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OMD short courses are designed specifically for all those working with separating families. They are designed to inform you of current terms, theories and up to date research so that you can be more confident in your role. All training includes; access to training recording, Resource Pack and Certificate.

We will be adding the live courses onto our training platform for you to buy directly and do in your own time. Courses that are currently available to directly can by identified by this symbol.

Anxiety - What Does It Mean And How Does It Impact On Your Work With Separating Families?

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This 1 hour course has two halves. The first is an introduction to the key elements of anxiety, how it shows across the lifespan and what treatment options are available and the support that is our there. The second half of the course builds on this foundation to help you understand what you can do to adapt your work to support those with anxiety and how to minimise further anxiety in the families you are working with. While this course is written to help you as a professional working with families, anxiety is something we all suffer from in varying degrees. Understanding more about our own anxiety can only help us support our clients more effectively.

Talking And Listening To Children -Tools From The Therapy Room

There is an increasing move towards talking and listening to children within the divorce process. We need to do this in a compassionate and effective way so that we can best meet the needs of these children. This workshop gives an insight into evidence based theories and techniques from the therapy room so that you can develop your skills and confidence in talking and listening to children. We explore how to prepare before the meeting, how to manage emotions and information within the meeting and considerations for after the meeting. This workshop also highlights developmental differences so that you are better equipped to work with children across the age span.

Dates and Booking Here.

"This course is truly invaluable.."

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Tutor: Dr Angharad Rudkin

Clinical Psychologist, MA (Oxon)

Engaging With Fathers

This 1.5-hour course is designed to equip professionals who work with families with the ‘know how’ and the practical strategies necessary to effectively engage and work with men as fathers. While there is consistent evidence that fathers can play an important and positive role in their children's development and in promoting gender equality, many social welfare services fail to see fathers as assets for children and young people and express challenges in engaging them effectively. This training is designed to enhance understanding and awareness of the importance of engaging with men as-fathers, as well as some practical tools and suggestions about how to engage with men more effectively and in ways that benefit children and co-parents.

Course overview

Drawing on the latest evidence about the value of father engagement and inclusion, ‘Engaging with fathers’ is designed to provide any professional working with parents both a deeper understanding of the value of involved fathers and concrete skills for how to engage and work with them more effectively, including in contexts of parental separation. The training emphasises practical application, offering suggestions for specific techniques, communication strategies, and intervention approaches that can be immediately implemented in professional practice.

Engaging with fathers is written and delivered by Anna Tarrant, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln and Director of the Centre for Innovation in Fatherhood and Family Research.

At the end of this course, you will be:

Be equipped with practical, evidence-based strategies and techniques for identifying, approaching, and engaging men as fathers in your daily practice,
Have learned communication methods and intervention approaches that increase successful engagement with fathers,
Be able to apply concrete tools for building rapport, maintaining engagement, and working collaboratively with men as fathers across different professional contexts,
Better understand the social value of men's roles as fathers and caregivers,
Better understand the challenges for services in engaging and supporting all fathers effectively and how these might be addressed,
Have undertaken 1.5 hours of training.

Dates and Booking Here.

"Excellent, helpful and insightful..."

Neurodiversity - What Does It Mean In the Context
Of Separation And divorce?

Our understanding and appreciation of different brains is rapidly expanding. This one hour course gives you an introduction to what we mean by the term 'neurodiversity'. Learning Outcomes: The course will introduce you to ways of creating a neurodiverse aware practice. The knowledge and awareness you will gain from the course will also help you support separating parents who have neurodiversity in their family and require thoughtful adjustments around these needs.

Dates and booking for 'live' training HERE

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"The perfect hour to be honest..."

Understanding Trauma - What Is Meant By Trauma And How To Make Your Practice More Trauma Informed

This one hour course will clarify what is meant by trauma and will give you practical ways of making your professional practice more trauma-informed. Systemic trauma and developmental trauma are commonly used terms, but they are often misunderstood. Learning Outcomes: This introduction to trauma will provide any professional working with families with a greater understanding and awareness so that you can best support separating parents.

Dates and booking HERE.

"A great introduction to such a difficult subject...