We've been delivering a number of programmes to support colleagues who work with young people whose behaviour-either acting in or acting out-is a cause for concern.
From Conflict to Confidence marks a development that has pulled together several sub-themes we've been delivering over that last six years.
The programme looks at:
It has been our very recent pleasure to deliver the programme in the North East of England, working with a charitable organisation that delivers programmes to:
Programmes are delivered to individuals and groups with high risk and vulnerability factors.
On a warm July day, myself and 18 participants found ourselves working together in a small area. At such points the options are pretty clear: I can either
(a) Re-load the car and go
(b) Complain bitterly and deliver a luke-warm programme
(c) Get on with it.
Unless mine or someone else's life is in danger, I'll take option (c) every time. So, we got on with it.
I like to know what people value about their jobs and it comes as no surprise when words like "Respect", "Empathy" and "Trust" feature so highly amongst their personal values and beliefs.
Although organisations can't so without the above qualities, they can't survive on them either and the purpose of "Conflict to Confidence" is to get under the above and explore what they really mean in practical, day-to-day terms.
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12 July 2009
