Relational Practice: It’s in the Interaction.
Relational practice is more than knowledge, training or professional frameworks. It lives in the everyday interaction, in how we listen, communicate, use our influence and respond to the individual in front of us. This reflection explores why experience, curiosity and ongoing self-reflection are essential to relational practice.
What Do We Bring Into The Relationship?
When supporting children and young people, our attention naturally turns towards their emotions, behaviour and needs. But relationships involve more than one person. Exploring what we bring, our experiences, assumptions, emotions and responses, can help us better understand what happens between us.
Dear Professional
We came into this work to make a difference. But amongst growing caseloads, paperwork, targets and increasingly complex systems, are we losing some of the space simply to be with the person in front of us? Perhaps it’s time to remember what brought us here in the first place.