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This interactive and stimulating 2-day course will assist professionals to explore conflict and impart the essential principles and process of mediation. The structured 5-step mediation model and specific conflict resolution skills will be presented and practiced. The course can be utilised in many different areas of conflict e.g. client work, workplace disputes and interpersonal conflict.

* Discount for AASW members *

Life Member Biography Project Launch Dinner

This launch is to acknowledge the history of social work in Victoria with specific attention to the significant contribution of leaders who are life members as well as to build cultural pride into the profession and celebrate achievements of working together.

CPD hours apply

An exploration of Advance Care Planning: Lessons from the Churchill Fellowship and beyond

Presented by Joy Cocker

Advance Care planning allows us to reflect on what living well means for us right up until our final day. It can also allow us to plan for the ‘what ifs…in life’ as well as our own death. What part can social workers play in this burgeoning field of advance care planning?

This highly transformative workshop is designed for anyone wanting to cultivate greater self-compassion, mindfulness, emotion regulation and self-love in their lives. In this workshop you will learn about the theory of mindfulness and self-compassion, and be guided in meditations and exercises to practice in daily life.

**FPS Relevant Activity**

**Discount for AASW members**

Attachment Theory Practice Group

presented by Anabel Wyndham

A working knowledge of attachment, like brain structure and function, is central to the understanding of Social Workers working with children, adolescents and adults. Its operation is not always obvious and prominent, but it gives us insights into personal functioning and relationships when we use it as a viewing prism, particularly when people are in trouble or stressed.

Mindful Self-Compassion is an outstanding workshop. The program consist of didactic and experiential training exercises in mindfulness and self-compassion, to improve professional skills and personal lives.

Rapidly expanding research shows that mindfulness and self-compassion are strongly associated with emotional well-being, lower levels of anxiety, pain and depression, better healthy habits such as diet and exercise, more satisfying personal relationships and enhanced self-care.

* FPS Relevant Activity *

Mindful Self-Compassion is an outstanding workshop. The program consist of didactic and experiential training exercises in mindfulness and self-compassion, to improve professional skills and personal lives.

Rapidly expanding research shows that mindfulness and self-compassion are strongly associated with emotional well-being, lower levels of anxiety, pain and depression, better healthy habits such as diet and exercise, more satisfying personal relationships and enhanced self-care.

* FPS Relevant Activity *

Evidence-Informed Practice - What does it mean for Social Work Seminar
Presented by Debbie Plath