Striving Towards Healing Couple Conversations that bring out Resources, Resilience, and Appreciation
Striving Towards Healing Couple Conversations that bring out Resources, Resilience, and Appreciation
Dr. Barbara McKay (BA (Hons), MSc, CQSW, MSc, MA, D. Psych) is a social worker, systemic psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer who has worked in adult mental health services, children and families’ teams, fostering, adoption, and children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
She was the former Director of the Institute of Family Therapy and currently serves as the Director of McKay Systemic Consultancy Services conducting therapy, supervision, consultation, coaching, and training for Heads of Services, Team Managers and leaders across the UK.
DATES:
25 & 26 May 2023; Thursday & Friday
TIME:
SGT 9:00 AM – 5.00 PM
VENUE:
This workshop will be conducted face-to-face. Confirmed participants will be receiving the venue details in due course. Please note that the mode of the workshop is subject to the prevailing COVID-19 precautionary measures in place.
SYNOPSIS
The workshop will explore communication models as an intervention when working with couples experiencing relationship struggles that seem repetitive and unhelpful, driving a wedge between them.
WHO IS IT FOR?
This workshop will be of use to anyone working directly with couple issues, or situations where couple struggles affect children in families.
OBJECTIVES:
- Learn to apply communication models to unwanted, unhelpful repeating patterns of interaction that create divisions in relationship;
- Learn communication models as relevant to direct practice. The models will be located in the Co-Ordinated Management of Meaning, a social constructionist orientation;
- Learn 4 specific frameworks – Hierarchy Model, the LUUUUUT Model, the Serpentine Model, and the Daisy Model;
- Learn the key features of Appreciative Inquiry;
- Learn to create a coherent approach to working with couples that embeds current knowledge and skills;
- Learn to facilitate conversations that seek to repair and resolve couple issues with new understanding and appreciation;
- Learn to follow a model of change that seeks to create new forms of relating building on previous success and hidden stories of affection.
TEACHING STRATEGIES
- Didactic presentation;
- Videotape examples;
- Skill-building exercises;
- Live case consultation demonstrating theory;
- Q&A.
ABOUT THE TRAINER
Dr. Barbara McKay (BA (Hons), MSc, CQSW, MSc, MA, D. Psych) is a social worker, systemic psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer who has worked in adult mental health services, children and families’ teams, fostering, adoption, and children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
Dr. Barbara was the former Director of the Institute of Family Therapy for 13 years. In 2019, she moved into private practice offering systemic therapy, supervision, teaching and consultancy. She is also on the Board of Trustees for the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice U.K., and the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution.
Currently, as the Director of McKay Systemic Consultancy Services, Dr. Barbara is working with an adult social care department as part of their cultural change programme, and a number of children’s services both as tutor on teaching courses and group facilitator for Heads of Services and Team Managers and coach for leaders. She works with a management team across a number of children’s homes and has recently become involved in a creative project that serves women who have had children removed into care.
She has published a number of articles straddling a range of topics from leadership and change in children’s social care and compassionate leadership, practice chapters on working therapeutically with couples, systemic supervision, and another on the integration and influence of personal and professional selves in shaping approaches to work, and on supervision. She has written on systemic practice, supervision, leadership and management courses and delivered these insights in over 20 Local Authority Children’s Services in England.
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