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
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
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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Blue Knot - Managing Wellbeing and Recognising Vicarious Trauma, online
2025-03-03 09:00 - 16:30, 2025-03-21 09:00 - 16:30
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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Safe & Together Model CORE Training - 4 day training event
2025-03-03 09:30 - 16:30
More Information/Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/safe-and-together-model-core-training-wangaratta
Location: Wangaratta Library – 21 Docker Street, Wangaratta
Training Dates: Mon 3rd, Thur 6th, Wed 12th and Thur 13th March 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Questions: fvcst@umfc.com.au
By focusing on four key skills: assessment, interviewing, documentation and case planning our experiential training provides the foundation for domestic
violence-informed practice.
CORE Training explores the importance of:
● Identifying the impact of domestic violence on children and family functioning.
● Fact-based assessment of the perpetrators’ behavior patterns.
● Partnering with adult survivors of domestic violence.
● Intervening with perpetrators.
● How domestic violence intersects with other issues like substance abuse and mental health.
Participants of the CORE Training will:
● Learn to use practice tools, such as Mapping Perpetrators’ Patterns and Multiple Pathways to Harm that can be implemented right away to improve assessment of risk, impact on children, survivor protective efforts and essential case decisions
● Practice interviewing perpetrators, survivors and children through modeling, role play and videos
● Improve their domestic violence-informed documentation through individual and group exercises
● Discuss their own current or past cases and explore how the Safe & Together Model could be implemented

ANROWS Webinar - Working with the Knowledge of Experts by Experience, online via Zoom
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00
In the next Australian National Research Agenda webinar, Working with the Knowledge of Experts by Experience, panellists will explore the importance of partnering with people with lived experience when designing, funding, conducting and translating research.
Join lived experience experts Lula Dembele, Tess Moodie, Ashlee Donohue and Nina who will:

recount their research journey
discuss power dynamics and power imbalances in research

outline how we can improve ways of working with the knowledge of experts by experience.
The importance of including people with lived experience in research
Produced by ANROWS, the Australian National Research Agenda to End Violence against Women and Children (ANRA) 2023– 2028 seeks to drive research and the ways that evidence is produced to be organised, purposeful and effective.
A research priority described in the research agenda is the need to work with the knowledge of experts by experience. People with lived experience of domestic, family and sexual violence have valuable expertise and knowledge to contribute to research.
Join us on Tuesday 11 March to get a comprehensive understanding of the importance of having people with lived experience in the research process.

Date: Tuesday 11 March 2025
Time: 12 pm–1 pm (AEDT)
Location: Online via Zoom
Price: Free
For any enquiries, email events@anrows.org.au
For more information about the webinar, head to our webinar website.

Our Watch - Change the story online training
2025-03-04 14:00 - 15:30
Change the story online training
Introduction to the national framework | 90 minutes | Online | 4 March 2025
This 90-minute presentation provides a brief, high-level overview of Change the story – our evidence-based framework to guide a coordinated and effective national approach to preventing violence against women.

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Relationships Australia Victoria - Psychological Wellbeing in the Workplace
2025-03-05 15:00 - 16:30
Presented by Jeff Roberts, a clinical psychologist with more than 15 years of experience in counselling and mental health settings across Australia and internationally.
Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
Time: 3 – 4:30pm (AEDT)
Are you feeling stressed, anxious, over-worked or overwhelmed about work?
Learning outcomes
You’ll learn:

why physical health is so important for wellbeing and building resilience in the workplace
strategies to recognise and take control of everyday challenging situations
how to carve out time to focus on behaviours that improve your resilience
ways to maintain resilience and long-term wellbeing.

Ideal for
Professionals, workers and leaders who want to have good psychological wellbeing in the workplace, and promote a culture of work-life balance.
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Small Steps: Bystander Action for Equality - Online via Zoom
2025-03-06 09:30 - 13:30
By learning how to be an active bystander through Small Steps: Bystander Action for Equality, you can safely and effectively challenge sexist attitudes in your personal and professional life.
🎫 AUD $250
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Blue Knot - Trauma Sensitive Practice - Working with Complex Trauma, online
2025-03-07 09:00 - 16:30
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
2025-03-07 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-20 10:00 - 13:00
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.

