Working with Men Workshops
Working with Men Workshops are delivered in one or two day formats, in your own local area, and help community welfare/health professionals develop stronger ways of working with men and family relationship issues. The locally based workshops allow organisations or networks of services, to develop better opportunities for providing programs to men and families and can be facilitated with either small or large groups.
The one day workshops focus on:
* an understanding of men’s needs
* what men might want when accessing community services
* how workers can engage men in service delivery
* what would make programs more ‘male friendly’
* how to market services to men
* skills used when working with men
* effective ways for female workers to work with men
The two day workshops allow participants an opportunity to develop their own local plan for working with men and family relationships (either individually, in group work or using a community development focus), overview current programs that target men and further practice skills used in the engagement of men.
Other professionals have identified the workshop’s impact as being:
“we will be more understanding of men’s needs, communication and marketing”
“it has given me a good start for enjoying fathers in a community project that has only supported mums in the past”
“will change the strategies I use n the future in engaging men”
“it made me realise how my environment (work) has affected my perceptions of young fathers and men, and how to change that”
“direct impact on how I work with young people, child, father and using the engagement triangle”
“I will approach things differently when in contact with fathers/partners of the children”
“I am much more aware of how we are now perceiving and treating men and how we might change our personal and organisational practice”
“I will try not to judge the men too quickly and give them a fair chance (no negative expectation)”
For more information about how to organise these workshops in your local area contact Andrew King on 0412 404 577 or email aking@burnside.org.au or visit our Burnside website.
The one day workshops focus on:
* an understanding of men’s needs
* what men might want when accessing community services
* how workers can engage men in service delivery
* what would make programs more ‘male friendly’
* how to market services to men
* skills used when working with men
* effective ways for female workers to work with men
The two day workshops allow participants an opportunity to develop their own local plan for working with men and family relationships (either individually, in group work or using a community development focus), overview current programs that target men and further practice skills used in the engagement of men.
Other professionals have identified the workshop’s impact as being:
“we will be more understanding of men’s needs, communication and marketing”
“it has given me a good start for enjoying fathers in a community project that has only supported mums in the past”
“will change the strategies I use n the future in engaging men”
“it made me realise how my environment (work) has affected my perceptions of young fathers and men, and how to change that”
“direct impact on how I work with young people, child, father and using the engagement triangle”
“I will approach things differently when in contact with fathers/partners of the children”
“I am much more aware of how we are now perceiving and treating men and how we might change our personal and organisational practice”
“I will try not to judge the men too quickly and give them a fair chance (no negative expectation)”
For more information about how to organise these workshops in your local area contact Andrew King on 0412 404 577 or email aking@burnside.org.au or visit our Burnside website.
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