Workshops | In-House Training | Supervision/Group Consultation | Organizational Consulting/Coaching

Workshops

We offer a variety of workshops on our Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy and Collaborative Systemic Family Therapy approaches with challenging treatment populations. Our workshops are offered in a one, two, or three-day format. We also offer a five-day advanced training program in Collaborative Systemic Family Therapy in Evanston, Illinois; Cardiff, Wales; and in other requested locations worldwide. Finally, we offer specialized training in Solution-Oriented Supervision, management, learning organizations, and successful team-building for supervisors, managers, administrators of social services, mental health, healthcare organizations, and corporate businesses. The following workshops are offered upon request:

• Therapeutic Artistry: The Creative Use of Self Outside the Comfort Zone with Complex and Difficult Client Practice Situations
   
• Short-Term Solution-Oriented Groups for Parents and At-Risk Adolescents
   
• Theraputic Moments That Count: Bringing Humor, Drama, and Adventure to Family Therapy
   
• Solution-Oriented Supervision and Management: Harnessing Staff Expertise and Competencies to Co-Create Compelling Future Realities at the Workplace
   
• Tapping Client Inventiveness and Expertise: Innovations in Child and Adolescent-Focused Collaborative Systemic Family Therapy
   
• Five-Day Advanced Training in Collaborative Systemic Family Therapy
   
• Violent, Suicidal, and Self-Harming Adolescents: A Multisystemic Family Therapy Approach
   
• Pathways to Solutions with Self-Harming and Suicidal Adolescents: A Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy Approach
   
• Child-Focused Practice: A Collaborative Systemic Therapy Approach
   
• ADHD and Children’s Narratives: When Diagnosis and Creativity Collide
   
• Creativity and the Use of Self in Systemic Therapy Approaches: Expanding Repertoires of Clinical Practice and Thinking Beyond the Comfort Zone
   
• Imagination, Play and Possibilities: A Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy Approach with Children
   
• “Beyond the Yellow Brick Road”: The Search for Resourceful Practices and the Development of the Resourceful Practitioner
   
• Pathways to Solutions with Challenging Children and Adolescents: A Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy Approach
   
• Doing What Works: Evidence-Based Family Therapy Approaches with Adolescent and Adult Substance Abusers
   
• Engaging Difficult Clients: Co-Creating a Therapeutic Climate Ripe for Change
   
• From Family-Helping System Knots to Possibilities: Co-Constructing Change Through Transformative Dialogue
   
• Creating a School Climate Ripe for Student Success: A Narrative Solution-Oriented Therapy Approach
   
• Bringing Out the Best in Your Children and Teens: A Solution-Oriented Parenting Approach
   
• Pathways to Solutions with Challenging At-Risk Adolescents: A Collaborative Systemic Family Therapy Approach
   
• Working with Explosive and Violent Children and Adolescents: A Collaborative Systemic Family Therapy Approach

Workshop participants have said of Matthew, Jim and mark's presentations:

"Fabulous, freeing, expansive, thought-provoking, and stimulating."

"I'm coming away from this experience very hopeful, invigorated, and empowered - Thank you!"

"The best training I've been to in years! Thank you for your energy and passion.
It helped to fuel my fire for this work. The videotaped examples and stories were very helpful. Thank you!"

"The presenters are each brilliant and together synergistic. Very inspiring and energizing."

Partners for Collaborative Solutions can also design a specialized workshop for your organization or professional community in line with your training needs. We also offer public presentations for parents and community groups.

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design a specialized workshop for your organization or group.