Delegate Evaluations for Brief Therapy Courses

Working with young people & families training:

It has taught me how to interact better with parents – Maxine Roberts, Playworker

Its helped me be more aware of how to deal with parents and children around certain issues – Terri Holley, Playworker

I have been on many of your courses – so that must tell you what sort of an impact it has on me. These training courses are a must for anyone working with children, young people and adults. – Lisa Samms, Project Co-ordinator

Extremely useful in my work with families who have a disabled child/children. Enhanced communication skills with parents and children. – Aly Trenholme, Family Outreach Worker.

Lewisham Childrens Fund

It has given me a lot of useful ideas about Supervision, working with colleagues and with pupils. – Sue Wiseman, Behaviour Support Teacher

Enabled me to have a broader understanding of how and what to expect from Supervision – Karen Wood, Counsellor/Mentor

I felt it to be very structured and I have left the training with a clear sense of how to use the approach – Rebekah Salmon, Social Inclusion Co-ordinator

It has enabled me to see an effective way into supervision with staff and hopefully some input into developing supportive peer practice amongst staff generally – Zara Candassamy, Manager LSU

Vast amount of useful information, including the ability to pull other strengths as opposed to weaknesses – Sylvia Joseph, Learning Mentor

Will enable me to be much more focussed in my work with others and will enable e to focus on my own approach to work. An extremely useful day.- Sian Williams EiC, Inclusion Officer.

Offered a structured, transparent framework for supervision. Good day, informative and well delivered – offering good value. – Paul Senior, Director of Social Inclusion

The content was very relevant to our project in which we are introducing parenting skills with a non-judgemental approach to parents in schools in Barking and Dagenham. We have spent a year delivering ‘user friendly’ workshops to a wide variety of parents and have worked more recently on adapting existing parenting courses to be less paper based for our use.Just prior to the training day we had become increasingly frustrated as we tried to offer something real and relevant and which brought about change, rather than just giving information and ‘parenting at’ people.(Our whole ethos as one of a group of community projects is to see cycles broken and a change of mindset in those that we reach out to.)

Excellence in Cities

The impact of the training? – the revision and increased knowledge and understanding of Solution Focused practice, increased awareness of focusing on the positive in people and how resourceful they often are – versus – pathologising! I intend to introduce, more than I do, the positive focus in the process of change.

Dr Charlotte Harris

The training has given me a basis of a more positive way of working with people – empowering them and less likely to allow counsellor dependancy. I will use the tools to enhance my one to one and couples work – more positive and affirming of client’s competencies.

Julia Murphy

Thanks for practical and positive tools to use, and such an honest approach that has impacted our work immediately.

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Amanda Simmons and Millie Easter

The training gave me some good skills and ideas which were easy to put into a practical setting. I am already using exercises in Groupwork and 1:1

Claire Wetton

A confirmation that the positive approach to solutions does work. The need not to focus on the problem. I will be using the approach to enable parents to set goals to bring about change to break cycles.

Millie Easter

The training offered refocusing of work undertaken and confirmation of good practice.

Mark Sanger

The training has clarified skills and strategies I have used previously as well as informing me of new ways of engaging with young people to help them find better ways of dealing with situations they face. The principals of Groupwork facilitation outlined were particularly helpful, e.g. “challenge the offence without losing the offender”. This approach will be a great help in my work. I expect the skills I have learnt will help me in managing difficult Groupwork in schools more effectively and for the benefit of the young people.

Mark Seyler

The training encouraged evaluation of work with young people at present – and possible new intervention/skills to incorporate.

Matthew Doocey