Workshop Description

Enhanced Lives: Meeting Needs and Desires in Pro-Social Ways

Online two-day training, delivered over Zoom

Dates: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 March 2027. Time: 10 am–1 pm and 2 pm–4 pm each day.

Enhanced Lives is a brief, strengths-based one-to-one therapy programme for helping adults manage sexual risk and live more pro-social, satisfying lives. The eight 60-minute sessions draw on the Good Lives Model, compassionate mindfulness, CBT and strengths-focused approaches. It offers a structured but flexible way to work with contact and internet offenders, people at risk of offending, and people displaying problematic sexual behaviour. Practitioners can use the full programme or selected exercises alongside their existing practice.

Dr Andrew Smith, the author of Enhanced Lives, delivers the training. The Practitioner Workbook and reusable Client Resource Pack are included and will be emailed before the course. The training works through the sessions, how to facilitate the exercises, and issues that may arise in practice.

This course is for people with a recognised therapy or counselling diploma, significant experience with this client group, or a role in a relevant agency.

Training schedule

Day 1: 10 am–1 pm and 2 pm–4 pm.

• The theoretical background, including the Good Lives Model, desistance, systems theory and the RNR model
• How Enhanced Lives differs from other therapeutic and rehabilitative approaches
• How and why individuals sexually offend
• The therapeutic values and skills needed to deliver the programme
• Denial, victim empathy and risk assessment
• Working through the eight sessions and applying the programme to safety planning and ongoing therapy

Day 2: 10 am–1 pm and 2 pm–4 pm. Continuation of the two-day training.

Cost

Standard ticket: £175. StopSO member ticket: £150. Both include the Practitioner Workbook and Client Resource Pack.

Please read our training booking terms and conditions before booking.

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