Overview

• Main objectives: to learn about the AMBIT framework; to learn about working with your team and the technique of 'thinking together'.
• Sections in the manual.
• AMBIT: an overview and the Core Features of AMBIT
• Working with your TEAM
• AMBIT Competencies
• 2. Knowledge of the AMBIT approach
• 4. Applying mentalizing to work with colleagues
• 8. Be able to 'think together' with other staff.

Part 1: to learn about the AMBIT framework

• Agreeing the task
• The learning objective of this session is to enable all members of the team to know the basic framework of the approach.
• Explaining knowledge or demonstrating a skill
• The basic framework for AMBIT needs to presented in a didactic way. This can be done either by using video presentations which are located in AMBIT: an overview or Core Features of AMBIT. Trainers may want to prepare their own presentation using pages from the manual and these two pages will provide a lot of linked pages to produce such material.
• Practice
• Invite the team to work as pairs and have a conversation to identify the part of AMBIT that they found least easy to understand. Invite feedback to whole group to get an overall sense from the team.
• Invite the team to work as fours. Remove the wheel from view and ask them to draw it as well as they can remember.
• Invite team members to consider what things they do already which link to the four quadrants of the wheel.
• Reflection
• It is helpful to explore how much the AMBIT wheel provides a useful visual diagram of the model and whether this is experienced as helpful or confusing for the team.
• Manualizing
• Write a sub-page of the Using the Manual about some first thoughts as to how the team would like to start becoming familiar with the manual.

Part 2: to learn about working with your team

• Agreeing the task
• The key objective is to learn about working as a team using a mentalizing approach in outreach work in order to avoid isolation and manage anxiety more explicitly.
• Explaining knowledge or demonstrating a skill
• Practice
• Reflection
• Manualizing

Part 3: to learn the skill of thinking together with a member of your team

• Agreeing the task
• Explaining knowledge or demonstrating a skill
• Practice
• Reflection
• Manualizing