organisational consultancy
Supporting workplaces to achieve their ambitions by bringing under the surface dynamics and obstacles into focus.
Organisations and teams often find that day-to-day objectives, project aims, strategic priorities and healthy staff wellbeing aren’t consistently achieved. This can happen despite planning and care, and sometimes it can be challenging to work out why.
Often, factors such as change, structure, capability, personality and management style are quickly identified as roots of the problem. Those issues may be part of a picture, but organisational consultancy aims to surface the harder to reach emotional and systemic dimensions at play, enabling authentic and lasting new perspectives. Read more…
reflective practice / supervision groups
Reflective, supportive spaces where staff can explore the emotional impact of their work and develop their practice. These groups are a regular (normally monthly) activity for staff in certain roles within an organisation.
They are particularly useful for staff who are not mental health professionals, but who nonetheless work directly with people in distress, crisis or conflict; living with mental ill-health or experiencing a mental health crisis; experiencing housing/financial/welfare difficulties; or otherwise going through an emotionally turbulent time. Read more…
staff support groups
Supportive, confidential spaces where staff can explore and share the impact and experience of their work with others in similar roles. Sessions offer staff a safe space to process and reflect on how aspects of their work impact them personally and emotionally.
Staff are supported to share their experiences and to develop their knowledge and skills through reflection and discussion with others, using a model that differs from formal training. Read more…
supervision for managers
A supportive space for managers and leaders to reflect together on the dynamics of organisational culture, leadership, and emotions.
Managers and leaders routinely perform their roles within pressured environments, with little time and space to think and reflect. In addition to the explicit elements of their role, managers and leaders also act (knowingly and unknowingly) as emotional containers for staff and the wider organisation, and play a pivotal part in the ‘emotional life’ of their workplace.
The impact of these elements of management and leadership are often unattended to, and may negatively affect wellbeing, job satisfaction and effectiveness. Read more…
mental health first aid training
As an accredited Instructor Member, I am approved by Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England to deliver their workplace training courses. Read more…
suicide first aid training
As an Associate Tutor, I am approved by Suicide First Aid UK to deliver their City & Guilds Assured training courses. Read more…