The focus of the workshop is to examine and explore innovative and potential ‘game changing’ interventions with men that use violence against women. The landscape of interventions for perpetrators of domestic and family violence in Australia is expansive but commonly based in a traditional Duluth model. There is much to learn from MBCP’s including what works and what doesn’t. More recently, we have seen practitioners, researchers, and other frontline responders highlight the gaps in our current intervention model, and this is demonstrated through the high rates of reoffending or lack of completion of programs. This half-day workshop will bring together expert practitioners in the space of intervention to unpack what it means to be innovative in our responses and explore the ways in which we can bolster and improve current interventions. We particularly welcome examples or ideas that are ‘out of the box’ or challenge established paradigms of working with men who use violence. There will be a chance to examine areas of innovation that may offer new directions in stopping gender-based violence.

Tickets for the workshop are available at the following rates:

Member fee: $315 per person $60 per person - special reduced rate

Non-Member: $410 per person $60 per person - special reduced rate

The workshop will create interactive opportunities to learn about the effects of relational and attachment trauma on the brain and body on the developing brain and how this impacts adults. Strategies to identify motivation for change and tapping into appropriate ways to engage resistance, creating safety and ways to counteract shame, and dissociation / shut down will be explored. Strategies include applying the window of tolerance, mindfulness and grounding, the importance of dialogue and exploring cognitive dissonance to promote values, insight, emotional regulation, and expression.