Description
Join the Community of Practice | Forensic & High Secure Peer Support Group for professional growth and peer support. Connect and enhance your skills
About this Community
Working in forensic and high secure environments requires us to hold complexity every day, risk, trauma, neurodivergence, mental illness, institutional culture, and restrictive practice.
This Community of Practice is a dedicated space for practitioners navigating these realities and seeking to embed sensory-informed, occupation-focused, and relational approaches within secure settings.
Rooted in Ayres Sensory Integration® and sensory-informed practice, this group supports clinicians to move beyond behaviour-based interpretations and toward a deeper understanding of:
- Sensory processing and regulation in the context of risk and offending pathways
- The impact of restrictive environments on the nervous system and participation
- How trauma, neurodivergence, and sensory differences intersect
- Supporting agency, identity, and recovery within containment
Like all Sensory Project communities, this is not about “fixing” people; it is about understanding, responding, and enabling participation in real-world contexts.
Who this is for
This Community of Practice is for:
- Occupational Therapists working in forensic, PICU, or high secure services
- MDT professionals supporting individuals within secure pathways
- Practitioners working with offending histories, risk management, and complex trauma
- Clinicians interested in applying sensory integration across adult mental health
Whether you are experienced in sensory integration or just beginning to explore this lens, you are welcome.
Join the conversation
If you are working in forensic or high secure services and want to deepen your sensory-informed practice, we invite you to join us.
This is a space to think, reflect, challenge, and develop practice together, because this work should never be done alone.
