In this episode of The Fair Ways People Podcast, Fair Ways is joined by Gethin Jones, founder of Unlocking Potential and passionate advocate for trauma-informed change.

Gethin shares his journey through social care, children’s homes, secure units, the justice system, addiction, and recovery, exploring how trauma, institutionalisation, and exclusion can shape a person’s life. He discusses the HOPE model, the power of lived experience, and why relapse should be seen as part of learning rather than failure.

Gethin also shares how consistency, identity, relationships, and human-to-human leadership helped transform his life and now shape his work with staff, leaders, prisons, charities, and local authorities.

It’s a raw and inspiring conversation about seeing the person behind the behaviour and creating systems that understand tra ...