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Rocket Science and Sticky Tape Seminar: Making an impact with challenging young people and their families

Whether you’re a counselor, teacher, RTLB, social worker, psychologist, police officer, youth worker, or some other variation on the theme... if you’re working with difficult kids in any capacity then we all struggle with the same fundamental issue: How do you get results as quickly and efficiently as possible? The problem is that amongst the confusing array of ideologies, the endless statements about ‘what the research shows’, and the often impossible dilemmas kids and their families present, it can be hard to know what the best strategy is.
The art of truly effective intervention with difficult young people and their families comes from blending solid research-based evidence, real-world pragmatism, and moments of inspired simplicity. This seminar will attempt to provide all three as Nigel traverses lessons learned during a career that spans the better part of two decades working with some of New Zealand’s most challenging young people. “This workshop is effectively the culmination of everything I’ve ever learned, read, figured out, stumbled across, invented, and/or found genuinely useful over the course of my professional life to date. If I had a ‘best of so far’ album then this would be it."
In this entertaining, challenging, and unflinchingly honest seminar participants will be given a road map for thinking differently about working with difficult young people and their families, and will come away with a new insight and appreciation of the importance of working simply when faced with overwhelming complexity. Drawing on a broad range of sources participants will develop a working model for gaining traction in complex cases.
These are just some of the topics the seminar will address:
  • The amazing story of how they discovered who Jack the Ripper really was and the powerful implications of this for evidence-based practice with kids and families.
  • After 2500 years the nature/nurture question has finally been answered and, surprisingly, it’s not boring. In fact it’s fascinating and has huge relevance for frontline work with young people.
  • Temperament: the amazingly accurate predictions you can make about where children’s temperaments will lead them in life and what we can and should be doing to help them on that journey.
  • Parenting styles: The big three, what they look like, the games they play with us, and how to work with them.
  • Resilience in young people: there is clear evidence now that some things matter more than others, and also some spooky connections between steam pudding and coping with adversity.
  • The importance of leopards in a banana-focused world.
  • Bringing it all together: Templates for building simple plans in complex places.
Nigel Latta is a Clinical Psychologist, best selling parenting author - now published in ten countries and seven languages - and presenter of a number of critically acclaimed television series based on his books: ‘Beyond the Darklands’,  ‘The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show’, and 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to Teenagers'. His most recent top rating series was 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to Grown Ups' He likes crocodiles, almost all monkeys, hates people who talk on planes, and his favorite colour is usually purple.


 

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