Half Day Workshops include Lunch and either Morning or Afternoon Tea. Full day workshops include Morning Tea, Lunch and Afternoon Tea

Monday 28 August: Pre Conference Workshops

Workshop 1: Identify, Respond and Refer

Trainers: Kate Bishop, No to Violence

This workshop is an introduction to working with men using family violence and is a foundational training experience for professionals to learn the ways in which men’s family violence is defined and understood, skills in identifying key risk indicators, and referral pathways.

This training aims to support the learning and development of practitioner skills in engaging with men about their use of abuse and violence.

Tickets for the workshop are available at the following rates:
Member fee: $295 per person
Non-Member: $335 per person

Workshop 3: Southern Cross Engagement model for working with First Nations men who use family and sexual violence

The Southern Cross Model was designed to encourage mainstream agencies to deliver more culturally competent services to First Nation men who use family violence against women and children. The content and delivery of the model is through a First Nation lens providing a two - way learning platform for both participants and trainers.

The Southern Cross for First Nation people is a navigator and a map for all parts of their culture and lands. The Emu Dreaming Story and his relationship with the Southern Cross is embedded into a Practice Model for work with men which teaches the Practitioner the important practice of 'Yarning Two Ways'.

Practitioners are supported to move away from punitive and collusive approaches as they learn to connect and engage safely with clients in  culturally safe, trauma informed practice. The goal is to create a safe place at the commencement of intervention work before challenging attitudes, beliefs and behaviours.

Tickets for the workshop are available at the following rates:
Member fee: $525 per person
Non-Member: $630 per person

Workshop 4: Working with fathers

Trainer: Kate Bishop, Graham Hoad, No to Violence

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

Intersecting with this complexity are broader narratives that will often attribute responsibility for safety, security, and emotional wellbeing of children to the victim survivor. This training is underpinned by the current evidence base that has established an understanding of the gender drivers of men’s violence against women.

With a focus on working with fathers using family violence, 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.

Tickets for the workshop are available at the following rates:
Member fee: $295 per person
Non-Member: $335 per person

Thursday 31 August 2023: Post Conference Workshops

Workshop 5: YSAS/NTV Working with adolescents and young people using intimate partner violence package

Trainers: Kate Bishop, Not to Violence, Bianca Johnston, YSAS

Research in both Australia and Internationally highlights that use of violence during adolescence can feature in the trajectory towards adult family violence.

After 2 years of cross-sector collaboration, in 2022 No to Violence (NTV) and the Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS) established a formal training partnership that merged the specialisation and expertise of both agencies in areas of family violence prevention, men’s behaviour change, youth and youth substance use. This partnership has led to the development of unique and innovative training focused on the practice skills necessary for engaging young men who use intimate partner violence.

This workshop will explore the process of collaboration, the key learnings that have evolved through the partnership and important role of early intervention with young men in preventing intimate partner violence and future family violence.

Tickets for the workshop are available at the following rates:
Member fee: $295 per person
Non-Member: $335 per person

Workshop 6: Presenting "Changing the picture"

Trainers: Tracy Minniecon, Catriona Elder, Our Watch

We know Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women experience disproportionately high rates of violence, and violence that is often more severe and more complex in its impacts. It requires us to address the many complex drivers of violence — not only gender inequality but also the ongoing impacts of colonisation and racism across Australian society.

Changing the picture outlines how violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women can be prevented, describing the essential actions that are needed to change and shift the drivers of this violence. It considers not only what needs to be done, but how this prevention work should be undertaken, and by whom. Envisaging a shared national effort, it points to actions that are most appropriately undertaken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and organisations, and actions that should be the responsibility of non-Indigenous people and organisations, and of governments. It also presents a set of principles that should guide this prevention work.

Our Watch’s approach to preventing violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is underpinned by our key framework, Changing the picture

Tickets for the workshop are available at the following rates:
Member fee: $295 per person
Non-Member: $335 per person

Workshop 7: Insight into global and local evidence underpinning primary prevention

Presenter: Angelique Wan, Consent Labs

Specific to comprehensive sexuality education.

Consent, digital consent, sexual harassment and assault: understanding what these things are and how to practically engage and educate young people on these topics.

Tickets for the workshop are available at the following rates:
Member fee: $295 per person
Non-Member: $335 per person

Workshop 8: Understanding coercive control

Trainer: Hala Abdelnour, Institute of non-violence

This engaging and interactive workshop will explore the 8 stages of coercive control and utilise case study principles of engagement: unpacking effective collaboration principles of engagement, and translating information into practice

Tickets for the workshop are available at the following rates:
Member fee: $295 per person
Non-Member: $335 per person

Workshop 9: Positive Masculinity, consent, and strategies to improve student engagement 

Trainer: Noah Bloch, Consent Labs

Engaging participants in discussions regarding the relationship between masculinity, consent, and healthy relationships.

Demonstrate how those that work with, or engage with, young boys can create safe, open, and judgement-free spaces where young people in male-dominant environments feel comfortable to contribute their perspectives.

The presentation will achieve these goals through a modified version of Consent Labs' Positive Masculinity module. The workshop will be separated into three different activities and after each activity is completed there will be a break to debrief the purpose and intention of each activity. 

Tickets for the workshop are available at the following rates:
Member fee: $295 per person
Non-Member: $335 per person