Group Info
Description:
The WDG is a model of reflective practice initially developed for use within clinical trainings, such as child and adolescent psychotherapy, and gradually evolved into a model successfully used in other applied settings. (Canlan, 2000). It has been cited by the Department for Education and Skills as a ‘model of good practice’ (DfES/DH 2006). The aim of this group is to bring together clinical work and enhance this learning through an attached process group through which self-reflection is expanded to understanding oneself in relation to the work and organisation. It is an experiential learning model and contributes towards portfolio training to become a Psychodynamic Organisational Therapist in APPCIOS.
Group Facilitators:
Emma Higgs & Dr Mark Waddington
Emma is a Psychodynamic Organisational Therapist and Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. She is a senior full member of APPCIOS. She works in private practice offering therapy, supervision, consultation and training, and in the NHS in Tier 3 & 4 CAMHS.
Dr Mark Waddington is a Psychodynamic Organisational Therapist and Teacher. He is a senior full member of APPCIOS and Director of ‘Placement Support’ a multidisciplinary organisation that specialises in work with children, families, and the professional networks around them in situations of complexity.
Both Emma and Mark have extensive experience being within and facilitating psychodynamic experiential groups both in and external to the workplace.
Group offers:
- An opportunity to think and explore issues in work settings through a psychodynamic lens.
- An appreciation of the importance of relationships both in the work/organisation and in the self when providing therapeutically informed services for clients (children, young people, adults, families or couples) and also for those who care for them.
- A recognition of the emotional labour of care and the conditions required to enable staff to remain engaged, compassionate and active in the best interests of those in their care.
- A reflective connection to research evidence and a commitment to creating knowledge through practice-based evidence.
- An awareness that processes in the group can often reflect dynamics in the presented material or issues brought.
- An embedded understanding of group processes, roles, valency and group learning as a way of bearing ‘not knowing’ and ‘coming to know over time’. Understanding the role of facilitator in this process
- The seminal importance is of providing and enabling safe and reflective space to explore direct practice & the links & limitations between theory and practice.
Outcomes:
- To develop professional skills, confidence and job satisfaction
- To develop wider psychodynamic understanding of issues that occur in teams and the workplace including tensions between roles, task, approach and delivery.
- To deepen understanding of the impact of the individual in the organisation and the organisation in the individual, client group on staff, and vice versa
- To learn to utilise professional emotional experience, as evidence for understanding and informing approach.
- To develop the capacity to communicate complex ideas to other professionals and children and families.
- To develop capacity to manage disturbing relationships
- To better understand some of the difficulties of interdisciplinary and interagency work
- To reduce work related stress, insecurity and absence
- To promote a sense of validation, being understood
- To promote the development of reflective practice within the wider culture of the organisation
When & Where:
Meetings will take place over zoom, weekly during term time, on Monday’s 2.30-4pm.
Meetings start on Monday 16th Sept 2024
It is recommended that participants sign up for a minimum of 1 year.
Cost:
Webinars will be charged in advance every term at a cost of £300 per term.
Invoices will be sent termly at the beginning of each term.
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