Creating Opportunities for Reflection & Expansive Learning in Care Networks

A workshop for social workers and supervising social workers working with care networks around children and adults.

By GAPS

Date and time

Wed, 1 Jun 2022 01:30 - 05:00 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

This workshop identifies ways professionals can Create Opportunities for Reflection and Expansive Learning in Multi-agency Care Networks and provides practical tools for :

unpacking assumptions
noticing how language does more than merely describe
slowing processes down
developing awareness of how assemblages of ideas move care networks in certain directions
noticing how child-adult relations are constructed and reconstructed
creating safe conversational spaces
emphasising opportunities for listening attentively
enhancing curiosity
generating openness

Dr Stephen Mills is a systemic family psychotherapist and has worked with multi-agency professional care networks around children for over 7 years. His doctoral thesis (2021) focused on children in care and how to create opportunities for reflective relational practice and expansive learning within their multi-agency care networks.

He will use creative examples based on his own clinical experience to illustrate the use of these tools in practice.

The benefits of this approach for care networks are:

a lessening of anxiety for individual network members
enhanced communication across the network
greater understanding of differing agendas within the network
an increased capacity for effective individual and collective thinking
an increased ability to attune to self, colleagues, and the child/client
and an increased capacity to tolerate uncertainty and engage in relational practices
opportunities for expansive learning within care networks

Organised by

GAPS

GAPS is a registered charity promoting relationship-based approaches, and psychodynamic and systemic thinking in social work. We receive an income from our ownership of the Journal of Social Work Practice which we use to fund activities for front-line social work practitioners and managers – such as one-day workshops and seminars, as well as our annual essay award for social work practitioners and students.

In 1980s, a group of social workers interested in working with psychodynamic ideas established GAPS (Group for the Advancement of Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy in Social Work) and the Journal of Social Work Practice. Since that time, GAPS has promoted the importance of relationship-based approaches in social work, and therapeutic, psychodynamic and systemic perspectives – perspectives that are central to the editorial policy of the Journal of Social Work Practice, which is owned by the GAPS membership.

Journal of Social Work PracticeThis ISI ranked, refereed Journal publishes four issues each year and, as such, it is one of the few social work journals that is centrally concerned with promoting the importance of working therapeutically with the children and adults. The Journal has a wide international readership and editorial correspondents, and attracts regular contributions from abroad. Every issue includes papers that are drawn from a wide spectrum of therapeutic interest, including book reviews, commentaries and conceptual themes that explore psychodynamic and therapeutic ideas and ways of working. Also, the Journal regularly publishes special editions where the focus is on specific themes - such as the importance of relationship-based approaches; the importance and impact of defences in social work; work with children; work with adults; etc. The Journal is published and distributed by Taylor and Francis; members are sent four copies of the Journal a year, and can also access a range of other benefits and resources.

If you have a question or would like more information about GAPS or our events, please get in contact with the Project Co-ordinator, Hannah Pepper by email hannahpepper@gaps.org.uk or by phone 07714 237107

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