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The following training areas are currently made available through
the Brisbane Institute of Strengths based Practice
Dr Venkat Pulla offers these programs with both in house (BISBP)
colleagues and also involves trainers from the
organisation that consults us. Organisational
collaboration encourages leaving with the organisations
an opportunity to experiment, grow and develop a
strengths based practice suitable to their needs.
1. Transformational Imaginations To Build Strengths - prelude
talk to launch half a day to two day training programmes
2. Strengths based practice for our own health: a common
sense approach - A practice centering exercise with
welfare and social work professionals ability to
increase their coping and resilience
3. Creative solutions form within: listening to your
inner selves- two day workshop for organisational
founders, committee members and individuals with high
achievement orientation. Originally launched in a mental
health NGO.
4. Intentional conversations: what are they about?- A
deliberate planned technique that allows accomplished
5. 'Intentional perspectives approach' (IPA) what is it
all about? Public sector management
6. 'Intentional perspectives approach' (IPA) what is it
all about? Contexting with in Organisational development
- Dr Venkat Pulla and Peter Binyon
7. 'Intentional perspectives approach' (IPA) what is it
all about? Relevance to Team building - Dr Venkat Pulla
8. Child Centred Strengths based practice- ridiculous
without the family? Challenging the fundamentals of
Child protection and making us think. - Dr Venkat Pulla
9. Strengths based practice with families - Dr Venkat
Pulla
10. Building Community resilience for children and
families - Dr Venkat Pulla
11. Putting human values in work pace – Venkat Pulla,
Rita Kugler, Dr Coralie Graham
12. Gandhi today. Non violent Community actions- spreading to
individual lifestyles - Dr Venkat Pulla, Palani Thevar
13. Coping and resilience – in children
14. Coping and resilience in turbulent times
15. Change your mind and keep it series- individual and
organisational contexts
16. The meeting industry –maximising participation-
Listening to your cultures within:
To form the capitol of capital.
Strengths based strategic Practice SbsP addresses primordial
concerns and builds somatic connections with a human
face.
It compels managers to listen to their cultures within and is
designed as a participative facilitated venture that
lets an organization explore cultural interconnectedness
to employee development.
It is qualitative and vital to develop work autonomy and upgrade
core business.
Formats:
1. Motivational Talk - One hour at business luncheon, Business
breakfast, team meeting preludes
Recently offered to the Tata Chemicals, Mumbai in 2007.
Full length narrative introduction of Dr Venkat Pulla
Dr Venkat Pulla, is a an accredited Practitioner of
Social Work well recognised in Australia and overseas as
a highly committed trainer of human values and strengths
based social work practice frameworks for empowerment of
clients and staff within the teams. To Venkat there is
only one perspective of human rights: ‘that no one is
ever abused, harmed and violated’. Venkat utilises a
process called ‘intentional perspectives approach’ (IPA)
that focuses on ensuring survival -first; growth and
development of pervasive consciousness -second. His
facilitation, through IPA allows him and his and
co-learners to dream and work pragmatically towards
ensuring full development of potential without
compromising. Venkat sees a great majority of people
innocently, ignorantly or purposively leading veiled
lives. ‘Venkat believes that ‘their darkness produces
abuse, neglect, want, discrimination and even situations
of under privileging of others’. Venkat’s tactical
conversations cause gentle nudges for such slumbering
humanity without sounding provocative. ‘In simple terms,
if they are not awake they are not aware’. This
summarises Venkat’s rationale of his style of training
and interventions. As one of the pioneers in strength
based practice, he offers professional supervision,
process facilitation for managing change and wide
ranging assistance to the not-for-profit sector and
organisational development.
Venkat spent some 15 years preparing social work
graduates and a couple of years in capacity development
of public sector management through British Aid (DFID)
Projects in Metros India. At the Regional Centre for
Urban and Environmental Studies, Osmania University. In
India he received a Fellowship of the Ashoka
International Foundation, Washington and received other
concurrent supports to become an international
travelling activist/ lecturer for two years covering
countries such as Germany, Netherlands, UK, Thailand,
Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India and the USA, presenting and
researching the inextricable relationships between
development, welfare and ecology. Venkat is a Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Social Worker, a Tata
Dorabji Scholar and has a doctorate in the field of
Community Development obtained in India. His work life
includes positions as Head of the Social Work Department
at the Northern Territory University, Darwin for three
years and several years in India in Teaching and
Training at the College of Social Work, Hyderabad, and
He has recognition in areas of training for performance
measures, quality, change management, strength based
child protection, family directed practice, trauma
torture counselling and refugee resettlement. His policy
consulting included health policy, urbanisation, poverty
alleviation, social infrastructures, disability and aged
care, wage reform, employee strategies, and
industrialisation.
His life has been an incredible journey. It has savoured
vignettes at the coal face in human services as well as
offered him stints of consulting to India’s National
Commission on Urbanisation, set up by Rajeev Gandhi, a
visionary Prime Minister. It threw open a travelling
lectureship around the USA, Europe and Asia and brought
in consulting opportunities with federal and state
departments and international non-government
organisations such as ICCO, Memisa and HIVOS from the
Netherlands, BFW and EZE from Germany, OXFAM and ODA
from the United Kingdom and UNICEF amongst others.
In 1992 he moved to Australia as the foundation Head of
Social Work at the Northern Territory University,
Darwin, Australia for four years. Since 1996 Venkat
worked extensively with refugees and migrants being the
Acting Coordinator of Brisbane Migrant Resource Centre.
Later, he moved to Queensland’s Department of Families
to do Child Protection work and did various stints
starting from Family Services Officer, Team Leader,
Senior Practitioner and Senior Quality Assurance
Officer. Within the Disability Services he held Acting
Manager Professional and Specialist Services positions
and currently holds a Senior Social Work position.
Venkat has extensive clinical as well as organisational
experience across a wide range of service settings. His
approach is completely hands on that ensure quality in
all his consultancies. Venkat has founded the Brisbane
Institute of Strengths Based Practice which innovates
and advances a variety of training methodologies that
actively interact and manage change. Until recently he
has been the Vice President of the Australian
Association of Social Workers, Queensland and is a
member of the accreditation panel for schools of social
work in Australia and Convenor, International Social
Work Interest Group, AASW (QLD)
Venkat can be contacted at
dr.venkat.pulla@gmail.com
and on 00 61 422345982
or by snail mail to
Dr Venkat Pulla,
5 Mandell Close
Coopers Plains
Qld, 4108
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