Contents
- Solution-Focused Supervision and Management training
- Consolidating Skills in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy introductory course in May
- Brian Cade farewell
- Training in Orange (NSW Central West)
- Strengths and Solutions in Schools Training
- Signs of Safety training in Sydney
- Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling
- Find us on Facebook
Solution-Focused Supervision and Management training
Michael Durrant will be presenting the course Solution-Focused Supervision and Management in Parramatta in May.
This two-day course explores the implications of Solution-focused thinking for supervising and managing staff (particularly, but not exclusively) within welfare/counselling contexts by looking at what it might mean to use a philosophy and process derived from Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in the supervision of staff. If we are serious about trying to treat our staff in a way that is consistent with how we treat our clients, what difference might this actually make?
Participants will gain practical methods for working with staff in ways that enhance their sense of competence and effectiveness. A framework for supervisory conversations will be presented and its use in a variety of counselling/welfare contexts will be explored - including how "strengths-based" conversations can be used in potential disciplinary situations and/or where the organisation has a "bottom line" that is not open to negotiation.
Parramatta — 14 & 15 May 2009 — details HERE.
Consolidating Skills in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
The "advanced" course Consolidating Skills in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy will be offered in Parramatta in June.
This two-day course builds on the course Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Comprehensive Introduction and offers participants the opportunity to refine and consolidate their skills. The emphasis is on participants' own experience of using Solution-Focused ideas and tools — with consideration of the things that have worked or been helpful as well as looking at places where people have felt stuck.
The course is participatory and practical.
Parramatta — 11 & 12 June 2009 — details HERE.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Comprehensive Introduction
This popular two-day course offers a systematic introduction to the Strengths Perspective and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. A variety of REAL clinical examples will illustrate the use of the various major tools of the approach.
This course is offered a number of times during the year and is often sold-out!
Parramatta — 18 & 19 May 2009 — details HERE.
Brian Cade has been "a legend" in Brief and Family Therapy circles in Sydney for the last twenty years plus.
Brian and Marjory have decided to return to the UK permanently and will be leaving Australia at the end of May.
Brian has been a valued friend for many years. We are organising a farewell dinner - probably somewhere around Epping - for the evening of 6 May.
If you would like the opportunity to join in farewelling Brian, please email Michael.
Training in Orange ( NSW Central West)
We will be offering two training courses in Orange in June/July 2009.
The two-day training course Solution-focused Brief Therapy: A Comprehensive Introduction will be held on Monday & Tuesday, 29th & 30th June.
For details, and to register, go to: www.brieftherapysydney.com.au/courses/intro.html
The training course Strengths and Solutions in Schools — designed for teachers, Year Coordinators, Deputy Principals and any school personnel concerned with welfare and discipline, who are interested in exploring strengths-based approaches in schools — will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, 1st & 2nd July.
For details, and to register, go to: www.strengths-in-schools.com/2daycourse.html
Strengths and Solutions in Schools Training
For Deputy Principals, Year Advisers/Co-ordinators, Head Teachers (Welfare) ... The Strengths Perspective, the Solution-Focused Brief approach, and some insights from Positive Psychology provide some different ways of approaching welfare and discipline.
Our popular 2-day training course is designed for student welfare and School Executive staff. It offers an opportunity to work with professionals from a range of schools in exploring the role that a focus on strengths and resilience can play in student welfare and provides PRACTICAL Solution-focused tools for having more productive conversations with students, parents and colleagues ... conversations that promote CHANGE.
Parramatta
Thursday & Friday, 21 & 22 May 2009.
Orange
Wednesday and Thursday, 1 & 2 July 2009.
For details, and to register, go to: www.strengths-in-schools.com/2daycourse.html.
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The approach helps you focus on outcomes rather than getting bogged down in what the problem is. It forces you into thinking about the future. That kind of thinking about students and school becomes inspirational. — Neil Worsley, Principal, Georges River Secondary College (Hurstville BHS campus) |
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Signs of Safety training in Sydney
Our colleague, Andrew Turnell from Perth, will be conducting a two-day workshop on Solution-Focused ideas in Child Protection work in Sydney in May.
The Signs of Safety is an innovative strengths-based, safety-organised approach to child protection casework, created in Western Australia by Andrew Turnell and Steve Edwards working with over 140 front-line statutory practitioners. The Signs of Safety model is an approach created by practitioners, based on what they know works with difficult cases. The approach has attracted international attention and is being used in jurisdictions in North America, Europe and Australasia.
Andrew Turnell is an independent social worker, brief family therapist and child protection consultant from Perth, Western Australia. As well as international consultancy and teaching work, Andrew maintains a clinical practice working solely with families where child maltreatment has occurred or is suspected but the parents deny responsibility. Andrew has published extensively on the subjects of brief therapy and child protection, including his most well known works: Turnell, A. and Edwards, S. (1999). Signs of Safety: A Solution and Safety Oriented Approach to Child Protection Casework, New York: Norton. Turnell, A. and Essex, S. (2006). Working with 'Denied' Child Abuse: The Resolutions Approach, Open University Press.
For details of this training and to download a registration form, go to http://signsofsafety.net — click on "Training Events", then scroll down to May.
Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling
Michael Durrant has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling.
This publication is a quality peer-reviewed journal of the Australian Guidance and Counselling Association (AGCA). The AGCA is a professional association providing leadership and support to its more than 1000 members who work in school settings as school psychologists, guidance officers and school counsellors.
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