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SUMMARY:CHC81015 Graduate Diploma of Relationship Counselling - June 2026\, Online
DESCRIPTION:Enhance your counselling skills and work confidently with people experiencing complex relational issues.\nThis research and evidence informed course is designed for counsellors\, family support workers\, family and children’s contact workers\, or equivalent practitioners. It provides graduates with the practice theories\, skills and practical experience to work with a range of complex issues affecting relationships\, including family and domestic violence. \nWhy this course?\n\nBlended learning approach that incorporates self-paced modules\, online webinars\, a field trip\, work placements and placement seminars.\nResearch and evidence-based.\nInformed by over 75 years’ counselling experience.\nIncludes an organised\, fully-supported practical work placement.\nQualified and skilled facilitators are also practicising practitioners.\nAccredited with Family Safety Victoria in meeting the principles for Family Safety Practitioners\, and with the Australian Counselling Association.\n\nCourse dates\nIntroductory webinar \nOnline materials will also be available from this date. \n\n24 June 2026 from 2 – 4pm (Victorian local time)\n\nPractice workshops \nAll workshops will be delivered online from 9:30am – 4:30pm (Victorian local time) daily. Each workshop will be held over multiple days. \n\nWorkshop 1 – 29\, 30\, 31 July 2026\nWorkshop 2 – 4\, 5 November 2026\nWorkshop 3 – 3\, 4 February 2027\nWorkshop 4 – 21\, 22 April 2027\nWorkshop 5 – 26\, 27 May 2027\n\nIntroduction to placement webinar \n\n9 June 2027 from 2 – 4pm (Victorian local time)\n\nPlacement seminars \nAll seminars will be delivered online from 2 – 5pm (Victorian local time). \n\n18 August 2027\n15 September 2027\n13 October 2027\n10 November 2027\n8 December 2027\n\nGet started\nIf you’re ready to take the next step in your career\, enquire now via the button at the top of the page. \nYou can also contact us for more information: \n\nCall us (03) 8573 2222\nEmail us at ravtraining@rav.org.au\n\nRelationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO registration code 21977)\, providing nationally-recognised courses. Through our RTO\, RAV is regulated by ASQA\, and maintains its compliance with The 2025 Standards for Registered Training Organisations. \n
URL:https://frsa.org.au/event/chc81015-graduate-diploma-of-relationship-counselling-june-2026-online
LOCATION:Online\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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ORGANIZER;CN="Relationships%20Australia%20Victoria":MAILTO:ravtraining@rav.org.au
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SUMMARY:CHC81115 Graduate Diploma of Family Dispute Resolution - July 2026\, Online
DESCRIPTION:Take the first step towards a new career in FDR and make a difference in the lives of families. Apply today and start in 2026.\nFamily Dispute Resolution (FDR) Practitioners (FDRPs) provide a structured and facilitated mediation process that assists families experiencing separation to resolve disputes about parenting\, financial and property matters. \nFDRPs provide information and undertake intake and assessment around FDR suitability and the capacity of families to participate. They manage and adapt the FDR process to meet individual needs. \nFDRPs make a real difference in assisting families to manage conflict and make decisions in a timely and affordable way. \nFamilies are supported to make arrangements that suit their unique circumstances and minimise the use of the court system. \nWhy this course?\n\nBlended learning approach that incorporates self-paced modules\, online webinars\, in-person workshops\, a field trip\, work placements and placement seminars.\nResearch and evidence-based.\nInformed by over 40 years’ mediation experience.\nIncludes an organised\, fully-supported practical work placement.\nQualified and skilled facilitators are also practicising practitioners.\nUpon completion you can register as an FDRP with the Australian Government’s Attorney-General’s Department.\n\nCourse dates\nPlease note: In order to complete the course\, you must attend all sessions listed below. The introductory webinar will be recorded for those who cannot attend the live session. Please ensure that you are available on the workshop and assessment dates specified below\, before enrolling\, as alternate sessions will not be available. \nIntroductory webinar \nOnline materials will also be available from this date. \n\n22 July from 10am – 12pm (Victorian local time)\n\nPractice workshops \nAll workshops will be delivered online from 9:30am – 4:30pm (Victorian local time) daily on: \n\n26 August\n27 August\n14 October\n15 October\n25 November\n26 November\n\nDelivery/location\nAll workshops will be delivered online via Zoom. \nGet started\nIf you’re ready to take the next step in your career\, apply now via the button at the top of the page. \nYou can also contact us for more information: \n\nCall us (03) 8573 2222\nEmail us at ravtraining@rav.org.au\n\nRelationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO registration code 21977)\, providing nationally-recognised courses. Through our RTO\, RAV is regulated by ASQA\, and maintains its compliance with The 2025 Standards for Registered Training Organisations. \n
URL:https://frsa.org.au/event/chc81115-graduate-diploma-of-family-dispute-resolution-july-2026-online
