Care Matters - Community of practice inaugural session

This half day online session gives you an opportunity to review and build your skills and confidence as a quality facilitator. It is practically focused and enables you to ask and explore all the questions and challenges you have about facilitating engaging and quality training programs.

Opportunities for clear and defined reflection are an important component of quality practice and require time and commitment as well as a clarity of structure and purpose. I am happy to work with individuals in a coaching or supervision process that connects reflection with goals and outcomes.

Opportunities for clear and defined reflection and skill building are an important component of quality practice and require a clarity of structure and purpose from all involved. I look forward to working with groups or teams in a collaborative reflection and professional learning process grounded in the shared wisdom and skills of each group.

Wenger defines communities of practice as 'sustained learning partnerships among people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.' This relational definition provides a helpful summary of this offering. Group supervision is one thing but sometimes groups across organisations are looking to come together to explore an area of practice passion and intentionally focus on its improvement.

Working with children, young people and families often means working with experiences of loss, grief, neglect or trauma. While these experiences don’t always lead to negative outcomes we know that the impacts of trauma can be significant and long lasting and require specific responses from us. This virtual learning program reviews our understanding of trauma and its impacts but also reflects on what this means for our practice. This program both reinforces previous learning and adds to our toolkit.

Leadership is often something we are thrust into and don't always have time to reflect on and develop our skills within. However, we invariably want to be authentic in our leadership to best meet the needs of our team and the objectives of our program or organisation. This session focuses on some of the core components of authentic leadership and the intersection with neurobiology to enhance our leadership capacity every day. It is very much an interactive and explorative session for busy leaders.

Care Matters community provides a safe and relationally focused space to share and explore the challenges and joys of supporting children and young people in out of home care as well as all who surround them. The community is focused on supporting the application of enhanced practice grounded in the community’s wisdom and experience.