ESAB - Professional Curiosity & Difficult Conversations - 18.06.25 (9:30am - 12.30pm) - Essex County Council

Overview

This is a virtual course (delivered via MS Teams) and cost is £15.00 per person.

Learning Objectives:

To explore the concept of professional curiosity and attempt to define this within the context of adult safeguarding.
To consider the elements of professional attitudes and behaviours, and the skills required to develop more ‘curious’ practice.
To understand some of the barriers that lead us to become professionally complacent, rather than curious, and consider how to overcome these.
To review learning from research, and Essex Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs), to better understand the challenges we may experience.
To look at the challenges of having difficult conversations and develop strategies to assist practitioners respond appropriately, including working with avoidant behaviour or disguised compliance/deception
To develop strategies to assist practitioners respond appropriately, including how to prepare, using strength-based questions/motivation interviewing methods and dealing with conflict