family well-being

Ag Eisteacht

Description:

 

Ag Eisteacht is a not-for-profit organisation who promote child and family well-being by providing training that:



 


 


 


Brief encounters®

Ag Eisteacht's Brief encounters® training will help you and your team



  • Improve your understanding of what makes relationships work and how to offer parenting and relationship support

  • Build a better rapport and relationship with families

  • Increase workforce confidence to address personal issues and relationship difficulties

  • Enhance 'Active Listening' skills – helping clients tell their story and helping them to work out their own agenda

  • Improve skills to support parents in times of distress and stimulate goal setting

  • Manage time with clients effectively using brief intervention skills within a busy caseload

  • Offer effective and quality interventions

  • Encourage team building, peer supervision and reflective practice

Brief encounters® 3-day course


 


 


 


 


 

Is led by two Ag Eisteacht trainers, and is divided into Day 1 followed by Days 2 and 3, two weeks later.

During the course, there are opportunities for in-depth skills practice, in addition to input on relationships using research and evidence-based information. It is particularly suited to workers and practitioners working in the frontline with families.

Participants leave the course able to use the skills of Brief encounters® straight away in their work with families.

The cost of the course is €330 per person.

Min/Max participants: 12-16 participants.

"Very helpful, making good use of a valuable resource – time – in a very respectful way towards the client contributing to empowerment". Public Health Nurse

".. useful to put the child in the context of family. It confirmed my sense that the child has to be seen in the context of the family in order to get the best result". Team leader - Child and Family Support Services

"Very appropriate for use in Primary Health Care…. Relationships-how people differ-different backgrounds. – Inner emotions---to stop and think …10 mins! Group work—built my confidence and felt very safe". Public Health Nurse

"Very helpful-making very good use of a valuable resource-Time-in a very respectful way towards the client-contributing to empowerment". Public Health Nurse

"The course was very relevant to residential work, in particular adolescents…it puts a very valuable framework on work that we may already be doing but in not such a considered way". Residential Care Worker. (2 years on)

"Consciously use the framework and manage time better…..really sharpened my listening". Family Support Worker
 
Which sector do you work in?: 
Trainer
How would you classify your work?
Education /Training/Support
Family Support/Services
Research
How would you classify the recipients of your service?
Adult Training
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