Training
Schedule of Education and Training Events 2010
Month by month during 2010. Scroll down to view upcoming training
February 2010
Note that costs for all training opportunities are GST and morning and afternoon tea and handout inclusive.
Introduction to working in professional health, education and welfare settings: This training examines the importance of understanding and engaging organisational protocols and mandates, professional conduct, ethical decision making and professional helping skills and processes. The training has been designed for new or beginning practitioners.
When: Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 February 2010
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personIntroduction to interviewing and counselling: This training is designed for new and/or beginning health, education or welfare practitioners who interface directly with clients. It teaches skills of active listening, prioritising client issues; structuring an interview and engaging helpful practices for working directly with clients.
When: Saturday 20 February 2010
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Where: TBA Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personCase management: This training focuses on case management both as a way for organizing welfare practice and also as a method of practice in the welfare sector. It focuses on processes of intake; assessment; planning intervention; intervention; evaluation and follow up. It includes the development of skills in interagency cooperation and coordination including those of brokerage and advocacy. This training is indicated for both new and experienced welfare practitioners.
When: Thursday 25 & Friday 26 February 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
March 2010
All training in March focuses on Family Therapy. This training has been designed over four training events. The first event introduces participants to an overview of the four leading schools of family therapy. The three subsequent events provide more indepth training around these specific schools. Cost for those enroling in the whole family therapy training is $990.00 or each session can be attended and paid for separately.
Introduction to Family Therapy: This training introduces participants to four schools of family therapy. Combined these schools help family counsellors and therapists work with families in terms of understanding and organising/reorganising family structure; family law, lore and meaning ascribed to certain family stories and events; the behaviour and action engaged between family members; and helping families understand the narratives through which they produce and reproduce their family lives and relationships.
When: Friday 6 & Saturday 7 March 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $445.00 per personStructural family therapy: This training focuses on the work begun by Salvador Minuchin. It is particularly helpful for anyone involved in family assessment and for practioners working with families who have less than helpful ways of structuring their interactions between family members. Participants will learn ways of assessing and mapping family structures and helping families restructure their engagement styles.
When: Sunday 14 March 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personSystemic Family Therapy: This training focuses on the work originating from the Milan therapists. It focuses on understanding the variety of meanings ascribed by family members to their experience of family life. Participants in this training will work through a framework and skill set for helping clients understand their current processes for resolving intra and interpersonal issues or crises and for developing more helpful ways of engaging with their life experiences.
When: Sunday 21 March 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personStrategic Therapy: This training helps counsellors and therapists elicit and help clients make changes in their interactional behaviours with other people. This training provides clinicians the tools for working directly with clients on the ‘action’ channel rather than the verbal or cognitive processing channel, through the use of strategic therapeutic techniques. This workshop is based around the primary work of Jay Haley and Chloe Madanes.
When: Sunday 28 March 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
April 2010
Understanding the goals of children’s behaviour and building skills for responding appropriately: This training focuses on the seminal work of Rudolph Dreikus and is indicated for counsellors, therapists and educators working with children or adolescents. This training provides a framework for understanding the goals of children’s behaviour and how to develop helpful responses to their behaviour including misbehaviour.
When: Tuesday 13 & Wednesday 14 April 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personLife Story Work: A therapeutic process for helping children in care make sense of their whole ‘big’ life contexts and experiences. This training is designed for anybody working with children and young people who have lived disjointed lives through abuse, neglect, trauma and/or removal from home.
When: Sunday 18 & Monday 19 April 2010
Time: 9.30am – 2.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personWorking with metaphor in counselling and therapeutic practice: This training provides counsellors and therapists a means for working elegantly with clients to elicit and unravel the stories and metaphors through which they live their lives.
When: Friday 23 & Saturday 24 April 2010
Time: Friday 4.00pm - 7.00pm Saturday 9.30am – 4.00pm
Where: TBA
Cost: $330.00 per personCounselling and therapeutic frameworks overview: Cognitive, behavioural and expressive therapies. This training helps new and experienced counsellors/therapists to review current directions in the primary frameworks of helping clients deal with their problems through behavioural, cognitive and/or emotional therapeutic processes.
When: Friday 30 April & Saturday 1 May 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
May 2010
Actions Speak: managing child and adolescent acting out behaviour through engaging action responses. When children and adolescents act out their frustrations or processing of life events through behaviour it is tempting for counsellors, parents and therapists to attempt to engage the child or adolescent through the talking/cognitive channel rather than aligning themselves with the young person’s channel of action. This training helps counsellors and therapists work from the action channel in order to evoke behavioural change in children and adolescents. This behavioural change can, over time, lead to cognitive change.
When: Saturday 8 May 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personBeyond Talking 1: An introduction to NLP. This training introduces participants to the exciting world of NLP and working from the preferred channel of clients: kinesthetic, auditory, visual and other sensory channels. This is a repeat of training offered in 2009 and is a prerequisite to advanced NLP training in September (see below).
