Exploring ways to capture the voice of the child

Posted: 24/05/2023

Overview: Many of us who have worked with children have grappled with how we can effectively include the perspective and voice of children in our program development, planning and evaluation. Exploring ways to capture the voice of the child is a core skills online…

Strengths-based supervision: reflecting on practice

Posted: 24/05/2023

Overview: Supervision plays a pivotal role in professional development, and a strengths based approach to supervision can be highly effective and rewarding with its focus on shared responsibility, shared learning and shared leadership. Supervision – a strength based approach is a workshop designed to re-energise…

PREMIUM Strengths approach to practice – course bundle

Posted: 23/03/2023

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…

Strengths approach to client-centred recording

Posted: 23/03/2023

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…

Navigating the playground and other transitions

Posted: 30/09/2022

Overview: Transitioning from one year to another, school to home, classroom to playground or within the playground, can be challenging. Children are expected to move from one activity to another, one setting to another and one relationship to another. For example, there can be…

Challenging conversations and how to handle them

Posted: 09/05/2022

Overview: Have you had conversations that didn’t go the way you’d hoped? Do you regularly encounter challenging situations where you have to choose your words carefully? We would all like to think that we remain calm and rational when facing a challenging situation or…

Strengths approach to practice

Posted: 20/09/2019

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…

Tools for building social & emotional literacy in the early years

Posted: 30/05/2019

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…

Tools for wellbeing in human services work

Posted: 14/05/2019

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…

Strengths approach to challenging conversations 

Posted: 14/05/2019

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…

Stepping into supervision: a strengths approach

Posted: 30/04/2019

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…