The objective of ABetter_Life Resource providing this training is to enhance the skills of individuals so that they are equipped with adequate skills to respond to others and work collaboratively with others. Training is available to be delivered anywhere in the world.
These are some of the Types of Training Offered by ABetter_Life Resource. We also have many more training programs available and can develop a program to suit the needs of your organisation or group.
Taming the Tornado: Maintaining Personal and Professional Boundaries (1 day) This one day workshop will provide participants with a framework for establishing professional practice approaches in the client/worker relationship. The content will explore and define appropriate boundaries in the client/worker relationship and how to manage related issues of confidentiality, conflict of interest, self as worker/practitioner, isolated workers and rural community service contexts. Participants will consider the ethical and legal expectations and implications of client/worker and worker/worker relationships. Effective approaches to establishing boundaries and ethical approaches are also discussed within the framework of practitioner supervision and professional development. Specific Learning outcomes:
Demonstrate awareness of self as worker
Reflect upon own practice
Demonstrate awareness of impact of values, belief systems and their relationship on the worker/client relationship
Operate within an agreed ethical code of practice
Identify and utilise self support and supervision systems
Establish acceptable boundaries and manage related issues in practitioner/client and practitioner/practitioner relationships
The ability to set and maintain professional boundaries is crucial to an effective sustainable career
Bounce-Ability: Self Care (1/2 day) This half day workshop will provide participants with knowledge and skills for recognizing practices, habits and attitudes that result in poor worker/practitioner self-care. Once these have been identified, participants will explore strategies to take responsibility for significantly improving their self-care capacity.
Specific content covered in the training includes:
Increased awareness of stressors in the workplace
Strategies to implement to improve self care
Utilise existing systems to support the sustainability of self care strategies
Understanding self care and conflicts of organisational culture
This training can also be delivered in conjunction with Maintaining Personal and Professional Boundaries
Mind Salad: Communication and Conflict Resolution Skills (1 day) This one day workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to identify their existing strengths in applying communication skills in the workplace. Participants will also consider the areas for further development and practice strategies for enhancing their communication skills with colleagues and others.
Specific content covered in the training includes:
Communicating with clients
Communicating with colleagues
Preparing written forms of communication in the workplace
Presenting information to others about your service
Responding to conflict situations in the workplace
Recognise the early signs of conflict
Distinguish between constructive approaches to conflict resolution vs destructive
Implement positive strategies for the constructive resolution of conflict
Understand and apply negotiation processes
Develop safe responses to aggressive behaviours
Out of the Quiet Room: Working Therapeutically with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander clients Workshop (1 day) This one day workshop is geared towards health practitioners, or those who have had contact with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander clients. Participants will be given the opportunity to learn models of intervention and practical counselling skills taught within the training. The Workshop facilitator will discuss a number of culturally appropriate therapies which can be used with a range of Aboriginal clients.
The training will cover the following areas:
Introduction of a model of assessment and therapeutic intervention
Enhancing the therapeutic environment
Initial client contact and therapeutic alliance
Culture-specific mental health conditions
Therapeutic styles and approaches and how these ‘fit’ for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people
How to ‘adjust’ your intervention style to make it more appropriate
Tornado in a Bottle: Suicide Intervention, Prevention and Postvention for professionals (IPP) Workshop (2 days) IPP is a two-day intensive, interactive and practice-dominated course designed to help practitioners recognize risk and learn how to intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. Participants will also learn how to work in the area of postvention. Suitable for all persons such as mental health professionals, nurses, physicians, teachers, counsellors, youth workers, police and correctional staff, school support staff, clergy, and community volunteers. The workshop includes a Suicide Intervention and postvention Manual.
Participants will:
Discuss beliefs about suicide
Myths about suicide
enhance their understanding of suicidal behaviour
recognize and assess the risk of suicide
discuss culture-specific suicide
learn the general dos and don’ts
develop a working knowledge and skills for effective suicide intervention
learn how to respond when in the postvention phase
How to Make an Egg Float: CBT for Professionals Workshop (1 day) This one day workshop is geared toward health practitioners. This workshop will develop the competencies and knowledge required to practice Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) within your work role scope & context with a range of client issues. CBT is an evidence based approach used by a wide range of professionals from within the medical, health, drug & alcohol, sexual health sectors.
Participants will:
Be introduced to the theory, practice, and underlying principles of CBT
Gain an understanding of the framework of the process of CBT, the nature of the relationship with the client, and the qualities and values required to undertake CBT
Gain knowledge of specific tools, strategies, interventions, and techniques utilised in CBT which you can apply to your specific work role
Understand how this approach can be used to teach the client the self help tools and strategies required to manage issues impacting on their lives
Caffeine in My Brain: Trauma Management for Clients (1 day) The goal of the workshop is to help prepare health professionals to effectively assess, identify, and respond to trauma situations. It will also provide a learning environment that will increase the confidence of the participants with helping clients that experience trauma. The workshop covers the topics of understanding and responding to trauma in clients, developing goals to promote healing, therapeutic professional’s role in the treatment of trauma in clients, and successful outcomes. This workshop is for practitioners seeking to develop an understanding of the impact of trauma on human development, the concepts of emotional development and resilience.
