CPD Hours1.25 hrs
CPD CategoryCategory 2: Skills and Knowledge
OrganiserAASW National ([email protected])
Event FormatOn-Demand
Practice & careerSupervision, Management & Leadership
CPD Hours1.25 hrs
CPD CategoryCategory 2: Skills and Knowledge
OrganiserAASW National ([email protected])
Event FormatOn-Demand
Practice & careerSupervision, Management & Leadership
Member price: $60.00 including GST (member price will display once logged in)
Non-member price: $120.00 including GST
This engaging and informative panel discussion brings together leading experts, visionaries, and professionals from diverse fields to delve into the intricacies of effective supervision.
Our panel of experts, Dr Anita Morris, Anthony Lekkas, Abbey Newman, and Jane Wexler, represent the pinnacle of professional achievement in this domain.
Who should register? Whether you're an aspiring supervisor, an established professional, or simply someone passionate about unlocking the full potential of supervision, this event is your gateway to navigating the path to excellence.
Presenters
Dr Anita Morris is a social worker with extensive experience across a broad range of sectors and within the fields of research, policy, and practice. As an experienced supervisor of those in practice leadership roles, Dr Morris remains close to the evolving evidence base of social work practice and supervision. Dr Morris has worked closely with the AASW to design, develop, and deliver the successful Introduction to Best Practice for Supervision course and strives to build passion for social work learning and development in others.
Anthony Lekkas (he/ him) is a family violence consultant, trainer, relationship counselor, and accredited mental health social worker and has worked in the LGBTI and mainstream not-for-profit community health sectors and in private practice at Northside Counselling Solutions. Anthony’s work in the criminal justice system includes working with incarcerated young people, as well as leading an LGBTI family violence court support team with Magistrates Courts Victoria. His clinical work experience involves working with victim-survivors and perpetrators in 'hetero' and queer men's behaviour change programs. Anthony also provides clinical supervision to family violence practitioners and teams. In private practice, he provides relationship counselling to LGBTIQ and straight people in monogamous, non-monogamous, and polyamorous relationships.
Jane Wexler is the Founding Director of Wex Group Pty Ltd, specialising in leadership development, supervision, coaching, and education in Australia, China, Singapore, and Asia Pacific. Jane is widely sought after for her expertise as a consultant, supervisor, coach, and educator, having delivered supervision training and other learning programs to thousands of human services professionals in Australia and abroad. Prior to establishing her own company, Jane was co-owner/co-publisher of a successful Australian entertainment magazine and taught social work at Deakin, RMIT, and Monash universities, and business studies at Holmes Change Le College Shanghai.
Jane uses reflective, solutions-focused, narrative, and cultural frameworks for supervision and combines her unique blend of skills in social work, business, and education with an interest in Eastern philosophy and dissolving some of the boundaries between sectors, disciplines, and methods. Her approach is informed by the view that relationship is at the heart of supervision. Developing awareness and deep knowledge of ourselves, beyond
notions of our identity as leaders, managers, supervisors, and practitioners can significantly improve the quality of supervision.
Abbey Newman is an AASW registered Accredited Family Violence Social Worker, MSW. She has worked within the family violence sector for 16 years holding a range of roles including, working with victims/survivors and perpetrators.
Her career has predominately been within the Justice system and has also included crisis, therapeutic, education, and men’s behaviour change services. Abbey is currently employed as a ‘Specialist Family Violence Advisor,’ at Forensicare, supporting their MARAM alignment and workforce capacity building. She runs a private practice providing specialist family violence expert witness reports and supervision for practitioners in the family violence and sexual assault field.
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