Advance your Advocacy Practice - Advocating alongside First Nations People with Disability
2024-11-21 10:30 - 11:30 UTC
Disability Advocacy In Action
Register now for the next Advance Your Advocacy Practice: Advocating alongside First Nations People with Disability
In this Advance Your Advocacy Practice session First Peoples Disability Network talk about the challenges and barriers that First Nations people with disability face in accessing services, and what advocates can do to help overcome these barriers and meet the needs of First Nations people with disability across all service settings.
Date: 21st November 10.30am – 11.30m via Zoom
Organiser: DARU
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Early Childhood Voices Conference
2024-11-25 09:00 - 2024-11-28 17:00 UTC
Event Overview

The Early Childhood Voices Conference 2024 (ECV2024) is a multidisciplinary international conference providing a platform to share research about innovative methods, theories and partnerships with children, families and practitioners that supports social justice during early childhood and within the early childhood sector.
ECV2024 is organised by the Charles Sturt University Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research Group as an opportunity to present research in a virtual online space.
ECV2024 is online and asynchronous. There is no registration fee and no fees to present or view the presentations due to Charles Sturt University’s motto “For the public good”.

What to expect

Get set to expand your knowledge and enhance your practice at our multidisciplinary international conference.

Hear from international researchers on the latest evidence, innovative methods, critical theories and collaborative partnerships in early childhood.
Engage in dynamic discussions with a passionate global community of researchers and professionals.
Extend your research and critical analysis capability and deepen your knowledge.

Best of all, the conference is free to present at and attend.

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Responding to Children and Young People Impacted by Trauma - free workshop
2024-11-25 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | 40 Sheridans Bridge Road, Rutherglen
This is a free workshop presented by UMFC for all community members, teachers and volunteers working with children and young people.
The workshop will cover the following topics-
Impact of Trauma on Children and Young People’s Behaviours
Children and young people in our communities are often labelled as violent, naughty, intimidating, bullying, withdrawn, or angry. On the surface, these behaviours can appear to be choices and are frequently met with punitive responses. However, these behaviours often stem from underlying trauma and hurt.
How to Respond to Trauma Behaviours
This workshop will explore the root causes of these behaviours and provide guidance on how to identify and respond to them in a supportive and inclusive manner. By understanding the impact of trauma, we can ensure that all children and young people have the opportunity to interact and participate fully in classrooms, sports, and community groups.
Join us to learn how to create a more compassionate and inclusive environment for every child and young person.

Location: Rutherglen High School Library, 40 Sheridans Bridge Rd, Rutherglen
Light supper provided.
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Introduction to Dissociation - Virtual Classroom delivered via Zoom
2024-11-27 09:00 - 16:30 UTC
This interactive one-day training builds on our clinical training programs which provide the clinical framework of the three phased approach and introduces the concept of dissociation. This training focuses on this specific topic and considers dissociation as a continuum, explores dissociation in everyday life and expands on this to explore complex trauma-related dissociation.
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Introduction to Dissociation - online
2024-11-27 09:30 - 17:00 UTC
This interactive training presents best principles for working with complex trauma clients, drawing on current research in trauma theory and therapy, attachment, affective neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology. It explores the importance of a phased approach for complex trauma clients with a primary focus on Phase 1 Safety and Stabilisation.

$350.00 incl. GST AUD
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $310.00 incl. GST AUD

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Three Phased Approach: Safety and Stabilisation - online
2024-11-28 09:00 - 17:00 UTC

Queering sex & content
2024-12-02 10:00 - 15:30 UTC
A skills-based workshop presented by Zoe Belle Gender Collective & Rainbow Network