The workshop explores:
The association between trauma, anxiety, addiction and mal-adaptive anger
How trauma affects the brain and body
The capacity to contain past traumatic images, feelings and thoughts
Techniques to develop a client's ability to self soothe and ground themselves in the here and now
Helping clients to contain challenging irrational thinking, and to safely process their trauma story
The key emphasis of the training workshop is working safely, empowering the client, facilitating the client's quest to find meaning, understanding and peace.
Daily Insanity: Personality and Mental Health Care for Professionals (1 day) This one day training is for health professionals who want to know more about working with personality and mental health related issues in people. It has been designed for professional workers in the health and community sector and aims to increase understanding of how personality and mental health issues affect the people they may come in contact with during their day to day work. Topics consider the indicators and effects of mental health issues; understanding personality types and recognizing personality disorders; ways of working with people with mental health issues and personality disorders; and worker safety.
Short Circuit: Methods of NonViolent Intervention Workshop (1 day) The one day workshop is designed for any professional to address the topic of violence in a learning environment. The Methods of Non-Violent Intervention training program helps to prepare staff to deal with violence in a confident, safe and responsible manner. As a side benefit, participants can often find the workshop very therapeutic, as they are given the opportunity to share their own experiences, and receive validation for the way they feel about violent episodes they have seen or been a part of. Some of the valuable things your staff will learn are:
The ONE thing you MUST do to prevent workplace violence.
The most important indicators of potential violence…and why all staff should know them.
The FIRST thing you should absolutely do when a violent episode occurs.
Non-violent intervention techniques and skills that are used by the world’s most elite police response units.
How to remain calm and display confidence even during the most violent crisis.
The Early Indicators of Potential Violence
How to Prevent a Situation from Escalating
Verbal and Non-verbal De-escalation
Strategies to Defuse Hostile Behaviour
Key Steps for De-briefing After a Crisis
Principles of Personal Safety
Achieving the perfect Balance: Developing Effective Teams - The ABC's of Teams (1/2 day) This half day workshop will empower you with the attitude to build an effective team or work in an effective team, and learn the principles of team building that are necessary for success in your organisation. Learn tools that you can use to build or rebuild your team. This workshop will offer you a clear set of directions, tips and techniques to get you on the road to having an effective team. Effective teams are necessary and important in terms of organisational development, improving quality, helping to cut absenteeism, and helping to enhance creativity and innovation. Learn the keys to developing an effective team, and use this knowledge gained in this workshop to improve your team style and enhance quality of work life.
Relevant Relationships - Enhancing Your Leadership Performance and Relationships (1 day) This half day program will provide managers and team leaders with the knowledge and skills development required to enhance their leadership abilities in both the internal and external environment in which they operate. Learn how to enhance your relationships, be assertive, be a role model and effective leader, and stand out from the crowd. This workshop will teach you about how your personality type and those of the people around you determine the nature of your leadership style. Leadership is about character - what you are, not what you do.It is those with leadership character who will contribute to others in powerful ways and help their organisations and people around them achieve bottom-line results and long lasting success. Learn what the keys to a successful leader are. Use the knowledge you gain in this workshop to improve your leadership style and interactions with people. Learn how to lead more effectively and confidently with a renewed sense of purpose and enthusiasm. Specific content covered in the training includes:
Increased ability to lead and manage to achieve outcomes
Enhanced knowledge and skills in strategic thinking and planning
An awareness of the role of leader as a change agent and catalyst
Increased emotional awareness and competence in self and others
Enhanced awareness and skills in relation to building a highly effective team
The ability to lead and inspire others to achieve these organisational outcomes and goals
Greater self awareness in relation to leadership style strengths and areas for development
An Emotion Confused: Stress Management (1 day) The workshop is a one day program that will enable participants to understand the nature of stress and its purpose. The workshop will help participants to identify their stressors, understand their emotional, behavioural and physical response to it, and understand their experience of the stress. In Australia, more workers are making psychological stress-related compensation claims than ever before, with the national cost of such claims estimated to be $105.5 million in 2000-2001. According to the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission Report, cases of Mental Stress had by far the highest median (8.5 weeks) and average (16 weeks) time lost, and accounted for 29% of all new cases of disease. How prepared is your organisation to deal with these issues of conflict and/or stress? How stressed are you or your staff? The workshop equips people to be able to manage conflict and stress before it manages you. During the workshop you will learn:
Causes of workplace stress
Characteristic of individuals in stressful situations
How you can tell if you or people around you are suffering from stress
Various ways stress can be treated.
