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The Tavistock and portman, NHS Foundation Trust

Facilitating reflective practice groups training (CPD83)

Develop your facilitation and group work skills under our expert guidance

Facilitating reflective practice groups
Fee
£650
Duration
21 hours
Delivery
Online: live teaching
Qualification
CPD certificate
Next start date
02 June 2026
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Reflective practice groups provide a valuable and focussed space for staff members to reflect, observe, process and learn in relation to their experiences at work. They can provide a supportive and developmental space for people to explore and understand their interactions, clinical decision making, team dynamics and the emotional impact of work, amongst other things.

Facilitating reflective practice groups requires a variety of skills, knowledge and understanding in order to provide a safe, constructive and reflective space. The need for reflective spaces is increasingly recognised in relation to issues of wellbeing, retention and safety. 

This short course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills required to establish and facilitate reflective practice groups in order to enhance health professionals’ reflective capabilities, learning and development.

Aims and learning objectives

The programme will provide you with:

  • a deeper understanding of the role of reflective practice within work
  • an overview of the underpinning principles, key models and frameworks for reflective practice
  • an opportunity to explore and clarify the role of the facilitator
  • opportunities to refresh core listening and questioning skills
  • opportunities to develop, review and refine facilitation skills through practice
  • an understanding of group dynamics in practice
  • increased awareness of issues of equality, discrimination and inclusion within group work
  • a safe space to explore challenging situations and responses
  • space to discuss establishing and managing reflective practice groups in practice areas

Who is this course for?

This programme would benefit:

  • those who already facilitate a form of reflective practice for health care professionals but have not had specialist training or would like to refresh their skills

or

  • those who would like to establish and facilitate reflective practice groups and would like to develop the skills and knowledge to begin the process

Prior experience is not required and presentation sessions will allow group members to bring an aspect of their work (planning, interactions, reviews) to discuss and reflect on within the group.

Course details

This course takes place over six half-day sessions and is delivered remotely using Zoom.

We anticipate these courses filling quickly – early booking is strongly recommended.

Cohort B – FULLY BOOKED

SessionsDateStart timeEnd time
Session 1/6Wednesday 25 February 20269.30am1pm
Session 2/6Wednesday 4 March 20269.30am1pm
Session 3/6Wednesday 11 March 20269.30am1pm
Session 4/6Wednesday 18 March 20269.30am1pm
Session 5/6Wednesday 25 March 20269.30am1pm
Session 6/6Wednesday 1 April 20269:30am1pm

Cohort C – FULLY BOOKED

SessionsDateStart timeEnd time
Session 1/6Tuesday 24 February 20269.30am1pm
Session 2/6Tuesday 3 March 20269.30am1pm
Session 3/6Tuesday 10 March 20269.30am1pm
Session 4/6Tuesday 17 March 20269.30am1pm
Session 5/6Tuesday 24 March 20269.30am1pm
Session 6/6Tuesday 31 March 20269.30am1pm

Cohort D – FULLY BOOKED

SessionsDateStart timeEnd time
Session 1/6Tuesday 14 April 20269.30am1pm
Session 2/6Tuesday 21 April 20269.30am1pm
Session 3/6Tuesday 28 April 20269.30am1pm
Session 4/6Tuesday 5 May 20269.30am1pm
Session 5/6Tuesday 12 May 20269.30am1pm
Session 6/6Tuesday 19 May 20269.30am1pm

Cohort E – FULLY BOOKED

SessionsDateStart timeEnd time
Session 1/6Friday 17 April 20269.30am1pm
Session 2/6Friday 24 April 20269.30am1pm
Session 3/6Friday 1 May 20269.30am1pm
Session 4/6Friday 8 May 20269.30am1pm
Session 5/6Friday 15 May 20269.30am1pm
Session 6/6Friday 22 May 20269.30am1pm

Cohort F – Limited availability please contact us

SessionsDateStart timeEnd time
Session 1/6Wednesday 3 June 20269.30am1pm
Session 2/6Wednesday 10 June 20269.30am1pm
Session 3/6Wednesday 17 June 20269.30am1pm
Session 4/6Wednesday 24 June 20269.30am1pm
Session 5/6Wednesday 1 July 20269.30am1pm
Session 6/6Wednesday 8 July 20269.30am1pm

Cohort G

SessionsDateStart timeEnd time
Session 1/6Tuesday 2 June 20269.30am1pm
Session 2/6Tuesday 9 June 20269.30am1pm
Session 3/6Tuesday 16 June 20269.30am1pm
Session 4/6Tuesday 23 June 20269.30am1pm
Session 5/6Tuesday 30 June 20269.30am1pm
Session 6/6Tuesday 7 July 20269.30am1pm

You will need a device with a microphone and camera together with a suitably fast internet connection. Although mobile devices and tablets can be used, we recommend the use of a laptop or desktop PC for the best experience. Some devices provided by employers may have restrictions in place. Please us the Zoom test link to check your set up before booking.

