Description:
OPD Points: 5
This one day workshop is designed for those in child counselling and mental health services who want to ‘hear the voice of the child’. Learn how to therapeutically and playfully engage with young clients for assessment, intervention and outcome evaluation.You will have the opportunity to:Develop your curiosity and openness to a child’s presentation and responsesFoster imaginative and playful conversations about serious problems and possible ways to resolve them.Practice how to help a child or young person talk about and be re-energised by new ways of relating to their feelings, values, hopes and intentions.Explore practical ways to help children externalise and gain some perspective on their challenges.Learn how to not get stuck in a mire of problem stories.Consider relevant theory on child development, therapeutic approaches, responding to risk and trauma and practitioners’ self-care.What ideas are explored?What therapeutic activites can help the child see their problem and strengths in a new light?How can therapeutic conversations foster playfulness, delight, hope and new possibilities?How can we help the child tell their story in ways that are important to them?What theories inform this work?Do these activities work for all ages?How can I use these method in safe and respectful ways?
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
Activities OverviewResponding to risk and traumaTheory of playfulness and curiosity in therapyPlayful activities to make a connectionPlayful activities to explain counsellingPlayful activities to "get to know the problem''Playful activities to reduce the problem's influencePlayful activities to close the sessionApplications
Presenter / Provider:
Kim Billington
Presenter Qualifications:
Kim enjoys passing forward her ever-evolving counselling skills and knowledge, supporting and inspiring practitioners to discover their own style and ways to connect with their clients.Kim’s current work includes child and family counselling, co-facilitating Men’s Behaviour Change programs and clinical supervising at Monash University.Methods and tools in Kim’s therapeutic toolbox include, Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, ACT, Creative Expressive Arts, Existential Therapy, befriending emotions using metaphors and storytelling, Tree of Life work and creative timelines to understand the life-long emergence of identity.Kim has been facilitating groups and workshops about storytelling, parenting, emotional intelligence (ie.Tuning Into Kids) and creative therapeutic work for over 25 years.
