Mike Garland - Principal
M.A (Applied), B.A., Dip. Teaching, C.Q.S.W.
MNZAC, MANZASW.

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Corporate and Generic

• Building Capacity, performance measures and accountability
• Creative Leadership skills
• Creative presentation techniques
• Developing a profile of team strengths and abilities
• Effective communication skills and strategies (including NLP skills).
• Facilitation skills
• Harnessing and Managing Stress
• Learning styles and their impact
• Managing Change effectively
• Managing Conflict
• Managing time and workload
• Mediation and Negotiation skills
• Planning and Goal setting
• Recording and report writing
• Supervision Skills
• Team and organisational audits
• Team work and team development
• Understanding personality types
• Utilising action-focussed learning
• Working with Groups


Social Services Training and Development

• Adolescent Survivors of Family Violence.
• Anger Management – includes “HANDLES” – An eight session anger management programme for young people
• Assessment skills
• Attachment / Human Growth and Development
• Behavioural Management (includes a Model called “The Reinforcement Matrix” for work with children and young people)
• Care and Protection – skills, methodology and theory
• Casework Recording and Reporting
• Clinical Supervision skills
• Cognitive – behavioural therapy
• Couples Work
• Creative techniques in Counselling and therapeutic intervention
• Crisis intervention and Suicide prevention
• Grief and Loss.
• Group work – Therapeutic and social skills focussed
• Life Transitions and Change
• Mental Health issues
• Narrative approaches to practice
• NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) communication skills and intervention techniques.
• Safe Practice –theory and skills
• Self care for the helping professional.
• Strengths-based and solution-focussed therapy.
• Systemic approaches to Social Work and Counselling (theory and tools)
• Working with Abuse issues (Sexual, Physical, Emotional).
• Working with addictions and substance abuse.
• Working with Adolescents
• Working with Families
• Working with Men
• Working with resistant and difficult clients
• Youth Work – working with young people (skills, tools, intervention strategies, programming)