VENUE: Melbourne, TBA upon registration

All young people need access to relevant and age-appropriate information about sex, consent and healthy relationships.
Research indicates that many educators, healthcare workers and youth workers feel ill-equipped or lack confidence in discussing topics of sex, consent and healthy relationships with young people. We know that LGBTIQA+ young people may not have access to inclusive school-based education in this area. We also know that some LGBTIQA+ young people may not feel safe accessing support from mainstream sexual health organisations.
This skills-based workshop will improve your confidence and ability to provide inclusive sex, consent and healthy relationships content and discussions with all young people. You will also learn strategies to address resistance and backlash.
Presentations and interactive activities will be delivered by experts who work with and for young LGBTIQA+ people in various settings, including:

sexuality and respectful relationships education;
trans, non-binary and gender diverse youth advocacy;
intersex advocacy and peer support;
sexual assault, family violence advocacy and case management.

Most importantly, it will feature a panel of young people.
Limited spots, bookings essential.
This is a fully catered event.

Exploring the lived experience of adolescent to-mother violence - online
2024-12-03 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
Guest Speaker: David Burck (university of Queensland)
In this webinar, we hear from researcher, David Burck (University of Queensland), who will present findings from his recently published thesis, ‘A silent shame: Exploring the lived experience of adolescent-to-mother violence where there is a history intimate partner and family violence‘.
Dave’s research brings young people’s voices to the forefront, with adolescents describing their lived experience of adolescent-to-mother violence in their own words, to answer the research question, ‘how do mothers and young people using violence, with a history of intimate partner violence and family violence , experience and understand adolescent-to-mother violence?‘.

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You Should Ask That: Continuing the conversation with the children of women killed by men - online
2024-12-05 10:00 - 11:30 UTC
This conversation panel that will offer insights into the experience of losing a parent to domestic homicide as told by adult children. Kathryn Joy (they/them), Rebecca Burdon, Beverley Attard and Ashton Kline will extend upon the conversation and advocacy work previously presented by the panel members at the Can I ask that? A Conversation with the Children of Women Killed by Men in November 2023, which was part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence 2023.
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Navigating the NDIS
2024-12-05 10:00 - 15:00 UTC
This workshop offers practical training for child and family sector staff who support NDIS participants or carers of children in the NDIS. The session covers inside information on how NDIS decisions are made, how disability is defined in the NDIS, what evidence best supports claims, and the key language that can help achieve optimal outcomes.
This is a workshop designed to deliver practical, pragmatic training for child and family sector staff who may support participants in the NDIS, or the carers of children in the NDIS.
The training covers:

An explanation of how the NDIS is designed to work, including the many assumptions built into it about families and children with a disability
Clear explanation of the roles and responsibilities of child and family sector staff in working with families with disability.
Parental perspectives on the experience of caring for a child with disability
Tips and techniques to help support vulnerable families as they navigate the NDIS, from access to review and appeal
An introduction to the wide network of support and advocacy organisations around the NDIS

The session shares inside-info about how decisions are made in the NDIS – this means you will come away with an insight into how disability is defined in the NDIS, what kinds of evidence influence decisions, and the right language to use to get the best outcomes. We include templates and tools to help you gather information and communicate the needs of children, parents and carers to NDIS decision makers.
Navigating the NDIS – Session 1: 10am to 12pm
This is the first session in this workshop designed to deliver practical, pragmatic training for child and family sector staff who may support participants in the NDIS, or the carers of children in the NDIS.
Navigating the NDIS – Session 2: 1pm to 3pm
This is the second and final session in this workshop designed to deliver practical, pragmatic training for child and family sector staff who may support participants in the NDIS, or the carers of children in the NDIS.
December 5, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
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To register please go to – https://training.cfecfw.asn.au/

Preventing emotional abuse of children: The role of parenting support
2024-12-18 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Presenters: Associate Professor Divna Haslam, Associate Professor Alina Morawska and Rani Kumar
Date & time: Wednesday 18 December 2024, 1:00 – 2:00PM (AEDT). Find your time zone.
Partner: NAPCAN

This webinar, produced in partnership with the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN), previously aired in 2023 as part of National Child Protection Week. It explores emotional abuse in childhood and the role of parenting support in reducing and preventing child maltreatment.
In the webinar, Associate Professor Divna Haslam and Associate Professor Alina Morawska sat down with the then Deputy CEO of NAPCAN, Rani Kumar, to discuss findings from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study. The study found that approximately 35% of young people aged 16-24 years had previously experienced emotional abuse, with the rate 1.5 times higher among girls than boys.
Emotional abuse contributes to a range of physical, social and psychological problems, and despite its high prevalence, this form of abuse is poorly understood compared to other forms of child maltreatment and is often overlooked in practice settings.
Emotional abuse occurs at the hands of parents and primary caregivers and can overlap with other unhelpful forms of parenting. This makes the family environment key for the prevention of emotional abuse in childhood. Parenting programs have been shown to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors associated with child maltreatment.
This webinar will help you:

understand the nature, prevalence and impact of emotional abuse in childhood
identify the family-related risk and protective factors associated with early adversity and child maltreatment
consider the role of parenting support in preventing and reducing emotional abuse in childhood
start conversations about emotional abuse with parents and children and assess the impact the abuse is having.

This webinar will interest practitioners working in child and family services, child protection, family law, parenting and relationship services, health and education.
As this is a re-broadcast there will be no live Q&A.
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Three Phased Approach: Safety and Stabilisation
2025-01-31 09:30 - 17:00 UTC
This interactive training presents best principles for working with complex trauma clients, drawing on current research in trauma theory and therapy, attachment, affective neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology. It explores the importance of a phased approach for complex trauma clients with a primary focus on Phase 1 Safety and Stabilisation.

Online.
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$350.00 incl. GST AUD
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $310.00 incl. GST AUD

Trauma Awareness in Practice - online
2025-02-10 09:30 - 17:00 UTC
This practical training focuses on the implementation of the trauma-informed principles and the application of foundational knowledge of complex trauma to your work. The importance of connection and collaboration between worker and client is key for resilience and recovery. Building safe relationships with worker and service is critical. Embedding the trauma informed principles into everyday practice creates the safety for healing to begin.

$350.00 incl. GST AUD
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $310.00 incl. GST AUD

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She is not your rehab presents - How to work with men & boys to create violence free communities
2025-02-13 09:00 - 17:00 UTC
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The VAADA Conference 2025 - From Challenges to Solutions: Responding to a Changing World
2025-02-13 09:00 - 2025-02-14 17:00 UTC
Grand Hyatt Melbourne,
123 Collins Street, Melbourne
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Time’s running out purchase your tickets by Feb 5th
2-day Member $780.00
1-day Member $440.00
2-day Non-Member $835.00
1-day Non-Member $465.00
Conference Party $80.00
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Trauma Responsive Leadership - Self as a Leader, online
2025-02-13 09:30 - 17:00 UTC
This training program explores the application of a trauma lens when supporting teams and individuals who work with complex trauma. Being trauma responsive means both individual and organisation recognise and respond to trauma which can enable change and strengthen resilience and protective factors. A trauma responsive leader embeds trauma informed principles into practice and creates a culture of safety for their team to work from.

$350.00 incl. GST AUD
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $310.00 incl. GST AUD

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Managing and Recognising Vicarious Trauma - online
2025-02-14 09:30 - 17:00 UTC
This training program explores the nature, dynamics and risks of vicarious trauma and supports you to stay healthy and safe in your work. This training, informed by current research, will provide you with the knowledge, skills and tools to better recognise the early signs of various stress outcomes. It offers a range of organisational, interpersonal and personal strategies to address the risks of Vicarious Trauma and its impacts, and foster possibilities for post-traumatic growth and vicarious resilience.

$350.00 incl. GST AUD
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $310.00 incl. GST AUD

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Three Phased Approach: Safety and Stabilisation - online
2025-02-17 09:30 - 17:00 UTC
This interactive training presents best principles for working with complex trauma clients, drawing on current research in trauma theory and therapy, attachment, affective neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology. It explores the importance of a phased approach for complex trauma clients with a primary focus on Phase 1 Safety and Stabilisation.

