TRAINING COURSES
TRAINING COURSES
Collective Space offers training programmes to children’s and adult’s social care practitioners and managers at all stages of their systemic social work development journey. Students may have no prior knowledge of systemic social work practice, or they may be practitioners who have completed their intermediate training
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
Absolutely wonderful. This will help to challenge families effectively and respectfully about how they can make changes in their lives in order to achieve better outcomes for themselves.
(The trainers are)… fab just the way they are. They are fun, interesting, informative, full of knowledge. I hope to be able to speak of systemic therapy with as much knowledge and clarity one day.
Outstanding training. Certainly the best I have attended at the council. The content will enhance my practice at a broad level, not just in the context of DV. It was a real pleasure and the trainer was a real inspiration
Just great. I came straight back into work the following day and used the learning directly.
Amazing session- so informative, learnt lots which I know will be really useful for practice and placement
BLOGS AND NEWS ARTICLES
Moments that sparkle in murky times
By Liz Bosanquet Moments that sparkle in murky times The systemic concept of ‘sparkling moments’ comes from theory of Narrative Therapy developed by Michael White and David Epston in the 1970-80’s. When I first came across the term, I was a Local Authority social work manager undertaking my foundation year in systemic practice and I found the term far too woolly for the sharp end work I was engaged in. The alternative phrase that I came across was ‘unique outcome’ and this was the one I preferred; it seemed a better fit for a field that was often organised by KPI’s, goals and solutions. This was over a decade ago, and now as a social worker of 20 [...]
