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Lunchtime Seminar - Meetings of Understanding – Resolving differences with positive conversations

23 October 2024

Join the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (the Social Care Council) for the latest Lunchtime Seminar on Thursday, 7 November 2024.

This Lunchtime Seminar will introduce participants to a practice model of meaningful connection and the theory underpinning the approach. It will also include interventions that allow us to work more collaboratively with our client group such as de-escalating language, curiosity, affirmative statements and impartiality.

The Seminar will be presented by Jim McGrath, Director, Netcare.

Meaningful connection leads to better outcomes, more trust and a healthier work environment. It does not just include professional/family relationships, it also involves family members who have unresolved differences and which prevent or hinder possible positive outcomes for themselves or the wider family.

Restorative mediation is a process used throughout the UK by Social Workers and social care practitioners alike to help bring family members together safely to express their differences. In doing so they are afforded a meaningful conversation that will allow them to express their version of the truth, be heard and have their feelings recognised. It is a quick process that can be used in an emergency or as a planned intervention.

This seminar will be delivered using case study examples and participants will be given an opportunity to process the information in a breakout session and ask questions for clarification.

All of the Social Care Council’s Lunchtime Seminars are free and open to anyone. To reserve your place just click on the button below.


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