Title: Counselling in Social Work – How to invite service users to cooperation?
Address: via Zoom
Date: December, 2022, 09:00-13:00 (CET, German Time) 10:00-14:00 (EET, Bulgarian Time)
Workshop Facilitator: Prof.Dr. Jana Molle, Bremen City University of Applied Sciences
In the second digital workshop we will continue to bring together social workers and participants from NGOs and the public sector from Bulgaria and Germany to deepen cooperation and learn more about each other. With the joint efforts of all participants, we will explore questions such as: what do we mean when we talk about successful social counselling? How can we support clients to make informed choices and support them in developing their prospective? How do we address conflicting interests between the institutional/social/ structural framework and the decisions of our clients? What methods are available and how can we use them in everyday practice? What are good practices examples we want to share?
The information in the workshop and the networking opportunity can be useful for the work of those of you who support mobile persons who seek counselling in and from Bulgaria.
About TSS: The Project focusses on networking and training between social workers from Bulgaria and Germany. It is jointly implemented by Diakonie, Hamburg and the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg in Germany and the partner organizations Bulgarian-Romanian Cross-Border Mediation Institute and the Institute for Population and Human Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Bulgaria.
Online event: You can participate online via a link we will provide shortly before the event. The event is in Bulgarian with simultaneous German translation.
Programme: а mixture of inputs and discussion groups to work on the questions form German and Bulgarian.
Time (CET, German Time) | Topic |
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9:00 – 9:10 | Welcome and Introduction: the goals of this Workshop Introduction of the Speaker |
9:10 – 9:30 | Introduction of the Timetable and the Participants Maya Mihaylova (BRTMI) |
9:30 – 10:00 | What is counselling in social work? What do we mean when we talk about counselling in social work? What are the goals and limits? Prof. Dr Jana Molle (Bremen City University of Applied Sciences) |
10:10 – 10:40 | Break-Out Sessions: Exchanging Experiences with Counselling in Social Work in the German and the Bulgarian Context |
10:40 – 11:10 | Sharing Important Questions and Insights: Joint Discussion of All Participants |
11:10 – 11:30 | Break |
11:30 -12:00 | Why is cooperation with those seeking advice indispensable? Prof. Dr. Jana Molle (Bremen City University of Applied Sciences) |
12:00 – 12:30 | Break-Out session: Exchanging Ideas how to support service users in becoming capable of acting (again) in the German and the Bulgarian Context |
12:30 -12:45 | Sharing Important ideas: Summary of All Participants Prof. Dr. Jana Molle (Bremen City University of Applied Sciences) |
12:45 – 13:00 | Wrap Up Maya Mihaylova (BRTMI) |