4 Educators providing Social Work courses in Glasgow

glasgow city social work training learning & development

iriss

Iriss is a charity that works with people, workers and organisations in social work and social care to help them use knowledge and innovation to make positive change happen. We have supported social work and social care in Scotland since 2008, bringing skills and expertise from a range of disciplines to our work.

reset counselling psychotherapy and training

Liz Cairns is a Psychodynamic Counsellor and Play Therapist who specialises in working with young people and their families. She leads the Counsellor training at HDS ( www.hds.scot ) and provides clinical supervision. Liz originally trained as a teacher changing direction after 12 years to work full time as a Counsellor initially in Social Work and then in the NHS. Over a period of 13 years she developed and managed the successful Youth Counselling Service for NHS Lanarkshire (CAMHS) before leaving to set up her own company. The YCS in Lanarkshire was the first to secure a Counsellor in every secondary school in the 40 plus secondary schools across North and South Lanarkshire.

persona development & training

Persona has been providing personal and professional development programmes founded on the philosophy of the Person-Centred Approach for over 20 years, specialising in the design and delivery of professionally accredited, post graduate level training in Counselling and Psychotherapy. The central values of the Person-Centred approach are a major influence in the design, structure of the programmes we provide as well as how they are delivered and managed. Our trainers and facilitators are committed to fulfilling their roles in ways that embody a Person-Centred philosophy, principally a trust in each person’s ability to find a way to direct his/her own development, based on a belief in the actualising tendency; the tendency of the individual to grow and develop to their full potential. Persona also provides training at certificate level: a Certificate in Counselling Skills for individuals and bespoke programmes in Applied Counselling Skills for organisations. These programmes focus on the development of intra-personal and inter-personal skills applied to different organisational settings, such as education, healthcare, social work, social care or HR. The Persona Staff Team are all experienced counsellors, psychotherapists and trainers. As facilitators, the team are committed to facilitating the process of each programme by communicating acceptance, empathic understanding and congruence and through these core attitudes provide the learning environment and structure of the course. Our programme are also designed to be accessible for those who have busy work schedules.