Self Development Reflective Practice

For Groups and individuals

This series of CPD Study Sessions shines the spotlight on those ‘topics’ which arise most frequently in supervisory conversations. This is CPD for your Self Development/ Reflective Practice. We are running a number of scheduled events in this series but these and others are also available as bespoke sessions on request for groups/ teams or individuals:

on request events

Topics

Mindful Leadership

Focusing on the emerging literature about Mindful Leadership. This is interesting as it is about how we monitor/adapt our approach when we interact with others. Helpful in tricky/stressful conversations/situations.

We draw on practical techniques from the field of mindfulness. It is about developing ourselves and others we support. Core strategies are taken from the literature and the spotlight is on how we use them when leading others.

Workshop Themes include:

• Listening Differently e.g. when giving support

• Identifying the components of Mindful Leadership

• Mindful Leadership Toolkit of Strategies

• Becoming a Mindful Leader

• Mindful Leadership in the Healthcare/Caring Professions

A Mindful Day at Work – Integrating Mindful Strategies into everyday life

A How-To Day: exploring mindfulness & positive psychology strategies for increased focus, energy and happiness at work.

• What makes a good day at work?

• Thinking about attention/focus and how to enhance it.

• Flourishing – What does the positive psychology research tell us ?

• Your Circle of Influence (acceptance & committment aka ACT)

• Being Present/Intentions

• Structuring the day (as much as you are able)

• Refreshing your thinking – Mindful Moments ‘on the go’ (aka the 1 minute escape)

• Emotional Agility – Diffusing Tense Moments/Stress innoculation

• Flourishing in a work context

• Emails /Work communication

• Mindful Thinking

Mindful Meetings!

Resilience & Setbacks

Energy/Time management – avoiding Overload

Body Scan/Candle Flame/Walking meditation/Journaling

Appreciative Leadership & Coaching

Another approach where we abandon dwelling on problem infested practice and instead scrutinise what works …. So what can we do more of. This is applicable to project planning and clinical development. It is also very valuable in our own self development as practitioners.

• What is Appreciative Leadership – the basic background

• The Cycle for planning

• Appreciative Coaching – just a little bit different

• The Creative Café approach

Manage your energy not your time

This Seminar is based upon a way of viewing workload and time differently. I found this approach transformed my approach to my working day and especially times when I completed paperwork. The way I was working really wasn’t working and at one point I ended up with more To Do lists and checklists that anyone ever needs. This approach gives a different perspective to planning time for work and home life too.

Content Includes:

• Time Management & Traditional Approaches

• Focusing on working differently

• Energy patterns and Planning around this

• Managing Energy rather than time (Schwartz)

• The 90 minutes ‘cut off’ – it’s a rule!

• Breaking routines and habitual approaches to the working day

Time to Think Approach – Supporting Others /Coaching /Focused Listening

A focus on the Time to Think approach pioneered by Nancy Kline. This is a simple approach and perhaps its simplicity means it can be overlooked as a supportive strategy. A session has a simple, powerful structure and is useful for Early Career practitioners who are looking to develop skills as a supervisor/supportive colleague. For the experienced supervisor it gives a different tool for their Supervisory Toolkit.

You will learn about the importance of The Thinking Environment and how to create one.. There is time to think about how focused attention and listening is important when supporting colleagues.

“Attention, the act of listening with palatable respect and fascination, is the key to a Thinking Environment. Listening of this calibre is enzymatic. When you are listening to someone, much of the quality of what you are hearing is your effect on them.” Nancy Kline

The importance of incisive questions , including the ability of the ‘listener’ to “craft incisive questions to remove assumptions that limit ideas” which frees thinking space to break through “limiting assumptions” .

“The importance of focused listening . ‘How we give others our attention, listen, and say that ‘you matter’, directly correlates to the thinking quality of the person sitting in front of us.”

Encourage others to talk about their thoughts and feelings about their work by creating and giving the space of a thinking environment!

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