Blue Knot - Navigating Trauma Care: Maintaining Wellbeing While Practicing Compassion and Empathy
2025-03-11 09:00 - 12:30
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.
Online

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

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Blue Knot - Navigating Trauma Care - Maintaining Wellbeing while Practicing Compassion and Empathy, online
2025-03-11 09:00 - 12:30
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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No to Violence and YSAS - Introduction to working with Adolescents & Young Men using Intimate Partner Violence
2025-03-12 09:00 - 17:00
No to Violence has partnered with the Youth Support Advocacy Service (YSAS) to co-develop and deliver our much-anticipated new workshop Introduction to working with Adolescents and Young Men using Intimate Partner Violence.
This 7-hour training will examine the dynamics and impacts of Adolescent and Youth Intimate Partner Violence (AYIPV), as well as the importance of youth-focused interventions. Upon completion of this training, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to engage effectively and sensitively with adolescents and young men using IPV, while considering developmentally appropriate approaches and opportunities for interventions and change.
The training is suitable for practitioners who, in the course of their work, come into contact with adolescents and young men using IPV (e.g., specialist family violence practitioners, youth workers, child protection workers, etc.,) or students considering a career in working with adolescents and young people.
Date: Wednesday 12th March, 2025
Location: Online
Cost: $352, 1 x 7 hour online interactive workshop
For more information and to register, click here

4th Annual Engaging Men & Boys to End the Cycle of Violence
2025-03-12 09:00 - 2025-03-13 17:00
No to Violence is pleased to be partnering with The Hatchery and The Man Cave to host the 4th Annual ‘Engaging Men and Boys to End the Cycle of Violence’ ConferThis world-leading conference will delve into the issues at the heart of working with men and boys to address their use of violence and keep women, children and communities safer.
Over two days in March 2025, 35+ presenters will deep dive into working with boys and young men, the challenges of inter-agency collaboration, how to provide better responses for men at the intersections of AOD misuse, mental health & violence…and more.
When: March 12- 13, 2025
Where: Sydney, Gadigal Landence.
Using strength-based, intentional & trauma-focused approaches to enhance practice & intervention

Engaging Men & Boys to End the Cycle of Violence will delve into the issues at the heart of practice.

Explore strategies for holding men accountable & eliciting personal responsibility for change
Understand the role of shame & trauma in violence prevention
Identify & safely challenge problematic behaviours & understand how to intervene effectively
Emphasise the crucial role of preventative mental health & emotional literacy for boys & young men
Curate an all-agency response to men’s use of family violence
Unpack the intersections of AOD misuse, alcohol abuse, mental health & violence

Register and find out more here.

Organisational Resistance - Online via Zoom
2025-03-12 09:30 - 15:30
This interactive one-day training is designed to advance practitioners’ understanding and application of strategies and tools to build organisational support and commitment for social change addressing the drivers of family and gender-based violence, and proactively plan for and manage institutional resistance to this change.
🎫 AUD $280
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Three Phased Approach: Safety and Stabilisation - Online
2025-03-13 09:30 - 17:00
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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No to Violence - The Five Essential Discussion Tools
2025-03-14 10:00 - 13:00
The original ‘The Five Essential Discussion Tools’ training package has been revised and refreshed. Perfect for practitioners who are new to working with men using family violence or those who have not explored de-escalation techniques in their work, this training explores the Five Essential Discussion Tools whilst applying an intersectional lens.
For more information, dates, and to register, click here.
Location: Online
Cost: FREE

2025 Asia Pacific Region - Coercive Control & Children
2025-03-18 08:00 - 2025-03-20 18:00
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Relationships Australia Victoria- Supervision Training, online workshop
2025-03-18 09:30 - 12:30
Learn how to provide clinical supervision to support the practitioners in your workplace. Clinical supervision facilitates continuous learning and development for practitioners. It allows supervisees to reflect on their practice, gain new insights, and develop their skills and knowledge. By becoming a clinical supervisor you can encourage ongoing professional growth in your team, which is essential for maintaining competence and advancing in their careers.
In this interactive workshop you’ll learn practical strategies for conducting effective clinical supervision in a workplace setting.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to:

support staff to enhance their skills, competence and confidence.

create a reflective space and emotional support.

provide staff assistance with professional development

deliver guidance on delivering services to clients in a safe and ethical manner

provide staff with information about compliance with professional and organisational treatment standards and ethics and legal issues in practice.

Ideal for
Anyone leading teams or managing clinical and client facing staff in the workplace.
Registration information

When you register, you’ll be taken to our payment gateway to complete your registration. A new account will be automatically created for you in our Learning Management System (Moodle).

Registrations for scheduled workshops close 48 hours before the event.

Workshops must be paid for at least 2 business days before the training date, or your registration will be cancelled.

If paying by invoice, proof of payment needs to be provided at least 24 hours ahead of the event.

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Prevention in Practice - Online via Zoom, 2 day event
2025-03-18 10:00 - 16:00
📅 18 + 25 March 2025
⏲️ 10am to 4pm
🗺️ Online via Zoom
🎫 AUD $425
👉 Register here
Safe and Equal’s Prevention in Practice training supports practitioners at any stage of their careers to strengthen their shared understanding, connect with other practitioners and bolster their professional toolkits with the resources, tools and frameworks to mobilise communities and workplaces for change.

Blue Knot - Trauma Sensitive Practice - Working with Complex Trauma, online
2025-03-19 09:00 - 16:30
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.

