“Training with Steven Talbot is always informative and engaging." Compulsive Hoarding Training with Stoke on Trent City Council, Sept 2025.

“Really interesting training with tangible ways to improve Social Work practice. The videos effectively bring to life the importance of lived experience to the fore. Paula was especially poignant and informative.”

Greetings one and all,

Today, I’m highlighting my Compulsive Hoarding course, ‘Trapped and Drowning in My Things.’  As with all my courses, ‘Trapped…’ has had a 2025 spruce up and some new hands-on activities have been added, along with new training films that I’ve created.  As always, feedback has been uniformly excellent, with 100% positive feedback.  People were especially taken with my new ‘housing officer from hell’ film which had the room rocking with laughter.  I think the people next door wondered what on earth was going on!  See – training CAN and needs to be FUN!  The learners need to be informed, educated and entertained!  😊

On with the feedback comments:

“Informative and engaging training from a professional who really knows his subject. Unique training videos – in a good way!”

“Training with Steven Talbot is always informative and engaging. Steven brings real flare to anything that he delivers. He shared a vast array of knowledge and skills today.”

“Very nice training! 😊 It was all very informative, with pictures, videos, tasks and games. All of the tasks kept me engaged and I enjoyed learning in this very ‘hands on’ way. It suits me. Paula from the interview was very moving.”

“The information imparted to me today will be crucial in my social care practice when working with parents with children in the home and there is hoarding.”

“Informative, engaging and training that was FUN!”

“Steven’s training is always exceptional. The actors were all fabulous and it was a very rewarding day. I will practice what I have learned today.”

“I had little to no knowledge about hoarding before today and that has now VASTLY improved. The many tasks in the class enhanced my understanding and about each of the concepts Steven shared with us.”

“Steve gave me a great insight into the subject. Stuff I had NO idea about.”

“Steve kept the training engaging, fun and relevant to the people of Stoke on Trent. Not many other trainers do that! Excellent! I look forward to attending more of Steve’s training, especially motivational interviewing.”

“A fantastic (and dare I say intense) learning day. The trainer was very knowledgeable and approachable and answered everyone’s questions.”

“The training was very engaging, informative and very, very interactive. No death by PowerPoint! I have LEARNT A LOT! The reference list at the end of the training will be ever so helpful, thank you Steven.”

“Excellent training, very informative. The trainer (Steven) made the training both engaging and fun and the day just flew by. I didn’t look at my phone once!”

“Great training as always with Mr Talbot. Very engaging and informative and relevant to my role. Thank you. 😊”