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Supporting Relationship-Centred Practice in Social Care: Introducing Social Pedagogy
November 21 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
FreeDate: 21st November 2024
Time: 9:30 until 12:30
Venue: Online
Cost: Free workshop
Social Care Ireland are delighted to collaborate on this workshop with Lillian Byrne and Gabriel Eichsteller from SETU Carlow. This is an opportunity to participate in a taster workshop on Social Pedagogy in Social Care.
Social pedagogy is an ethical practice framework used in social care and education settings across Europe and beyond. It focuses on how we can build positive and authentic relationships with children, adults and the wider community to support wellbeing, learning and social inclusion. In this practice-related and interactive online workshop, we will explore some of the key concepts in social pedagogy and how these can inform social care in Ireland, strengthen your practice and reaffirm the positive difference you are already making in the lives of the people you support. Alongside examples from Denmark and the UK, we’ll have contributions from Irish organisations who have successfully applied social pedagogical principles in practice.
The online workshop offers an introduction into why relationship-centred practice is important and how you can develop transformative relationships with the people you support in practice. We will draw on the Diamond Model to explain how ideas about the nature of human beings affect how we think about relationships. The workshop will specifically explore how social pedagogical practice can enhance well-being and happiness, facilitate holistic learning and support people’s meaningful belonging.
The session will be facilitated by Gabriel Eichsteller, associate lecturer at SETU and co-director of ThemPra Social Pedagogy. As a learning facilitator he has been supporting social care practitioners and social workers in developing social pedagogy in their practice over the last 17 years, most recently by lecturing on the SETU Level 8 Certificate in Social Pedagogy. Gabriel will be joined by a few previous students who will share how social pedagogy is guiding their practice in social care.
If you would like to study Social Pedagogy in more detail click on this link: Level 8 Part time course January 2025