overview
The 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 find solutions.
In this comprehensive introduction to the strengths approach, you will learn a range of immediately applicable strategies that you can use in your work and personal life. Through a series of videos, reflective exercises, written and visual content, 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?
- We also explore a range of tools you can use to guide conversations with people who are experiencing complex challenges. These tools have been developed to help guide your interactions with people, to increase the likelihood of a positive outcome.
what to expect
- Introduction to the strengths approach,
- Understand the concepts of power-over and power-with
- Strengths-based conversations
- Strengths-based skills and tool
resources used
Text, images, video, reflections and exercisessuitable for
- social workers,
- counsellors,
- managers,
- educators
- in fact, anyone who works with others.
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.