SOME OF OUR SUGGESTED STAFF WELL BEING WORKSHOPS
Psychological consultation for staff supporting children with complex needs
The Foundations Consultancy (TFC) offer either one off and/or ongoing psychological consultation sessions to staff supporting children and young people with complex needs to understand the child and the behaviours they are presenting with.
We can provide clinical supervision and reflective practice to facilitate the space to reflect on the difficulties being experienced by staff in supporting or working with children and young people with complex needs. This time can enable staff to make sense of the issues using an attachment and trauma informed understanding and a psychological formulation to guide successful engagement and relationships with the child.
Regular consultations with staff can enable a staff team to adopt a more psychologically informed approach, thereby ensuring the child has the most optimal chance of being understood in the context of their history and developing emotionally through a relational and therapeutically informed approach. Staff can bring their concerns that they have in managing the child/young person and develop a psychological formulation/understanding of the difficulties with advice and practical support regarding how best to respond to and manage these challenges.
These consultations can ensure that staff have an opportunity to reflect on their own emotional needs, this can prevent staff burn out and ensure that the young people’s difficulties are being given thorough clinical consideration.
Consultation is most successful when a team have been given the training offered by the Foundations Consultancy on attachment difficulties, therapeutic re-parenting and managing psychological difficulties in the looked after child.
"Wendy supports our residential care staff teams on a monthly basis and her insight, knowledge and understanding of attachment, trauma and children with complex needs has been invaluable. Our staff look forward to having time with her each month and it has helped them to really embed their knowledge of the PACE approach that we adopt as an organisation since Wendy has trained all of our staff. Wendy is warm and personable and is valued by our teams." Amy Watson, Hatch LTD, 2024
Supervision and Reflective Practice Sessions
We offer Supervision and Reflective practice sessions to staff teams and/or Individuals to enable them to reflect on their work. Supervision using a psychological framework can support the development of therapeutically informed practice and also supports professionals to think about the emotional impact of their work on their psychological well being.
Reflective practice can enhance our skills and enable us valuable time to think about what we are doing and whether what we are doing is effective and helpful. It is vital to emotional well being to ensure that professionals working with trauma have a space to talk about the impact their work is having upon them. Reflective practice enables us to develop professionally and personally.
For more information about the Foundations Consultancy's staff well-being training drop us a line to discuss your requirements.
Please contact us about offering nourishing and refreshing team training days for Organisations and team away days
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For more information about the Foundations Consultancy's staff well-being training drop us a line to discuss your requirements.
BUILDING RESILIENCE
Supporting staff teams to develop resilience and emotional well-being
This well-being and resilience workshop offers teams an opportunity to focus on their individual well being as well as team support and well being. Many front line and key work staff have been impacted enormously by the recent pandemic which has had a significant impact on work load, work place. stress, trauma and staff morale and mental health, all of which can lead to high levels of stress, anxiety and exhaustion.
This day supports staff to focus on the importance of understanding their emotional well-being, recognising indicators of stress and anxiety and supporting them to develop good self-care and self-soothing techniques. The aim of the day is to offer opportunities to develop staff team building and the building of individual as well as team resilience skills.
This is an uplifting and positive day and helps staff to leave the stresses of the last year behind and focus on their strengths and their goals for the future. The aim of the day is to offer opportunities to develop staff team building and the building of individual as well as team resilience skills.
The day offers delegates an opportunity to:
- reflect on the impact their work has on them professional and personally.
- understand how they respond to stress and trauma in the workplace.
- consider the systemic, organisational and cultural factors that impact their work.
- look at how stress and trauma can impact on well being and ability to fulfil their role
- consider how trauma informed organisational approaches can support well-being in the work place and ensure that policy, support systems and reflective supervision can support the development of safe and supportive practice enabling staff to feel valued.
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to build trust and relationships within staff teams helping them to understand each other's work place stresses. We focus on improving mental health and well-being in the work place, focussing on identifying, recognising and nurturing strengths, building resilience and identifying some of the challenges. These workshops support organisations/teams in their desire to become more attachment and trauma informed at an organisational level, placing emphasis on the need to nurture and support staff well being.
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For more information about the Foundations Consultancy's resilience and well-being training drop us a line to discuss your requirements.
We are fully accredited
PACE Training Residential Care Staff
Places still available on 19/20th March and 9/10th April 2025 in Warwickshire