When we have only one conversation with people, how do we assist that conversation to not only be useful in assisting people to address their distress but also to stay with them long after the conversation? That is the purpose that this workshop will address. Regardless of the severity or duration of the presenting problem, there is always somewhere to go in conversation to arrive at a place in which people will experience themselves as having the 'know how' to move their life forward.
This workshop will introduce participants to:
- Process from pre-session paperwork through to endings,
- The foundation of a brief competency-based approach,
- How to hear and expand entry points to preferred 'stories in the making’,
- Exploration of many questions to foreground possibility and difference,
- Ways to assist meaningful conversations to provide a foundation for the co-development of next steps, proposals for action, that are culturally and contextually relevant to people's lives.
These skills will prove highly useful in walk-in/quick access clinic settings or other time-constrained service delivery contexts.