LOCATION:Online\, Select a Country:
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SUMMARY:Couples Counselling Course: A contemporary and client-focused approach
DESCRIPTION:Transform your work with couples and gain comprehensive knowledge and skills with our contemporary\, client-focused course.\nOur 12-week course is designed for counsellors who are new to working with couples\, and students and practitioners in related fields who want to enhance their couples counselling skills. \nIt offers an immersive journey into contemporary couples counselling theories and approaches\, with an emphasis on how this knowledge can enhance your counselling skills and deepen your relationships with clients. \nDiscover what sets our course apart\n\nResearch & evidence-based\nClient-focused content\nRelevant to contemporary Australia\nConvenient\, online delivery\nPractice-based seminars & workshops\nA hybrid delivery of interactive modules & self-paced learning\nInformed by more than 75 years of counselling service delivery\n\nContent and topics\n\nEstablished couples counselling theories and approaches in use in Australia today\nExtensive research and expert commentary on why particular approaches work well\nWays to enhance your therapeutic skills and apply new theories and competencies to your practice\nStrategies to support reflective practice\nCommon challenges that couples face\, such as infidelity\, communication difficulties\, life transitions\, conflicting use of social media\, avoidance patterns\, family violence and trauma\nEthical decision-making\nHow to support couples who are experiencing complex challenges\nHow couples’ emotional and sexual connection can be affected by identity including cultural diversity\, gender\, religion\, health\, disability and/or neurodiversity\nThe role and impact of single session consultations when working with couples\nHow to apply assessment processes and develop working formulations which consider couples’ unique narratives\, backgrounds and presenting dynamics\n\nGet started\nIf you’re ready to take the next step in your career\, register via the button at the top of the page\, or contact us for more information: \n\nCall us on (03) 8573 2222\nEmail us at ravtraining@rav.org.au\n\n
URL:https://frsa.org.au/event/couples-counselling-course-a-contemporary-and-client-focused-approach
LOCATION:Online\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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SUMMARY:FROM CHAOS to CONNECTION
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nA Relational Approach to Challenging Behaviours in Families\, Schools and Communities using NVR\nIn this three-day workshop you will learn how adults (such as teachers\, parents\, foster parents\, and others) can develop a new authority\, that helps to increase presence and overcome impulsive and dangerous behaviours\, while reducing conflict and escalation. \nNon-Violent Resistance (NVR) or ‘Relational Presence’\, is an evidence-based approach for health professionals and educators who support families and young people experiencing challenging or complex behaviours. Relational Presence moves beyond traditional rewards and consequences paradigms to provide caregivers with practical\, relationship-focused strategies to address aggression\, anxious avoidance\, and other challenging behaviours. Focusing on de-escalation\, compassionate presence\, and co-regulation\, the approach is proven to reduce children’s challenging behaviours. It can help: \n\nfamilies reduce family conflict and increase parent self-confidence\, develop cooperation in spite of differences\, and find legitimate ways to support and supervise their child.\nschools support teachers to develop an effective presence in the class\, the school yard and the minds of students\, establish an alliance with parents (even the most challenging)\, increase self-control\, build teamwork and develop effective reactions with difficult students or classes.\nresidential care settings to support staff to develop a safe\, connected presence in the home\, community and the minds of young people\, establish an alliance with stakeholders\, increase self-control\, build teamwork and develop effective reactions in difficult situations.\n\nNVR originated out of the movements of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. The subsequent application of NVR in a range of family\, care and school settings has elicited detailed intervention and programs\, with research showing good effect with a wide range of difficulties such as: suicidal threats\, violence\, ADHD\, eating disorders\, problematic internet usage\, school refusal\, anxiety\, foster care\, OCD and failure to launch (adult entitled dependence). In all the fields researched\, the approach led to improvements in the child’s problematic behaviours\, reduced escalation\, improved parental self-control\, and promoted better parent-child relations. \nImmerse yourself in interactive activities\, realistic case studies (covering neurodivergence\, anxious avoidance\, and child to carer aggression)\, and reflective discussions as you will learn both theoretical knowledge and the practical skills needed to confidently overcome challenging behaviours\, while reducing conflict and escalation. Topics include: \n\nExploring the theoretical foundations and evidence-base of the Relational Presence framework.\nDiscovering how to recognise and interrupt escalation cycles.