Deliver it yourself: Practitioner resilience and wellbeing
Deliver it yourself: Practitioner resilience and wellbeing
Delivered online using Teams
10:00 - 12:00 Thursday, 29 January 2026
Designed for learning and development colleagues, this workshop aims to support participants to independently develop and deliver engaging learning sessions about practitioner resilience and wellbeing using Research in Practice resources.
Learning outcomes
As a result of attending this workshop you will be able to:
- Use Research in Practice resources, activities and tools to support learning sessions on practitioner resilience and wellbeing. Participants will be provided with a resource sheet as part of the session.
- Appraise how colleagues have used Research in Practice resources to create their own tools for learning and development in their organisation.
- Analyse and reflect on your own experiences of what make an effective learning session on analysis and critical thinking.
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Audience Types
Workforce development teams
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Organisational context | Developing excellent practitioners | Organisational context | Developing confident and capable social workers
CQC - Well-led
PCF - Contexts and organisations
RCOT - Support development
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