2021 Training Schedule

This course looks at ‘Anger’ and how this natural emotion can be understood and controlled.

Learners will explore triggers, escape routes and the key skills required for more calm control; learning which can be applied to self-development and utilised in a therapeutic environment.

Learning Outcomes:

• A good understanding of what anger looks like and how and why it arises
• An exploration of buttons, triggers, alarms and exits
• A personal understanding of how we as individuals experience anger
• Tools for the tool kit – Practical things to do to keep calm control
• To be able to use this knowledge to support further learning, awareness and wellbeing

This CPD Approved course will give professionals an introduction/refresher in Safeguarding.

Participants will leave the session confident that they can act effectively and appropriately in response to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Understand what safeguarding in children and adults means
• Know key safeguarding legislation and guidance
• Understand the need for effective safeguarding
• Know the different categories of abuse and maltreatment
• Recognise the behavioural and physical indicators of abuse and maltreatment
• Know how to respond and report safeguarding concerns including how to handle disclosures of abuse
• Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Safeguarding

Book via email to training@ourplacesupport.org

Mentoring in Practice is a recognised qualification endorsed by Open College West Midlands. Learners will receive 7 guided learning session and are required to undertake additional independent learning tasks after each taught session.

The course is designed to equip individuals to understand the role of a Mentor, deliver safe mentoring practice and have the ability to deliver practical mentoring sessions, tailored to the needs of individual mentees.

The course covers the below areas:

• History and Meaning of Mentoring
• Boundaries and Confidentiality in a Mentoring relationship
• Communication and Learning Styles in a Therapeutic Environment
• Safeguarding in a Mentoring Practice
• Delivery of practical Mentoring sessions, tailored to the needs of individual mentees.
• Measuring the impact of Mentoring.

Please note this course is level 3 standard and requires learners to complete and submit a number of relevant assignments.

This 2.5-hour course will equip you to gather precise, exact and effective evidence to enable you to best present your cases at hearings, reviews, tribunals, and court. Suitable for education, housing, HR and councils.

• Key learning outcomes:
• Definition of evidence
• The evidence funnel
• The skill of effective questioning
• The art of listening
• How to record what you have gathered

During  this course learners will:

• Consider what defines ‘Mentoring’ and explore the key differences between mentoring and other closely related disciplines
• Be introduced to the Mentoring Cycle
• Consider the role of boundaries within a mentoring relationship.
• Have the opportunity to explore how resources can be used to plan and deliver effective mentoring sessions both online and in a face to face environment

This course offers an informative, practical workshop which looks at the role and function of stress and its impact on those around us. Learners will be given the opportunity to experiment with a range of different relaxation techniques and stress management strategies aimed to encourage psychological flexibility and a calmer stance in today’s busy world.

Learning Outcomes:

• A good understanding of what stress is, how and why we can experience it and how we need it and the impact that has on us.
• Understanding some of the models and concepts that explain stress
• Tools for the tool kit – looking at and trying out some practical stress reducing strategies
• Be able to use this knowledge to support further learning, awareness and wellbeing