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May 2025
Life Transitions and Mental Health
Why are life transitions important? For many people, adapting to a transition, such as moving interstate, marriage, losing a job (or starting a new job), divorce, separation, the birth of a child (or the death of a loved one), or any other transition that severely alters one’s day-to-day life, can be challenging. These sudden and sometimes extreme transitions can affect a clients mental health and lead to symptoms like anxiety, fear, loneliness, and physical issues, such as trouble sleeping, panic…
Find out more »The Occasional Counsellor ™- eWorkshop 26th -May-2025
The Occasional Counsellor™ training is for anyone who wants to learn to support others who may be acutely emotionally distressed. The focus of the training is on teaching the participants simple, practical strategies for assisting individuals who are sad, upset, bewildered, angry, or confused. The training covers: preparing psychologically to work in difficult environments the skills of the helper including communication skills tips on keeping yourself safe during home visits and site visits the difference between emotional support and counselling…
Find out more »Connecting With ‘Hard-To-Reach’ Young People eWorkshop 27-May-2025
Working with young people who are disengaging from school, family, those who care about them, means doing something unexpected: nothing ‘clever’ but something less likely so we can elicit a response of curiosity; a response of: ‘Okay let’s see…’ Each of the activities in this e workshop aims to, openly and intriguingly, do exactly this. Young people are super-physical, super-influenced by their emotions, and respond super-impulsively to what’s going on around them. This workshop will take you through a process…
Find out more »Helping young people Deal With Emotional Overwhelm eWorkshop 30 -May -2025
When puberty kicks in, so do the hormones. Bodies change at a rate of knots, unfamiliar feelings pop up, new and interesting ideas develop. Young people literally become strangers to themselves; and they want to find out who they are now. It’s a new, exciting and sometimes overwhelming time. This eWorkshop looks at ways people who work with young people can help them navigate these times. This involves, how we can help them identify their ‘go-to’ people, places and processes…
Find out more »June 2025
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, however, it’s important to know how to respond when they don’t. 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 discuss how to understand your own triggers…
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