Having Difficult Conversations: Train the Trainer
Friday 26th September 10am to 4pm
Requests for training on “Having Difficult Conversations” come from various areas across the hospital. Delivering a useful training session involves being curious from the point of referral onwards: is a session that teaches conversational skills most appropriate here? Is this request coming from someone who is not the target group? If so, do the target group want this teaching?
Once these questions have established a teaching intervention would be useful, making learners feel psychologically safe and involved in their learning is key. As a facilitator we want learners to recognise that approaching difficult conversations effectively, either with colleagues or families, goes beyond a set of conversational skills. It ideally requires an appropriate setting and a particular stance, which is maintained via regular opportunities to reflectively discuss cases with colleagues.
If you are interested in learning how to deliver trainings on Having Difficult Conversations at GOSH, please come along to this 1-day training.
Course Aims:
- Understand a key learning theory – Epistemic Trust – and appreciate how this can aid in the development and delivery of difficult conversations trainings.
- Learn theories and techniques that underpin an effective approach to difficult conversations
- Formulate psychologically the interpersonal dilemmas faced by staff, patients and families at GOSH.
- Consider the impact of the setting in which conversations take place while becoming aware of our own stance as integral to a good conversation
- Learn how to utilise real case material from your group of learners to link skills and theory to real clinical practice.
Who is this Course For?
This course is aimed at all practice educators and practice facilitators who already deliver or would be interested in learning how to deliver training on Having Difficult Conversations to GOSH staff.