Conversations for Change (with Curiosity from PACE)(4/5): OPEN COURSE

* This is advanced-level training for those who have already undertaken our PACE Mindset course *

This course incorporates teachings from Dr. Marshall Rosenberg's "Nonviolent Communication" and Dr. Stephen Rollnick's "Motivational Interviewing," equipping you with effective communication techniques that foster genuine connections, especially in emotionally charged situations.

Join us for the "Conversations for Change with Curiosity" training—an engaging session grounded in solid theory. Curiosity is a vital tool for working with young people, promoting understanding and driving meaningful change.

You will gain valuable resources and strategies to enhance your therapeutic engagement and learn effective documentation methods for showcasing your work to Ofsted and other partner agencies.

Key components of the training:

1. Explain the importance of building rapport and therapeutic alliance.
2. Understand the history and evidence base of positive psychology and its practical applications.
3. Cultivate deep listening skills and apply basic young person-focused counselling skills.
4. Practice using solution-focused conversations to support individuals, explore their own needs, and empower them to change their behaviours.
5. Discover how our own desire to support others can force disengagement.
6. Consider how we build or destroy empathy in relationships.
7. Consider how solution-focused conversations can help people move towards recovery, or how we can hinder people from changing their behaviour.
8. Relate to yourself and others with honesty, compassion and self-awareness.
9. Have clarity about the motivations driving what you and others say and do.
10. Feel more confident in having difficult conversations and expressing disagreement while working collaboratively with others for long-lasting change.
11. Understand how we structure our communication styles relating to Needs vs Strategies, Feelings, Observations and Requests and how our chosen style impacts the outcome.
12. Discuss the appropriate use of verbal and nonverbal communication skills.
13. Staying safe, grounded and open when challenged.

Suitable for:

Our PACE suite is suitable for a wide range of individuals. We recommend a yearly refresher to ensure that practices stay fresh and to help prevent the worker from reverting to the style of parenting they experienced:

• Social Workers: Case managers, child welfare workers, and community organisers.
• Caregivers: Residential workers, care home staff, Foster carers, adoptive parents, and kinship caregivers.
• Mental Health Professionals: Therapists, counselors & social workers.
• Educators: Also see "PACE for Schools" - Teachers, school counselors, and special education professionals.
• Birth Parents: Use "PACE for Parents" instead. Our workforce development training program is not designed to provide individual therapy. Some content may be triggering, and it will not be appropriate to address specific individual examples or development needs in front of the group.

Testimonials:

You can take a look at what people are saying about our training HERE.

Those seeking to be certified in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) or to further explore PACE in action are invited to visit the founder's website.

Format: This is a live training session through "Zoom". It includes taught sections, small group work, work in pairs, and whole group discussions.

Hand-outs & Certificates: Downloadable resource library and certificates of attendance are provided.