Training for Voluntary Sector Organisations

Training is an excellent opportunity to work with a large number of people to bring about attitudinal and behavioural change. It focuses on how to work with clients more effectively and how to manage client's difficult emotions and behaviour and the worker's own reaction.

Training offers participants an opportunity to:
- reflect on their current ways of working	- learn new skills and gain knowledge
- identify self-defeating patterns, beliefs, and behaviour	- develop self-management techniques for emotions, thoughts, reactions and behaviour
- create ways to integrate new or adapted skills and insight into practice	- explore areas of difficulty, especially around conflict, boundaries and ethical issues
- learn from, challenge and bond with each other	- commit to new ways of working
- discuss, update, apply organisational vision, new policies and procedures

I write training specifically for the needs of the organisation, below are examples of training I have written:

Stress management solutions	Counselling skills	Anger management skills
Conflict management and dealing with challenging behaviour	Working with suicide, self harm and sexual abuse	Equal opportunities and working with diversity
Communication skills and relationship building	Motivational interviewing and cycle of change	Management and leadership training
Reflective practitioner	Team dynamics & team building	Presentation skills
Supervision and appraisal skills	Group work skills	Addiction awareness
12 Step and other approaches to addiction	Assessment tools and care planning	Working with families with addiction

Voluntary orgainsations I work with include: Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners' Trust (RAPT), Hope Worldwide, London Voluntary Services Council, Arts Academy.