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: 20th July, 2026

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.

This Training has two enrolment options:

Option 1: In Person Worksop, includes: 

3 hours of pre workshop on demand video and learning materials
1 day in person workshop 9am to 5pm, 20th July in Brunswick, Victoria 3056

Option 2: In Person Worksop with follow-up online Group Supervision, includes: 

3 hours of pre workshop on demand video and learning materials
1 day in person workshop 9am to 5pm, 20th July in Brunswick, Victoria 3056
3 x 1 hour online group supervision sessions at 4-6 weekly intervals following the workshop

Who Should Attend:

helping professionals in direct practice with adolescents and adults interested and ready to enhance reflective relational skills and supervision techniques
Workshops emphasise case learning activities and discussion, which involves reflecting on relational experiences in practice.

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In Person Live Workshop: 7th & 8th September, 2026

Intro to Working Relationally with Complexity & Trauma

This workshop focus' on relational reflection for practitioners and supervisors working with adversity, complexity and trauma. It will introduce frameworks and techniques for connection and awareness amidst relational engagement and ruptures in helping contexts. Cognitive Analytic Therapies’ (CAT) integration of theories allows for relational and systemic understandings of human experience and wellbeing. This multi-dimensional approach can help to identify, name and share how we influence and are influenced by these experiences and the helping relationship as a process. Resourcing ourselves and the people we work with to have empathic and empowering conversations about therapeutic, relational and systemic experiences can support authentic connection, accountability and trauma-informed working alliances. By building awareness and reflecting on patterns emerging in practice, there is an opportunity to strengthen shared understanding. These frameworks and tools help to build engagement and scaffold pathways for relationally reparative experiences and trauma specific interventions.

You will learn:

A relational reflective mapping technique for identifying, understanding and responding to developmental and complex trauma
Integrated relational, cognitive, dialogic and social construction theories for understanding intersubjective experiences and responses that can emerge in relational systems and practice contexts
Cognitive Analytic Therapy informed techniques to build, scaffold and utilise the therapeutic relationship as an “envelope” for the delivery of reparative and trauma specific interventions

This Training has two enrolment options:

Option 1: In Person Workshop only, includes: 

3 hours of pre workshop on demand video and learning materials
2 day in person workshop 9am to 5pm, 7th & 8th September in Brunswick, Victoria 3056

Option 2: In Person Workshop with follow-up online Group Supervision, includes: 

3 hours of pre workshop on demand video and learning materials
2 day in person workshop 9am to 5pm, 7th & 8th September in Brunswick, Victoria 3056
3 x 1 hour online group supervision sessions at 4-6 weekly intervals following workshop completion

Who Should Attend:

helping professionals in direct practice with adolescents and adults interested and ready to enhance reflective relational skills and supervision techniques
Workshops emphasise case based and experiential activities which involves reflecting on relational experiences in practice

Standard Fees:

In person 2 Day Workshop Attendance: $500 +GST (includes access to online on demand video)
In person 2 Day Workshop Attendance with 3 Online Group Supervision Sessions: $750 +GST

Bring a Friend Discounted Fee for 2 People:

In person Workshop Attendance Fee: $790 +GST (includes access to online on demand video)
In person Workshop Attendance with 3 Online Group Supervision Session Fee: $920 +GST

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In Person Live Workshop: Date TBC November, 2026

Intro to Group Relational Reflective Practice

Supporting other helping professionals through supervision and consultation to reflect on and grow awareness of relational patterns and approaches to practice can be enriching and a powerful method of professional development. This training teaches participants some core skills for providing group reflective practice and consultation with a focus on relational reflection. By integrating the relate and reflect model into a group work and consultation approach, participants are provided with accessible techniques to introduce reflection on relational experiences and complexity in group settings. The overarching aims of including a relational reflective practice approach is to enhance group or team connection, awareness and support when working with complex relational experiences and contexts.

You will learn:

An overview of supervision and consultation frameworks for contracting and delivering supervision in mental health and community care settings.
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 within individual and group contexts.

This Training has two enrolment options:

Option 1: In Person Worksop, includes: 

2 hours of pre workshop on demand video and learning materials
1 day in person workshop 9am to 5pm, November date TBC in Brunswick, Victoria 3056

Option 2: In Person Worksop with follow-up online Group Supervision, includes: 

3 hours of pre workshop on demand video and learning materials
1 day in person workshop 9am to 5pm, November date TBC in Brunswick, Victoria 3056
3 x 1 hour online group supervision sessions at 4-6 weekly intervals following the workshop

Who Should Attend:

helping professionals in direct practice with adolescents and adults interested and ready to enhance reflective relational skills and supervision techniques
Workshops emphasise case learning activities and discussion, which involves reflecting on relational ex

ther discuss suitability.

In Person Workshop : Date TBA, 2027

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.

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.

This Training has two formats and enrolment options:

Option 1: In Person Worksop, includes: 

3 hours of pre workshop on demand video and learning materials
1 day in person workshop 9am to 5pm, 15th May in Brunswick, Victoria 3056

Option 2: In Person Worksop with follow-up online Group Supervision, includes: 

3 hours of pre workshop on demand video and learning materials
1 day in person workshop 9am to 5pm, 15th May in Brunswick, Victoria 3056
3 x 1 hour online group supervision sessions at 4-6 weekly intervals following the workshop

Who Should Attend:

helping professionals in direct practice with adolescents and adults interested and ready to enhance reflective relational skills and supervision techniques
Workshops emphasise case learning activities and discussion, which involves reflecting on relational experiences in practice.

Standard Fees:

In person Workshop Attendance: $350. +GST
In person Workshop Attendance with 3 Online Group Supervision Sessions: $550. +GST

Bring a Friend Discounted Fee for 2 People:

In person Workshop Attendance Fee: $500. +GST (includes access to online on demand video)
In person Workshop Attendance with 3 Online Group Supervision Session Fee: $700. +GST

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