The Nebraska Center on Reflective Practice (NCRP) provides training, mentoring, consultation, and evaluation to individuals and organizations in need of reflective practice.
The human service and early childhood workforce is engaged in work that is both rewarding and taxing. The emotionally intrusive nature of the work often leads to high rates of vicarious trauma, stress and burnout - all of which affect the quality of services provided by an organization. Reflective practice assists in mitigating the effects of the emotionally intrusive nature of the work by helping individuals examine their current and past actions, emotions, experiences, and responses in order to evaluate their work performance and learn to improve in the future. Reflective practice promotes a workplace culture of collaboration and accountability.
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The Nebraska Center on Reflective Practice (NCRP) provides an in-depth training and consultation program for organizations committed to infusing reflective practice into their work. NCRP utilizes the Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) model developed by the Erikson Institute.
The reflective practice training program prepares and supports practitioners during all stages of the process of implementing reflective practice:
Contact Jamie Bahm to learn more about reflective practice training program at 402-472-3315 or jamie.bahm@unl.edu
Reflective practice training has been a huge asset to my daily work. It has helped me connect with my staff not only through their teaching practices but also through a personal level. Using the FAN I am able to meet the needs of my staff exactly where they are and relate to them in ways I haven’t before. I was able to adapt the techniques I learned in the training to create a positive approach to reflective supervision.
The Nebraska Center on Reflective Practice partners with a network of consultants and staff to facilitate reflective consultation to individuals or groups of people within an organization. Reflective practitioners help attendees examine his or her past actions, emotions, experiences, and responses to better understand the context of their work. Additionally, reflective consultation aims to enhance team collaboration and cohesiveness by promoting an environment of mutual respect and shared understanding.
Reflective practice consultation groups typically occur on a bi-weekly basis and consist of up to six people per group. Reflective practice consultation groups can be composed of supervisor/employee teams or peer teams.
Reflective practice consultation complements existing supervision models by helping attendees focus on the emotional content of the work.
Contact Jamie Bahm to learn more about reflective practice consultation program at 402-472-3315 or jamie.bahm@unl.edu
Reflective practice consultation has helped me to be able to recognize my biases towards continuing to approach my practice in the way I always have. In other words, it has enabled me to recognize that I function from a level of comfort and habit that is almost unconscious. It has also enabled me to recognize that I need to separate myself from my emotional responses to stressful situations and to be able to begin to see when those situations are arising and note by response.
The Nebraska Center on Reflective Practice maintains a community of practice for individuals who have completed the reflective practice training program. These reflective practitioners will have access to a list serv which will provide them with the latest literature and resources for reflective practice, as well as a connection to the other reflective practitioners around the state. Community of practice meetings provide attendees with booster sessions to continue to develop and refine their reflective practice skills as well as an opportunity to connect with NCRP trainers and other reflective practice trained professionals.
Contact Jamie Bahm to learn more about community of practice at 402-472-3315 or jamie.bahm@unl.edu
Staying connected to your FAN colleagues is one of the best ways to sustain your practice. The Community of Practice offers advanced training concepts as well as rich networking.
Infusing reflective practice into an organization creates a parallel process which benefits front-line professionals, management, and the organization.
Reflective practice creates a parallel process within organizations which empowers management to enhance their support for the front-line employees.
As a supervisor, reflective practice has enabled me to be more intentional in my supervision with my staff, as a result we are able to accomplish more in a shorter time period. I am able to recognize both my strengths and weaknesses in my supervision sessions and am able to better support my staff and meet their needs.
Results from our pilot sample have shown that participation in reflective practice has a positive impact on professionals.
We've gotten some positive initial results from our training program. Watch the video below to learn more!
The relationship-based approach for reflective practice can be used across disciplines and systems of care, including:
Jamie Bahm is a Project Manager with the NRPVYC. She also provides training and consultation for the Children’s Justice Clinic at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Prior to her current position, she worked for the NE DHHS as the Supervisor for the Family Treatment Drug Court program, as well as specializing in casework with adjudicated youth with high behavioral health needs. Jamie earned her MS in criminal justice and criminology from the University of Nebraska.
Carrie has spent over 25 years in education and mental/behavioral health working with children, adolescents, and families. She is a Circle of Security - Parenting facilitator and certified Compassion Fatigue Professional. In her current role with Nebraska Extension, Carrie works as an Engagement Zone Coordinator supporting Extension staff and clients throughout a six county region.
Lynne is responsible for the recruitment, training, development, and assignment of Step Up to Quality coaches. Lynne’s experience includes a wide variety of early childhood roles, including family home care provider, lead teacher, preschool teacher, home visitor,and Early Head Start supervisor. She has worked in the early childhood education field for over 20 years. Lynne wants caregivers to understand the incredible impact they can make on a child’s life.
Kari has been working in education for 20 years and has spent her last nine at UNMC Munroe Meyer Institute as an Assistant Project Director and Early Childhood Program Evaluator. She is also an affiliate trainer for Teachstone where she trains the CLASS (Classroom Assessment Scoring System) at the Toddler, Pre-K and K-3 level. She received her MS in elementary education from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Stephanni Renn is the Sixpence Associate Vice President of Sixpence and Early Childhood Programs at Nebraska Children and Families Foundation. Stephanni has spent the last 15 years in the early childhood field working with Nebraska’s most vulnerable infants and toddlers. She is a Circle of Security-Parenting Facilitator and has been teaching classes since 2014. She received her MS in Management with an emphasis on Developing Leader Coaches from Doane University in December 2019.
Samantha Byrns is the Early Childhood Mental Health Project Manager for the Nebraska Resource Project for Vulnerable Young Children. She is a board certified, licensed mental health practitioner providing outpatient individual and family therapy with specialized training in trauma and early childhood. She is trained in Trauma-Informed Care (Trainer), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Circle of Security Parenting (Facilitator), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Reflective Practice/Consultation, Early Coach Training, Pyramid Model Training, Psychological First Aid and Youth Mental Health First Aid. She received her Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) Master of Science in Education Degree from the University of Nebraska Kearney. She is a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), Nebraska Counseling Association (NCA) and the Nebraska Association for Infant Mental Health (NAIMH).
Karen is responsible for providing technical assistance, educational guidance, and fiscal oversight for Nebraska’s thirty-eight Sixpence programs. Her passion is to help create positive environments for Nebraska’s highest risk children and their families. She is a Circle of Security – Parenting facilitator and provides a broad range of early childhood trainings. She is a member of the Results Matters Task Force and recently worked with a State team to revise and create the Nebraska Early Childhood and Coaching Competencies.
