- Pre and Post Conference Events

resilience as opposed to deficits: working with strengths

A fantastic pre and post conference workshop program has been designed to assist participants to enhance their knowledge and skills base across a variety of fields. The program has been costed to assist as many people as possible to take advantage of these training opportunities - $25.00 USD / $500.00 Indian Rs each (please REGISTER here). Please see the abstracts and presenter profiles for further information.

PRE-CONFERENC INSTITUTES Thursday 09 November 2006

8.30am – 12.30pm

On The Red Carpet!

Paige Garland

Beyond Boundaries: Creative Thinking Workshop

Irena Yashin-Shaw

N.B. Will be repeated from 1.30 – 4.30pm

1.30 – 4.30pm

Building Communities of Hope: Children, women and youth

Wayne McCashen & Dr Venkat Pulla

N.B. This will be repeated as a full day workshop on Monday 14 November

1.30am – 4.30pm

Strength Based Practice with Challenging Populations: Overcoming Resistance

Dr Michael Clark & Dr Venkat Pulla

POST-CONFERENC INSTITUTES Monday 13 November 2006

8.30am – 12.30pm

Strength Based HRD Audit

Dr TV Rao

8.30am – 4.30pm

Building Communities of Hope: Children, women and youth

Wayne McCashen & Dr Venkat Pulla

8.30am – 4.30pm

Beyond Boundaries: Creative Thinking Workshop

Irena Yashin-Shaw

Strength Based Practice with Challenging Populations: Overcoming Resistance
Facilitators: Dr Michael Clark and Dr Venkat Pulla
Date: 9th November 2006

- Provides practice skills to work directly with challenging clients

- Focuses on skill-building

- Utilises multimedia presentations, interactive facilitation with small and group exercises.

Training pace is lively and engaging. Emphasis for this training is on skill-building and "theory-to-practice" group work for direct application.

Come, ready to learn "how to" practices and valuable techniques!

This workshop is not taking place.

Community

engagement

building communities of hope
Date: 9th November 2006 and 13th November 2006

Wayne Mc Cashen, Dr Venkat Pulla, Prabhakar Verma

- Provides practice skills to work directly with communities.- Focuses on group and community skill-building
a whole-day workshop with several handouts for building resilient communities

Communities of Hope is about something very precious. It is about a community's capacity to learn, to change, to grow - and to build that most invaluable of commodities - respectful connectedness. This is a step-by-step blue-print for a 'strengths-based' approach to community capacity building. co facilitated by Dr Venkat Pulla and CCF

                  Pre Conference on  9 November

                                                                                      8-45 AM- 12:30

Creative Thinking Workshop Post Conference on 13 November 989: A

In this workshop Dr. Yashin-Shaw delivers a new cognitive tool for thinking creatively. It incorporates some well known strategies for creative thinking that people may already be familiar with such as brainstorming and perspective shifting but places them in a broader context. The new model is called The StrateGEE^® model for creative thinking and was the subject of Dr. Yashin-Shaw’s doctoral thesis. This is a ‘hands-on’, ‘minds-on’ interactive session so participants will actively engage in creative problem-solving.

"Every day the challenges we face both in our professional and personal lives provide us with opportunities to see fresh solutions to existing problems. If those challenges are approached creatively and mindfully by looking for new perspectives then the outcomes will be more beneficial and productive.”   Dr. Irena Yashin-Shaw PhD

       Pre Conference on  9 November 2006

                                                                        8-45 AM - 12-30

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In this workshop:                                                                                     On the Red Carpet!

How does it feel to be photographed standing on a red carpet?

To be treated like a celebrity?

To hold your head high and feel great about your life…your work?

This is what Paige Garland, Director of Plan-it Life's experiential learning strengths-based practice session is all about.

Experience how we make our staff and clients feel great about themselves. How we support them to achieve their dreams and have fun along the way. Strengths-based practice is the foundation. Our unique interdisciplinary approach is designed to harness people's potential and foster their motivation to live a meaningful life.