Reflective Practice Group 3

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This Reflective Practice group will run monthly on Mondays from December. If you are available on the below series of dates and would like to join this group, please book a space to register your interest for joining:

Monday 9th December, 2024

Monday 13th January, 2025

Monday 10th February, 2025

Monday 10th March, 2025

Time: 10-11:30am

Venue: Plymouth Methodist Central Hall (Plymouth City Centre, Eastlake Street, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 1BA). Room 4 (upstairs).

Facilitators: John Hawton and Alice Blamey

THIS IS AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST SO WE CAN ALLOCATE A MIX OF PEOPLE ACROSS TEAMS TO EACH GROUP.

PLEASE SUBMIT ALL EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST BEFORE 9AM ON MONDAY 4TH NOVEMBER.

WE WILL CONFIRM WHICH GROUP YOU HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED TO DURING THE WEEK BEGINNING 4TH NOVEMBER.

Please book this event if you would like to be considered to attend this group. You can put your name forward for as many groups as you like to suit you.

Please note this group is for staff not in management/leadership roles. Please refer to the email to find a group suitable for you.

About the offer:

Your team has been invited to be part of a reflective practice pilot taking place in Plymouth. This offers you the opportunity to attend a monthly, peer-led reflective practice group made up of a mix of colleagues from various teams working with people who experience multiple disadvantage in the city. The teams are: PCC’s Community Connections Housing Solutions teams, PDAS, BCHA, Salvation Army Devonport Lifehouse, and Improving Lives Plymouth. These groups were set up in response to workforce feedback that access to reflective spaces to enhance practice and wellbeing are limited, and that people value having opportunities to mix, connect and build relationships with people from other teams and organisations.

What is reflective practice?

Reflective practice is different from other forms of management and supervision (e.g. line management, caseload management, clinical supervision or therapy). It offers space for staff to discuss:

• How we show up in our work… and the work shows up in us
• What is it about people/pieces of work that activate us
• What happens when we disconnect from our compassion
• Building collective wisdom and wellbeing through sharing ideas and knowledge.

Reflective practice groups will:

• Typically consist of 8-10 people, with a maximum of 12.
• Be led by two peers who have received training to hold reflective spaces that are trauma
• informed and solution focused.
• Be confidential (unless there is risk of harm, in which case a conversation would take place before sharing), psychologically as safe as possible, and have a trauma-informed lens, recognising that we all have responses to what happens to us which is influenced by our experiences and the world around us.
• Draw upon ‘Gibbs’ reflective cycle (see your email invitation).
• Where appropriate and when agreed with group members, key themes from across groups will be shared to enable leaders to address practical challenges that are affecting the work we do and staff wellbeing.

What if I am unable to get a place?

We will hold reserve lists for each the group so people can take up a space if anyone is no longer able to commit. If there is high demand and groups are being well received, we will explore additional peer facilitator training to create more reflective spaces.

Venue info:

For this group, Room 4 at Methodist Central Hall is only accessible via stairs unfortunately.

If stairs present challenges for yourself or a team member please get in touch with [email protected] and we can arrange for you to be part of a group that is based at an accessible venue.

The nearest parking is Drake Circus Shopping Centre. With the venue being in city centre, there are plenty of buses in and out of town.

If you have any accessibility requirements, or any general concerns/questions about the sessions, please reach out to [email protected]

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