parent-infant relationships and the socio-political contexts within which scientific information emerges.
In 2014, she expanded her reach by founding the organisation connected baby, which enabled her team to create events and resources that support her message. We estimate that, in the past 10 years, well over 100,000 people have heard her speak live, and many more have watched videos or read her books and blogs.
Suzanne now works closely with organisations around the world, remaining committed to the goal she set out with: increasing awareness of the decisions we make about caring for children, because they are integrally connected to our vision for the kind of society we wish to build.
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What you'll learn
Understanding how the Drama Triangle works will support you to build healthier, more respectful relationships based on curiosity. It will also help you to see how easily school behaviour policies foster Drama Triangles, creating opportunities to address to address behavioural challenges in more creative, compassionate and helpful ways.
The aims and objectives of this session are to help you:
- Explore the Drama Triangle as a common emotional dynamic in human relationships, particularly those involving children.
- Understand how relational patterns learned in early childhood can shape responses to conflict, behaviour and emotional distress.
- Recognise how and why Drama Triangles can emerge in everyday interactions.
- Consider how blame, shame and hurt can influence responses in educational, family and professional settings.
- Reflect on where this dynamic may appear, including classrooms, early years settings, family homes and wider relational contexts.