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Conference 2025 Feedback

BSConcern Conference 2025 Feedback

Participant feedback from the BSConcern Conference on 1 November 2025

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Where did you hear about this year's conference?(Required)

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Where did you hear about this year's conference?(Required)

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On what website did you find us?(Required)

Finding out about BSS (tick all that apply)(Required)

If you were seeking information about Boarding School Survivors, which of these would you turn to?

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Where else would you seek info about BSS?

Other services

Are there any other services you’d like BSConcern to provide?

Conference Administration and Comfort

Please rate the following:

Booking and Payment Procedure

1 – Inadequate

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3

4 – Excellent

Location of Venue

1 – Inadequate

2

3

4 – Excellent

Registration Arrangements

1 – Inadequate

2

3

4 – Excellent

Seating and Room Comfort

1 – Inadequate

2

3

4 – Excellent

Audibility of Speakers

1 – Inadequate

2

3

4 – Excellent

Coffee and Tea

1 – Inadequate

2

3

4 – Excellent

Lunch

1 – Inadequate

2

3

4 – Excellent

Concessions and Cost

1 – Inadequate

2

3

4 – Excellent

Please feel free to add any further comments on administration and comfort

Conference Presentations

Please rate the following:

Presentation 1

Rose Sawkins – A Slow Dawning, So To Speak

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Presentation 2

Suzanne Zeedyk – Sabre Tooth Tigers & Teddy Bears: how boarding school shapes attachment

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Presentation 3A

Nicky Moxey and Linda Devereux – Editing a new book – Worlds Away from Home

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Presentation 3B

Piers Cross – Editing a new book – Worlds Away from Home

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Please feel free to add any further comments on the presentations

Group Sessions

Please rate the group you joined:

I joined:

Group 1. Finding Your Voice Workshop

Group 2. Intimate Relationships 1

Group 3. Relationships with Parents Group

Group 4. Intimate Relationships 2

Creativity in Action Workshop

Returning Home to Self Workshop

Boarding on Insanity film and Q&A

Group 1. Finding Your Voice Workshop

Rose Sawkins with Charlotte Sharpe

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Group 2. Intimate Relationships 1

Joanna Meynell and Rosie Hodgson

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Group 3. Relationships with Parents Group

Rosemary Lamaison and Gordon Knott

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Group 4. Intimate Relationships 2

Colette Dunford and Jane Barclay

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Group 5. Creativity in Action Workshop

Marcus Pollett with Pippa Palmer

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Group 6. Returning Home to Self Workshop

Carolyn Wood with Caroline Rollings

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Group 7. Boarding on Insanity film and Q&A

Piers Cross and panel

1 – Not particularly helpful

2

3

4 – Very worthwhile

Please feel free to add any further comments on group sessions

Final Thoughts

How would you rate the day overall?

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4 – Very worthwhile

What were the best parts of the day for you?

Is there anything you think we should do differently next year?

Any final thoughts/comments on the conference

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