Workshops
We
come to you to deliver the training. You provide the teaching room,
participants and refreshments.
Trusts and organisations are welcome to contact us to arrange a workshop. We are unable to offer dates for individuals to attend workshops.
Participants have included: mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, trainees and support workers.
The workshops run over 2 full days, starting with an introduction about The Decider and The Lifejacket Metaphor.
Michelle and Carol then demonstrate how they teach and present the 32 skills. The workshop is fun, creative and innovative.
The aim is to demonstrate to clinicians how they can use the skills effectively within their professional practice, whether in groups or with individual clients. Inevitably, participants will also find themselves using the skills in their own personal lives.
Whilst a comprehensive DBT service is recognised as the ideal, it is expensive and impractical for small or isolated services like ours to provide. ‘The Decider’ has enabled our service to fill that gap to some degree and may be a valuable initiative for other services.
‘The Decider and Skills Manual’ have the potential to be adapted for a range of service settings. ‘The Decider’ enables clinicians to introduce an effective 14 week Skills Group, staff who have been trained to use ‘The Decider’ also report an increase in their own clinical knowledge, skills and confidence.
We come to you to deliver the training. You provide the teaching room, participants and refreshments.
Trusts and organisations are welcome to contact us to arrange a workshop. We are unable to offer dates for individuals to attend workshops.
FEEDBACK received about The Decider workshops:
- You have both been, by far, the most engaging, skillful and knowledgeable trainers that I have come across. The way in which you have used all learning styles for each decider skill was brilliant. I remember them all. It is refreshing and brilliant to see two highly experienced professionals willing to leave yourselves at the door and to make themselves look like ‘fools’ ;’) in order to make the training work. All throughout the training, I always felt you had the client in mind. In short, you have left a long lasting impression on me, gave me confidence to use the material, but more than that, confirmed my belief that it is better to be a bit ‘mad’ in order to get your point across. (Jersey clinician)
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I just wanted to drop you a note to thank you both for your inspirational
work on the Decider Skills project, and for the excellent training we
received this week.
I am already enthusiastically promoting the skills and training groups to my patients. I am sure the 25 or so staff that were trained during the 2 days feel now much better equipped for dealing with patients with personality difficulties.
The high quality Decider manual is very helpful for refreshing the skills and for the client handouts. I would not be surprised if a service audit of patients trained in these skills would find reduced risk, self harm and acute admissions. I am convinced that the Decider will further support staff in working in new and better ways. (Consultant Psychiatrist) - Yippee! It was fantastic.
- Excellent.
- Thank you for an energising and life changing experience!
- Very therapeutic on a personal level.
- Great course!
- Nothing could be improved. It was great! Very clear. I had fun.
- Many thanks for the workshop in Maidstone. It was really interesting, very well presented, engaging and resourceful. A great half-day workshop, well worth travelling down South for!
- Thanks for 2 days of fab training. Already 'pumping in the skills' to some clients.
- Thank you - a very interesting and thought-provoking workshop.
- Very enjoyable and informative - I have lots of thoughts about how this will be helpful to our service.
- Thank you for a great course which will be really useful.
- Thank you for a fantastic course!
- Presenters really believe in what they are doing.
- Thanks for making two days of training so much fun!
- Well presented. I like the use of visual aids.
- Thank you for a fantastic course!
- Just wanted to say thanks for a fab 2 days training. Have just read manual from start to finish and it really is fool proof!! It's amazing work.
- Thanks for excellent training, I am using skills already.
Dates
Please contact us if you would like to find out more about booking a 2 day workshop for your trust or organisation.
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