Waypoint Training

Compassionate Solution Focused Practice

Introduction To The Course

This is a skills-based course inviting you to practise using a range of solution focused techniques to engage quickly and effectively with service users and to evaluate the solution focused approach for working in your own context. This course is suitable for people new to Solution Focused approaches and for experienced practitioners who want to understand the latest updates and is delivered over 2 half days.

Once upon a time, solution-focused approaches relied so heavily on questioning that it could lead to a failure to validate struggles, distress and negative emotions. SF approaches have sometimes been misunderstood to be a rush to ‘quick fixes’ and have therefore been associated with what has been called ‘toxic positivity’.  Although this should never have been part of SF approaches, the approach covered in this skills-based course makes it easier to adopt an emotion-focused and collaborative style that honours human distress and instils hope.

As well as understanding the assumptions of a solution focused approach and describing key techniques for working in a solution focused way, this new approach to Solution-Focused conversations moves from a question-heavy approach to validating emotions compassionately.

 

 

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What you will learn

  • Discuss the role of hope in making changes
  • Describe the characteristics of a preferred future
  • Identify instances of “what’s working”
  • Identify key assumptions of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), including the role of compassion
  • Practise using some key SF techniques: Best Hopes; Preferred Future; Miracle Question; Scaling
  • Compare SF approaches with the way you currently work.
Made aware of more techniques that can be used different ways of approaching situations

Course price and additional information

(£95 – third sector organisations, £120 – statutory, public and private organisations)

Book this course and receive a £15 discount for your next open course booking

To get the best from this course, you will have previously attended counselling skills training. It is also a great introduction to prepare you for the Using Motivational Interviewing Compassionately course. Why not book both for a discount?

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We are attentive to what’s going on for our learners and always encourage them to be up front with us about what they need. We model what we teach so you can expect a compassionate, collaborative and safe response from us. This is tailored to the person so varies widely.

We would offer ongoing emotional support as suited to your progression with us on a course, whether it’s specific learning needs, confidence, motivation or anxiety and would help you access additional support if needed. You are always welcome to contact us in advance if you want to discuss your particular needs. We will always try to flag up if a section of a course might be more upsetting for some people.

We offer a range of courses relating to personal development and actively encourage a diversity of experiences. Often people who use services want to see what it’s like “from the inside” and are interested to understand a little more formally what the various approaches might have been that they experienced while accessing a service so we’d encourage that (again, if suitable for the individual).

Sometimes, it can be a little unsettling for staff to have people who use services on the same training as them and we make it clear is a course might not be suitable for a given individual. The best thing to do is talk to us if you’re considering this.

Occasionally we get funding to cover costs so it’s worth keeping an eye out on our website. Generally, we are unable to source costs for individuals. They might be able to claim expenses from your own organisation of course.

Oh, yes. We send out attendance certificates at the end of the course. If it’s an accredited course, you’ll get a fancy certificate (or two!) from the Awarding Body.

Several courses are accredited – see the Accredited Courses section for details.

You will never have to disclose anything you do not wish to disclose and we will ensure no pressure is put on you to do so. A key way we learn, however, is to draw on our own experiences and all our courses will ask you to think about how you make sense of some ideas or ways of behaving that we’ve been discussing.

You’ll be invited to share your thoughts sometimes in pairs or small groups and we often have whole group discussions where, again, you would be welcome to explore your ideas. We know that training can be a bit scary sometimes and we do our utmost to get the level of challenge just right for everyone. This means we might have different approaches with different people on different occasions.

We will give you information about how many hours study has been involved. We are not allied to any particular professional organisation for CPD.
Get in touch and tell us what works best for you. We will do everything we reasonably can to make the training as accessible to you as it is to anyone else.
In our attempts to save the planet, we try to minimise our use of paper so we make materials available electronically when we can. Also, it’s a great idea not to spend all your time with us taking notes so we tend not to give PowerPoint handouts until after the event. If you need them beforehand, just let us know.
Generally, 10 am to 4.30 pm. Half days are typically 10am to 1pm or 1.30am to 4.30pm. If we’re doing some specific training for an organisation, we go with what they are wanting.
Probably. Get in touch if you have any concerns or queries.
It depends. Some courses say clearly that they have particular prior learning requirements. For example, most skills-based courses will require you to have good counselling skills. Apart from our introductory counselling skills courses!
Some courses build on firmly established skills, knowledge and/or attitudes. This is clearly indicated in the relevant course descriptions.

Only in the Caribbean or New Zealand. (Just kidding!) Give us a call and we’d love to work out what’s best. Online courses can generally be easily accessed from abroad.

We’re based in Yorkshire but travel all over the country.
If there’s anything specific, it’s mentioned in the particular course description. We’ll make this clear when confirming your place. Some courses do require prior learning too.

For skills-based course, we keep the ratio of 12 learners to one trainer. We often train larger groups with a suitable number of trainers. If it’s not a skills-based course, we tend to limit it to 20 but training can be very successful with very large groups and so we adjust the learning activities to suit the size of the group.

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