Reflective Practice Facilitation
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Reflective Practice Facilitation:
The Reflective Practice Facilitation (RPF) process is a forum for exploring the work, planning for and incorporating new knowledge into practice, and deepening the practitioner’s understanding of reactions, responses, emotions, thoughts and feelings associated with the work. The RPF process strives to enhance the practitioner’s appreciation for relationships as the central component of professional practice in the infant-maternal mental health field. The role of Reflective Practice Facilitator is not to recommend or advise courses of action, interventions, or treatments, but rather to support the practitioner in answering her/his own questions about the work while moving toward greater levels of understanding and competence.
Definition:
RPF is a capacity-building and problem-solving intervention. The Reflective Supervisor develops a collaborative and reflective relationship with the consultees. The sessions will contain varying degrees of essential elements of the RPF. The working relationship is at the heart of the process.
Essential Elements include:
Understanding the whānau’s story
Holding the Baby in Mind
Professional Use of Self
Parallel Process
Reflective Alliance
These elements are best observed in the following “collaborative tasks”
Describing – “What do we know?”
Responding – “How do we and others think and feel about this?”
Exploring – “What might this mean?”
Linking – “Why does this matter?”
Integrating – “What have we learned?”
Purpose:
To transform the ways in which professionals view, wonder about, consider, understand, and respond to the pregnant women, pēpē / infants, young children, and whānau whom they serve.
To support professionals who offer knowledgeable and skilled support to pregnant women, pēpē / infants, young children, and whānau.
To enhance professionals’ ability to identify risks to the physical, emotional, and relational health of pēpē / infants, and young children and respond appropriately.
To help professionals develop the capacity to shift perspective, address personal biases, set boundaries, and to slow down, observe, and listen.
To invite professionals to experience feeling heard, validated, and affirmed, within the context of a RPF relationship, for the work they are doing with or on behalf of pregnant women, pēpē / infants, young children, and whānau.
Service Delivery
Reflective Practice Facilitation can be offered virtually or in person (depending on location)
We have worked with practitioners in remote areas of New Zealand, the north island via video link - so location is not a problem.
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How much does it Cost?
Individual Practitioners $120 per hour
We tailor Reflective Practice Facilitation to your organisation’s needs and price accordingly.
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