When: Saturday 29 May 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
June 2010
Narrative therapy: This training focuses on understanding the theoretical basis of narrative therapy together with development of the skills of narrative therapy as these can be used with individuals, couples, families, groups and communities. This training is indicated for people working in the welfare sector who are involved in counselling, group work or community engagement.
When: Friday 4 & Saturday 5 June 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personWorking across First Nations and Settler Cultures. This training is indicated for people working at the interface of Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures. It focuses on the importance of land, acknowledgement of a shared history, culture and spirituality and the engagement of each of these in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian context. This training is indicated for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants.
When: Friday 18 & Saturday 19 June 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personAdvanced training in working with metaphor in counselling and therapeutic practice. This training advances the February training in helping counsellors elicit and work at the level of metaphor in helping clients understand and negotiate the issues with which they are confronted in their lives.
When: Friday 25 & Saturday 26 June 2010
Time: Friday 4.00pm - 7.00pm Saturday 9.30am – 4.00pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
July 2010
Report Writing: Case notes, summary notes, assessments and court report writing. This training advances participants’ skills in writing for professional purposes. Report writing is a particularly refined skill with a high level of organisation, structure and style needed in order to best serve clients and society, in the context of multi-disciplinary sharing of knowledge, including within a court setting. Please note that all participants of the 2009 ’Assessing for Child sexual abuse’ course are admitted to this training free of charge.
When: Friday 16 July 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personDeveloping and maintaining functional work teams. This training is indicated for all people working in single or multi-disciplinary team settings. It presents current thinking in the learning organisation arena about the personal and interpersonal mastery and other skills and knowledge required for operating in a way which advances the outputs and learnings of a work team as a whole. This training also looks at major obstacles of team development and suggests ways in which these can be overcome.
When: Friday 23 & Saturday 24 July
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personOrganizational leadership and management. This training has been designed for team leaders, coordinators and managers of service organisations. It presents a range of views on leadership and management styles with an overall focus on the current literature on leaderships skills and knowledge.
When: Friday 30 July 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
August 2010
Groupwork: Structuring, organising, running and maintaining administrative, therapeutic and socio-educational groups. This course actively engages participants in developing skills and key knowledge for building optimal groupwork structures and processes helpful to both the task and maintenance of the group which is being established. This training is for new and experienced groupwork practitoners.
When: Friday 27 & Saturday 28 August 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
September 2010
Anti-violence programs. This training engages participants in unravelling the key ingredients of helpful anti-violence programs. It queries the use of the ‘cycle of violence’ model in working with perpetrators of violence and their victims and introduces participants to current literature in anti-violence studies. This training is designed to help participants develop or enhance an anti-violence program.
When: Friday 3 & Saturday 4 September 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per personBeyond Talking 2: An advanced training in NLP. This is training which follows from the May introductory NLP course.
When: Friday 10 & Saturday 11 September 2010
Time: 4.00pm – 7.00pm Friday & 9.30 - 4.00 Saturday
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
October 2010
Childhood and Children. This training has two parts. The first is an examination of the developmental stages of children and young people and the importance of this for accurately understanding the impacts of particular events upon them and for the design of appropriate intervention for children in therapy. The second part of this training focuses on the ways in which children and childhood are historically, and in the present, constructed and how this impacts our work with children and their families. When we understand the multiple contexts through which children and childhood can be understood, then we provide ourselves an enlarged arena within which to structure our work with them and their significant adults.
When: Friday 8 & Saturday 9 October 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
November 2010
Working with carers and volunteer service providers: Frameworks of care. This training is designed for people who work with carers and volunteers in the health, education and welfare sectors, as well as for people who are carers in this sector. The training looks at models of care inclusive of the not-for-profit and private (home based) care sector. This training explores the particular issues and dilemmas that arise for people in this voluntary sector and explores how they can be best supported to undertake the direct care and advocacy of the people they serve.
When: Friday 12 November 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $220.00 per personGrief and Loss. This training engages participants in understanding current contexts which lead to people’s suffering in terms of grief and loss. It explores the symptoms of grief and loss and provides a therapeutic framework through which to help people work through their grief and loss issues in ways which are liberating to them. A myriad of scenarios are presented and engaged in this training.
When: Saturday 27 November
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: TBA, Cairns
Cost: $330.00 per person
December 2010
Assessing for child sexual abuse. This practice based course introduces participants to current theories of child abuse and engages practitioners in learning how to undertake child abuse assessments, including the documentation of this assessment. This training is indicated for social workers, psychologists and lawyers currently working in the area of child abuse including child sexual abuse.
When: Friday 3 & Saturday 4 December 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm each day
Cost $330.00 per person
