How to Use Shared Session Notes to Increase Client Agency and Recovery

Can you imagine sharing your sessions notes with client?

Can you imagine the client using these notes to drive therapy forward and increase the influence they have over their lives?

This workshop draws on ideas from Narrative Therapy as developed by Michael White and David Epston. I will share clinical examples that demonstrate the power of working in this way. I will share the understandings and tools that will allow you to start writing and sharing notes that have a really positive impact on peoples lives.

Hafiz, said " the words we speak become the house we live in." I believe that carefully written and shared notes become opportunities to change that house into a kinder space.

For over 20 years I have been sharing clinical notes with clients and I have refined the process. I have learned how to do it in a way that allows clients to flourish and take back control of their lives.

The majority of this work has been done with people who have complex trauma histories and some of this work with clients has been published. I have presented this work at conferences around the world.

You will learn how session notes can be used to reflect back the words clients use to capture their world and understanding of it. This process helps clients be curious and notice their own self talk and words in a different way. A way that encourages their agency and helps them think about the skills they need to use to move towards their preferred story of self.

I will also demonstrate how helping a client notice their agency and skills helps them get unstuck.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Understand the power of stories and how stories effect what we see and what is available to be seen.
• Learn to use notes as a way of highlighting important elements of a clients experience in a way that enables them to notice something different.
• Start to learn to write session notes that create space for client reflection and agency between sessions.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Coaches and anyone with an interest in creating a more collaborative space.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Sessions notes can be seen as a chore or something that has to be done. This workshop may change your thinking on that and you may find yourself excited about the notes you write and the clients responses to them.

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Keith Oulton

I have always been interested in context and people in their context. I have a BA( hons) in applied psychology, a Masters in Organisational Psychology and then Systemic Family Therapy, followed by a diploma in Narrative therapy and community work. I have always been interested in identity and how it is shaped by experience of self, family and society.

I was born worked and lived in Republic of Ireland until I was 54 when I moved to the UK.

My career to date has involved working a psychologist/ family therapist in disability services in the non government sector. Then working in the government sector as a therapist with adults who experienced sexual abuse and as clinical manager of primary care counselling services. I also worked in private practice seeing families, children and couples. In addition I organised training workshops with international speakers and delivered training workshops.

Since moving to the UK in 2018, I have worked in a hospice, IAPT NHS service, a charity that delivers therapy to adults and children who experienced sexual abuse or domestic violence. I currently split my time between working as a therapist/supervisor for BUPA and I also have a private practice where I work with clients or offer supervision.

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