My philosophy is that learning should be fun!

You won’t experience  ’death by PowerPoint’  with my training, but you will enjoy interactive and engaging workshops. I can tailor-make training to suit your needs;  please contact me to discuss your requirements.

I would usually expect to provide training on an in-house basis, however will be happy to arrange a venue if necessary, at additional cost.

Workshops include:

 

  • Communication and Presentation skills

An absolute must in today’s competitive marketplace. appropriate training can give you the edge; I have significant expertise in helping people from a wide range of backgrounds develop their interpersonal skills.

  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Hugh has been running solution focused training for several years, to agencies that include Humber Mental Health Trust, and Hull PCT (Addictions and Active Lifestyles Services). Training can be tailored to meet your needs, and the focus of your service.

The aims are:
To provide a theoretical overview of SFBT and basic techniques
And the Outcomes are that participants will be able to:
Identify the main features of SFBT
Describe the process of SFBT
Demonstrate the use of problem free talk, scaling questions and miracle questions.

  • Clinical Supervision

Hugh has been running clinical supervision training for several years and has a great deal of experience of both direct and indirect approaches to supervision.

These workshops cover:

Emotional Labour
Burnout
Compassion fatigue
Clinical supervision – introduction/definition
Models of clinical supervision
Skills of clinical supervision
Using a structured model of clinical supervision

  • Collaborative and Narrative approaches to relationships

A collaborative approach is based in an ideological shift regarding the way that we think about language and knowledge. This contributes to a philosophical stance or way of being naturally that flows from the shift; a way of being in relationship and conversation, including a way of thinking with, talking with, acting with, and responding with the people that we meet in any professional or personal context.

These workshops enable participants to explore relational and reflexive skills that will enhance communication and relationships in any context.

  • Bereavement and Loss

All of us experience loss in our lives, and this workshop is intended to offer new ways of thinking about our relationships with loss and challenges the old view that we need to ‘let go and move on’, instead offering possibilities for thinking about simply maintaining a relationship.

These workshops cover:

Historical contexts
Stages of Grief
Attachment Theory
Tasks of Grief
Complicated/Pathological Grief
Continuing Bonds
Narrative approaches

  • Therapeutic engagement

These workshops cover:

What is Therapeutic Engagement?
Empathy and appreciation
Transference & countertransference
Collaborative approaches
Dialogical approaches
Ending therapy

  • Skills of Dialogue

Dialogue is about what we value and how we define it. It is about discovering what our true values are, about looking beyond the superficial and automatic answers to our questions. Dialogue is about expanding our capacity for attention, awareness and learning with and from each other. It is about exploring the frontiers of what it means to be human, in relationship to each other and our world. Glenna Gerard, 1995.

This workshop is intended to enable participants from any background to appreciate the benefits that dialogue can bring – to any context where we interact with others.