Professional Identity, Resilience & Self Care Training
Part of BASW's Taught Skills Development Programme
A session uniquely designed and delivered by Siobhan Maclean, an experienced social worker, practice educator and consultant who has written widely around social work theory and written reflection.
Delivered virtually using MS Teams, with limited group sizes to allow for full interaction with the trainer.
In this guided reflection session Siobhan will support you to reflect on your work, using words that start with RE. The session will explore the importance of working relationships and how these have been impacted by remote ways of working. Siobhan will support you to think about how you might build on your own reflective abilities to deepen professional resilience. The session will be very interactive - come prepared to explore your sense of self at work!
Feedback from a previous delegate - "Siobhan is a patient, knowledgeable and kind trainer who really understands her audience and flexes her delivery to meet our needs. Time well spent"
Trainer Biog
Siobhan has been a social worker for 29 years and became a practice educator in 1995. Siobhan has worked independently for a number of years. As an independent her work is varied but includes training, devising practice learning resources and consultancy work. Siobhan still very much enjoys working as a practice educator and currently works with a few students a year in an off site capacity.
In 2004 Siobhan was appointed to the position of Secretary of the International Federation of Social Workers, holding this position for eight years. She still maintains close international links and enjoys working to support practice educators in countries where social work education is in the early stages of development.
Siobhan was recently appointed a Visiting Professor at the University of Chester. She is also an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning.
Siobhan has written widely, mostly around social work theory and critical reflection. She is committed to making the knowledge base accessible to busy practitioners and set up Kirwin Maclean Associates as an independent publishing organisation based on the values and ethics of social work.