Demystifying Direction

Arts Therapist and Registered Nurse, Annie Sloss brings this important professional development opportunity over 4 months. Safe practice for risky business is a four-part online workshop series addressing the fundamental skills and knowledge required for employment as a therapist in private practice and helping agencies.

Participants are welcome to attend as many or few of the workshops as meets their learning needs. An attendance certificate will be given as evidence for professional development requirements.

Workshop 4/4 - Demystifying Direction - Wed 12th November 6.30-8.30 pm

Integrating Structure with Emergence and Therapeutic Presence

You don’t need to abandon your therapeutic values of emergence and co-creation to benefit from the clarity that comes with assessment, goal setting, and case conceptualisation.

Demystifying Direction is a practical, two-hour workshop designed to help you integrate structure into your therapeutic work—without sacrificing the art, intuition, or client-led nature of the process.

When used well, collaborative assessment, goal setting, and formulation become powerful allies in client care—not rigid constraints. This workshop will offer a grounded, accessible way to bring these tools into your practice, so you can feel more confident and intentional in your therapeutic direction.

Who Is This For?

Whether you’re in private practice, community settings, or student placements, this workshop is designed to support you in weaving clarity into your clinical thinking while staying deeply attuned to your clients.

Workshop Content

In this interactive workshop, we will explore:

• Skills to engage clients in short- and long-term goal setting

• Simple, helpful assessment questions that deepen understanding.

• How to harvest assessment data from therapeutic interactions

• Navigating power dynamics in therapeutic work

• A clear, accessible framework for seeing the “bigger picture” in therapy

You Will Walk Away With:

• Greater ease in integrating direction with client-led processes

• Confidence in using assessment as an ongoing, organic part of therapy

• The ability to co-create goals that are meaningful, measurable, and client-driven

• A strong understanding of what case conceptualisation really means—and how to do it collaboratively

• Practical, easy-to-use tools and skills to bring more clarity, cohesion, and confidence to your work

The workshops will take place online on the following dates:

Forging Foundations – Wed 27th August 6.30-8.30 pm
Conquering Case Notes - Wed 24th September 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Wrangling Risk – Wed 22nd October 6-9 pm (3 hrs)
Demystifying Direction Wed 12th November 6.30-8.30pm

At the completion of the four workshops participants will:

Understand basic requirements to maintain ethically and legally safe professional therapeutic practice from first point of client contact through to risk assessment, management and documentation. Including scope of practice, professional obligations, intake assessment and documentation, case note writing, information collection, storage, privacy and consent. Interdisciplinary communication, risk assessment and risk/resilience plans, assessment, case conceptualisation and goal setting skills.

Facilitator
Annie Sloss has over twenty years experience as a Nurse/Therapist within the public, private and community, addictions and mental health sectors. Annie holds a Master’s degree in Creative Arts Therapy, and has taught as a sessional teacher at MIECAT and IKON and now works in private practice. Annie specializes in working with people who live with complex trauma, and provision of clinical supervision. Her Master’s thesis topic focused on the experience of therapists managing clients experiencing suicidality, and she continues this courageous inquiry working with suicidality in her private practice.

This is a Professional Development offer developed for Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, and Creative Arts Therapists.

Some prior training in psychology, counselling, social work and/or creative arts therapies is assumed.

Please make a considered purchase. MIECAT won't be able to offer refunds should you decide during the session that this event isn't appropriate for you.

This foundational training is appropriate for students and practitioners who are interested in refreshing their skills or those new to the field who seek an introduction to some fundamental principles and frameworks.