Delegate Evaluations for Brief Therapy Courses

I completed a session with a young person this morning, where I used the scaling ladder activity, it was a success! Really helped me and the child to gain an understanding of where they are now and how small changes will help them to move up the ladder.

I think my way of working will change for the better following Eileen’s training, my approach has already changed, and I feel less responsibility to be the one to ‘FIX’ everything, and instead focus on empowering the person to make their own changes for the better, keeping it small. ?

Thank you so much Eileen, your training was uplifting, powerful and full of useful strategies that I can use with families and young people, it was refreshing to leave a training course with actual tools that I can put into practice.

Key learning for me: There is so much power in keeping things small, not trying to over complicate things, not trying to fix everything and not needing to fill the silence!

Lucy Gurner

I’ve attended training with Eileen Murphy before, and it was brilliant to attend again as a refresher and to reconnect with her. Eileen is an amazing facilitator and makes the training really engaging and practical. I already use techniques like exceptions, scaling and reframing with families and adapting them into games for children and this training has further strengthened my practise. It has  enhanced the support I provide to families and I will continue to use Eileen’s strategies moving forward. The strategies will empower families to find their own solutions and support lasting change

I have attended lots of training over the years and I have to say Eileen Murphy is the best out there. Not only the subject mater but she has a superb way of engaging with the group and making the training very informative but fun as well.

Jan Holvey

The training will positively impact the work I complete with families, I’ll feel more confident empowering them to make change & will feel less pressure to ‘fix’ and feel more comfortable sitting in silence, letting them ‘figure it out’ to increase their resilience.  Since the training, I have completed some sessions with the families I support using the strategies & ideas from the training, and I’ve already noticed that I feel a lot more confident delivering the work and can see how much the families benefit too. A Mum shared with me at the end of the session ‘I feel really motivated after today, I feel like I can go out and do things I’ve been telling myself I can’t do for the last six months’.

Lowri Morgan

The training was very engaging and Eileen delivered it beautifully. I found it extremely inspiring and it has opened my eyes to a lot of things which will help me in my work.

I work closely with a lot of young people aged 16-24 as I help with our employability courses. The participant often comes to me with various struggles/barriers and after taking part in this course I am better equipped to deal with them and to hopefully help make a difference. This training has provided me with a great insight into mentoring and I look forward to developing these skills further and potentially pursue a mentoring role in the future.

Rebecca Williams

I have already utilized some aspects of the training in my work, particularly The Change Balloon and Miracle Question. This has been hugely positive and has enabled children, young people and families to consider solutions for their problem/issues. The training was so much more than Solution Focused  – very engaging and truly inspiring. The content and delivery was amazing. I would highly recommend the training to my colleagues.

Carly Evans

As a Community Employment Mentor, I workl with a range of clients and support them with their employability needs and life skills. The Solution Focused training has given me additional knowledge, skills and techniques that I an now apply during my conversations and sessions with people. It will be very useful to have these skills, particularly when clients are struggling to find answers for themselves and I often find it tempting to provide the answers for them.  Eileen was really engaging and very interesting with a huge raft of experience. The two days were really well spent.

Shan Day

The training has given us a new toolkit in how to support people to dig deep and thin about the resources they have within themselves to overcome their difficulties. It will change the way I talk to people in that rather than try to be “positive” and perhaps risking coming across as frivolous – I will be listening more and thinking of ways to reframe the negative terms and situation in order to draw on the person’s strengths.

The training shows you that you don’t have to keep going over the past but look at small and achievable steps that the client comes up with themselves. The training will definitely improve the way we work with people and talk with them will hopefully build resilience in the people we are supporting. Thank you for your wisdom Eileen, this is the best training I have ever done.

Zoe Brock

I feel this training will help me greatly to put the right questions to the Mentoring clients that I have and will help me carry out my job to a higher standard. I learnt so much and I feel that because Eileen made it fun and far from boring, she triggered me to remember that I was taught. I absolutely loved it!

Nikki Lynch

This training has empowered me to think, communicate and work in a strength-based and solution-focused way. Though I was aware of the effectiveness of this approach, this training has given me the confidence to fully commit to it and put it into practice. Eileen’s delivery of this training was most definitely the element that made it as beneficial as it was – she really helped us to visualize what the approach looks like in practice, not just explain the theory behind it which is what has helped me feel more confident in putting it into practice which I have done and already I can see how effective it can be! Plus, she was incredibly entertaining which really kept me engaged.

Shannon Keogh

The training has given me confidence that will enable me to become more effective in helping families to bring about by focusing on what works well for them and by offering strengths-based support. The training was excellent, one of the best courses that I have attended. Eileen’s enthusiasm was infection and her knowledge is amazing. It was a brilliant three days that didn’t feel like training at all, yet I left there feeling that I had learnt so much.

Kerry Harris