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An excellent way to deepen staff knowledge in a focussed area of pastoral care. Seminars give you choice to target areas of specific need in your learning community. Each seminar will uniquely address one or two of the three essential aspects of pastoral practice.
PROFESSIONAL PASTORAL PRACTICE
The ‘HOW’ to of listening, developing pastoral frameworks, conducting investigations, holding pastoral interviews, conducting solution focussed parent interviews, navigating mediations…
GROWING REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
How you show up to students, colleagues, and parents.
SKILL BUILDING
Growing ‘on the floor’ practice through coaching, group work and peer tasks.
Seminars can run between 60-120 minutes, depending on the content and can be tailored around your school schedule.
Seminars can include pre-reading and workbooks, interactive presentations, partner/small group activities, integrated reflective practices, and peer and live coaching.
CURRENT OFFERINGS:
INCLUDES:
Making yourself a possible solution
Building trust with students, parents and staff
Workflow management - have you got a system that supports you
Developing your toolkit
INCLUDES:
The principles of care (including developing trust)
Before meeting prep (investigation, information and pre-loading expectations)
The meeting (care before consequences)
After the meeting
6 weeks after the meeting
Real world examples for practice
INCLUDES:
Developing trust with students, parents, teachers and mental health professionals
The limits of confidentiality
Principles of the pastoral interview
Understanding risk and protective factors
Assessing when to involve others
Developing a professional network
Real world examples for practice
INCLUDES:
Getting clear about what you need
Collaboration
Making excellent requests
Getting commitment
Managing the unexpected
Holding others to account … nicely but firmly
INCLUDES:
Listening that you hadn’t thought of
What you bring to your listening
The always, automatic and already of listening
Listening for clarity and concerns
Application to your situation
INCLUDES:
The principles of time and justice
The principle of the husk
Details, details, details
Recording
The signed statement
The follow up meeting
Don’t ever do …
INCLUDES:
The investigation
The pre-meetings
The meeting
The contract
The follow up
INCLUDES:
A brief history of the thinking in pastoral care.
Models of pastoral care frameworks.
Developing frameworks relevant to you that can serve your community.
Tools to audit pastoral care in your setting.
