Hello all,
This is to let you know about three Open Dialogue training programmes that are upcoming in 2025. Firstly, a new trainers training programme which will commence in Autumn 2025 in London. With revised criteria for eligibility for applicants, this training programme is now accessible to a wider variety of mental health professionals. For further details see below.
Secondly there are two Open Dialogue foundation training programmes, one starting online in January 2025 and the other in London in February 2025. For more details about these programmes, please see below.
Also below you can also find details of an upcoming online seminar to introduce the Open Dialogue approach on 25 November 2024.
I would be grateful if you could circulate this to any groups/individuals who you think might be interested.
With Best Wishes,
Nick
OPEN DIALOGUE TRAINERS TRAINING COMMENCING IN AUTUMN 2025
The next two year Open Dialogue trainers training programme will start in Autumn 2025, and will follow the programme that has been run three times by Dialogic in Helsinki, with an added emphasis on the experience of being a trainer and on developing training programmes in mental health care settings. It will be run over a full two years, in eight 5 day blocks (40 days of in-person training in total), including blocks focused on theory, practice/supervision and the ‘exploring your relational world’ process. The core training team is the same as on the last trainers training and consists of Jorma Ahonen, Eija-Liisa Rautiainen, Jaakko Seikkula, Anni Haase, Mia Kurtti, Kari Valtanen and Nick Putman.
The criteria for eligibility for participation in this programme have changed, meaning that a wider variety of mental health professionals can now access the trainers training, as long as they have completed an Open Dialogue foundation training programme and they have sufficient experience of Open Dialogue practice and supervision, with equivalent experience to participants on the three year Open Dialogue practitioner training. On the Open Dialogue international website here, there is now a diagram which illustrates different pathways to the Open Dialogue trainers training programme.
If you are interested in running Open Dialogue practitioner training programmes in your service/region, then this international trainers training programme will enable you to do so. Further details of the programme can be found online here, and the deadline for applications is 31 December 2024.
OPEN DIALOGUE FOUNDATION TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN 2025
Details of two foundation training programmes open to international applicants which are running in 2025 are now available online. Firstly an online training, starting in January, and secondly an in-person training in London, starting in February .
This 20 day programme is the most widely used Open Dialogue training programme internationally, having been run in nine different countries over the last 15 years. It provides a thorough grounding in the practice of facilitating Open Dialogue network meetings, and participants are encouraged to start practicing before the end of the training, if they are able to (though such practice is not a required part of Open Dialogue training at foundation level). The emphasis in the training is on practice, and understanding the approach through engaging both personally and professionally in the process.
All mental health care professionals (including peer workers) are welcome to participate in these foundation training programmes, as well as independent practitioners and family members. Further details of the trainers can be found below.
LONDON 2025 - This programme runs from February to December 2025 in 7 blocks of training (one two day block followed by six three day blocks), and the trainers will be Nick Putman (UK), Kari Valtanen (Lapland, Finland), Petra Hohn (Sweden) and Darren Baker (UK). For further details of the programme, including content, dates, fees and trainers, please see this page on the Open Dialogue UK website. The deadline for applications is 31 October 2024.
ONLINE 2025 - This programme runs from January to December 2025 in 9 blocks of training (seven 2 day blocks and two 3 day blocks), and the trainers will be Anni Haase (Lapland, Finland), Kari Valtanen (Lapland, Finland) and Nick Putman (UK). For further details of the programme, including content, dates, fees and trainers, please see this page on the Open Dialogue UK website. The deadline for applications is 31 October 2024.
ONE DAY ONLINE SEMINAR - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OPEN DIALOGUE APPROACH
25 November 2024: In this one day online seminar Nick Putman will introduce the Open Dialogue approach using presentations and dialogues. Participants can expect to gain a fuller understanding of the approach, the philosophy that underpins it, and how it relates to, and can inform their current working practices. There are a range of price points for this seminar. For further details, please see this page on the Open Dialogue UK website.