Training Courses
Developing reflective practitioners, confident supervisors, and relationship-based organisations.
All training programmes are delivered with a commitment to reflective, experiential and relationship-based learning. Whether attending as an individual practitioner or commissioning a programme for your team, each course draws on contemporary research, rich theory and real-world practice. Courses are available as open programmes, in-house delivery or bespoke commissions.
- ⭐ Featured Programme
- Managers & Supervisors
Enhancing Reflective Supervision: A Systemic and Relational Approach
- 2.5-Day Programme
This practical and reflective programme supports supervisors, managers and senior practitioners to develop confident, purposeful supervision that balances support, accountability, professional development and critical reflection. Drawing on Morrison’s 4x4x4 model, systemic practice, Karl Tomm’s questioning framework, Social GRACES, and relationship-based approaches, participants learn how to create supervision conversations that promote thinking, curiosity, analysis and effective decision-making.
- Day 1 — Foundations of Reflective Supervision
- The purpose and functions of supervision
- Morrison's 4x4x4 model in depth
- Creating reflective spaces for thinking
- Introduction to systemic practice
- Curiosity, hypotheses and multiple perspectives
- Exploring real supervision challenges
- Day 2 — Deepening Supervisory Conversations
- Karl Tomm's questioning framework
- Social GRACES and cultural humility
- Working with risk, uncertainty and complexity
- Parallel process and organisational dynamics
- Reflecting team approaches
- Facilitating richer, more reflective discussions
- Half Day 3 — Applying Learning to Practice
- Live supervision demonstrations
- Case consultation and skills practice
- Developing systemic hypotheses
- Action planning for practice
- Embedding reflective supervision within teams
- Participants Will:
- Strengthen reflective supervision skills
- Balance support, challenge and accountability
- Improve analysis and risk discussions
- Increase confidence in complex discussions
- Use systemic questioning to enhance thinking
- Develop tools for immediate use in practice
👥 Suitable for: Team Managers, Advanced Practitioners, Senior Social Workers, Practice Educators and Service Managers
Available as in-house or open programme
- Supervision Training
- Supervisors & Managers
Systemic Supervision in Social Work
- 1–2 Day Programme
An introduction to systemic thinking in supervision practice. This programme helps supervisors apply core systemic principles — circularity, neutrality, curiosity and hypothesising — to their supervision conversations. Participants explore how systemic approaches can transform the way they engage with supervisees, helping them see complexity differently and think more creatively about family situations.
- Learning Outcomes
- Apply systemic principles to supervision
- Use circular and reflexive questioning
- Develop systemic hypotheses collaboratively
- Recognise patterns across systems
- Build supervisory confidence
- Programme Content
- Introduction to systemic thinking
- Circular patterns in families and organisations
- Reflecting team approaches
- Working with difference and power
- Live practice and skills development
👥 Suitable for: Social Work Supervisors, Team Managers, Practice Educators, ASYE Assessors
Open or in-house
- Reflective Practice
- All Practitioners
Morrison's 4x4x4 Reflective Supervision Model
- 1-Day Masterclass
A focused exploration of Tony Morrison’s influential 4x4x4 supervision model, examining the four functions of supervision, four stakeholder perspectives and the four outcomes framework. This masterclass brings the model to life through experiential activities, reflective exercises and live practice, helping participants integrate the model meaningfully into their daily supervision work.
- Learning Outcomes
- Understand all four functions of supervision
- Hold multiple stakeholder perspectives
- Apply the model to complex practice
- Balance accountability and support
- Improve supervision recording
- Programme Content
- The four functions of supervision
- Stakeholders: worker, family, organisation, community
- Outcome frameworks in practice
- Managing conflict and complexity
- Case studies and skills practice
👥 Suitable for: Team Managers, Senior Social Workers, Practice Educators, New Supervisors
Available in-house
- Child Protection
- Child Protection
Genograms for Lead Child Protection Practitioners
- 1-Day Specialist Programme
This specialist programme develops advanced skills in using cultural genograms as a tool for exploring family history, patterns of risk and resilience, cultural context, and intergenerational themes. Participants learn to use genograms not merely as assessment tools but as relational instruments that open up family narratives, deepen analytical thinking and support more culturally attuned practice.
- Learning Outcomes
- Construct detailed cultural genograms
- Identify intergenerational patterns
- Integrate cultural context in assessment
- Use genograms relationally with families
- Strengthen child protection analysis
- Programme Content
- Introduction to cultural genograms
- Symbols, structure and narrative
- Risk, resilience and intergenerational themes
- Using genograms in direct work
- Live practice and case examples
👥 Suitable for: Lead Child Protection Practitioners, IROs, Social Workers, Advanced Practitioners
In-house delivery
- Infant Mental Health
- Specialist
Infant Observation in Social Work Practice
- Multi-Session Programme
Drawing on the Tavistock tradition of infant observation, this programme supports social workers and practitioners to develop their observational skills, emotional attunement and capacity to think about the inner world of infants and young children. Participants learn to observe carefully, contain powerful emotional experiences and bring a more nuanced, emotionally intelligent lens to their assessments and direct work.
- Learning Outcomes
- Develop skilled observational practice
- Understand infant development and attachment
- Recognise emotional communications
- Strengthen capacity for emotional containment
- Improve assessments of early parenting
- Programme Content
- Origins of infant observation
- Learning to look and contain
- Observation seminars and group reflection
- Infant development and early attachment
- Implications for social work assessment
👥 Suitable for: Social Workers, IROs, Guardians, Specialist Family Practitioners
Cohort model available
- Leadership
- Specialist
Leadership Development for Social Work Managers
- Modular Programme
A reflective leadership programme designed specifically for team managers and senior social work practitioners. This modular programme explores relational leadership, building reflective cultures, managing complexity and uncertainty, supporting practitioner wellbeing, and sustaining high-quality practice under organisational pressure. It draws on systemic thinking, leadership research and the lived experience of managing in contemporary social work.
- Learning Outcomes
- Lead with relational confidence
- Build reflective team cultures
- Manage complexity and uncertainty
- Support practitioner wellbeing
- Sustain quality under pressure
- Programme Content
- Relational leadership frameworks
- Systemic thinking for managers
- Creating psychologically safe teams
- Managing performance with compassion
- Organisational dynamics and parallel process
👥 Suitable for: Team Managers, Service Managers, Deputy Heads of Service, Senior Practitioners
Bespoke commissioning available
Looking for bespoke training?
All programmes can be tailored to your team, service context and organisational priorities. We work with local authorities, NHS trusts, independent providers and third-sector organisations.