This one day interactive workshop will offer you an opportunity to challenge, enhance, and strengthen skills in:

Information gathering

Assessment and decision making

Intervention planning

Maintaining objectivity

Building emotional awareness

Moving from complexity to creativity

Working with people will always carry a degree of unpredictability despite the evidence and research based theory that supports our practice. There are times when we construct the best laid plans with families and make confident well informed decisions that still end up having a different outcome to what we anticipated. Often this results in a low persistent hum of uncertainty that can both pervade and invade the work we do. This workshop is divided into two parts beginning with exploring different components of the social work process and how we can build the safety through these. This will include exploration of solution focused, strengths based, and risk estimation theory and the defining of good enough care. We will then look at personal and agency responsibility and strategies for accepting and constructively managing complexity. This one day interactive workshop explores, strengthens and supports social work practice. It will be of value to practitioners across the range of social work disciplines. The concepts used in this workshop are drawn from an international context. Delivery within New Zealand has generated the following feedback:

It gave me a whole new perspective on the way I already practice. Empowering!

I have loads of ideas on how to progress my work within my agency

Thanks N+C loved the energy, humour, rigour of ideas, celebration of the profession

Good facilitation with humor and humility, as well as confidence in the purpose and process of running the workshop, and a passion for this work and profession

It was a great day, very thought provoking discussion.

This workshop most definately gave me new knowledge and ideas, and was very entertaining

Completely facilitated my learning. Very stimulating

So affirming to hear the social work voice being celebrated beyond structured decision making tools and how agencies can best support this

It was so important to hear a deeper analysis around strengths based practice and connecting this to safety.

Loved the questions to help build safety and move out of the blame frame to realistically construct what is possible.