Welcome to everything you need to know about our popular Group Education Facilitation Skills Workshop!

Complimentary books included as standard!

We're delighted to say that relevant workshops include as standard a complimentary copy of the supporting SD book for each participant or participating team. This means extra resources to help with putting learning into practice and key references always close to hand.

Each participant will also automatically receive SD's fresh new certificate of attendance, either in hard copy or electronically - or both if you wish!.  Please see the individual workshop pages below for details or consult the SD Workshop Booklist!

Read on for this workshop's details...

Create a dynamic educational experience in your structured education programme that participants enjoy attending!

Whether you are providing group education for people with diabetes, for health professionals or for other groups, we can help you to provide effective learning to influence self-management in diabetes and improve clinical outcomes.

The workshop content will help you to:

Learn about how to sucessfully and enjoyably create interactive, stimulating and useful learning among your participants

Take away top tips that you can apply immediately!

This one-day workshop models group education facilitation skills throughout and is fully interactive and practical.  It's for up to 20 people of your choosing, depending on your local needs and can also include any particular outcomes you need.  The cost includes all the planning, preparation and delivery including learning materials and SD expenses.  All you need to provide is the venue and associated equipment, refreshments and, of course, the people! We do the rest!

The total cost in 2019 is £1200.  Read our standard terms and conditions here

Complimentary Book Included!

This workshop will include a copy of our handbook,  'Group Education and Facilitation Skills in Healthcare Settings' for each participant or service/practice

For further information or to make an enquiry about booking this workshop, email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or give us a call on 07885 499943 in office hours.  Look forward to hearing from you!

Complimentary books included!

We're delighted to say that relevant workshops include as standard a complimentary copy of the supporting SD book for each participant or participating team. This means extra resources to help with putting learning into practice and key references always close to hand.

Each participant will also automatically receive SD's fresh new certificate of attendance, either in hard copy or electronically - or both if you wish!.  Please see the individual workshop pages below for details or consult the SD Workshop Booklist!

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This unique, 2 or 3 day, evidence-based course is designed for paediatric or adult diabetes teams, to help them meet national (eg NICE, Best Practice Tariff, Diabetes UK) and international (eg ISPAD) recommendations for structured and self management education provision for children, young people and adults.

The 3 day course is ideally suited to participation from more than one team in a locality, so as to learn with and from each other and support each other in implementing local developments in diabetes self management education (DSME), as well as being cost-effective.

The 2 day course is designed for a single team who wish to dedicate time together for this purpose. In this case it is ideal if most or all members of the team can attend together.

Course Structure and Methods

Participants are invited to complete a pre-course reflection on their current provision and identify the areas most in need of development. Then, teams attend 2 or 3 face-to-face days (day 3 is a half day), with days 2 and 3 separated by 6 weeks and 3-4 months, respectively.  

In between the face-to-face days, participants are invited to undertake team coursework to implement their learning.  The course is formally evaluated in terms of structure, process and content

The course is presented using learner-centred methods, modelling educational best practice and creating an enjoyable, interactive environment for learning and team support.

Course Content

The course content covers:

*Requirements and recommendations for DSME

*Writing and communicating a team education philosophy

*Practical learning about key aspects of education programmes, including writing learning outcomes, designing and planning a curriculum, age related learning development (where relevant) and quality assurance

*Teaching skills development including group education and facilitation skills, using varied teaching methods and evaluation techniques.

*Team goal setting and action planning for local development of programmes and provision

Course Support

The course is supported by a dedicated website, containing pre course preparation, materials and guidance for team coursework and a comprehensive reference section. Participants will continue to have access to the website after the course.

Books to support DD DSME and the Course

Two of our books have been particularly useful for teams undertaking this course and we recommend them for this purpose. These are 'Group Education and Facilitation Skills in Healthcare Settings' and 'Providing Structured Diabetes Education for Children and YOung People'. They are available to anyone not undertaking the course as well!

Complimentary Book Included!

A complimentary copy of one of these books is included for each workshop participant or participating team. This means extra resources for putting your learning into practice and key references always close to hand!

Course Costs

One 3-day course for up to 24 participants in the UK, inclusive of facilitator costs and travel is £3250, subject to our usual terms and conditions

The 2-day course costs £2250 as above

To discuss your team's needs and/or to book your course, don't hesitate to get in touch

We will be delighted to take your booking,  tell you more or discuss your needs

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Complimentary books included!

We're delighted to say that relevant workshops include as standard a complimentary copy of the supporting SD book for each participant or participating team. This means extra resources to help with putting learning into practice and key references always close to hand!

Each participant will also automatically receive SD's fresh new certificate of attendance, either in hard copy or electronically - or both if you wish!.  Please see the individual workshop pages below for details or consult the SD Workshop Booklist !

Read on for this workshop's details...

We can help you revolutionise your consultations, and take the frustrations away for both you and the people you consult with! This workshop is based on using an empowerment approach to consultations to help people be more successful in self-management as a result. It is an excellent stand-alone workshop and also a useful addition to help you further develop your consultation skills after attending a personalised care planning in diabetes workshop.

The workshop content helps participants to:

Make sure that both their agenda and that of the person with diabetes is met during consultations

Be more successful in motivating people to self-care for their diabetes

Develop effective behaviour change action plans

Deliver diabetes consultations to the standard demanded by today's NHS

Learn techniques that can be used immediately in consultations

See our video - Successful Consultations

Contact us for further information or to make an enquiry about booking a workshop.