Using the Professional Tree of Life with staff
During the day workshop, attendees will be introduced to the narrative therapy principles that guide this intervention and how they fit with staff support. Time will be spent connecting to the metaphor of the tree and the forest, which is an important aspect of this creative technique that helps to facilitate the exploration of our ‘preferred stories of our working lives’.
Participants will be invited to take part in the tree of life workshop, draw their own tree and sharetheir trees with others to build a forest. The forest is about strengthening connections with others, the team and the wider organisation and to reflect on the collective resources that can be accessed to help ‘weather the storms’.
An individual tree represents: roots – our training background and professional influences; the ground – daily practices at work ; the trunk – skills and principles we bring to work; the branches – hopes and dreams for our work, our colleagues, the team and the people we work for; leaves – who supports our working lives and the fruits/flowers – how we contribute to others at work and who contributes to our working lives.
Trees are then displayed for the rest of the group and stories shared amongst members as part of a ‘Forest of life’. Participants are then invited to consider how the different aspects of their trees can be sustained through adversity or ‘The Storms of Life’. Finally, ‘Certificates’ facilitate the sharing and celebration of stories and we look at the ways a team can document key aspects of preferred stories of working together and how ‘stories told are stories lived’.
What you will learn from taking this course:
- Learn about a new creative model of staff support and development based on Narrative therapy and the Tree of Life model.
- Reflect on our relationship to our work, our identity at work and how this is influenced by our colleagues, teams and services. Think about how we contribute to our colleagues working lives and how they contribute to ours.
- Reconnect to the values and principles that brought us to this work in the first place.
- Build stronger working relationships with our colleagues by sharing stories based on our strengths and resources and the history of these stories.
- Consider the role of our culture in developing our ‘selves’ at work and relationships with others.
- Develop a sense of work community, an interconnected forest, and support network to help weather the storms together.
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