Education and Learning
Workshops for organisations supporting families
Relate designs custom made courses for a wide range of public sector and charity organisations.
Previous clients have included:
Surestart, Homestart, Womens Aid, PCTs, Gingerbread, Youth Offending Teams, Family Mediation Service, Action for Prisoner Families, Prisoner Family and Friends Service, Salvation Army.
Click on the links below for more details, locations and dates. You may also be interested in our Workshops for workplaces
Looking Beyond the Problem
The course is designed for professionals offering systemic and solution focussed skills when working with couples and families.
Who's it for?
Social workers, probation officers, clergy, community psychiatric nurses, school nurses, health visitors and those working in family centres or similar settings. Could also suit a number of other roles.
Course Objectives
On this course, you will find out about:
- Using Genograms (detailed Family Tree) to explore ‘problems’ in the context of relationships.
- Systemic Concepts – the theory of the way relationships are affected by their context.
- Circular Questioning – used to explore the ‘meaning’ behind problems.
- The Atomic Model – ways of looking at the different perspectives of relationships.
- Skills practice.
- The SIMPLE Model – techniques for solving problems.
Find out more about Looking Beyond the Problem
Parent Mentoring
The course teaches how to develop skills in mentoring within a community, with a particular emphasis on befriending, building rapport, listening and giving feedback. It is a very practical course which will equip parents from all sorts of backgrounds to come alongside, support and challenge those they mentor.
A 22 hour Open College Network Accredited Course.
Who's it's for?
This course is designed for parents, volunteers or professionals who would like to act as mentors to other parents in their own community.
Course Objectives
On this course, you will find out about:
- Understanding the mentoring role.
- Listening skills.
- Coaching skills.
- How to build rapport.
- Supporting parent/child relationship building.
- Boundaries and referrals.
Find out more about Parent Mentoring
Supporting Families
The course is designed to enhance the skills that volunters use in their work with families in a befriending and supporting capacity. The course will give volunteers some knowledge, skills and awareness of the issues faced when working with young families.
A 22 hour Open College Network Accredited Course.
Who's it for?
The course is most suited to volunteers who visit people in their own homes in order to support them in a family context. Examples of this might be Homestart, SureStart, Cleft Lip and Palate Association or the clergy.
Course Objectives
On this course, you will find out about:
- Your role as a volunteer/self awareness.
- Communication skills.
- Confidentiality when dealing wih family issues.
- Anti-discriminatory practice.
- Assertiveness when working with families.
- Change and how it affects families.
- Support Mechanisms.
Find out more about Supporting Families
Understanding Relationships
This course is designed for professionals offering underpinning knowledge and skills for working with families.
A 22 hour Open College Network Accredited Course.
Who it's for
Social workers, probation officers, clergy, community psychiatric nurses, school nurses, health visitors and those working in family centres or similar settings.
Course Objectives
On the course, you'll find out about:
- Why couples commit and what they bring to the adult intimate relationship.
- The factors influencing couple relationships and the resulting conflicts.
- Elements of effective communication and the blocks that may hinder this.
- Life stages and the management of transition and change.
- Sex and sexuality.
- The complexities of second and subsequent family amalgamations.
- Support for couples and families and appropriate action planning.
