Over the past 30 years, Innovative Resources has created many card sets that explore the strengths, skills and personal qualities that build and foster healthy relationships. We’ve developed this 90-minute workshop as a deep-dive into some of these resources and how they can spark…
Join us in this workshop designed to re-energise your approach to supervision. It creates a space to explore supervision that values collaboration, mutual respect, careful reflection and constructive challenge.
Family violence is a serious and often hidden crime. Sadly, the people involved may not realise that what they are experiencing or expressing constitutes family violence. No Room For Family Violence encourages users to recognise family violence and explore what they want in their relationships….
Everyday Strengths features people, like you and I, using their strengths and skills to connect, find hope and transform their lives in simple, yet profound ways. These cards are perfect for sparking conversations about gratitude, noticing the things that bring calm and peace, the power…
Over the past 30 years, Innovative Resources has created many card sets that explore the strengths, skills and personal qualities that build and foster healthy relationships. We’ve developed this 90-minute workshop as a deep-dive into some of these resources and how they can spark…
Nature can provide us with many examples of strengths we can draw on to inspire and sustain us. By looking carefully at the behaviours of animals, insects and plants, The Nature of Strengths encourages us to think about how we might apply their strengths…
overview Self-care is essential for those in helping professionals to sustain themselves emotionally, physically, and mentally—if we don’t look after ourselves, we can’t effectively support others. By implementing regular self-care strategies, we can help prevent burnout, maintain physical and mental health, set boundaries, model…
Parents and carers want to give their children the best start in life. One simple way they can do this is by helping children recognise and manage their feelings, body signals and reactions. As teachers, social workers, counsellors and wellbeing staff, we can support…
Everyone has strengths. Our qualities, capacities, relationships, values, stories, experiences, skills and material resources can all be strengths. But ‘the problem’ can easily be experienced as all-consuming, keeping clients and services alike stuck and creating barriers to change. Strengths-based practice focusses squarely on identifying, mobilising and…
In this course you will be provided with a short introduction to a Strengths Approach to Practice, to set the scene for exploration and reflection of the conscious and sub-conscious uses of power, and discover ways of taking a more ‘power-with’ approach to your…
This course is a short entree into Strengths Approach to Practice and provides: a practical tool to be able to immediately apply to your work as a strengths-based practitioner a short introduction into what working in a strengths-based way means an appetite to learning more about…
Strengths-based practice is about working respectfully with people. This course is a short entree into Strengths Approach to Practice and provides a concise summary of the fundamentals of the strengths approach. By the end of the course you will: * have an overview of the key…
This PREMIUM Strengths approach to practice course will help you build the skills to support others to identify, celebrate and mobilise their strengths. Why is this useful? When people are aware of their strengths and resources, they are much more likely to feel empowered to…
What if recording the work with clients became an empowering part of the work? This short course includes: traditional vs strengths-based records the power dynamics: what’s included in a record, the ‘story’ it tells, and who owns it tools for client-owned recording setting up…
Everyone has strengths. Our qualities, capacities, relationships, values, stories, experiences, skills and material resources can all be strengths. But ‘The Problem’ can easily be experienced as all-consuming, keeping clients and services alike stuck and creating barriers to change. Strengths-based practice focusses squarely on identifying, mobilising and celebrating…
In this highly-engaging workshop, delivered over four 90 minute sessions (or timed to suit), we explore diverse range of original resources developed especially for building social and emotional literacy in children. The resources are tools for generating change and strategies to encourage children to…
Every work place has its stressors, especially professions that support others such as human services and education. Whether you work directly with clients or students, or are located primarily in an office, you will be aware of the toll your work can take on…
Social workers, teachers, counsellors, and other human service workers often support individuals or families who are facing very difficult circumstances—and challenging conversations can be part of the work. Have you ever had a conversation that didn’t go the way you’d hoped? Ever wished you’d…
Strengths-based supervision creates a dynamic partnership of practice reflection and learning, with benefits flowing directly to clients. In this comprehensive course you will: explore the principles, purpose and processes of strengths-based supervision review some definitions and models of supervision learn how to create supervision…
