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May 2026
Mediation Training Course – May 2026, Hybrid
Mediation Training Course: CHCSS00142 Mediation Skill Set and Australian Mediator and Dispute Resolution Accreditation Standards (AMDRAS) Become an accredited mediator with our intensive course and assessment. Learn to facilitate mediation, a structured and facilitated negotiation process for resolving disputes. Gain the practical skills needed to be a mediator - an independent and impartial person who assists people in conflict to generate options, negotiate agreements and resolve disputes. Develop knowledge and skills of the mediation process, and how to apply these…
Find out more »Managing Challenging Behaviours
Learn strategies to defuse difficult situations, manage intense emotions and move towards positive solutions. Everyone gets frustrated or angry on occasion, particularly when they’re under pressure. Most of the time, they deal with their anger and frustrations in socially acceptable and appropriate ways. It’s important, however, to know how to respond when people behave in challenging ways. This workshop will share strategies to defuse situations where clients, colleagues or community members are exhibiting strong emotions and/or difficult behaviours. We’ll also…
Find out more »Strengths-Based Practice with Multicultural and Diverse Young People: Working confidently across difference – eWorkshop -5 -May- 2026
This interactive online workshop supports practitioners to work confidently, relationally, and ethically with multicultural and diverse young people, without over-controlling, stereotyping, or avoiding difference. Grounded in strengths-based practice and cultural humility, the workshop focuses on posture, relationship, and how practitioners show up in youth contexts shaped by identity, power, culture, and political discourse. Rather than treating culture as something to master, participants are invited into an ongoing practice of reflection, curiosity, and partnership. Across the workshop, participants explore how deficit…
Find out more »THERAPLAY LEVEL 1 & MIM – Melbourne
Theraplay® Level 1 & MIM Theraplay® is an evidenced-based, attachment-focused intervention utilising non-symbolic, interactional play to re-create experiences of secure attachment formation between parent and child. Therapist-guided short-term, dyadic therapy focuses on improving the child’s behavioural and emotional challenges through the parent-child relationship. In a session, the therapist guides the parent and child through playful games, challenging activities, and nurturing interactions. Theraplay® helps the child experience previously difficult interactions in new ways, helps overcome fear/ shame, increase trust, and create a positive…
Find out more »SUNSHINE CIRCLES – Ballarat
Nurture your classroom with play! Learn how to introduce this amazing, evidence based, social-emotional development group to your school. Sunshine Circles ® are adult-directed and structured, but rather than talking, the teacher leads playful, cooperative and nurturing activities. Sunshine Circles can very quickly and dramatically improve the quality of the classroom and provide teachers with resources to maintain an emotionally positive and cognitively enriched environment. Sunshine Circles® is a group based on Theraplay® principles that focuses on the social and emotional development of…
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