Cedar Create

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)


Cedar and Cedar Create offer a wide-ranging portfolio of CPD courses to support individual and service development.

Many of our CPD courses are open to the public, while some are for specific professional communities.

We can also offer bespoke training packages and CPD events that are tailored to you and your team. If you would like to discuss this, please get in touch.

 

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Advanced Participation Practitioner CPD Training

April 22 @ 8:00 am - July 1 @ 5:00 pm

About the event

This course is designed to enhance and develop your practice and increase competencies in participation and engagement. The course will be delivered over 6 full days (3 days face to face at the University of Exeter Streatham campus and 3 days online). The cohort will run April – July 2025.

You will be required to engage in a reflective practice assignment to support your learning.

A place on the course will cost £675.

More information

This course will cover:

  • The ontology, philosophy, and ethics of participation.
  • Participation models and their appropriateness.
  • Stage and age of lived experience.
  • Learned experience and how to develop it.
  • Planning projects and managing them for success.
  • Working with others and having difficult conversations.
  • Preparing people to share (or not).
  • Evaluation and tracking of difference made.
  • Creating projects based on principles.
  • Challenging and controversy, how to manage it.
  • Individual, service level and Commissioning level participation.
  • Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion.
  • More than steering groups – moving to youth led approaches.
  • Creative thinking and doing.
  • Becoming an Agent of Change – understanding how to use carrots and sticks, winning hearts and minds.
  • Impacts – what difference does your role make?

This course is suitable for those working directly in roles related to participation, advocacy, peer support, lived experience voice and engagement.

Course dates & times

  • Tuesday 22nd April 2025, 09:30 – 16:00
  • Tuesday 6th May 2025, 09:30 – 16:00
  • Tuesday 20th May 2025, 09:30 – 16:00
  • Tuesday 3rd June 2025, 09:30 – 16:00
  • Tuesday 17th June 2025, 09:30 – 16:00
  • Tuesday 1st July 2025, 09:30 – 16:00

If you have any questions, please contact the Course Lead – Tim Tod (t.tod@exeter.ac.uk) and Project Coordinator -­ Morgan Craig (cyp-participation@exeter.ac.uk).

 To book your place, please contact cyp-participation@exeter.ac.uk

Details

Start:
April 22 @ 8:00 am
End:
July 1 @ 5:00 pm