You will be sent the necessary login link about a week before the course start date. Should you have any concerns about the accessibility of remote delivery please contact us to discuss how we can best help you.

The course will provide you with an introduction to the need for reflective practice within health and social care settings, identifying the benefits to clinical care provision and practitioners’ wellbeing.

The course aims to provide a series of interactive sessions that will enable you to refresh and develop your skills in facilitating reflective practice groups, identifying the benefits to clinical care provision and practitioners’ wellbeing and developing your understanding of the aims and use of different models.

The training will be delivered by experienced facilitators through a combination of presentations, discussion, reflective practice groups and small group work, enabling you to have an experience of both facilitating and being a member of a group.

Library membership

Included in your course fee, you will receive online membership to the Tavistock’s internationally-renowned library for the duration of your course.

Our friendly and knowledgeable library team will help to support you through your specialist CPD course, whatever your level of professional or academic experience. You will have access to an extensive range of eBooks, online journals, all the relevant key databases and our specialist audio-visual collection, plus reference access to all our print books.

Our information skills trainer has made lots of material available on Moodle to help you navigate our comprehensive electronic collections. PCs and photocopiers are available for your use (charges apply for printing and copying), as well as various online resources including audio/video playlists.

Training for organisations

Looking to enhance the skills of your team or workforce and create long-lasting impact?

If you are interested in exploring this training and how it can be tailored to fit the needs of your service or team, please contact us.

Testimonials

“Possibly one of the most useful and rewarding courses I have completed. It was very evident from early on that the facilitators were highly skilled and knowledgeable in this area and I’m looking forward to developing reflective practice with my organisation.”
Student
“This course seemed to clarify and validate what I have experienced previously in setting up groups and offered practical support by the way of the reading. The slides were paced very well and the break out rooms enabled learning from these and the reading to be cemented. I am so impressed with the time keeping and management and how this has demonstrated the need for everyone’s responsibility for this. Despite the training being online, I cannot imagine what else could have been implemented to add any more value to this. It enabled many people from various areas to come together and share and learn about each others challenges and for all to have the space to reflect back to each other in the RP groups which I feel was very responsive and added to the learning. I feel the facilitators were so informative and worked so well together- learned so much . Loved it ”
Student
“This is a course that I will be speaking about for a long time, if not always. The learning has been impactful and I am noticing changes to my practice and the ways in which I think about group work as a facilitator and a group member. ”
Student
“The course is brilliant: very well taught, challenging and stretching, with excellent materials, high standard of pedagogy and opportunities for profound learnings. Lots of food for thought within and after this course, as is usual for Tavistock CPD courses!”
Student
“If you are new to facilitating Reflective Practice, don’t hesitate to book onto this course. The knowledge you gain from it will certainly help your understanding of models, group dynamics and your role as a Facilitator. Highly recommend. ”
Student
“The theory learning helped me develop a greater understanding of the approach and the opportunity to practice these skills has meant I’m much more confident in taking it into practice.”
Student
“I feel significantly more confident in utilising these skills out in practice, and responding to any resistance/negative feedback from group members.”
Student
“The course was almost faultless! My attention was maintained throughout. Trainers were warm, welcoming and inclusive. I have learnt a lot.”
Student
“ The course was exemplary from organisation and design through to the facilitators, who struck the right tone throughout, between presenting information and providing opportunities for practical understanding. They demonstrated the underlying principles well and created an enjoyable learning experience throughout”
Student

Course facilitators

Our training is provided by senior clinician-trainers with extensive experience of facilitating groups and developing and facilitating training in this area.

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Payments can be made by debit/credit card.

Employers can be invoiced if you upload a purchase order. Please contact us if you need a quote to obtain one.

Instalment payments are not available. 

After booking you’ll receive email confirmation and further information approximately one week before the course starts.

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