How to conduct a stress risk assessment - measuring your melting point
Defusing and Recharging
Coping with Stress - Steps to stress relief
Conflict Resolution strategies
The differences between stressed and organised businesses
Happy Hikers: Responding to client issues (1 day) The workshop is designed for those practitioners in community services, and/or counselling role and will explore essential ethical and professional considerations for practice with clients. Participants will develop their understanding of responding holistically to client issues through working within a legal and ethical framework and establishing and monitoring a case plan for a client. Specific topics include:
Principles of ethics including how to respond to requests for client files, informed consent, capacity of clients
Developing a case plan to address specific client needs and the review system
Recognising and responding when the clients rights and interests are not being protected
Case examples illustrating application
It's a Bug's World: Personality and Mental Health Care (1 day) This training is for those professionals who want to know more about working with personality and mental health related issues in people. It has been designed for professional workers in the health and community sector and aims to increase understanding of how personality and mental health issues affect the people they may come in contact with during their day to day work. Topics consider the indicators and effects of mental health issues; understanding personality types and recognizing personality disorders; ways of working with people with mental health issues and personality disorders; and worker safety.
Trauma Management (1 day) This workshop is designed for health care professionals and focuses on the essential aspects of trauma care. The goal of the workshop is to help prepare health professionals to effectively assess, identify, and respond to trauma situations. It will also provide a learning environment that will increase the confidence of the participants with helping clients that experience trauma. The workshop covers the topics of understanding and responding to trauma in clients, developing goals to promote healing, therapeutic professional’s role in the treatment of trauma in clients, and successful outcomes. This workshop is for practitioners seeking to develop an understanding of the impact of trauma on human development, the concepts of emotional development and resilience. The workshop explores:
The association between trauma, anxiety, addiction and mal-adaptive anger
How trauma affects the brain and body
The capacity to contain past traumatic images, feelings and thoughts
Techniques to develop a client's ability to self soothe and ground themselves in the here and now, helping clients to contain challenging irrational thinking, and how to help clients safely process their trauma story
The key emphasis of the training workshop is working safely, empowering the client and facilitating the client's quest to find meaning, understanding and peace.
Emotional Intelligence (1 day) The workshop for professionals is helping you to utilise creative and emotional skills. More often than not, creative use of social and emotional skills makes the difference between success and failure. Researchers have consistently found that IQ and exam results are not accurate predictors of which managers will run the most productive and profitable businesses. So they started to speculate about a set of competencies now termed Emotional Intelligence. In this workshop you will:
gain some understanding of your emotional strengths and weaknesses
explore ways of applying your strengths in your leadership style
learn strategies for developing the emotional intelligence competencies
Developing Effective Teams - The ABC's of Effective Teams (1 Day) Are your teams working well? This workshop will empower you with the attitude to build an effective team or work in an effective team, and learn the principles of team building that are necessary for success in your organisation. Learn tools that you can use to build or rebuild your team. This workshop will offer you a clear set of directions, tips and techniques to get you on the road to having an effective team. Effective teams are necessary and important in terms of organisational development, improving quality, helping to cut absenteeism, and helping to enhance creativity and innovation. Learn the keys to developing an effective team, and use this knowledge gained in this workshop to improve your team style and enhance quality of work life.
Workplace Conflict Resolution and Stress Management (1 Day) In Australia, more workers are making psychological stress-related compensation claims than ever before, with the national cost of such claims estimated to be $105.5 million in 2000-2001. According to the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission Report, cases of Mental Stress had by far the highest median (8.5 weeks) and average (16 weeks) time lost, and accounted for 29% of all new cases of disease. How prepared is your organisation to deal with these issues of conflict and/or stress? How stressed are you or your staff? The workshop equips people to be able to manage conflict and stress before it manages you. During the workshop you will learn:
Warning Signs of workplace conflict
Conflict Resolution strategies
Ways to prevent conflict from even occurring in your organisation
Tips for the mediator when resolving conflict
Causes of workplace stress
How to conduct a stress risk assessment
The art of mediation
The first thing to remember when one becomes aware of a conflict
Steps to stress relief
How to manage stress in the workplace
Coping with Stress
Characteristic of Individuals in Stressful Situations Who May Not Burnout
Levels of managing workplace stress
The differences between Stressed and Organised businesses
ABETTER_LIFE RESOURCE IS ABLE TO CATER TO YOUR TRAINING NEEDS. IF YOU REQUIRE A PARTICULAR AREA OF TRAINING, PLEASE CONTACT OUR ORGANISATION TO DISCUSS THIS, AS THE ATTACHED TRAINING IS NOT LIMITED TO THE TYPES OF TRAINING WE DELIVER.
WORKSHOP PLACES ARE LIMITED AND REQUIRE PRE-REGISTRATION.
WORKSHOPS REQUIRE PAYMENT PRIOR TO THE WORKSHOP DAY.
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