About the Training
This Foundation Training is designed for professionals and peers working in mental health, social care, therapy, community support, and related fields. Whether you’re seeking to deepen your relational practice or to bring systemic change to your work environment, this training offers the grounding to begin.
Your trainers, Mia Kurtti, Iseult Twamley, and Eija-Liisa Rautiaine, bring expertise and experience in Western Lapland Open Dialogue services, as well as international implementations of Open Dialogue and dialogical therapies, to support you on your journey.
Our invited Dialogue Partners, Flick Grey and Olga Runciman will bring voices of lived experience to the training, and their expertise on the inclusion of peer perspectives in Open Dialogue implementations.
No prior experience in Open Dialogue is required – just a willingness to reflect, participate, and grow.
Over the course of the training, participants will:
- Learn the core principles of Open Dialogue such as immediate help, tolerance of uncertainty, and network orientation
- Develop skills in facilitating network meetings
- Practice reflective and dialogical presence
- Engage with questions of power, voice, culture, and care
- Join a collaborative learning community committed to human rights, inclusion, and co-created knowledge
Why Join?
Open Dialogue is more than a method – it is a transformative approach to working with human suffering and relationships. It invites practitioners to:
- Listen deeply and speak authentically
- Build trust and connection through presence and care
- Co-create meaning with individuals, families, and teams
- Shift systems toward responsiveness, transparency, and dignity
- Support the move to human rights-based care in times of crisis and change.
This training can be a beginning – a foundation for personal transformation, professional renewal, and cultural change in how we support one another.
The training will qualify participants to work as Open Dialogue practitioners in clinical/research-based implementations.
CPD certificates for 120 Hour Equivalence will be provided.
Additional Resources (Optional)
This training is also unique in offering the possibility of additional ongoing supervision and /or implementation consultation from senior Open Dialogue Trainers.
Our experience is that much learning happens when we are in supervision as we start to begin the work post qualification. We also offer our expertise in implementation to address organisational and systemic aspects of bringing Open Dialogue to specific contexts.
