Category: Social work

Professional development: compliance or critique?

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Alongside all my registered social work colleagues I report to the Social Workers Registration Board an annual account of my professional development activities. Every time I do this I ask myself what it means, how I might log my learning into small boxes provided on the website. A practitioner and I reflected at the end […]

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A Thorpe Stand podcast

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Thorpe Stand is nice little private, quiet space for podcasting, and in late 2019 Raewyn Nordstrom accepted my invitation to spend time with me in this tiny room to record her memories of the Family Group Conference. She was the first person in the world to undertake facilitation of the FGC, and retired in 2019 […]

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