Heads & Hearts Model of Reflective Practice Training

The West Yorkshire Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub are pleased to be able to support the growth of Reflective Practice Group Training. This training is for staff who are within the Psychological Professions and working across health and social across the region. It is a unique opportunity to develop your existing practice and to align this with an evidence-based model.

This 2-day training in reflective practice group facilitation with one year of supervised practice leads to accreditation in the Heads and Hearts Model. A certificate of accreditation will be awarded on satisfactory completion of the five requirements listed below.

Day One will discuss the origins of reflective practice and present the Heads and Hearts Model in full and have the opportunity to try out the model.

Day Two will focus on the role of the facilitator and group dynamics – the how rather than the what. This will be an opportunity to talk about experiences in groups, which can be powerful in positive and negative ways, and how to negotiate these as a facilitator. In the afternoon colleagues will have the opportunity to put the model into practice a second time.

A certificate of accreditation will be available on satisfactory completion of the following

• attendance of 2 training days in full
• facilitation of a minimum of a run of 6 reflective practice group sessions
• evaluation of the run of 6 groups using tools provided on the training days & submission of data
• a minimum of 6 hour sin a peer support group set up on the training days, online
• observation of a group (directly or via Teams) & feedback from member of the training team

You are eligible to apply for this training if you

• are a member of the psychology professions who is facilitating a reflective practice group or planning to start one soon
• have managerial support to attend the training & peer support group meetings
• have diary capacity to attend all of both training days & a minimum of 6 hours of peer support group meetings

Please submit an expression of interest as a word document attached to Rajinder.dhanjal1@nhs.net  with ‘Heads & Hearts training’ in the header by June 16 at the latest so the Hub can allocate places. Please confirm that you meet the criteria above and give your reasons for wanting to do the training, describing what you hope to gain and how you will use it in your job. This should be no more than 500 words.

Places are limited to 16 and will be allocated on the basis of applicants’ readiness to put the training into practice and geographical/service spread.

Arabella & Natashia will be holding a ‘drop in’ session for candidates to find out more about the Reflective Practice Training on Wednesday 21 May 11-12 noon. Please do use the link below if you would like to understand more about the requirements and the model.

Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 394 695731 832 Passcode: in9bh74y