Contact Training Days Venue: Contact HQ
Ground Floor, Lanyon Building, North Derby Street, Belfast, BT15 3HL

Training Days run promptly 9:30am–4:30pm with lunch provided

At Contact we provide outstanding regional services, built on our evidence based reputation for excellent client outcomes. We manage this standard every day with our simple, unrelenting focus on compassionate engagement. We value maturity, optimism, curiosity and a sense of humour at least as highly as the right qualifications and experience. Our training days programme reflects our commitment to clinical excellence, measured by client wellbeing and recovery, and we warmly invite you to join our learning community for the following key training days:

For a booking form for each training event to follow click here.

 

Friday 11th May 2012

Self–Harm & Suicide Risk Assessment Training Day

Trainers: Carrie Montgomery/Fergus Cumiskey

Delegate fee: £100.00

 

Contact’s self–harm and suicide prevention risk assessment training day provides essential CPD for counsellors and allied professionals drawing on specialised Lifeline crisis counselling and assessment practice, benchmarked against NICE and international best practice standards. We offer a dynamic experiential learning day led by our most experienced trainers, providing excellent follow up reading materials. Most relevant for: Professionals providing therapy for children, adolescents and adults.

Who can apply: Any professionals such as teachers, social workers, counsellors, nurses etc., working with adults, children, teens, families or groups will benefit from the training.

Delegate Comment: “Passion and knowledge in abundance.”

 

 

 

Saturday 9th June 2012

Child & Vulnerable Adult Protection Training (1 Day)

Trainer: Frank Toner

Delegate fee: £100.00

 

Contact’s child and vulnerable adult protection training day presents a core CPD primer introducing essential best practice for counsellors and allied professionals, enabling neglect and abuse recognition, consultation and disclosure protocols. Delegate Comment: “Challenging and interactive nature of trainng made me identify own learning needs.” “The trainer’s style helped me challenge and consider my own perceptions”

 

 

Saturday 31st March 2012

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (1 Day)

Trainer: Frank Toner

Delegate fee: £100.00

 

Contact’s evidence based approach to crisis counselling prioritises the client’s personalised solutions rather than clinician led problem solving, identifying here–and–now positive steps to lasting change. Our solution focussed brief therapy approach represents a critical resource for clients in crisis.

Who can apply: Anyone working in a formal counselling therapy context, as well as befrienders and volunteers, who deliver informal listening support.

Delegate Comment:

“Useful learning that was best demonstrated by real life practice during the training.”

 

“The trainer’s huge experience and knowledge inspired confidence and helped participants to understand the actual SFBT pactice.”

 

 

Saturday 26th May 2012

Trauma Resource & Recovery (1 Day)

Trainer: Brid Keenan

Delegate fee: £100.00

 

Trauma is a natural part of human existence and the capacity to integrate and grow from the experience is also very human. Problems arise when past survival strategies no longer work so well and stress responses include mystifying physical symptoms, mental health concerns, psychological and relational distress. Often the behavioural symptom is treated and not the underlying physiological brain–body crises.

When an entire community over generations experiences unresolved trauma, psychotherapy must consider what we need to learn in order to be effective support for people in chronic distress, contributing to creative adjustment needed for survival.

Each traumatised generation has done its best to guarantee minimum survival. The intergenerational problems begin when the emergency measures that have been activated to protect family survival operate long past the time when they are necessary.

Separated from their original purposes, these emergency measures become family styles of interacting, family belief systems that rapidly become impermeable to change (Bloom, 1997).

This workshop offers a range of learning activities – experiential learning, brief theoretical inputs, Q&A, reflection on practice.

• Exploring how we understand the effects of trauma on the whole person.

• Introducing basic concepts related to working with the somatic experience of trauma to support the resolution of traumatic experiences

• The impact of traumatic events across generations

Delegate Comment:

“Being able to ask questions and get answers which make absolute sense”

“It was intersting to discover new ways of working with clients”

 

 

Saturday 5th May 2012

Telephone Counselling (1 Day)

Trainer: Frank Toner

Delegate fee: £100.00

 

Our telephone counselling training day building upon Contact’s twenty years telephone counselling experience, sharpened by our four year leadership of the regional Lifeline crisis counselling helpline. This unique training day distinguishes telephone from face to face talk therapy through role–play, crisis intervention/de–escalation case studies, central to caller risk assessment and referral, managing the unique self–agency potential for client contact on the phone.

 

Who can apply: Anyone working in a formal counselling therapy context, as well as befrienders and volunteers, who deliver immediate listening–ear support.

Delegate Comment:

“I feel a lot more assured about the benefits of telephone counselling after this training and recommend it for anyone providing telephone support.”

“Clients can be supported in different mediums and it is important for counsellors to explore how the telephone medium can prove to be a positive option that they can offer to clients.”

 

 

 

Friday – Sunday 1st – 3rd June 2012

Introduction to Play Therapy (3 Days)

Trainer: Eileen Prendiville e.c.p, m.i.a.h.i.p., s.i.a.h.i.p., m.i.a.p.t.p., r.n.m.h.

Delegate fee: £350

 

Our three day introduction to play therapy is an experiential learning workshop for clinicians working with children, developing key skills on how play works therapeutically. Exploration of safety and boundary issues reflect on therapeutic learning, facilitating emotional intelligence and resilience. Delegates will experience a range of child play interventions, non–directive therapeutic play sessions, therapeutic use of stories, and story–making techniques facilitating holistic child development to overcome adjustment problems.

Content:

• Preparing therapeutic play spaces for children

• Equipping the space for non–directive play

• Non–directive play skills (demonstrating, discussion, theory, practice, feedback etc)

• Principles of non–directive play therapy

• Child Centred Framework – working with the relevant systems

• Therapeutic storytelling

• Creative Visualization

 

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