Single session practice for schools: Practical single session therapy skills for school-based conversations that support change

Learn practical single session therapy skills that support strengths-based conversations with students and help create opportunities for meaningful change in school settings.

Educators, support staff, and mental health professionals play a vital role in assisting and shoring up students in these ever-increasing stressful times. Common approaches that focus on “identifying the problem” and “trying to get students to change”, while seemingly sensible, can be disheartening as a problem-focus prevails. A revised mindset is needed.

Single session therapy and the accompanying mindset has a great deal to offer school settings. It now encompasses an approach to change conversations that focuses on competencies. It foregrounds what students and their circle of care already know. Also, it draws on those strengths to address what they are facing. Rather than trying to teach new behaviours or solve a problem, practice involves building off what works, even a little bit.

In this way, students will experience their small successes and grow a sense that they can shape their lives.

This workshop will provide an introduction to single session therapy practices. It specifically supports educators and mental health professionals who work with children and youth in school contexts. The focus of our time will be learning practical skills to facilitate conversations that support difference and change.

Learning objectives:

• Understand the shift in mindset favourable to working under time constraint
• Explore several practices for drawing out and expanding upon the diverse skills and abilities of students
• Examine a different way to talk about problems that opens new possibilities and fosters cooperation
• Learn practical, strengths-based approaches to brief, effective conversations with students in school contexts

Reserve your spot to learn practical single session practices that help students build on what works.

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