THE POWER OF WORDS

Labels Limit. Language Liberates. Learn how to challenge bias and restore dignity through the words you choose.

By Amanda Knowles MBE

Date and time

Location

ST16 3BX

Marston Road Stafford ST16 3BX United Kingdom

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event.

About this event

Event lasts 5 hours 30 minutes

Event Details:📅 Wednesday 10 September — Two chances to join!

Pick 10:30 AM – 12:30 or 14:00 PM – 16:00 — same workshop, same powerful impact.

Stan Robinson Stadium, Astonfields Road, Stafford, ST16 3UF

🎟️ Tickets: £25 — Available on Eventbrite

Words don’t just communicate — they shape how we see people, how we support, and how we lead. They can heal or harm. Include or exclude. Restore dignity — or reinforce shame.

In this impactful workshop, Rachel W — Dual Perspective Changemaker and Advocate — draws on 30 years of professional expertise and lived experience to explore how language affects those who’ve experienced trauma, care, abuse, and systemic injustice.

What You’ll Learn:

How language can reinforce bias — or challenge it
Why “failure” often reflects unmet needs, not weakness
Tools to lead, communicate, and support more effectively
Ways to restore dignity and drive cultural change

Organized by

Amanda Knowles MBE

Amanda Knowles MBE was just 18 years old when she became a housemother in a local authority children’s home. She has been working with care experienced children for almost 50 years as a caregiver in various settings including children’s residential care, fostering, social work and supported accommodation for care leavers. In 2017 Amanda organised the first Your Life Your Story Event to amplify the voices of care experienced adults and caregivers through storytelling. Proceeds from this workshop will renumerate the facilitator and make a contribution to future Your Life Your Story Events. Your Life Your Story is home to a hugely diverse community with a shared care identity, as our collective voice grows louder, so does our determination to make a positive contrbution to improving services for vulnerable children and the adults they become through mutually rewarding relationships reclaimed through the shared narrative of lived experience. www.ylys.org.uk