A One-Year Professional Development Programme – 12 Full Training Days
This one-year programme is a structured professional development process in which an organisation commissions 12 full training days distributed across an entire year.
The programme is designed to support real changes in everyday practice through continuity, progression, and time to test ideas in the workplace.
The content is planned together with the commissioning organisation and can be adjusted during the programme based on the needs of the service, the staff group, and situations that arise in everyday work.
What a one-year programme offers that individual training days do not
- Progression – knowledge develops layer by layer and gradually becomes a shared way of working.
- Implementation – between sessions you have time to test ideas, discover obstacles, and adjust routines.
- Shared understanding within the staff group – a common language and common principles reduce friction and conflicting interpretations.
- Practical everyday relevance – the programme is connected to your real situations rather than generic examples.
- Stability over time – new staff members can more easily enter an established way of working.
Who is it for?
The programme is particularly relevant for services working with psychosis-related populations, complex psychiatric conditions, and everyday support work. Examples include inpatient psychiatric care, community psychiatry, supported housing, and psychosis rehabilitation services.
Content – a programme that can be tailored
The programme is built from modules that can be combined and adapted. Common components include:
- Interactive Skills Training (IB) – a practical framework for working in closed or pressured situations, focusing on cooperation, response, and everyday conflict situations.
- Psychiatric conditions and cognitive impairments – overview, teaching sessions, video examples, and discussion.
- A full day on psychosis and schizophrenia including the methodology known internationally as LEAP.
- Motivational Interviewing (MI) – a collaborative conversation style that helps strengthen a person’s own motivation and readiness for change.
- Clinical conversation methods – preparing, conducting, and continuing structured conversations with people who experience psychiatric symptoms or cognitive difficulties.
- MY ABILITIES – a structured everyday ADL assessment that supports shared understanding, documentation, and planning.
- IPT (Integrated Psychological Therapy) – cognitive understanding and training (social cognition, problem solving, and everyday functioning) with a strong clinical foundation and research support.
- NECT (Narrative Enhancement & Cognitive Therapy) – a group intervention addressing self-stigma through narrative work and identity development, with direct research support.
- Social skills training - using structured methods and practical examples of skills that can be practised in everyday life.
- Incident analysis methodology – learning after serious events and improving systems and routines when needed.
- Service-specific days – deeper work with your own cases, routines, documentation, or collaboration structures.
The programme may also include a separate lecture component directed toward service users and/or relatives, if relevant for the organisation.
Structure and rhythm of the programme
The programme is planned so that the work develops a clear rhythm throughout the year. This usually includes:
- a clear starting day establishing a shared framework and overall goals
- thematic blocks delivered in clusters of two or three days (for example response methods, functional assessment, cognitive training, or recovery work)
- practical work between sessions (testing, observing, documenting, reflecting)
- ongoing adjustment based on what proves useful or challenging in practice
- a concluding day focusing on integration, lessons learned, and plans for continued work
How we work during the programme
- Practice-based – we start from your everyday work, your roles, and your real situations.
- Concrete focus – emphasis on what staff can do differently in encounters, not only what they should understand.
- Shared methodology – we develop common concepts, routines, and ways of reasoning together.
- Respect for organisational realities – the working methods must function within real constraints: time, staffing, and organisational responsibilities.
Expected outcomes
- greater shared confidence and alignment within the staff group
- more consistent responses in difficult or high-pressure situations
- clearer documentation and better foundations for planning and interventions
- improved continuity when working methods become shared rather than dependent on individuals
- better possibilities to follow development over time, both for service users and for the organisation
Commissioning and planning
The one-year programme is offered as commissioned professional training. Content, dates, and structure are planned together with the commissioning organisation. You receive a coherent programme with the possibility of adjustments during the year, ensuring that the training remains relevant and practically useful.
Please contact me for a quotation and an initial discussion about the programme structure.