TRAINING, CONSULTATION AND SUPERVISION PROGRAMME 2007
We are making plans for our 2007 Professional Programme. Please find below a list of workshops and services that we offer. We currently have time available to work with organisations and individuals in London, Manchester and other locations. If you have some ideas about what we might be able to offer do give us a call and we can discuss what you or your organisation might want.
At The Pink Practice we have experience in the fields of counselling, youth work, family therapy, social work, multi-disciplinary teams, group dynamics, community and organisational development in the both voluntary and statutory sectors. We are experienced trainers, team consultants and registered supervisors.
Our approach to professional development involves learning from the experiences of people with whom we are working and putting that knowledge to use in understanding issues of diversity, power and relationships whether at home or in the workplace. We value people's strengths and try to develop positive and creative thinking. Working in organisations which deal with diversity, inequality and wellbeing brings particular stresses but also a richness of commitment and life experience which workers bring with them into their workplace. Our job is to work with organisations, their workforce, management committees and their leaders to maximise strengths and develop skills.
Training Workshops
Creating New Knowledges: Putting Our Experience Out There
A workshop to develop plans for public documentation in any medium of
Supporting the Creation of New and Inclusive Family / Team Scripts
Teams and families grow, change shape and take on different values over the years. Sometimes these systems go through changes without a hitch. At other times things can become quite unstable and people feel unhappy, undervalued and unsupported. It can be useful to look at what is happening with an outside consultant and develop creative strategies for getting through bumpy periods and actively moving towards a more settled and integrated time.
Working Across Difference
People are expected to use common sense or empathy to connect across many different kinds of lived experience, culture or identity - yet people often feel they have to leave aspects of their own experience at home where they feel it can be kept safe. This workshop offers teams ways of positively connecting with their own "knowing" and "not knowing" to develop more respect, comfort and confidence in the use of oneself and each other in the workplace.
Explore Your Own Relationships or Family Tree: A Workshop For Staff
Where people are working with members of the public as well as colleagues, it can make for a rich experience to explore one's own and each other's relationship or family trees and think about the range of stories about what counted as normal regarding gender, sexuality, ability, culture, health and power which may influence one's attitude to service users, one's role in teams or in relation to leadership. It can also be an opportunity to map out the history of an organsaition and place the existing staff team at the heart of the current generation of influence.
Beyond The Spoken Word: Working with People Who Don't Do Talk
This is a workshop for those working with people who find traditional talking therapy inaccessible as a way of communicating. Through case discussion and exercises, this workshop encourages creative ways of connecting with people of all ages and abilities who have something to say - just not in a spoken form.
If you have an idea for a training programme which you think we might be able to provide then call us to discuss it and we will tell you if this is something we feel we can offer.
Consultation to Teams and Managers
We work with teams and / or managers to find ways of moving through stuckness or negativity, to develop better communication and valuing of people's contributions. It is inevitable, given the pressures on staff at work and from elsewhere, that teams develop difficulties from time to time. In some instances, it can help to bring in someone from outside the organisation to help a team or a manager find positive ways of overcoming the difficulties.
Supervision
As registered supervisors we work with both teams and individuals in discussing work with clients. Our theoretical model draws on social constructionist ideas of seeing theories as stories which have differing consequences depending on how they are used. This lends itself to working with groups or individuals who draw on a range of theoretical models in their work.
We have two supervision groups starting in central London on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and can offer supervision in Manchester.
Please feel free to email or ring us for a discussion about your training, consultation or supervision needs. We will be most happy to talk with you.
Contact:
Gail Simon
Training Co-ordinator
www.pinkpractice.co.uk
info@pinkpractice.co.uk
Ring: 020 7060 4000
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We are making plans for our 2007 Professional Programme. Please find below a list of workshops and services that we offer. We currently have time available to work with organisations and individuals in London, Manchester and other locations. If you have some ideas about what we might be able to offer do give us a call and we can discuss what you or your organisation might want.
At The Pink Practice we have experience in the fields of counselling, youth work, family therapy, social work, multi-disciplinary teams, group dynamics, community and organisational development in the both voluntary and statutory sectors. We are experienced trainers, team consultants and registered supervisors.
Our approach to professional development involves learning from the experiences of people with whom we are working and putting that knowledge to use in understanding issues of diversity, power and relationships whether at home or in the workplace. We value people's strengths and try to develop positive and creative thinking. Working in organisations which deal with diversity, inequality and wellbeing brings particular stresses but also a richness of commitment and life experience which workers bring with them into their workplace. Our job is to work with organisations, their workforce, management committees and their leaders to maximise strengths and develop skills.
Training Workshops
A workshop to develop plans for public documentation in any medium of
- users' abilities and experience of an organsation
- an organisation's service delivery
- a particular project recorded by staff and/or users
- experience of a unique subject area or unique contribution to the field
Teams and families grow, change shape and take on different values over the years. Sometimes these systems go through changes without a hitch. At other times things can become quite unstable and people feel unhappy, undervalued and unsupported. It can be useful to look at what is happening with an outside consultant and develop creative strategies for getting through bumpy periods and actively moving towards a more settled and integrated time.
People are expected to use common sense or empathy to connect across many different kinds of lived experience, culture or identity - yet people often feel they have to leave aspects of their own experience at home where they feel it can be kept safe. This workshop offers teams ways of positively connecting with their own "knowing" and "not knowing" to develop more respect, comfort and confidence in the use of oneself and each other in the workplace.
Where people are working with members of the public as well as colleagues, it can make for a rich experience to explore one's own and each other's relationship or family trees and think about the range of stories about what counted as normal regarding gender, sexuality, ability, culture, health and power which may influence one's attitude to service users, one's role in teams or in relation to leadership. It can also be an opportunity to map out the history of an organsaition and place the existing staff team at the heart of the current generation of influence.
This is a workshop for those working with people who find traditional talking therapy inaccessible as a way of communicating. Through case discussion and exercises, this workshop encourages creative ways of connecting with people of all ages and abilities who have something to say - just not in a spoken form.
If you have an idea for a training programme which you think we might be able to provide then call us to discuss it and we will tell you if this is something we feel we can offer.
Consultation to Teams and Managers
We work with teams and / or managers to find ways of moving through stuckness or negativity, to develop better communication and valuing of people's contributions. It is inevitable, given the pressures on staff at work and from elsewhere, that teams develop difficulties from time to time. In some instances, it can help to bring in someone from outside the organisation to help a team or a manager find positive ways of overcoming the difficulties.
Supervision
As registered supervisors we work with both teams and individuals in discussing work with clients. Our theoretical model draws on social constructionist ideas of seeing theories as stories which have differing consequences depending on how they are used. This lends itself to working with groups or individuals who draw on a range of theoretical models in their work.
We have two supervision groups starting in central London on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and can offer supervision in Manchester.
Please feel free to email or ring us for a discussion about your training, consultation or supervision needs. We will be most happy to talk with you.
Contact:
Gail Simon
Training Co-ordinator
www.pinkpractice.co.uk
info@pinkpractice.co.uk
Ring: 020 7060 4000