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August 2026
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day (Children’s Day)
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day (Children’s Day) is a time to for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families to celebrate the strengths and culture of their children. The day is an opportunity for all Australians to show their support for Aboriginal children, as well as learn about the crucial impact that community, culture and family play in the life of every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child. Children’s Day is held on 4 August each year and…
Find out more »Facilitating a Therapeutic Support Group
An interactive, online workshop providing the skills needed to start and facilitate a therapeutic support group. Starting and facilitating therapeutic support groups can be a challenging exercise, for even the most experienced clinicians. In this interactive session, you’ll learn practical strategies for maximising time in a group setting, and skills for acknowledging the individuality of clients. What you’ll learn At the end of this workshop, you'll be able to: set up and establish an effective and safe therapeutic support group…
Find out more »Strengths-Based Practice with Multicultural and Diverse Young People: Working confidently across difference – eWorkshop -4 -Aug- 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 »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…
Find out more »Masterclass: Mediating with Domestic Violence
If you’re a mediator or Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, you’re often making calls in real time about: what’s safe, what’s ethical, what’s fair, and what’s actually possible in the room. And when domestic violence dynamics are present (especially coercive control), the usual mediation instincts don’t always work the way we want them to. This full-day training is practical, grounded, and built for the decisions you actually have to make - screening, process choices, reality testing, managing power imbalance, and knowing…
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