Why
A 20-day course for those wishing to practice Open Dialogue and Open Dialogue-informed approaches, in line with the international standard. This course covers the theoretical and practice-based knowledge and experience necessary to practice Open Dialogue, adapted to meet your particular organisation’s context.
This training is most often commissioned by organisations wishing to move towards Open Dialogue or Open Dialogue informed practice. It is ideal for whole teams, helping to build strong relationships that can support the work going forwards. We will bring a need-adapted and context specific approach to in house training, working with you and your stakeholders to ensure that the implementation and practice are suited to your organisational needs (and to the highest international standard).
About This Training
What the training includes:
- We use experiential exercises that invite participants to explore what they are bringing to the work and the way their own experience of social networks might influence their practice.
- We support participants to explore a social network perspective on distress and recovery, exploring what this perspective might offer those we work with.
- Working in your context, we learn how we can co-create dialogical spaces, using the twelve key elements of dialogic practice as a guide.
- We use role plays to help practitioners put theory into practice, finding their own dialogical style within the principles and practices of Open Dialogue.
Once core skills have been developed, training moves towards applying Open Dialogue in situations of crisis and worry – ensuring that practitioners feel resourced to work in more challenging contexts, as indicated by their particular pre-existing skills and experience. As planning is an integral part of an Open Dialogue network meeting, we will also cover dialogical planning – co-creating actions that the network are active participants in, making the most of the resources they have available.
Who
This course is aimed at people wishing to practice Open Dialogue or work in a dialogically informed way. This may include mental health and social care professionals, including those with Lived Experience (including Peer Support Workers and Lived Experience Practitioners).
When
This course can be commissioned by organisations. If you’d like to consider our Foundation Training for your organisation, please contact us for a conversation. We will explore what it is that you’re hoping for, and what you need.
Working with you, we will design a bespoke training package to achieve something that could help to resource your staff team to work in a new way (that is often closely connected to the values that brought them into the work in the first place) for the benefit of those who use your service. In addition to the Foundation Training, you may want to consider consultation and supervision.