Overview.

• Main objectives: to learn about each other as a group; to explore methods of learning including theories of learning organisations and the use of the AMBIT Manual; to explore methods of training; to learn about mentalization.
• Key sections in the manual.
• The AMBIT Manual - About this Manual
• Mentalization
• AMBIT Competencies
• 1. Knowledge of the theory of mentalization
• 10. To manualize local practice
• 19. To access support from the wider community of practice.

Part 1: Learning about each other as a group

• Agreeing the task.
• Building a context of safety and an atmosphere where we can foster shared mental models (Senge: Discipline 3 - Mental Models about challenges in achieving this.
• Explaining knowledge or demonstrating a skill.
• A brief presentation on safety, Community of Practice and the need to know each other (to be well-connected)
• Practice
• Doing one minute elevator pitches (see Elevator Pitch)
• (a) To a Commissioner: "What we do and how"
• (b) To each other in this Learning Set, acknowledging the specific difficulties in your specific situations in delivering this:
• Reflection
• Feedback and whole group discussion about what we learnt about each other.
• Manualizing
• Each team makes some notes to be the basis of a brief brief entry into their manual about the elevator pitch which they put together.

Part 2: Exploring methods of learning

• Agreeing the task
• Recognising that teams and individuals within teams learn in different ways and that thee may be many obstacles to learning in work settings.
• Explaining knowledge or demonstrating a skill
• A brief presentation about the work of learning organisations (see Developing learning organisations.
• Practice
• Design a way to explore "How do you learn in this team?" with your own team.
• Clarifying each team's Post-training outcome goals (keep these quite client-focused as well as team/practitioner focused).
• Reflection
• Whole team discussion about experience of learning.
• Manualizing
• Note some key points about learning in your team for entry into the manual following the teaching for the next task.

Part 3: Learning how to use the manual

• Agreeing the task
• Learn how to make basic entries into the manual by making a sub-page of an existing page.
• Explaining knowledge or demonstrating a skill
• Ensure all the group can use or see a lap top. Make sure each team has a version of the manual and that the trainers are members of their own version. Demonstrate to the group making a sub page of an existing page.
• Practice
• Practise putting a sub-page to Train the trainer: potential barriers to achieving training objectives about your own team based on the previous learning task.
• Reflection
• Invite group for feedback on what this was like. Draw out attitudes to manuals and computers as these are all helpful to get explicit for each team.
• Manualizing
• Do a second manualizing task by filing in the page called Our team's core expertise taking material from the elevator pitch task as a starting point. .

Part 4: Learning about mentalizing

A detailed plan for a training session on this topic is in the manual on page Local Session 03: Mentalization

• Agreeing the task
• To learn the basic theory of the process of mentalizing, non-mentalizing and its developmental roots.
• Explaining knowledge or demonstrating a skill
• The basic ideas of mentalization needs to be presented to the group in a somewhat didactic way. This can be done by using parts of the manual. if needed, in the page Mentalization there are two talks on video by Dickon Bevington and one conversation with Jon Allen from the Menninger Clinic.
• Practice
• Divide the group into pairs to enable everyone to have a conversation about the material that has been presented. Invite each pair to come up with things that made sense to them, things that were a bit hard to follow and any other comments. In feedback to the whole group, it is more important to draw out the questions than getting focused on answers.
• Again, working pairs, invite the group to imagine how they would explain mentalizing to a colleague who had not been able to attend the session .
• Reflection
• Small group discussion. Some familiar themes may emerge: these may be around discussion about the word itself and secondly the degree to which this is different from what people do already.
• Manualizing
• Make a sub-page of Mentalizing by taking a common interaction that may occur in your service and then imagine the way that interaction may move between mentalizing and non-mentalizing states.