Programme Workshops and Support Meetings 2012

The graduate midwife introductory workshop (8 hours) will take graduate midwives through the Programme requirements, their responsibilities to the Programme and their mentor, the differences between mentoring, preceptoring and clinical supervision, mentoring in practice, negotiating relationships, and how communication and learning styles influence and impact on reflective practice and critical thinking.

Attendance at an introductory workshop and support meeting is compulsory and is funded by the MFYP Programme. Graduate midwives are expected to attend the workshop that is closest to where they live (the graduate midwife funding packages are based this). Please plan and arrange either locum / practice cover, a rostered day off or request leave from your employer for these dates.

The 2012 graduate midwife introductory workshops and support meetings will again be regional.

The dates and locations (subject to numbers) are as per the table below.

2012 Graduate Midwife Introductory Workshops Cohort One (1 February 2012 to 31 January 2013 Programme Duration)

Please note, there has been a change of dates for the first and second Auckland and the first Christchurch workshop to what was previously indicated. Also there will not be a Dunedin workshop – both South Island workshops will be in Christchurch.

2012 Graduate Midwife Introductory Workshops Cohort Two (1 May 2012 to 30 April 2013 Programme Duration)

2012 Graduate Midwife Support Meetings Cohort One (1 February 2012 to 31 January 2013 Programme Duration)

The workshop group/date you attend your Graduate Midwife Introductory Workshop determines the meeting group/date you attend your Graduate Midwife Support Meeting, as we like you to stay in the same workshop group. For example, if you attend the first Auckland Graduate Midwife Introductory Workshop on the 19^th January 2012 then you will attend the Graduate Midwife Support Meeting on 4^th of July 2012.

2012 Graduate Midwife Support Meetings Cohort Two (1 May 2012 to 30 April 2013 Programme Duration)

Mentor Development and Update Workshops and Support Meetings 2012

Mentor midwives who are new to the Programme are required to attend a 2-day mentor development workshop and 1-day support meeting. The 2-day workshop takes mentors through each of the Programme components and their role in relation to those, the various templates that the graduate and mentors have to complete, mentorship in practice, negotiating relationships, how communication and learning styles influence and impact on reflective practice and critical thinking, and opportunities to give and receive feedback. The 1-day support meeting provides mentors with an opportunity to describe, explore and reflect on their role as a mentor and the realities of mentoring in practice.

Returning mentors are required to attend a one day update workshop and a 1-day mentor support meetings (these will be a joint meeting with mentors new to the Programme in 2012).

Attendance at the mentor development workshop or update and support meetings is compulsory and is funded by the MFYP Programme. Mentor midwives are expected to attend the workshop and support meetings that are closest to where they live (the mentor midwife funding packages are based this). Please plan and arrange either locum / practice cover, a rostered day off or request leave from your employer for these dates.

The mentor midwife development workshops, updates and support meetings will also be regional. The dates and locations (subject to numbers) are as per the tables below.

2012 Mentor Midwife 2-Day Workshops (New Mentors)

2012 Mentor Midwife Update Workshops (Returning Mentors)

2012 Mentor Midwife Support Meetings (All Mentors)