Enhancing Skills to Ensure Safe and Supportive Client-Focused Relationships

Learn skills to engage in safe and effective relationships with clients in support-focused situations while maintaining your own safety and boundaries.

Description

Aim

Our lives rely on sound interpersonal skills both personally and professionally. This workshop aims to give you those skills to engage in safe and effective relationships with clients in supportive focused situations while maintaining your own safety and boundaries.

Overview and Learning Intentions

  • Explore your own values and beliefs in relation to impact on others 

  • Assertiveness - how to say no safely

  • Managing boundaries and conflict management

  • Demonstrate use of a range of interpersonal skills that can be used in developing supportive relationships

  • Explore effective self-management in relation to actual or potential conflict

Let's Get Real

1. Working with people experiencing mental health and addiction needs

3. Working with whānau

4. Working within communities

5. Challenging discrimination

7. Maintaining professional and personal development

Facilitated by Dr Chris Taua

PhD, RN, BN, MN(Distinction), PGC(MH), CAdTch, FNZCMHN

Chris is a registered nurse by profession with a background in mental health. She has over 25 years' experience in health/disability sectors. Her education portfolio includes mental health, disability, ethics and boundaries, communication and de-escalation, collaborative note writing, and culturally safe practice. Her PhD explored the mental health inpatient experiences of people with intellectual disability and she continues to publish on this and other topics including cultural diversity/cultural safety. She is currently Director and primary Consultant for ‘Pumahara Consultants, Personal and Professional Development Specialists’ and holds an Honorary Senior Lecturer role with The University of Queensland as well as other teaching roles with Universities around New Zealand and Australia.

 

Workshop Type: Introductory | Workshop Level: Four | Catering: Refreshments provided

Terms and Conditions

  • Cancellations made up to 10 working days before a workshop will incur a $39 service fee.

  • Cancellations (or non-attendance) made 10 working days or less will not be refunded and the full workshop fee will be charged. 

  • No fee applies if you are able to find a replacement participant.

  • MHERC reserves the right to cancel a workshop at any time due to unforeseen circumstances or insufficient registrations.

  • Only one person may view a webinar session per registration.

Please read our full Terms and Conditions before registering.