AMBIT Basic Training Day 1

10th June 2015

Learning Objectives for the day


The four main learning objectives for Day 1 are:

  1. Initial introductions at a Training event - 20 mins
  2. Developing Team Learning Objectives - I hr
  3. Learning about mentalizing - 90 mins
  4. Learning about AMBIT - Brief overview and selected highlights in each of the four main quadrants of the AMBIT Wheel - afternoon.

Possible timetable

  • Please check for specific timings of your own training!
  • AMBIT is about adaptation as well as structure, so variations are possible

Day 1 - Didactic teaching and mini-exercises


1. Introductions and Developing Team Learning Objectives - I hr


To introduce individuals: Initial introductions at a Training event

Then:

(a) All teams spend 3 minutes developing a 1 minute introduction to their team:
  • Who we are (subgroup 1 if a larger team)
  • What we do (subgroup 2 if a larger team)
  • How we do it (subgroup 3 if a larger team)
  • The major Challenges for us in what we do (subgroup if a larger team)

(b) All delegates write some SHORT SENTENCES/PHRASES on a piece of paper:

  • One hope for the training ahead
  • One worry about the training ahead
  • What are the some of the main challenges of your job? (These are your INDIVIDUAL experiences - as opposed to those shared by your TEAM earlier) ...With clients, with your team, and with your networks.

These will be looked at while delegates then

(c) ...Give us your current experiences of work, please. Do the:


(d) Introducing ourselves and the model

  • Trainers have a conversation in front of the group:
    • Attempting to mentalize the large group and themselves.
    • Read out from hope and fears papers
    • Imagine the large group is the client
    • “There might be enthusiasts, there might be sceptics”
    • Training may have benefits... AND it can have SIDE EFFECTS...
    • Dialogue about "them", and about US...
    • Stress AMBIT's requirement to Respect local practice and expertise, and our non-knowledge about how things are here.
    • We are “sailing blind” - very like working with the families you work with...
  • The team's REFERRAL forms....
    • Discuss and reflect upon these and the teams' proposed training outcomes...
  • Reveal that we are trying to MODEL an AMBIT stance in our work with them.
    • Broadcast our intentions
    • Slide or two about the AMBIT project, the community of practice, who’s using it to date.

2. Open discussion (Q and A)

10 minutes

3. Training Exercises for Mentalization

45 minutes with slides
Show the Fishtank film clip
  • Working in pairs
    • Where was mentalizing?
    • Where was non-mentalizing?

STOP FOR COFFEE (20 minutes)


4. Learning about AMBIT - 45 mins

  • Applying Mz in 3 directions - clients/colleagues/networks (ask what the problems are in people's work - to scribe and to sort into 3 domains clients/team/network)
  • Hard to reach/ relationship to help
  • AMBIT stance first (see Core Features of AMBIT) and then move into the practices (“more detail in the afternoon”)

5. End of morning - How are we doing? (30 mins)

  • 10 mins conversation with neighbour
  • 'Call out' discussions with workers trying to represent their neighbour’s views
    • We are modelling curiosity
    • We are being explicit about whether we are attuned to their hopes and fears (from earlier)

STOP FOR LUNCH - 1 hour

Meet team managers for 30 minutes - how's it going?

6. Mentalizing your client

The Therapist's Mentalizing Stance
Active Planning Map - the "Egg and Triangle" as a playing field to practice the mentalizing stance - including Broadcasting Intentions.

7. Mentalizing the worker

Introduction to the idea of the Keyworker well-connected to wider team - EQUAL emphasis on inter-team relationships as there is on worker-client relationships...
Exercise: Passed-outwards Discussion - try it in threes

BREAK FOR TEA (20 minutes)


8. Mentalizing the network

Introduction to the theme of Addressing Dis-integration
The AMBIT Pro-Gram to map out specific networks
Try it in pairs (day 2 we will do the Dis-integration grid

9. Wiki Manualization (30 minutes)

  • 15 mins explanation of Manualization
  • Exercise:
    • Discuss examples from your team that might useful to manualize
    • Things that are unclear
    • Things which get people in the team a bit worried or upset or angry.
    • Call out these afterwards

10. Wrap up 30 minutes


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    • Thinking about training outcomes for your team
    • "NO SUCH THING AS AN AMBIT TEAM!"

11. Feedback forms completed


Finish