Solution focused routes through risk

Masterclass Tuesday 5th March 2024 with Naomi Whitehead, UK.  

COntent:

In this workshop we will explore areas of people’s lives that are often accompanied by risks to their safety and wellbeing including recreational and dependent drug and alcohol use, sexual risk taking, criminal activity, mental health issues, social isolation and challenges associated with living with ADHD and Autism. In addition there will be space for the unique subjects, questions and enquiries you would like to investigate through a solution-focused lens to generate hope, possibilities and desired change.

Through playful, interactive and experiential exercises we will take a deep dive into what it is like to be a young person faced with the challenges both outlined above and brought by you, and discover powerful and simple ways these can be navigated and overcome.

We will discuss and co-create ideas about skilful solution-focused communication styles that can have a profound and lasting positive impact on both the young people themselves and their carers, parents, siblings, professionals and anyone else who may be significant in their lives.

Afterwards you can expect to:

• Understand the harm reduction framework which guides safer decision making in relation to drug and alcohol use, sexual risk taking and criminal activity.

• Have more knowledge about the value of recognising risky behaviour as a moving spectrum

• Have ideas about how you can invite the people you work with to be more confident and skilled in making decisions that increase their safety and wellbeing

• Have ways you might inspire the people you work with to look into and progress closer towards education, training, volunteering and employment

• Know how to use solution-focused tools such as scaling in relation to daily routines, mental health issues, social isolation and challenges associated with ADHD and Autism

• Have explored other mechanisms the people you work with may be able to experience some of the “highs” they have usually achieved through risky behaviours

• Have participated in fun and uplifting exercises and gained new perspectives about how you can tune into people’s existing expertise and skills for change (from recovery to discovery).

about Naomi:

Naomi Whitehead (she/her) is a Solution-Focused Practitioner (IASTI, EMCC SP, ICF PCC). Naomi works online, in Sheffield, across the UK, and internationally, coaching, training and co-creating. Naomi's background in working with and coordinating services for families and individuals facing multiple and complex challenges that have experienced homelessness, supporting young people involved in the criminal justice system, sexual exploitation and substance misuse, and managing voluntary sector projects, informs the structured yet playful, curious and deeply respectful stance she brings to all her work. Naomi discovered the solution-focused approach in 2003 and was most inspired by its potential three years later when volunteering in two young people's prisons in Bolivia, South America. In 2015 Naomi became a freelance practitioner with a portfolio including lecturing social work students in universities, executive and young women's coaching, and training with people from all over the World around current approaches and innovations. 

The Masterclass will be held on Tuesday 5 March at Kulturstedet Lindegaarden, Peter Lunds Vej 8, 2800 Lyngby, which is about 20 min. by train from down town copenhagen, and then 10-15 min. walk.

The time slot is from 9 am to 4 pm, catering is included in the event.

Price: DKK 1.250 ex. VAT or 200 € per person.

If you are coming from abroad, we will be happy to help you find accommodation, send an email to kontakt@danskloesningsfokuseretinstitut.dk

Registration on the website under "Tilmelding", no later than 23.2.24. - remember to mark the event, or if it’s too difficult with the danish language ;-) you just sent me an email.