{"id":239,"date":"2012-07-03T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T07:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/assetmapping\/?p=239"},"modified":"2012-07-03T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:02:07","slug":"first-training-workshop-for-individual-asset-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/assetmapping\/2012\/07\/03\/first-training-workshop-for-individual-asset-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"First training workshop for individual asset mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"
The first workshop to support practitioners get to grips with asset mapping has taken place in Kirkintilloch. We provided two different dates for the first session, hoping to enable as many practitioners as possible to make it. We were really pleased to welcome a range of pracititoners from both the NHS and voluntary sector organisations.<\/p>\n
The purpose of the workshops was to introduce the project to people, provide them with the opportunity to try out asset mapping in one-to-one settings, and discuss barriers and opportunities to this method of working. The objective was that by the end of the session, staff would have enough knowledge and experience to reflect on asset mapping and who they might use this tool with before the next workshop.<\/p>\n
The workshops ran for 3.5 hours and everyone was asked to fill in questionnaires to get a sence of how they currently work. The same questions were asked of each person again at the end of the project to see if and how their practice may have changed.<\/p>\n
After introductions and a bit of background about the Asset Mapping project that ran in 2011<\/a>, Julie Leonard from EDAMH <\/a>spoke freely about her experince using asset mapping as a tool in the 2011 project. She described how she had approached service users about engaging with the tool, what their thoughts had been, barriers to using the tool and the way it enabled a deeper, quality conversation with service users.<\/p>\n