This powerful one-day, in-person training equips practitioners with the knowledge, tools, and reflective insight needed to understand and respond to coercive control through the lens of social entrapment.
In-person event
Date: 19 November 2025
Time: 9.00am-5.00pm
Location:
InterContinental Sydney,
16 Phillip St,
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
Capability Level: Evolving, Established, Expert
Developed and facilitated by Tori Cooke of Pandora Projects, this workshop provides ground-breaking insight in understanding social entrapment and coercive control and integrates trauma-informed, intersectional, and gendered perspectives. Participants will explore how systems, institutions, and cultural messages can reinforce coercive dynamics—often trapping victim survivors in invisible webs of control.
The training delves into key models including Biderman’s Chart of Coercion and Compliance, connectivity to the Power & Control Wheels, and informed by the Socio-Ecological Model, while offering practical tools and strategies to support victim agency, accountability-based responses, and safe intervention practices.
Using real-world scenarios and group discussion, this workshop strengthens professional confidence in:
· Identifying coercive control and resistance in victim responses
· Mapping perpetration patterns and social conditions that maintain control
· Responding without collusion, rescuing, or minimising complexity
· Engaging safely and ethically with those impacted by family and domestic violence
Who should attend?
This training is ideal for professionals in health, education, justice, community services, mental health, and specialist family violence services.
Core Skills Taught in this Workshop:
Identify and analyse coercive control patterns:
Participants will learn how to recognise the subtle and patterned nature of coercive control, including the use of psychological, emotional, and structural tactics that entrap victim survivors.
Apply a social entrapment lens to practice:
Participants will build the ability to assess and respond to family violence using a framework that centres victim experience, intersectionality, and the role of systemic reinforcement in maintaining control.
Recognise and honour victim resistance:
Participants will develop the skills to identify both overt and covert forms of resistance and respond in ways that uphold agency, dignity, and the realities of survival strategies.
Use practical tools for safe and ethical intervention:
Participants will gain confidence using tools such as Biderman’s Chart of Coercion and Compliance, the Power & Control and Equality Wheel, and “Line in the Sand” strategies to enhance safety planning, map perpetration patterns, and support meaningful referrals.
Learning Outcomes
Practice based understanding of Coercive Control and Social Entrapment:
Participants will leave with a deeper awareness of how coercive control operates across personal, cultural, and institutional levels, and how these dynamics entrap victim survivors over time.
Increased Confidence in Responding to Victim-Survivors:
Practitioners will feel more equipped to recognise signs of resistance, validate victim experiences, and respond in ways that prioritise safety, dignity, and agency without reinforcing systemic harm.
Integration of Practical, Trauma-Informed Tools into Practice:
Attendees will be able to apply evidence-based frameworks and intervention tools directly into their professional contexts, supporting safer, more accountable, and more effective responses to family and domestic violence.
Event Structure:
Introduction
Morning Learning Session: (3.5hrs)
Afternoon Learning Session: (3.5hrs)
Conclusion and Q&A
AASW Credential: Family Violence & Mental Health (FPS)
FPS: Will be incorporated into a section of this workshop.
Please consider the AASW CPD Policy regarding FPS when logging your FPS hours manually: