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Quirky Kid’s Lunch & Learn series became a practical way to build a learning culture inside the organisation while also creating opportunities for psychologists and other child-focused professionals to learn from external specialists.
During 2017, sessions were hosted across Quirky Kid’s Sydney and Wollongong clinics and covered topics relevant to day-to-day work with children, adolescents and families.
Learning beyond one discipline
The series deliberately drew on presenters with different professional backgrounds. Topics included risk assessment and court reporting, online safety, narrative therapy, ADHD research, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, parenting, family work and emerging areas of child wellbeing.
This wider perspective reflected an important part of Quirky Kid’s professional culture: psychologists benefit from staying connected with research, allied disciplines, legal and safeguarding responsibilities, education and the changing environments in which children are growing up.
External specialists, practical discussion
Presenters during the series included experienced psychologists, researchers and professionals working in child safety and digital wellbeing.
Rather than treating professional development as an occasional compliance exercise, the Lunch & Learn format made learning more regular and conversational. Staff and invited colleagues could ask questions, discuss how ideas related to practice and consider how new information might change the way they worked.
A later professional profile for the program’s coordinator described the initiative as educating psychologists, school counsellors, social workers, teachers and other professionals through short expert-led sessions hosted by Quirky Kid.
Part of Quirky Kid’s employer and professional culture
The Lunch & Learn series is useful Company News because it documents what happened behind the consulting rooms: supervision, professional curiosity, cross-disciplinary learning and investment in the people delivering services.
That learning culture continues to matter as Quirky Kid’s work spans clinical psychology, developmental assessment, school programs, research, publishing and digital mental health.
The 2017 series also provides a useful historical record of how Quirky Kid created opportunities for local professionals to connect and learn together across its Sydney and Wollongong locations.
