The aim of this exercise is:

• to work with practitioners, or teams who are training together
• to reflect on the degree that each practitioner uses AMBIT methods already in their work
• to consider the use of other practitioners/teams/agencies in the helping process (the Community of Practice).
• to practice seeking advice from a colleague (even, or especially) from another team about a case/your practice.

Instructions for exercise

1. In pairs with another person from your own team, select a case that you both know which is proving hard.

2. Using the AMBIT Practice Audit Tool (APrAT) form, complete this in your pairs.

3. Reflecting on your answers, try to make an intervention plan for next week.

4. These pairs separate now - one will continue to work with this case (they become the consultee), the other will become a temporary consulting colleague to someone from a DIFFERENT pair/team: try to work with somebody that you do NOT know well, or don't work with regularly.

5. Consult with this new partner about the case, or offer consultation to them.

6. The Consultant may want to bear in mind ways of Thinking Together, and may invite the Consultee to complete The AMBIT Pro-Gram for the case and/or to discuss who outside of the caseholding team might help in any way with the planned intervention. They may want to help the consultee fill in a Dis-integration grid.

7. Reverse the consultation process to give feedback on the process - so that Consultant briefly becomes the consultee - "how did I do as a consultant to your team?"

8. Feedback on exercise in the large group

9. Identify any LEARNING NEEDS that arise, and look for Training exercises that might support this.

Time allocation

45 minutes