Ag Eisteacht - Transforming Frontline Practice

One Plus One's Brief encounters® training will help you and your team

• Improve your understanding of what makes relationships work and how to offer parenting and relationship support
• Build a better rapport and relationship with families
• Increase workforce confidence to address personal issues and relationship difficulties
• Enhance 'Active Listening' skills – helping clients tell their story and helping them to work out their own agenda
• Improve skills to support parents in times of distress and stimulate goal setting
• Manage time with clients effectively using brief intervention skills within a busy caseload
• Offer effective and quality interventions
• Encourage team building, peer supervision and reflective practice

Is led by two Ag Eisteacht trainers, and is divided into Day 1 followed by Days 2 and 3, two weeks later.

During the course, there are opportunities for in-depth skills practice, in addition to input on relationships using research and evidence-based information. It is particularly suited to workers and practitioners working in the frontline with families.

Participants leave the course able to use the skills of Brief encounters® straight away in their work with families.

The cost of the course is €330 per person.

Min/Max participants: 12-16 participants.

"Very helpful, making good use of a valuable resource – time – in a very respectful way towards the client contributing to empowerment". Public Health Nurse

".. useful to put the child in the context of family. It confirmed my sense that the child has to be seen in the context of the family in order to get the best result". Team leader - Child and Family Support Services

"Very appropriate for use in Primary Health Care…. Relationships-how people differ-different backgrounds. – Inner emotions---to stop and think …10 mins! Group work—built my confidence and felt very safe". Public Health Nurse

"Very helpful-making very good use of a valuable resource-Time-in a very respectful way towards the client-contributing to empowerment". Public Health Nurse

"The course was very relevant to residential work, in particular adolescents…it puts a very valuable framework on work that we may already be doing but in not such a considered way". Residential Care Worker. (2 years on)

"Consciously use the framework and manage time better…..really sharpened my listening". Family Support Worker

This one day workshop is an introduction to using the Brief encounters® framework and skills, supported by evidence based materials. This is particularly useful for groups with a diverse knowledge and skills base, where information about couple and parental relationship will add value to their work.

The workshop is facilitated by two Ag Eisteacht trainers and can be tailored to meet the particular needs of a participant group.

The cost of the course is €125 per person.

Min/Max participants: 12-20 participants.

"What stood out for me was.. learning how to listen and get a sense of what’s really going on for the client.. and the idea of doing this in a short space of time ". Physiotherapist, Enable Ireland.

"Brief encounters® does work. There is no day I would not use it". G.P.

"The training has affirmed me in my way of working. I am now more focused and confident when working with clients". Hospital Chaplain

"My job has many facets. I now have the skills and confidence to make use of a short meeting in a corridor. The training gives a positive time frame within time constraints ". Home /School /Community Liaison Teacher

New Initiatives:

A once-off 'Train the Trainer' initiative from Ag Eisteacht!

Trainer Associate Training May 2010.

This exciting initiative will train pairs of workers as Trainer Associates. Once trained, they can cascade the 3-day Brief encounters® Course and the 1-Day Brief encounters® Workshop within their organisations—a cost effective way to reach more frontline staff in their organisations.

HSE courses have been 100% over-subscribed, when the Brief encounters® was offered.

The Trainer Associate Training is partially sponsored by Ag Eisteacht – and some full bursaries are available.

For more information contact us on 086 0455114.

Research

Since 2001 Brief encounters® training has been delivered to 260 frontline workers with outreach to at least 7170 families. Ag Eisteacht has commissioned Veronica Bon, a researcher from the South and Mid West Development Support Agency to evaluate this Brief encounters® training delivered in Ireland. The evaluation study includes an outline of the current Irish Policy context for the provision of family support services and will show how Brief encounters® training fits with the early intervention emphasised in policy documents.

For information on this please visit our Research page.

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Contact

For further information on our training please call us on (0)860455114 or email: info@ageisteacht.com

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