Wed 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM AEDT

$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 - The Five Essential Discussion Tools
2025-03-19 10:00 - 13:00
The original ‘The Five Essential Discussion Tools’ training package has been revised and refreshed. Perfect for practitioners who are new to working with men using family violence or those who have not explored de-escalation techniques in their work, this training explores the Five Essential Discussion Tools whilst applying an intersectional lens.
Wednesday 19 March from 10am – 1:00pm
Location: Online
Cost: FREE
For more information, dates, and to register, click here.

No To Violence - Engaging Dads Using Family Violence
2025-03-19 10:00 - 2025-03-20 13:00
This package challenges the common practice of placing responsibility on victim-survivors. Backed by current evidence, this training highlights the gendered drivers of men’s violence against women and shifts the focus to perpetrator accountability.
Location: Online
Cost: $369.40 (including GST)
Discounted Price: $299 (including GST)
Register here to gain valuable insights and make a lasting impact.

By Sector Connect - Through Children's Eyes: Changing the Family & Domestic Violence Story
2025-03-20 09:00 - 17:00 | The Cube 20-22 Camden Road Campbelltown NSW 2650
Bringing stakeholders together to focus on putting children at the centre to improve the lives of future generations.
About this event
A groundbreaking national conference that will make life changing impact .
Register now and join us for this one day conference, highlighting the need for Child-Centred approaches for children impacted by family and domestic violence (FDV).
Sector Connect is proud to present this groundbreaking and crucial event for Health Professionals, Frontline Workers, and other Stakeholders. This inaugural conference will focus on the importance of early childhood intervention, as outlined in the Australian Government’s Early Years Strategy 2024-2034 and NSW Health’s ‘First 2000 Days Framework’, and how to make systemic change.
For too long, children have been invisible, often considered not affected by FDV, yet the research indicates a high % of those impacted grow up to be victims or offenders themselves.
Current child protection frameworks have failed the children, with the evidence showing that early intervention and prevention with the child is the only way to reduce violence.
With a range of keynotes, panel discussions, case studies and deep dive breakouts, this conference will detail the importance of trauma-informed and effective programs aimed at children and critically, initiate discussions on what is needed to address the needs of vulnerable children and make systemic change to break the cycle of violence.
Speakers

Jelena Dokic (MC)
Dr Mike Freelander MP, Federal Member for Macarthur (Patron)
Jess Hill, Journalist, Author and Educator
Go to webpage for complete speaker list & program: Https://www.sectorconnect.org.au/tce

Who Should Attend

Health Professionals
Frontline workers
Legal sector
Social and case workers
Educators
Policymakers
NFP service providers
Other Stakeholders
*From any Region, State, Territory or Country

Why You Should Attend

Learn about national and international programs that are making change
Be part of the conversation and solution to make systemic change
Network and collaborate with other sector professionals

To find out more about the conference, visit: https://www.sectorconnect.org.au/tce
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Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare - AVITH in Context: A national approach to working with young people using violence in the home
2025-03-20 14:00 - 15:00
Online
Across Australia there are growing numbers of programs and services offering dedicated program support for young people using violence against their parents, carers and/or siblings. Despite each state and territory operating in slightly different legislative and service delivery contexts, there are many commonalities in our practice approaches.
In this session we speak with professionals from dedicated service programs in South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania who will describe the theory of their program design and what they’ve learned along the way as they’ve been implementing the program. We want to kickstart a national conversation about how we respond to this cohort of young people.
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Blue Knot - Building Trauma Awareness Webinar - online
2025-03-24 11:00 - 12:00
This one hour didactic webinar provides foundational knowledge in the area of Complex Trauma. This webinar is aimed at a diverse range of roles and focused on understanding trauma.
$70.00 incl. GST AUD

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Complex Needs Conference March 2025
2025-03-26 08:00 - 2025-03-27 17:00 | Grand Hyatt Melbourne
Making it work. Overcoming barriers and simplifying support for people with complex needs
The Australian Community Support Organisation (ACSO) and ermha365 (Mental Health Disability Complex Service) are hosting the Complex Needs Conference 2025, funded by the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing.
The conference will provide a platform to share ideas, forge partnerships and develop new approaches to supporting people with complex needs. Whether you are a practitioner, researcher, policy maker or someone with lived experience, we are united by a shared goal.
Join us across the 2 days to explore:

Bridging gaps in community safety and service provision
Enhancing mental health and housing outcomes
Overcoming stigma and the power of transformative relationships with providers
Barriers to accessing support
Personal journeys to recovery
The important role of peer, family and community support and advocacy
Culturally relevant care; and
Fostering stronger community connections for people facing challenging times.

Together, we can inspire, inform and drive better practices to deliver coordinated care and improve the lives of people experiencing:

Mental health challenges
Harmful substance use
Behaviour that can lead to risk to self and others
Homelessness
Trauma; and
Disability.

Your participation is vital in driving change and enhancing support systems for those who need it most.
The Complex Needs Conference will take place from 26 – 27 March 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne.
The conference will provide a platform to share ideas, forge partnerships and develop new approaches in the field.
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