overview
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 clients’ strengths.
Social workers, counsellors, managers, educators—and anyone who works with others—can become a catalyst for building cultures where strengths and connectedness flourish, so that clients build resilience, capacity for lasting change and genuine ‘agency’ in their own lives. This highly engaging and practical training facilitates participants’ learning of strengths-based principles, skills and resources that can be applied immediately in their work.
what to expect
In this comprehensive and engaging workshop, you will learn a range of immediately applicable strategies that you can use in your work and personal life. You will explore questions like:
- How can I reduce power imbalances and increase empowerment?
- How can I frame conversations so that they are solution-oriented rather than problem-oriented?
- How can I ask great questions to create the conditions for change?
suitable for
- Social workers
- Counsellors
- Educators
- Mental health professionals
- Health workers
- Managers & supervisors
facilitator
Private: Sue King-Smith
Sue has moved across from community development work within Anglicare Victoria’s St Luke’s, to develop a new e-learning platform for Innovative Resources. She holds a PhD in Creative Arts along with degrees and diplomas in the humanities, teaching and management, and is an accredited life coach. Her community services work and teaching is informed by strengths-based and solution-focused approaches, and she has a long-standing interest in transpersonal psychology. Sue is also a published poet and nonfiction writer. For three years, she was the co-editor of the literary ezine, The Animist, which was archived under the National Library’s Pandora Project. She has just finished a stint as chief editor for the Melbourne Poets Union.
Need more info
Get in touch to ask a question or explore delivery options. We offer custom workshops and can guide you toward the best training format for your goals.