South East Suburbs, Melbourne, VIC
Workshops for Teams
Bespoke Workshops tailored for your team needs
Creating and delivering bespoke workshops has always been a rewarding and fun sideline of my work. My workshops are delivered from a collegiate not an expert stance. Learning together by sharing our skills, strengths, knowledge, and inspiration, with a good dose of humour, brings out the best in teams.
Potential Topics:
- Skills in Being a Supervisee or Supervisor
- Deepening meta supervision: the knowing of supervision and how it benefits workplace and teams
- Health Coaching Skills -Motivating for Change & Goal Setting
- Exploring Ambivalence and Ambivalence Distress
- Strengthening Healthy Boundaries
- Building Resilience to enhance a Healthy Work Life
- Preventing Burnout
Let's talk about what your team needs and wants and whether I can be of assistance to you!
Health Coaching Skills Sessions for Allied Health
To enhance Allied Health Client-Centred Practice & Goal-Setting
For many years I have delivered health coaching/behaviour change skills sessions for allied health teams. I find that using my motivational skills alongside my counselling and supervision skills, supports clinicians to enhance their client-centred practice.
- Improves collaborative & values-based goal setting promoting more effective care planning
- Improves client-centered practice aligning with social model of health
- Enhances skills in motivating client self-management, which lessens burden of passive engagement and expectation of ongoing hands-on treatment
- Improves management of a boundaried episode of care
- Promotes health literacy in practice
Session Structure
- 60-90mins- video or in person
- Learning, discussion, practice, break out rooms
- Works best as a series of monthly sessions to build team skills over time
Learning to be an Allied Health Supervisor
Supporting Grade 2 Allied Health & Practice Leads in Supervision Skills
My community health multidisciplinary experience and working with Allied Health peers gives me specific understanding of supervision needs for allied health that is different to counselling.
I have knowledge of the allied health supervision framework and use that as the basis of the session structure.
Why Train Allied Health Supervisors?
- Supports new supervisors in their supervision skillset specific to Allied Health
- Supports managing a change in role from colleague to supervisor which increases confidence and capacity in clinical leadership
- Enhances reflective practices rather than advice giving which creates psychologically safe teams
- Understanding the reluctant supervisee fosters healthy relationships and enhances safe practice
- Skills of constructive feedback promotes learning, skill improvement, trauma informed practice and teams working to top of scope
Session Structure
- 2-3 hours in person
- Learning the framework of allied health supervision & supervision micro skills & reflective practice models
- Discussion, practice of feedback skills and reflective practice model
Training Allied Health Supervisees on how to better approach supervision
Supporting Allied Health Clinicians in Reflective Practice
Supervision and reflective practice skills are core for the Counselling profession and starts at university and student placements. The same cannot be consistently said for Allied Health.
Being a supervisee is a skillset and I have a passion for clinicians learning, practising and reaping the benefits of good supervision.
Why Train an Allied Health Supervisee?
If both the supervisor and supervisee understand supervision:
- Engagement is improved
- Safer practice occurs
- Working to top of scope is enhanced
- Promotes time & cost-effective supervision
Supporting Allied Health Practitioners in how to be a supervisee:
- Helps them to prepare, & consider clinical needs
- Enhances reflective practices rather than only asking for answers
- Increases clinical capacity and confidence
- Mitigates cumulative stress and vicarious trauma
Session Structure
- 2-3 hours in person or online
- Learning the framework of allied health supervision, supervisee micro skills & reflective practice models
- Discussion, practice of a reflective practice model
Staff Wellbeing & Resilience
Strengthening our Compassionate Inner Mentor as Clinicians & Teams
When considering burnout risk, we need to address both the workplace culture and individual risks to emotional health and safety.
Resilience has become misunderstood. The goal of this workshop is to re-embrace resilience from a strengths-based, compassionate, whole of team approach. That includes leaders to support psychologically safe teams.
In delivering this training I will role model what it is to understand our inner critic, building our inner mentor as a team from my experience as a leader within high functioning teams delivering highly stressful service.
Why Focus on Wellbeing & Resilience?
- Supports healthy work boundaries
- Reduces burnout risk
- Enhances workplace wellbeing and psychological safety
- Reconsiders resilience as team and organisational culture rather than individual burden
- Builds a stronger and compassionate workforce
- Promotes a more balanced approach between perfectionism and good enough thereby creating a team of ‘healthy strivers’
- Mitigates the cost of staff absences
Session Structure
- 2 hours in person (online negotiable)
- Learning, discussion, experiential practice of self-compassion
Managing Client Expectations through Better Boundaries
Enhancing Healthy Boundaries in our Client Relationships
This workshop will provide a mix of learning with collegiate sharing of my experiences developing healthy client and workplace boundaries.
We will consider:
- What gets in the way of setting or holding boundaries?
- Why do we need boundaries?
- The risks of loose or rigid boundaries
Why A Focus on Healthy Boundaries?
- Supports clinicians to enhance healthy boundaries within the therapeutic relationship
- Creates safe practice to manage expectations thereby decreasing client and carer anxieties and dissatisfaction
- Role modelling and affirming boundaries supports client self-efficacy and health literacy
- Increases skills in assertiveness, and being able to compassionately say “no” where appropriate
- Addresses how to manage the attendance boundaries conversation
- Mitigates staff fatigue and burnout risk
Session Structure
- 2 hours in person (online negotiable)
- Learning, discussion, experiential practice of self-compassion