$350 incl. GST AUD
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $310.00 incl. GST AUD

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Foundations for Building Trauma Awareness - online
2025-02-19 09:30 - 17:00 UTC
This training utilises current research to provide an understanding of trauma, the impacts of trauma on all aspects of life and subsequently the coping mechanisms formed in response to trauma. The principles of trauma-informed practice are introduced which focus on a strengths-based approach and applicable to all, vital for every person working in health, human, education, disability and legal services, working in government, non-government, public or private sectors.

$350.00 incl. GST AUD
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $310.00 incl. GST AUD

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Supporting non-offending parents after child sexual abuse
2025-02-19 13:00 - 14:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Supporting non-offending parents after child sexual abuse

Presenters: Alisa Hall (National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse), Sophie McEvoy (Relationships Australia SA), Dr Carmela Bastian and Dan Moss (Emerging Minds)

Date & time: Wednesday 19 February 2025, 1:00 – 2:00PM (AEDT). Find your time zone.

Partner: Emerging Minds

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Blue Knot Foundation - Trauma Informed Diversity Awareness Masterclass
2025-02-20 09:00 - 16:30 UTC
This masterclass fosters the knowledge and skills to work competently and confidently with transgender and gender diverse people accessing therapeutic and other services. It explores the intersectionality of complex trauma, discrimination, and minority stress to build understanding on how these factors impact the health of transgender and gender diverse people.
Participants gain a practical and inclusive framework for implementing trauma-informed principles within best practice guidelines when working with transgender and gender diverse populations, aligning policies and procedures with existing legislation.
Upcoming Sessions
Online delivered via Zoom

Thu 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM AEDT

$370.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $330.00 incl. GST AUD

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Three Phased Approach: Processing and Integration - online
2025-02-24 09:30 - 2025-02-25 17:00 UTC
This training is designed for practitioners working in a counselling and/or therapeutic role with complex trauma clients, and utilise clinical assessment, case formulation and treatment/care planning in their daily practice. Phase 2 (Trauma Processing) covers application of strategies for safe work informed by an understanding of traumatic memory and explores Phase 3 (Integration), building your skills to better support your clients to integrate their trauma into their life story.

$700.00 incl. GST AUD
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $675.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $630.00 incl. GST AUD

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Blue Knot - Trauma Sensitive Practice - Working with Complex Trauma, online
2025-02-26 09:00 - 16:30 UTC
This training program utilises current research to provide an understanding of trauma, the impacts of trauma and the neurobiological responses that occur. It builds an understanding of the key features of complex trauma that can present in our working relationships and the resourcing and regulation that can support in practice. This program is for those who have some level of trauma awareness and seek to build on their knowledge and continue to embed the trauma informed principles within practice.

$350.00 incl. GST AUD
Group Booking (3 or more people) Per Person Rate $330.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member Discount $310.00 incl. GST AUD

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No to Violence, Enhanced -The Five Essential Discussion Tools
2025-02-26 10:00 - 13:00 UTC
For practitioners who have engaged with the Five Essential Discussion Tools before, this enhanced package will refresh knowledge and introduce new topics and practice considerations.
Location: Online
Cost: FREE
For more information, dates, and to register, click here

People Tank - Strategic Leadership: Leading with Purpose and Precision
2025-02-26 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
Join Greg Sellar, Senior Capability Consultant at People Tank, for an insight-packed session on leadership that delivers real impact. With expertise across corporate, retail, media, pharma, and fitness, Greg brings deep knowledge in coaching, NLP, and leadership development to help you sharpen your leadership edge.
What You’ll Gain:

Encourage creativity & adaptability – Empower teams to think critically and embrace change.
Make strategic decisions with confidence – Align leadership choices with long-term business success.
Enhance trust & communication – Strengthen collaboration across teams.
Connect teams to a shared vision – Inspire purpose and alignment in your organisation.
Build resilience & psychological safety – Foster a high-performing, engaged workforce.

