82% of the 2,800 practitioners trained by Consulting Circles from 2008 to 2012 had no previous experience of mutual support groups or alternative abstinence based interventions.

84% of those workers had never attended or networked a mutual support group such as NA, CA, AA, SMART or intuitive recovery.

90% of all workers asked said they would benefit from training on mutual support groups and other abstinent based models to broaden their knowledge of recovery.

Consulting Circles has developed a one day workshop to offer key workers, health care practitioners, Criminal Justice professionals, volunteers, family support groups and mentors an opportunity to gain a basic understanding of abstinence based models including 12 - step, SMART & Intuitive recovery.

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Increasingly, frontline health & social care practitioners are expected to deliver enhanced outcomes with fewer resources. Group work offers staff teams the opportunity to provide a range of treatment interventions efficiently and effectively. Our 2 x day intermediate group work training course is delivered by highly qualified facilitators who have direct experience of developing and implementing group work programmes across the health and social care field.

Our course has been specifically designed to equip practitioners with the knowledge base and practical skills to plan, facilitate and record groups with challenging and difficult to engage client groups (including offenders).

Training modules reflect recovery orientated interventions and enhance the facilitators understanding of group based Node Link Mapping techniques and the development of social, community and personal recovery capital. Participants will increase their awareness as to the potential of group work and equip them with the skills to deliver a range of therapeutic, psycho-educational, support and recovery orientated group interventions.

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Experienced health & social care workers often say that one of the most draining things about their job is trying to motivate clients to make behaviour changes. Frequently, workers try to pass on their own enthusiasm and energy to a passive or resistant client only to find their own energies depleted without effecting significant or lasting changes in the client. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client centred, goal directed, guiding style of therapeutic communication to help people motivate themselves to change their behaviour.

Our 2 x day training courses will provide practitioners the skills to employ simple but powerful techniques that help to quickly establish a productive, working relationship with clients, allowing them to explore their own motivation, ambivalence and resistance to behavioural change.

This course combines Node Link Mapping techniques with MI to enhance and elicit change talk (MiTEP) and is highly participative in style offering delegates an in-depth opportunity to consider their current keyworking style.

No previous knowledge of motivational interviewing is required, although a background in counselling skills will be an asset.

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Consulting Circles provide 2 x day generic training for frontline practitioners to identify and recognise indicators of harmful alcohol use and motivational techniques to encourage clients to participate in primary screening.

Our highly skilled trainers will equip delegates with a basic knowledge of the psychological and social implications of harmful and hazardous drinking whilst offering advanced techniques to analyse screening outcomes.

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The Addressing Offending Behaviour (AOB) course has been specifically developed to enhance the engagement, assessment and recovery planning skills of practitioners delivering Integrated Offender Management (IOM), Drug Intervention Programme (DIP) and Prison based CARAT schemes.

A worker’s ability to engage quickly and effectively is essential to building client rapport and creating a safe environment where both parties can explore some of the drivers associated with their offending behaviour.

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Our Boundaries & Ethics course has been specifically developed to enhance the engagement, assessment and recovery planning skills of practitioners delivering Tier 2/3 drug and alcohol treatment interventions.

A worker’s ability to engage quickly and effectively is essential to building client rapport and creating a safe environment where both parties can explore some of the drivers associated with their problematic substance misuse.

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