Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE)

Course overview:

‘Psychologically Informed Environments’ is a term that is mostly used in the context of working with marginalised people, such as the homeless. There are several key ideas:

• The use of therapeutic techniques aimed at producing emotional recovery, and not just applying sticking plaster to help the immediate problem.

• To examine how organisations can be redesigned to help achieve the same aim of emotional recovery and achieve lasting benefit.

• To balance past present and future by:

  • Grounding the client in the present.

  • Addressing any relevant traumas from the past.

  • Planning a realistic and attractive future.

Highlighting self-awareness this half-day course aims to examine some of the problems arising from past interventions and looks at current practices which can achieve the aims of PIE, namely emotional recovery.

Further reading: Psychologically Informed Environments: Therapeutic Regeneration by Dean Whittington.

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

Each delegate will be registered as having attended the course and receive a certificate of completion.