Building relational systems in social work

Building relational systems in social work

Building relational systems in social work using systems-centered® theory and practice - a one-day workshop, in-person in Glasgow

By GAPS

Date and time

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:30 - 16:30 GMT+1

Location

The Albany Centre

44 Ashley Street Glasgow G3 6DS United Kingdom

About this event

Social workers are expected to build effective working relationships often in a context of substantial caseloads and tight timescales. Occupying the space between the service user and the organisation, and transmitting information between the two, social workers use their relational knowledge and skill to assess, support, inform, advise and report on their work. Meanwhile supervision is often focused on caseloads, deadlines and the production of written records.

There is an emphasis on doing and getting things done, yet social work is freighted with feeling. This workshop aims to create space for listening to ourselves and attuning to others, using Yvonne Agazarian’s Theory of Living Human Systems and the Systems-Centered (SCT®) methods that arise from it. The theoretical model provides a container for understanding our human experiences while the methods support authentic connection with ourselves and others.

The workshop will be both serious and fun, theoretical and practical, and provide a space for slowing down – for being rather than doing.

This workshop is suitable for social workers and social work students working with service users, and for managers engaged in supervision.

A vegetarian lunch and refreshments will be provided

Presenter:

Juliet Koprowska is author of Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Social Work (2020, 5th edition), and taught on social work programmes at the University of York from 1995-2018. She is a Licensed Systems-Centered practitioner, co-ordinates an annual SCT training week held in York and leads training groups in SCT. Juliet is Chair of GAPS.

Organised by

GAPS

GAPS is a registered charity promoting relationship-based approaches, and psychodynamic and systemic thinking in social work. We receive an income from our ownership of the Journal of Social Work Practice which we use to fund activities for front-line social work practitioners and managers – such as one-day workshops and seminars, as well as our annual essay award for social work practitioners and students.  

In 1980s, a group of social workers interested in working with psychodynamic ideas established GAPS (Group for the Advancement of Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy in Social Work) and the Journal of Social Work Practice. Since that time, GAPS has promoted the importance of relationship-based approaches in social work, and therapeutic, psychodynamic and systemic perspectives – perspectives that are central to the editorial policy of the Journal of Social Work Practice, which is owned by the GAPS membership.

Journal of Social Work PracticeThis ISI ranked, refereed Journal publishes four issues each year and, as such, it is one of the few social work journals that is centrally concerned with promoting the importance of working therapeutically with the children and adults. The Journal has a wide international readership and editorial correspondents, and attracts regular contributions from abroad. Every issue includes papers that are drawn from a wide spectrum of therapeutic interest, including book reviews, commentaries and conceptual themes that explore psychodynamic and therapeutic ideas and ways of working. Also, the Journal regularly publishes special editions where the focus is on specific themes - such as the importance of relationship-based approaches; the importance and impact of defences in social work; work with children; work with adults; etc. The Journal is published and distributed by Taylor and Francis; members are sent four copies of the Journal a year, and can also access a range of other benefits and resources.

If you have a question or would like more information about GAPS or our events, please get in contact with the Project Co-ordinator, Hannah Pepper by email hannahpepper@gaps.org.uk or by phone 07714 237107

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