Practice Review Consultation (PRC) and Supervision

"Adults do not learn by experience;
adults learn by reflecting on their experiences" - adapted from David Boud

Practice Review Consultation (PRC) embedded in a Solution-Focused Brief Approach (SFBA) offers you the opportunity to learn from your experience by

Reflecting on what already works well
Identifying your exisiting skills, capacities, qualities and resources
Identifying what you wish to improve and/or add
Designing possibilities to experiment with in your practice
Creating guidelines for noticing how your experiments are responded to
Selecting and integrating new options into your repertoire of practice

We offer PRC for practitioners, and supervision for trainees and interns.

We work with individuals or with small groups.

We aim to offer you the opportunity to engage with a spiralling process of continuous improvement that both maintains and develops your competence and your confidence.

Mastery Classes - Tues 26 Aug & Tues 09 Sept 2008 - 4.30 to 7pm (Sydney)

These Mastery Classes offer opportunities to reflect on your practice, participate in activities to improve and extend your skills, receive feedback, and go away refreshed and re-inspired. Anyone with an interest in, and with some practice experience in Solution-focused Brief Approach work, is welcome to attend. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND BOOKING FORM

SUPERVISION FOR PSYCHOLOGY REGISTRATION - INTERNS

Dr Svea van der Hoorn is an acredited registered supervisor with the New South Wales (NSW) Psychologists Registration Board, Australia.

Svea will be offering group supervision session in 2008 which assist interns to meet the NSW registration requirements. Activities in all certificate areas will be offered by arrangement with the group. Audio and video-recording with feedback is offered as a way to meet the demonstration of skills requirement.

Enquiries and bookings: svea@solutionfocusedfutures.com

SUPERVISION FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Belinda Druker and Svea van der Hoorn are both registered psychologists with the Professional Board for Psychology, Heaith Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)

Face-to-face supervision: belinda@solutionfocusedfutures.com

Skype, e-mail or telephone supervision: svea@solutionfocusedfutures.com

FROM THE ARCHIVE OF 2007 SUPERVISION AND PRACTICE REVIEW OPPORTUNITIES - AUSTRALIA

FACILITATING GROUPS WITH CONFIDENCE - practice review consultation (PRC) and skills development for group work facilitators working in the Inner West and South Eastern Sydney

Tuesdays - 31 July, 28 August, 30 October, 27 November 2007

2.30 - 4.30pm at Croyden Health Centre, Liverpool Street, Croyden (Sydney)- plenty of free parking available

You're welcome to attend one or more sessions - just bring along your concerns, questions, ideas about what you'd like to try out, and stories of what works well for you when you facilitate groups.

This Group PRC opportunity is sponsored by the Inner West Small Grants Scheme of the Strengthening Families, Resourcing Parents Initiative. Attendance is free. Please e-mail svea@solutionfocusedfutures.com for more information.

PRACTICE OPPORTUNITY - FOLLOW-UP ON HARVEY RATNER SEMINAR

Sharing ideas and practising skills – "What works with children, young people and families? Advances in Solution-Focused Brief Practice (SFBP).

A group of SFBA practioners got together at a practice opportunity on a cold and miserable Wednesday afternoon in Sydney. We discussed and experimented with how the ideas from Harvey Ratner’s seminar might be applied in our work. We used a small group activity to sweep in multiple perspectives, followed by SF interviewing to develop rich detailed pictures of what we had noticed and valued. Then some people used enactment to experiement with possibilities for their own future practice - others stayed with brainstorming and discussion to design options.

Thank you to Harvey Ratner, his colleagues at BRIEF, and their clients for sharing their work with us and prompting us to try some new possibilities of our own.

Some more about Harvey Ratner:

The BRIEF Mob: Harvey Ratner, Yasmin Ajmal, Evan George, Chris Iveson, Guy Shennan

SUPERVISION OPPORTUNTITIES - SOUTH AFRICA

SOLUTION-FOCUSED PRACTICE FOR COACHES - Helping coaches to expand and apply their learnings

The Coaching Café, in collaboration with Belinda Druker from Solution-Focused Futures, has started a new supervision and interest group for pracitioners wanting to further their skills and application of the solution-focused Approach in their work and life. The group meets once a month. Tina Hiller, a Coaching Café associate with a Masters degree in Solution-focused coaching, and Lizette Retief, a Solution-focused coaching practitioner, are leading the group. Participants get the opportunity to learn from a range of experiential and reflective activities and multi-media resources.
If you are interested in participating in such a group, please contact Lizette Retief