Open Dialogue – Foundation Training
COMMENCING IN OCTOBER 2019
London, UK
for NHS and other mental health teams, independent practitioners and peers
PLEASE NOTE: This training can also be run on an in-house basis in the NHS and other mental health services nationally and internationally. For further details, please contact us.
This foundation programme will draw on both the programme run by Open Dialogue UK in London and internationally and the foundation programme run in Western Lapland, and will be co-led by Nick Putman, Petra Hohn and Anni Haase.
The Open Dialogue UK foundation programme is largely based on a programme developed over the past 8 years by Volkmar Aderhold and others, and is now the most widely used Open Dialogue foundation training internationally. It is based on extensive clinical experience and several visits to study the Open Dialogue service in Western Lapland, and has been refined over the years, based on the experience of what has seemed most effective, having been run extensively in Germany, and also in Switzerland, the US, the UK and Australia. It provides a thorough grounding in the practice of facilitating Open Dialogue network meetings.
This programme was at the heart of the development of the Parachute Project in New York City, along with Intentional Peer Support training programmes. Clinicians and peers working in mobile crisis teams and respite centres across four of New York’s boroughs undertook the training, led by Volkmar and Petra Hohn, as part of a systematic redevelopment of community mental health services in the city. It has been run twice in the UK, including teams from several NHS Trusts, as well as those working in public services internationally, independent practitioners and peers. It was also the training chosen for the Queensland Peer Supported Open Dialogue project.
The foundation training in Western Lapland is integral to the Open Dialogue service that has developed there over the last thirty years, along with the full 3/4 year training programme. It is a programme that all staff participate in soon after joining the service, helping to ensure that teams are well integrated, working from the same philosophical/value base. As well as introducing new staff to the key principles of Open Dialogue and dialogical practice, the programme allows for reflective space to help participants to embody the practice.
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Dates for Training
2-5 Oct 2019
20-23 Nov 2019
15-18 Jan 2020
25-28 March 2020
3-6 June 2020
Training Fees
£3250 per person
or 4 installments of £895
Enquiries
Please telephone
+44 20 8133 3441
or contact us by clicking here.
Training Venue
The training will take place at Toynbee Hall in London:
Toynbee Hall
28 Commercial St
London
E1 6LS
United Kingdom
- The 7 principles of Open Dialogue practice
- Reflecting and reflecting teams
- The facilitation of network meetings
- The elements of dialogic practice
- Circular and anticipatory questions
- Family of origin work
- Working in crisis situations
- Working with people experiencing psychosis
- Peers in network meetings
- Dealing with fears about network meetings
- Working with risk
Details of who will be considered for the training can be found below. We are particularly interested to hear from NHS Trusts that would like to take part in a pilot project to evaluate the implementation of the Open Dialogue approach. This research would be undertaken in collaboration with Jaakko Seikkula.
Applications for the training will be considered in the following order of priority:
- Mental health teams (including peers) from NHS Trusts involved in the full 3 year Open Dialogue training programme
- Mental health teams (including peers) from NHS Trusts interested in taking part in a pilot project
- Other NHS mental health teams (including peers)
- Independent therapists/practitioners/peers interested in working at a centre for dialogic practice in London.
- International teams working in public services
- Other mental health professionals working in teams
- Additional support for organisations/services
There will be a members area for trainees on the Open Dialogue UK website, which will include a forum for shared learning and for communication between training blocks.
This members area will also include resources for learning such as reading lists, articles, videos, etc. Books relating to the training will be offered at discount prices.
Support for development within your organisation
Nick Putman is available on a part-time basis to support the development of the Open Dialogue approach in your organisation/service, including working with teams on a clinical basis. See below for Nick’s biography.Training Team
Nick Putman is a registered psychotherapist and a certified Open Dialogue practitioner, having completed a two year training in the Open Dialogue approach with Mary Olson and others in the US and a three year trainer’s training programme in London with Jaakko Seikkula and others. He is the founder of Open Dialogue UK, which established the first full training in the Open Dialogue approach outside of Western Lapland. Nick has visited the Open Dialogue service in Western Lapland on a number of occasions to study the approach and the structure of the service. He has more than 20 years experience working in a variety of mental health settings, and considerable experience working with people experiencing psychosis and their families. Nick is currently working with families in London, along with colleagues, both at the Open Dialogue UK premises and at home visits.
Petra is a registered nurse and network therapist, and has a masters for teaching in health services. She has been working since 1993 in different psychiatric services for outpatient and inpatient care, first at Kriscenter Soteria (1993-1997), an integrated model of care for people experiencing first break psychosis. Kriscenter Soteria was part of the Swedish Parachute Study. From 1997 to 2001 Petra worked as the head of outpatient centres, first in Södertälje Psychiatric Sector with integrated NIP (Newly Identified Psychosis) teams and integrated teams for social work and psychiatric treatment according to need adapted principles.
Petra is presently working at Psychiatry South Stockholm as the head of an outpatient unit, and is also running training programmes for the organisation’s employees, e.g. “Psychiatry in a historical, social and political context”, as well as seminars on personality disorders and supervision. She has been developing and running training programmes in Need Adapted Treatment Model and Open Dialogue since 2008. Since 2013 these trainings have been delivered for the Parachute Project in New York City and also as a Foundation Training for Open Dialogue UK
Petra’s interest in working dialogically in healthcare settings started with her job at Kriscenter Soteria. Cornerstones of practice were the implicit attention given to clients and their family’s words and language, the acknowledgement that every human being is born into relationships, embedded in them, and that we as human beings are and need to be dependent on fellow humans. To be human and to become who we are, we need the answer of others. Others need to see, hear and respond to our being in the world. Dialogue as such is the foundation of our lives and we as species can’t survive without being a part of the social web of our relational and intersubjective existence.
Anni Haase is a psychologist, psychotherapist and certified Open Dialogue trainer. Currently she works at Keropudas outpatient services in Western Lapland, Finland, where Open Dialogue in psychiatry was born. Anni works with families and social networks but also practices individual psychotherapy in the spirit of a need adapted approach. She is also leading a training for peer workers with her colleagues and participates in a supervision group for peer workers. Anni gives individual supervision to workers at Keropudas Hospital.
Previously Anni worked as an occupational psychologist in Rovaniemi and Tornio (2000-2004). Before Keropudas she worked as a psychologist in a family counselling centre in Tornio (2004-2010), which was strongly influenced by Open Dialogue trainings in the region. Anni has completed psychology teacher’s pedagogical studies (2005), and has specialised in family counselling (2007) and sensorimotor trauma therapy (2010).
Anni is very interested in combining body oriented approaches to therapeutic work. In therapy processes and in network meetings Anni is focused on the embodiment of experience and pays close attention to subtle sensations and transformations in emotions, thoughts, movements and perceptions in those engaged in the meetings.