Leonie Quayle - Tov Collective

Want to join us?

An online TBRI® Caregiver Training Introduction
Fridays 12-2pm, November 2026

Learn TBRI® - Trust Based Relational Intervention® - a holistic, attachment‑based, trauma‑informed model designed to support children and youth who have experienced adversity.
TBRI® equips caregivers and professionals with practical strategies to address behavioural, emotional, and relational challenges by meeting the needs of the whole child.

Submit the TBRI Interest Form in bio, or DM me!

I’m excited to be planning an online TBRI® Caregiver Training Introduction.

Proposed details:
• November
• 3 x live online interactive sessions
• $225 per participant

Together, we'll explore:

✔️What TBRI® is and the science behind it
✔️Understanding trauma, attachment and the 5 B’s
✔️Risk and protective factors that influence development
✔️The three principles TBRI®:
- Connecting Principles
- Empowering Principles
- Correcting Principles
✔️Practical strategies you can begin applying immediately

If you’re interested, I’d love to hear from you.
Complete the short interest form here:
https://www.leoniequayle.com/tbri-interest-form

Have you heard of TBRI® but never really known what it is?

Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) is an attachment-based, trauma-informed approach developed to help us better understand behaviour, build trust and strengthen relationships.

Rather than focusing only on managing behaviour, TBRI® helps us understand the needs that may be driving it and equips us with practical strategies that promote connection, felt safety, and regulation.

Whether you’re a parent, foster or kinship carer, educator, church leader or helping professional, TBRI® provides a framework that can transform the way you engage with the people in your care.

I’m currently exploring interest in running a live online TBRI® Caregiver Training Introduction this November.

If you’ve been wanting to learn TBRI® in a relaxed, small online group setting, I’d love to hear from you.

Submit your expression of interest here:
🔗 https://www.leoniequayle.com/tbri-interest-form

Grateful for a very full few days connecting with old friends and some new ones in Cambodia.
Reflecting on the ideas (and lessons to keep learning) that have been underscored and that will never get old.
Humility. Humility. Humility.
Listening to understand.
De-centering yourself.
Nothing without love.

"Our perspective should be less about how we're going to fix the materially poor and more about how we can walk together, asking God to fix both of us."
Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert, authors of When Helping Hurts

A huge part of pursuing more effective, kingdom-aligned responses to poverty is becoming aware of the foundational ideas we hold, often without realising. Ideas about God and His ultimate purpose, what poverty actually is, and what human flourishing looks like.

Recognition of our own brokenness and a posture of humility is a helpful (necessary!) starting point.
No rescuers, no saviours; just fellow humans who've experienced a transforming love and who want to accept the humbling and challenging but beautiful invitation to pursue God's mission of reconciliation and restoration of all things.

Reach out if you're keen to explore these ideas within your church missions context.

We were blessed to hear from Belinda Groves, co-founder of Sepheo, in my local church recently. I want to quote every word of her messages but here's something in particular that stood out.

What was it about Jesus?
He believed in the same God, taught from the same scriptures, as the religious people and leaders of the day.
People not often found in religious spaces - the sick, the shunned, the sinners - outcasts followed Jesus in droves.
He allowed them close.
He treated them as people worthy of love before they had changed.
He loved them and they knew it; they felt it.
They experienced a new reality in His presence.
He held out the possibility of change that so many had believed was impossible.

The gospel is not information.
Jesus did not merely announce the gospel. He embodied it.

He invited His disciples to follow, to love the way He does (John 13:35)
It requires sacrifice; a dying to self.
But upon their obedience He bestowed power and people were transformed.

"When you connect to the heart of a child, anything is possible."
Dr Karyn Purvis

Connection first.
Everything else flows from that.

Especially when caring for or working with kids from hard places.

Dr Purvis was the creator of TBRI®, Trust Based Relational Intervention®
An attachment-based trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of children who've experienced trauma or neglect.
So many of the children your church is opening its doors to have experienced difficult things. How can we care for them well, in a way that doesn't do further harm; a way that says you're welcome and safe here?
Equip our teams with a foundational understanding of trauma and its impacts. And strategies for creating connection, felt safety and regulation.
I'd love to introduce your children's ministry team, caregivers or parents in your church to the beauty and power of TBRI®

DM to start the convo or head to leoniequayle.com to learn more.

TBRI® was developed in the context of trauma and attachment — but its principles reach far beyond parenting or care environments.

They can shape leadership and organisational culture too.

Because when people don’t feel safe, connected, or regulated, it impacts teams just as much as families.

Communication breaks down.
Trust erodes.
Stress escalates.
Burnout becomes more likely.

But when ministry leaders understand the role of connection, felt safety, and regulation, team culture shifts.

People communicate more clearly.
Conflict becomes easier to navigate.
Trust deepens.
Capacity grows.

Strong ministry teams are built on connection.
If you’re curious about an in-house TBRI® Introduction & Overview training, send me a DM or find out more at https://www.leoniequayle.com

The way we approach poverty and serving our communities often ends up looking fairly one-way.
Some give. Some receive.
But there’s a deeper invitation toward another way.
Not just meeting surface needs and maintaining a level of distance, but cultivating a way of life where people experiencing material poverty are included — not just as recipients, but as participants.
It shifts how we see people, programs, and our role.
Less about standing on one side of a line, giving.
More about building a table where everyone belongs and contributes.

Where has this felt true, or not, in your own ministry or community work?

This is a simple idea, but it changes a lot.
When someone isn’t doing well, or you're seeing some pretty big or confronting behaviours, it’s easy to assume intent — that they don’t care, aren’t trying, or are choosing to be difficult.
A trauma-informed lens asks a different question.
What if there’s something getting in the way?

There's a big difference between "what's wrong with you?" and "what might've happened to you?"

When we understand how stress and trauma affect a person, we begin to respond differently; with more curiosity, and often more effectiveness.
It doesn’t remove responsibility. But it does change how we approach people in the moment.

TBRI® - Trust Based Relational Intervention® - is an attachment-based, trauma-informed approach that gives you a greater understanding of trauma and its impacts, as well as a comprehensive set of principles and strategies to care well for those whose story involves a difficult history. Reach out if you'd like to arrange an in-house training for your team.