\nLearning the fundamental principles of the model\, including presence and connection\, and how these form the foundation for effective intervention.\nExploring central concepts such as parental presence\, loving persistence\, and active resistance.\nLearning empowering strategies like supportive communication\, relational gestures\, and supporters.\nEngaging in guided introspection and group discussion to explore your own experience of Relational Presence\, deepening your understanding and making the principles truly resonate in your everyday life.\nApplying the Relational Presence framework to complex and personal case studies mirroring your professional experience\, ensuring a practical and deeply relevant understanding of Relational Presence in real-world contexts.\nDiscovering how Relational Presence can be applied in a wide variety of presentations\, including neurodiversity\, anxious avoidance\, device addiction and at-risk behaviours.\n\nIdeal for psychologists\, social workers\, allied health practitioners\, residential support workers\, teachers\, and school counsellors\, Relational Presence training equips professionals with the tools to partner effectively with parents and caregivers – creating a safer\, more connected environment for children and adolescents. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter: Tamar Sloan is a registered psychologist and one of Australia’s most highly qualified Relational Presence (Non-Violent Resistance) practitioners\, bringing extensive experience in both education and community settings. She’s both a private practitioner and supports families in government services. By combining evidence-based principles with real-world application\, she focuses on empowering families\, educators\, and fellow professionals to confidently address challenging behaviours. Tamar’s compassionate\, interactive\, and engaging style ensures participants gain practical skills that foster meaningful\, lasting change for families in their care. \nAudience: for mental health\, education and other professionals that apply behavioural/developmental/neuro-science and systemic thinking to their practice. \nMental Health Professionals: All mental health professionals including\, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors\, Psychologists\, Psychotherapists\, Psychiatrists\, Social Workers\, Nurses\, Occupational Therapists\, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers\, Youth Workers\, Mental Health Workers\, Addiction Specialists\, Marital & Family Therapists\, Child Protection and Disability Workers\, Guidance Officers\, Speech and Language Therapists\, Residential Care Workers and Foster Support Workers\, Youth Justice\, and all other mental health professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills. \nEducation Professionals: Professionals who work with children or youth including\, but not limited to K–12 Principles\, Teachers\, School Counsellors\, School Paraprofessionals and all other professionals who support behavioural challenges and complex learning needs. \n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://frsa.org.au/event/from-chaos-to-connection
LOCATION:Skye Suites Parramatta\, 30 Hunter Street\, Parramatta\, NSW\, 2150\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Adolescents,Children,Parent Education,Professional Training,Staff/Team
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ORGANIZER;CN="Compass%20Seminars":MAILTO:office@compassaustralia.com.au
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SUMMARY:DYADIC DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOTHERAPY LEVEL 1
DESCRIPTION:Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy/ Practice (DDP) is an intervention model developed by Dan Hughes\, Clinical Psychologist (U.S.A.). DDP is family-based and is focused on facilitating the child’s readiness and ability to establish a secure attachment with his/her caregivers. It is called Dyadic Developmental Practice both to focus attention on the importance of reciprocity in parenting\, caregiving and therapy\, and also to draw attention to the fact that abuse\, neglect and trauma can seriously impact on the child’s developmental age and stage. This intervention is theoretically based on the models of attachment theory and intersubjectivity\, and is consistent with the needs of children and young people who have experienced developmental trauma. It is an approach that: \n\nIntegrates the areas of neurobiology of trauma\, early child development and attachment theory\, to produce a therapeutic and parenting approach that assists professionals to understand and effectively support children with trauma- attachment problems\, and their families.\nCommunicates playfulness\, acceptance\, curiosity and empathy (PACE) in order to help the child regulate their feelings (often fear\, shame and anger) associated with past experiences and to create together new meanings to be integrated into the child’s life story (autobiographical narrative).\nRecognises the vital role which adoptive parents\, foster carers and residential workers play in the recovery of traumatised\, attachment-resistant children.