July – September 2024

Talk to our team about bespoke training for your organisation in 2024. 

The following courses are scheduled for the July to September 2024 period:

The Five Essential Discussion Tools (FREE, 3 hour online training session delivered via Zoom)

The original ‘The Five Essential Discussion Tools’ training package has been revised and refreshed. Perfect for practitioners who are new to working with men using family violence or those who have not explored de-escalation techniques in their work, this training explores the Five Essential Discussion Tools whilst applying an intersectional lens. It identifies how practitioners can engage in conversations to help men make sense of their behaviour; examines the client facing tools; develops practice skills in using the tools as additional interventions with men using family violence; and discusses how safety for families can be established by connecting men with their capacity to change.

The revised package includes a video activity to support practitioners to identify invitations to collude, reframing of passive language and safety planning.

Dates of delivery:

• 12 July 2024 – 10am-1pm
• 9 August 2024 – 10am-1pm
• 6 September 2024 – 10am-1pm
• 4 October 2024 – 10am-1pm

For more information and to register, click here.

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Enhanced – The Five Essential Discussion Tools (FREE, 3 hour online training session delivered via Zoom)

For practitioners who have engaged with the Five Essential Discussion Tools before, this enhanced package will refresh knowledge and introduce new topics and practice considerations.

Training content expands upon underlying theories that support the tools – interoception (Body Signs Tool), Name it to Tame it [Dr. Dan Siegel] (Traffic Light Tool) – the theory of behaviour change and brain plasticity; identifying and responding to invitations to collude; and practitioner accountability and best practice principles in the work – managing reactivity and using the tools on yourselves as practitioners.

The enhanced package also includes a case study following the journey of a ‘practitioner’ explaining the benefits of the tools to a ‘client’.

Dates of delivery:

• 26 July 2024 – 10am-1pm
• 23 August 2024 – 10am-1pm
• 20 September 2024 – 10am-1pm

For more information and to register, click here.

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Four Day Foundational Training – Working with men who perpetrate violence and abuse  ($1732.50 – 4 full days, online training sessions delivered via Zoom)

Delivered over 4 days, this course will provide professionals with the foundational skills, knowledge and confidence to interrupt abusive attitudes, and engage in meaningful conversations that work to move men using family violence into a change journey.

This course is for professionals who come into contact with perpetrators of family violence in the course of their work, new workers in specialist family violence services or students considering a career in working with men and ‘men’s behaviour change’ or primary prevention sectors.

Dates of delivery:

23, 24, 30, 31 July 2024 – 10-3pm all days

For more information and to register, click here.

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Introduction to Working with Men Using Family Violence ($369.40, 2x 3 hour online training sessions delivered via Zoom)

Introduction to working with men using family violence is a foundational training experience for professionals to learn the ways in which men’s family violence is defined and understood.

This training develops practitioner skill and confidence in engaging men in the collaborative conversation about their use of abuse and violence, which is critical in linking them to specialist services and referral pathways that support the behavioural change process.

Dates of delivery:

11 & 18 September 2024, 10am-1pm both days

For more information and to register, click here.

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Engaging Dads Using Family Violence ($369.40, 2x 3 hour online training sessions delivered via Zoom)

This training explores the damaging effects of children witnessing/experiencing violence and abuse and how to shift the focus of interventions to the father’s responsibility and accountability for safe parenting.

This training is underpinned by the current evidence base that has established an understanding of the gender drivers of men’s violence against women. Practitioners attending this training examine the understanding that the choice to use abuse includes the ways in which abuse and violence minimise and impact on the parenting of the victim-survivor.

Dates of delivery:

28 & 29 August 2024, 10am-1pm both days

For more information and to register, click here.

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MARAM Adults using family violence training

No to Violence is working in partnership with Family Safety Victoria (FSV) and Safe and Equal to deliver MARAM training modules for practitioners who need to have an applied understanding of MARAM and information sharing in their roles when working with adults using family violence.

MARAM sets out the responsibilities of different workforces in identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk across the family violence and broader service system. Depending on your role within an organisation, you will learn about different responsibilities and practice guides to keep perpetrators in view and accountable, and to promote the safety of victim survivors of family violence.

The MARAM responsibilities decision guide provides an overview of how you may determine which level of responsibilities you hold.

There are three levels of training: 

Upcoming events

The NSW Sector Development team host a number of Communities of Practice and forums held in NSW for practitioners providing male family violence interventions; along with the NSW Men’s Behaviour Change Network meetings which are held bi-monthly:

• Men’s Behaviour Change Network Meeting
  09/08/24 – 9.30am-12pm
• Male MBCP Practitioner CoP
  25/07/24 – 1-2.30pm
  26/09/24 – 1pm – 2.30pm
• Regional, Rural and Remote Forum
  19/08/24 – 1.30-2.30pm

• Combined Women Practitioners and Women’s & Children’s Advocate CoP
  04/09/24 10:30am – 11:30am

• NSW Women and Children’s Advocates COP
  06/08/24 – 10.30-11.30am

• NSW Women Practitioners COP
  02/07/24 10:30am – 11:30am
• ACCOs Yarn
  13/06/24 – 2-3.30pm

For more information on these events, please contact the NSW Sector Development team at nsw@ntv.org.au