Map for Learning

We know that attempting to navigate your own learning journey, alongside your busy roles can be challenging. In recognising the investment of your time in professional development we have designed a suite of workshops that will meet your needs at your level of experience, now and into the future.

We have mapped out the courses we offer using a three-tiered system. Simply identify the level or levels of learning that suit you and explore the accompanying courses.

Foundations for Practice

‘Foundations for Practice’ are courses designed for new practitioners with a strong focus on bedding down core theories for understanding and working alongside children and families.

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Digging Deeper

Have you been working for two years or more? The ‘Digging Deeper’ courses extend your theoretical knowledge whilst also providing you with practical strategies you can use in your day-to-day work.

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Mastering Your Craft

Take your learning to the highest level by challenging yourself with a course from the ‘Mastering Your Craft’ series, delving into the complexities of clinical therapeutic practice and emerging with richer understandings and approaches.

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Foundations for Practice: Building a Theoretical Base

Just like a child playing with building blocks, building our practice foundations is a process involving uncertainty, challenge, debate as well as curiosity, creativity and enjoyment!

We know that having shared language and theory is vital to good collaborative practice within your agency and the broader child and family service sector. Imagine being able to communicate your ideas to support the best interests of the child, generating improved outcomes.

If you want to begin to establish a theoretical understanding and speak confidently on the topics of trauma, attachment, development and systemic theories, this is the workshop for you!

Who Should Attend?

These workshops are designed to meet the professional needs of students and new practitioners to the child and family services sector. Also, practitioners who are wanting to develop their levels of understanding and confidence in theoretical frameworks and build upon their practice tools are encouraged to attend.

Foundations for Practice: Building a Theoretical Base

Foundations for Practice Workshops:

The Making of Us: How childhood experiences shape our being (Child and Family Wellbeing series)

We all need a solid theoretical foundation to build our practice skills. This is a jam-packed workshop, full of theoretical frameworks and practice tools that will have immediate effect with the children and families you support.

Digging Deeper: From Theory to Practice

As a child grows into an adolescent, they establish an identity through a growing need for autonomy. Autonomy, meaning separating from our families and discovering what excites us and gives us purpose. The same could be said for a practitioner who finds themselves yearning to move forward in their own professional identity, forming an expertise that invigorates them.

If this sounds like you, then Digging Deeper is where your skill-set lies. Simply pick the specific practice area that best suits your field of interest.

Who Should Attend

The Digging Deeper workshops are designed for practitioners who have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in the child and family services sector, including but not limited to:

Residential care workers
Child Protection Practitioners (CP-2 through to CP-6)
Community and youth workers
Health professionals
Social workers
Psychologists
Counsellors

Digging Deeper Workshops:

From Category to Strategy: New Understandings of Attachment and Development (Child and Family Wellbeing series)

Do you want to learn how to use Attachment Theory as a strengths-based tool in your work? Drawing on the internationally recognised Dynamic Maturational Model, this workshop will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to transform your practice when using Attachment Theory in your work with children, young people and their families.

Mastering Your Craft: Engaging with Clinical Complexity

Just as our journey does not end when we reach the final developmental goal of adulthood, our professional development goals also do not cease when we reach a high level of competency within our clinical practice. Our learning journey is never-ending. Our curiosity simply continues to grow with our practice wisdom.

As we reach higher levels of practice understanding, we begin to notice greater complexity and important patterns emerging in the work that we do. This acknowledgement of complexity can highlight the limitations of manualised therapeutic approaches to practice. In essence, as our practice wisdom grows, we begin to learn to sit with the uncertainty of not knowing all of the answers. We appreciate that this is not always easy and our workshops are designed to bolster your professional capacity.

These workshops critique theory and take you into the complex nature of the day-to-day work. To do this, we directly draw on the work of leading national and international clinicians who are writing about and sharing their experiences of what they find works when faced with uncertainty and the unknown.

Mastering Your Craft: Engaging with Clinical Complexity

Mastering Your Craft Workshops:

Beyond the DSM V: Relational responses to self-harm and suicidality (Child and Family Wellbeing series)

Often working with young people who self-harm can leave practitioners feeling hopeless and unsure of how to support recovery. This workshop will introduce you to an innovative relational model of understanding self-harm with young people. The therapeutic framework will provide you with new approaches to practice that you can begin using in your work immediately.

The Road Map for Family Relationships: An introduction to Attachment Narrative Therapy (Child and Family Wellbeing series)

Working with complex relational trauma can feel like a minefield as a clinician. Just when you think you have found safe ground, the family can feel trapped in dangerous territory. Attachment Narrative Therapy provides you with a map to navigate this field of practice, adapting to the changing needs of your practice.