Who Should Attend?
This session is designed for managers, senior leaders, and HR professionals looking to enhance their strategic leadership skills. Whether you’re leading teams, driving change, or shaping workplace culture, you’ll gain valuable insights to elevate your leadership approach.
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Why Join?
This isn’t just another webinar – it’s a practical, high-impact session designed to help you tackle leadership challenges head-on. Walk away with actionable strategies to lead with confidence, influence with clarity, and drive meaningful results.

Blue Knot - Navigating Trauma Care - Maintaining Wellbeing while Practicing Compassion and Empathy, online
2025-02-27 09:00 - 12:30 UTC
This half day (3.5hrs) training program is designed to empower professionals working with trauma while prioritizing self-care. Wellbeing, Compassion, and Empathy equips participants with the tools to foster compassion for others and themselves, navigate the challenges of trauma-informed practice, and build resilience in high-stress environments.

175.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member $157.50 incl. GST AUD

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Walk Alongside Me: Safe and Respectful Ways of Working with Survivors of Coercive Control
2025-02-27 09:30 - 15:30 UTC
The Walk Alongside Me training focuses on identifying and defining coercive controlling behaviours, and how to work to increase survivor agency and self efficacy, using response-based practice, and trauma- and violence-informed practice frameworks.
While Family Violence Risk Assessment frameworks (including MARAM) are critical to family violence practice, there is more to family violence response than risk assessment. This training provides the conduit between risk assessment frameworks and upskilling practitioners with key theory and practice approaches to enable them to walk alongside survivors of coercive control safely, respectfully and ethically.
Facilitated by Ada Conroy and Kelly Finch

Kelly and Ada are passionate family violence advocates, with almost 50 years of experience between them in working across the family violence response continuum.
Find out more about Ada and Kelly here.

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Safe and Equal - Unpacking Resistance, Online via Zoom
2025-02-27 10:00 - 16:00 UTC
Unpacking Resistance training focuses on interpersonal resistance. You’ll learn how to identify resistant behaviours and attitudes, and develop strategies and tools to support meaningful and solutions-focused conversations.
🗺️ Online via Zoom
🎫 AUD $280
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Relationships Australia Victoria - Coercive control from a psychological perspective
2025-02-27 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
This webinar, by Relationships Australia Victoria, explores the intricate and hidden dynamics of coercive control in relationships, including psychological mechanisms and impacts on mental health. Practitioners will gain a deeper understanding of coercive control and learn practical strategies for supporting those affected.

Registration information
Registrations close 48 hours before the webinar start time.
If paying by invoice, proof of payment needs to be provided at least 24 hours ahead of the event.
In addition to the live event link, all registrants will receive a link to the webinar recording post-event.
When you click to book, you will be taken to our payment gateway. Once you complete your registration you will receive an email detailing how to access your learning event in our Moodle Learning Management System.
Webinar requirements
Please note that you’ll need access to the following to participate in this webinar:

Desktop or laptop computer
Reliable internet connection
Headphones recommended
Microphone/speakers
Webcam (built in or external to your computer)

Contact us
Training and Development Team
Phone: (03) 8573 2222
Email: ravtraining@rav.org.au

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Blue Knot Foundation - The Dual Nature of Complex Trauma: Navigating Its Effects on Clients and Professionals
2025-02-28 09:00 - 12:30 UTC
This half day (3.5hrs) training program offers a deep dive into the core principles of trauma-informed care, focusing on the importance of safety and connection. This training equips professionals with information to understand the profound impact of complex trauma and how to build safe, trusting relationships with those they support. The training also delves into the impact of providing attunement and care, highlighting the importance of recognising and managing stress outcomes for long-term wellbeing.
Online

$175.00 incl. GST AUD
Blue Knot Professional Member $157.50 incl. GST AUD

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