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Discovering Potential

An effective model for practitioners supporting self-esteem and well-being through learning for Information, Advice and Guidance Staff

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10 Jun 08 Kings Fund, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN C1667
Fee: £198 (includes lunch, tea/coffee)
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Background

Building confidence and a sense of wellbeing is increasingly being seen as a means of enabling clients to make the most of their potential and to participate more fully in society. But how do you do it?

Discovering Potential offers practitioners on effective yet simple model for delivering sustainable services to their clients or learners.

Discovering Potential is a resource pack that supports practitioners and managers who work with clients who may have low self-esteem. The pack provides an essential resource for those working on a one-to-one basis with clients who are ‘hard-to-reach’, ‘marginalise’ or ‘socially-excluded’. Crossing different sectors such as health services, voluntary sector, education sectors and social services, it offers valuable advice and strategies for the pivotal role of inter-agency working.

The pack and the training will help you understand what is meant about health, self-esteem, learning and working in partnership, not just in relation to your work with clients, but for yourself and your organisation too.

All participants will receive a copy of Discovering Potential: A practitioner's guide to supporting improved self-esteem and well being through adult learning, and will learn about and experience the Discovering Potential model.

NIACE trainers will support participants through some of the concepts and exercises in the Discovering Potential pack. There will be opportunities to consider how these approaches can be integrated into practice.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

bulletUnderstand how the concepts of self-esteem and learning relate to each other.
bulletconsider and discuss a range of strategies
bulletPlan and devise strategies for working with clients how they can work collaboratively.
bulletIdentify how they can help clients, themselves and their organisations through the application of the Discovering Potential model.

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Audience

This training course is designed for practitioners working in a range of settings and delivering information, advice and guidance (IAG) to adults, in order to assist them to make informed decisions about learning, work and career choices. It is also suitable for practitioners, for whom these activities are a part of their role, which may be in supporting, coaching, mentoring or in tutoring and training. The course will help practitioners to improve their practice and to work better with internal and external partners. It will be of interest to practitioners and those responsible for staff development from:

bulletAdult and community education
bulletnextstep subcontractors and their networks
bulletConnexions
bulletTelephone advice services
bulletJobcentre Plus
bulletNew Deal
bulletTrain to Gain Skills Brokers
bulletFE Colleges
bulletSixth Form Colleges
bulletHE Colleges
bulletTraining Providers
bulletDistance and online learning providers
bulletLearning Partnerships
bulletLocal Education Authorities
bulletPrison and Probation Services
bulletVoluntary Organisations
bulletLibraries
bulletTrades Unions
bulletHuman Resource Departments and Employee Development Schemes
bulletSSCs
bulletESF and other learning and skills projects

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Programme

09:30 Arrival and Registration (Tea and Coffee available)
10:00 Welcome and Introduction to the day
10:15 Introduction to the Discovering Potential resource pack
10:30 What is self-esteem?
Techniques to build self-esteem.
11:15 Tea/Coffee
11:30 The Discovering Potential model
12:15 Working Together
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Using the Discovering Potential model
14:15 Case studies
15:00 Developing your own potential
15:30 Evaluation and close

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Return completed forms to: NIACE Conferences and Courses, Renaissance House, 20 Princess Road West, Leicester, LE1 6TP, Fax: 0116 285 9670 For general enquiries contact: NIACE Conferences and Courses team, courses@niace.org.uk. Telephone: 0116 2859661

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