ESAB - Professional Curiosity & Difficult Conversations - 18.11.25 (9:30am - 12.30pm)

Closes 18 Nov 2025

Opened 3 Feb 2025

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

Please note: There is a booking limit of 5 participants per organisation for each session. If your organisation wishes to book more than 5 participants, please book places on alternative sessions (all dates available on the ESAB website). If there are no alternative sessions available, or your group far exceeds the booking limit of 5, please contact ESAB on: esab.training@essex.gov.uk to discuss further. 

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Events

Areas

  • Basildon
  • Braintree
  • Brentwood
  • Chelmsford
  • Colchester
  • Epping Forest
  • Harlow
  • Maldon
  • Rochford
  • Tendring
  • Uttlesford

Audiences

  • Anyone from any background

Interests

  • Adult learning