\nProvides a set of principles that can support networks; inform and enrich parenting; and can support the child outside of the home eg in residential settings and at school\n\nParticipants are referred to the Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment Focused Interventions which underpins this training. \nDDP Level One Training\nThis is an introductory 28-hour training course relevant to professionals and therapists who have experience in communicating with and working therapeutically with children and young people and their families. It is focused on families and residential care homes when children have experienced past developmental trauma and have associated attachment difficulties. \nBy the end of this course participants will understand: \n\nThe impact of secure developmental attachment on neurological\, affective\, cognitive\, and behavioural development\nHow developmental trauma (abuse and neglect) create insecure and disorganised attachment patterns which impede normal development\nPrinciples of psychotherapy\, effective communication and parenting that facilitate the development of attachment security\nSpecific strategies of parenting and communication that facilitate the development of a secure attachment and help children integrate past trauma and abusive experiences\nHow the caregiver’s attachment history and attachment patterns can be important factors when providing care for children who have experienced developmental trauma.\n\nIn this four-day training\, principles and interventions are presented through formal discussion\, case examples\, videotape of therapy sessions\, role-play\, and hand-outs. \nA full description of the content for each of the four days can be found here. \nA MAXIMUM of 24 participants is permitted. \nPresented by: Leah Millward \nAudience: This training is suitable for professionals who have experience in working with children and families/parents/caregivers affected by relational and developmental trauma and attachment difficulties. \nMental Health Professionals: All mental health professionals including\, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors\, Psychologists\, Psychotherapists\, Psychiatrists\, Social Workers\, Nurses\, Occupational Therapists\, Mental Health Workers\, Family Therapists\, Child Protection and Disability Workers\, Guidance Officers\, Speech and Language Therapists\, Residential Care Workers and Foster Support Workers\, and all other mental health professionals looking to support young people and their parents/carers. \nDDPI Worldwide: DDPI Worldwide is the global Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Practice training and certification institute. They partner with Compass Seminars Australia to offer Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and PACE (Playfulness\, Acceptance\, Curiosity\, and Empathy) training programs. These courses integrate the neurobiology of trauma\, child development\, and attachment theory to provide a therapeutic and parenting approach for supporting children and young people with relational trauma and attachment difficulties. Our programs include various levels of DDP training and practical PACE applications for professionals\, available in locations across Australia. Find out about DDPI Worldwide \n
URL:https://frsa.org.au/event/dyadic-developmental-psychotherapy-level-1-5
LOCATION:Rydges Southbank Townsville\, 23 Palmer Street\, TOWNSVILLE\, QLD\, 4810\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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ORGANIZER;CN="Compass%20Seminars":MAILTO:office@compassaustralia.com.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260916
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SUMMARY:Effective Group Leadership Course
DESCRIPTION:Effective Group Leadership is a 2-day workshop which develops the necessary skills for group leaders to facilitate creative group work. The training covers the principles of using creative group work techniques and tools. The focus includes changing group dynamics\, increased understanding of motivational group work models for change and the use of practical creative exercises. All participants receive a Group Leadership Skills Report on their strengths and areas for development plus a copy of Continual Change Groupwork: Being an effective group leader (2023) Edition 2. \n  \nEffective leadership is a powerful phenomenon that uses a group leader’s own self confidence and belief systems. This workshop explores the belief systems and interpersonal communication needed by leaders to create vision\, hope and a common purpose that unites the energy of the group members. The group leader’s subtle body language and self-presentation skills will be explored as they will impact on ultimate achievement of group members’ goals. \n  \nLearning Outcomes – Participants will: \n\nexplore the use of group facilitation skills\nidentify and practice the key skills used in facilitating strengths based group work\nuse experiential learning and creative adult education principles\nuse multi-sensory tools to increase motivation and support change\nrespond effectively to group dynamics and how to promote individual and group change\npractice strengths-based group work when responding to existing trauma\ndevelop skills in using flexibility in leadership roles\nunderstand key tasks/attitudinal responses that leaders attend to in the group\ndevelop their group leadership presence.\n\n  \n
URL:https://frsa.org.au/event/effective-group-leadership-course-4
LOCATION:RANSW Parramatta Centre\, Level 6 / 126 Church Street\, Parramatta\, NSW\, 2150\, Parramatta\, NSW\, 2150\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew%20King":MAILTO:info@groupworksolutions.com.au
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