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Building Relational Capacity

Course Length: 3 FULL DAYS and 1.5 hours assessment

Funding:

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Upcoming Training Dates:

25th April, 2nd and 9th May 2025 (Workshop Dates)

*For registrations of 10 pax or more, LCCS will be able to run onsite at dates of the organisation’s choice.

Engagement is a skill necessary for relationship building in any context. Relationship is key to learning, development, healing and growth. Recognising that individuals are “profoundly relational” (Pranis, 2007), a relational approach is critical to build connectedness in a community, through the awareness of one’s action or lack thereof does have an impact on others, whether directly or vicariously (Boyes-Watson & Pranis, 2015). Expanding one’s relational capacity can contribute to an appreciation of reasons for disengagement and therefore, disconnections. From the awareness of one’s relational capacity, we can intentionally work towards transforming growth-inhibiting relationships to growth-enhancing ones.

Learning Outcomes

Topics & Content

Examine the relationship between relational capacity and relationship building

  • Reflection of practice rationale and assumptions
  • Identify the basic tenets of relationship building
  • Study and discuss the concept of relational capacity and its constructs
  • Discuss the relationship between professional practice and personal development
  • Integrate relational capacity with the restorative practice concepts

  • Compare the different domains of the practice domains
  • Identify and discuss what is fair process
  • Describe what is shame, its function and triggers
  • Apply the compass of shame and how it matters when engaging people with different complexities and issues
  • Review the Tomkins blueprint
  • Articulate the principles of restorative practice to relational capacity
  • Build relational capacity through relational engagement

  • Apply the restorative processes in engagement
  • Recognise and reflect on individual self-reflexivity and relational reflexivity
  • Outline individual mapping of your learning development
  • Facilitating Community Building Circles

    Course Length: 1 FULL DAY

    Funding: PCG Professional Capability Grant Available

    Upcoming Training Date(s):

    15th May 2025 (Workshop Dates)

    Community Building Circles provide a safe space for groups to proactively build relationships, foster empathy and co-create solutions. Participants will be able to relate the effectiveness of the circle process to their organisational context through applying the principles learnt.

    At the end of the workshop, participants would be able to incorporate the restorative principles in designing Community Building circles to facilitate engagement that invites/promotes community, collaboration and shared responsibility.

    Through discussions and role-plays, participants would be able to:

    Learning Outcomes

    Topics & Content

    Analyse the components for an effective Community Building circle

    • Understand Community Building Circles
    • Apply the concept of “Safe to personal” in designing Circle Questions/ Prompts

    Apply the framework of Restorative Practices in designing Community Building circles

    • Demonstrate the planning and execution of a Community Building Circle
    • Appraise the difference between Community Building and Fish Bowl circles

    Facilitating Peacemaking Circles

    Course Length: 1 FULL DAY

    Funding: PCG Professional Capability Grant Available

    Upcoming Training Date(s):

    16th May 2025 (Workshop Dates)

    Peace Making Circles provide a safe space for groups to build relationships, foster empathy and co-create solutions in the context of ongoing conflict. Participants will be able to relate the effectiveness of the circle process to their organisational context through applying the principles learnt.

    At the end of the workshop, participants would be able to incorporate the restorative principles in designing Peace Making circles to facilitate engagement that invites/promotes healing, support, and shared responsibility.

    Through discussions and role-plays, participants would be able to:

    Learning Outcomes

    Topics & Content

    Analyse the components for an effective Peace Making circle

    • Understand Peace Making Circles
    • Apply the concept of “Restorative Questions” in designing Circle Questions/ Prompts

    Apply the framework of Restorative Practices in designing Peace Making circles

    • Demonstrate the planning of Peace Making Circles
    • Demonstrate the implementation of Peace Making Circles

    Family Engagement – Family Group Decision-Making

    Course Length: 2 FULL DAYS 

    Funding: VCF Professional Capability Grant

    Upcoming Training Dates:

    4th and 5th July 2024 

     

    The Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) is a platform for family members to come together to work on an issue affecting each other in a collaborative manner. The FGDM provides an opportunity for family members or those who are considered family members to share their concerns and opinions about the issue in a respectful and safe environment.

    FGDM centres on Family Leadership. This means that the family is the one who formulates the solutions for the identified issue. The family members would also contribute to the implementation of the suggested solutions. Such promotes accountability and responsibility amongst the family members, as well as mutual accountability between the families and other stakeholders. Families who had been through the FGDMs often find the process empowering and there is greater likelihood of plans proposed being followed through compared to solutions provided by external parties.

     

    Learning Objectives

    Topics & Content

    Identifying the values and principles for FGDM practice

  • Recognise how to make your practice explicit
  • Discuss FGDM key ideas
  • Recognising the purposes and benefits of FGDM

  • Discuss how FGDM fits into casework practice
  • Reviewing the FGDM process and the critical elements for its implementation

  • Identify FGDM stages
  • Discuss the importance of FGDM conference question
  • Explore ways to widen circle of support of family group
  • Applying FGDM to practice context

  • Discuss how FGDM fits into practice context