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Skills for Relational Practice 

Workshop Training Calendar 

Relate and Reflect are excited to offer a series of training workshop to grow your relational skills for supervision and reflective practice. The therapeutic relationship has been established as essential for engagement and effective interventions. By deepening and broadening relational formulation and skills, helping professionals can work more accountably and compassionately with a range of people and presenting issues, supporting connection and change. 

In-person Workshop: 11th Aug, 2026

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Introduction to Relational  Reflection for Supervisors 

Interested in learning about relational reflection for helping roles?Wanting a framework and tools to introduce an accessible and supportive model for co-reflection on relational experiences in working alliances? Cognitive Analytic Therapy offers frameworks and tools to identify relational patterns and reflect on our interactions. It brings into awareness the role of relationships and how to visualise the impact and influence of these in the present. This workshop introduces participants to these key ideas and accessible methods to enrich relational reflection and skills. By building relational awareness through reflection and supervision we gain more insight and options to respond, rather than just react or repeat unhelpful patterns in practice. This workshop will emphasise how to bring this approach into supervision relationships to support relational awareness between practitioners and the people we see.

You will learn:​

  • An overview of supervision and consultation frameworks for contracting and providing a relational approach to reflective practice and supervision . 

  • Techniques for integrating educative, reflective, developmental, supportive and relational approaches to supervision and consultation. 

  • Cognitive Analytic Therapy informed theory and techniques to utilise a mapping technique in supervision and consultation sessions to support and lead supervisees and consultees in relational reflection. 

In Person Workshop : 20th November, 2026

Supervising & working with "stuckness" in the therapeutic relationship 

Unfortunately, this workshop has been cancelled. However, our 20th July workshop, Introduction to Relational Reflection for Supervisors, will also explore the important area of stuckness in supervision. We will look at how supervisors can support practitioners who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or invited into the same relational patterns their clients may be experiencing. The workshop offers practical relational tools to help create reflective space, restore perspective, and strengthen supervisory confidence.

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You will learn:​

  • Relational approaches from Cognitive Analytic Therapy to understand and address transference and counter-transference 

  • Skills to reflect on, and co-create a visual map in sessions with people you work with to discuss challenges and “reparative exits” in the therapeutic relationship 

  • Skills for working collaboratively and actively with “stuckness” in the therapeutic relationship: exploring the use of self and relational reformulation as well as working relationally in the "middle" of an episode of care. 

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Relate and Reflect would like to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia's first people and traditional custodians  of the land. We value and pay deep respect to the relationships they hold with land, waters, culture and community. 

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