Welcome to Kia Kaha Consultancy
Kia Kaha Consultancy is a Management Consultancy firm that specialises in Compassionate Focussed Staff Support for organisations large or small in the IT, Hospitality, FMCG, Defence, Health Financial & Music industry within UK - Europe - USA - Australia.
Kia Kaha Consultancy helps organisations with Process and System Design, Employee Training and Development, Process and System Improvement - Selection and Recruitment - Restructuring and Change Management. We partner with Lucre Recruitment Solutions for any Selection and Recruitment solutions, Lucre Digital Design for any Training and Development digital implementation and various Management Consultants who are specialist in their areas.
We use 'Compassion Focused Staff Support' which is our flag ship service. Kia Kaha Consultancy use highly skilled Psychological Professionals to create, customised design, support and sustainable "Compassion Focussed Staff Support" interventions, Company-Wide, whenever organisations need to make adjustments to business. This service can also be used for organisations where employees encounter a lot of stress due to the nature of their work.
A 'Safe Space' must be given to people to deal with the rigor of a modern 'Advanced Capitalised Society'! Our Associates have many years experience to handle 'Vicarious' challenges within the workplace and hold 'Groups' in mind to solve this fundamental truth of work in practice. Everything is confidential where 'themes' are captured in relation to 'Compassion Focussed Staff Support'! Animated Material and Online Digital material is used to increase awareness of the psychological needs of the individual.
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Our Team.
Compassion Focused Staff Support
Introductory Sessions: Designed as an introduction to familiarise the participants with the foundations of Compassion Focused Staff Support. Through this process participants will learn the key elements of how the science of compassion can be utilised to support staff wellbeing and stress management.
Monthly Staff Support: The CFSS group is a reflective space which would have a dual and overlapping function of providing a space for reflection on the impact of the work coupled with a forum to practice, discuss and explore compassionate self-care. Groups will be formed based on the needs of the organisation.
Associates
Kia Kaha Consultancy Associates are highly skilled psychological professionals with decades of experience in the public and private sector and can work within your organisation to support the development of sustainable Compassion Focused Staff Support initiatives.
Our Services
Process Design
System Design
Restructuring & Change Management
On-line and F2F training
Compassion Focused Staff Support - Research & Evaluation
Champion and Ambassador Development
Core Compassion Focused Staff Support Services
Emotional States
Sectors of Interest
What Our Clients Say & Publications
Senior Management
“I'm Although I have some familiarity with CFT, I felt I learnt a great deal over the three days both from Kate, the smaller and larger groups and within!. The application of the model to staff support in such a thoughtful way was just fantastic.
Financial Services
Huge thanks to you all for the training. Kate has such an engaging style (highly knowledgeable, supportive, encouraging, non-judgemental, generous and a little bit mischievous!) and because of this and the shared learning I thoroughly enjoyed every second
Health
We are incredibly grateful for the invaluable support and services provided by Kia Kaha Consultancy throughout our journey. Their compassion focused staff support services and supervision have played a pivotal role in nurturing the wellbeing and resilience of our team members and of our wider hospital staff. The genuine care and understanding exhibited by Kate and the team have fostered a supportive environment where our staff feel heard, validated, and empowered.
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Education Services
“CFSS" is helping us with huge challenges that we face. Enabling us the understand the mechanics of our brains and why all of us may become emotional; has helped me cope with sometimes burnout scenarios.
Publications
Lucre, K., & Clapton, N. (2021). The Compassionate Kitbag: A creative and integrative approach to compassion-focused therapy. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94(S2), e12291.
Lucre, K., Lacey, & Taylor, J. (2022). Compassion Focused Staff Support: An Antidote to Empathy Distress, In Psychological Staff Support in Healthcare: Thinking and Practice (pp. 204-223). Sequoia Books. In Psychological Staff Support in Healthcare: Thinking and Practice (pp. 204–223). Sequoia Books.
Lucre, K., & Taylor, J. (2020). Compati| To Suffer with: Compassion Focused Staff Support as an Antidote to the Cost of Caring in Forensic Services. In Sexual Crime and Trauma (pp. 143–174). Springer.
Socrates
"I cannot teach anyone anything,
I can just help you think"
Socrates