Skills for Relational Practice

Workshop Training Calendar 2026

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 : 15th May, 2026

Supervising & working with "stuckness" in the therapeutic relationship

We can all experience moments of “stuckness” where avoidance, drift and subtle rupture occurs. Having tools and the right support can shift our awareness and capacity to respond therapeutically in a working alliance. As a container for intervention and vehicle for change, the therapeutic relationship requires tracking and acknowledgement as an enabling or blocking factor in practice. Utilising a Cognitive Analytic Therapy approach, this workshop provides frameworks and techniques to promote attunement and relational interventions, addressing "stuckness" in day to day practice through relational reflection and supervision. Emphasising compassionate curiosity, shared understanding, and collaborative discussion of transference and counter-transference these tools support tackling feelings of "stuckness" to move towards therapeutic progress and change.

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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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.

In Person Live Workshop: 7th September, 2026

Intro to Working Relationally with Complexity & Trauma

Cognitive Analytic Therapies’ (CAT) unique integration of theories allows for a multi-dimensional and dynamic conceptualisation of human experience and mental health. This module focus’ on how and why disruptive developmental and traumatic experiences can influence relational patterns. When we are more attuned to the co-constructed nature of relational experiences, we can work with greater relational accountability and complexity. This module will explore frameworks and techniques for connection and awareness amidst “landmines” in practice relationships and contexts. It will teach containing ways to share awareness of our own, and others contexts and influences in the helping process. Resourcing ourselves and the people we work with to have empathic conversations about experiences, hope and fears, leads to more trauma-informed, authentic and connecting working alliances. This builds engagement and scaffolds pathways for relationally reparative and trauma specific interventions.

You will learn:

A relational reflective mapping technique for identifying, understanding and responding to complex trauma presentations
Integrated relational, cognitive, dialogic and social construction theories for understanding the complexity of experiences and responses that can emerge in the context of developmental disruption and trauma
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 Worksop, includes: 

3 hours of pre workshop on demand video and learning materials
1 day in person workshop 9am to 5pm, 7th September 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, 7th September 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

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.