What are advanced action methods?
Building on the foundation skills established in Get Up, Stand up! - Effective Use of Role Techniques this training focuses on the use of drama-based experiential methods combined with proven psychological, therapeutic, educational and motivational approaches. The training is available in modular form, depending on the existing skills and requirements of the training group.
Who is it suitable for?
The training is suited to workers on any accredited group work programme where there is scope for analysis of index offences or previous patterns of offending behaviour, such as the Control Log offence analysis in the Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme (IDAP), or with sex offender programmes. Within accredited programmes the training is fully compliant with requirements of programme integrity and delivery integrity.
For agencies desiring to operate to a high standard of delivery but without the restrictions imposed by an accredited programme, the course opens up rich opportunities for effective and engaging experiential work with offenders.
Specific techniques covered include:
Active Offence Analysis
Facilitating the exercise:
- Construction of offence scene
- Accessing offender cognition and affect safely
- Accessing beliefs, values and intentions
- Dealing safely with representation of abuse or violence
Role-play for development of action plans
Facilitating the exercise:
- Controlling spontaneous action
- Generating alternative behaviours
- Developing relevant action plan possibilities
Pro Social Skills development
Forum Theatre techniques:
- Using the group as a resource
- Controlled grading of difficulty
- Ensuring success
Non-Accredited programmes
Non-accredited programmes retain much greater flexibility for the effective use of action methods, while still remaining in tune with ‘what work’ principles of effective practice. ignition training in advanced action methods can include :
- use of vignettes (small, tightly focussed scenes)
- use of character as educational device
- hot seating techniques
- use of static tableaux (frozen pictures),
- role system analysis based in Sociometry
Please contact us to discuss the appropriate level of training required
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