Events Calendar

The Victorian Branch invites members, social work students, and the wider social work community to join us for the annual International Women's Day Rally and March 2020.

Meet us on the steps in front of the State Library of Victoria from 5:30pm on Thursday 5 March 2020. Look for the AASW Banner!

Let us know if you're planning to attend by registering via the link to your right, otherwise, just turn up on the evening!

To keep updated, follow the AASW Victorian Branch on Facebook.

1.5 CPD hours

The AASW Victorian Branch is delighted to invite members and the wider social work community to join us for our annual World Social Work Day Breakfast Celebration.

The theme of World Social Work Day 2020 is Promoting the Importance of Human Relationships.

This year we have secured two esteemed Victorian social workers as our guest speakers:

• Dr Mishel McMahon, Indigenous Academic Enrichment Advisor and Lecturer in Social Work, Latrobe Rural Health School
• Naomi Halpern, Director of Delphi Training and Consulting

This workshop, facilitated by Tim Donovan and Dale Johns, demonstrates the application of narrative therapy approaches to counselling people who have been subject to acts of oppression. The workshop includes a specific account of Dale’s experiences of childhood sexual violence. What is presented will contest traditional ideas around counselling. There will be an opportunity to explore your beliefs around vulnerability and shame in your own work.

The workshop will provide practical ways to use narrative therapy approaches for deconstructing unhelpful cultural discourses or myths; for identifying and strengthening the skills and knowledge people have regarding their own problems; and for encouraging connection with preferred ways of being.

6.5 CPD hours

**FPS Relevant Activity**

**Can count towards AASW Mental Health Accreditation CPD requirements**

The AASW Victorian Branch is delighted to invite members and the wider social work community to join us at the Lyra Taylor Memorial - Unveiling and Reception to be held on Monday 23 March 2020 at Fawkner Memorial Park.

Many of our members will be familiar with Lyra Taylor (1874-1979), a true Australian social work pioneer and leader who did so much for the profession and the professional association.

Lyra Taylor's legacy endures today through her generous bequest to the Victorian Branch which enables the Branch to offer grants for social work research.

If you are not familiar with Lyra Taylor, we have a wonderful biography on our website here.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

Meet us on the steps in front of the State Library of Victoria from 2pm on Sunday 5 April 2020. Look for the AASW Banner!

Let us know if you're planning to attend by registering via the link to your right, otherwise, just turn up on the day!

To keep updated, follow the AASW Victorian Branch on Facebook.

1.5 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

Topic to be confirmed.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

This workshop is now fully subscribed. If you would like to go on the waiting list, please email aaswvic@aasw.asn.au

14 CPD hours

**FPS Relevant Activity**

**Can count towards AASW Mental Health Accreditation CPD requirements**

The Focused Psychological Strategies workshop offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the broad and eclectic strategies contained in the Medicare protocol. Beginning with a brief historical overview of mental health interventions, we then investigate the theoretical underpinnings, diagnostic categories and treatment strategies of the four main therapeutic modalities: psychological (cognitive behavioural therapy and neuroscience), psychotherapeutic (the unconscious mind and ‘therapeutic relationship’), systemic (family and narrative) and holistic (mindfulness and mind/body). This two day workshop includes a colourful slide presentation, individual experiential exercises, pair-work and group discussions; and the opportunity to develop and consolidate your therapeutic skills and knowledge.

1.5 CPD Hours
No cost to attend.

Implementing a Strengths-based, Trauma-informed, Person-Centred response to promote personal recovery within a socially based intervention

This training develops a strengths-based, trauma-informed, person-centred response for direct practice. Experiences of social problems, health and mental health problems are socially mediated and accordingly require a social response to their amelioration during direct practice social work interventions. This training develops a socially informed response at the direct practice level to help clients of social work.

6 CPD hours

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

6.5 CPD hours

This workshop will provide an opportunity to further your knowledge of mindfulness practises and directly apply it to client presentations.

**FPS Relevant Activity**

1.5 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

Topic to be confirmed.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1.5 CPD Hours
No cost to attend.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

Topic to be confirmed.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1.5 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1.5 CPD Hours
No cost to attend.

2.5 CPD hours

There is a difference between being a leader and being a manager - both are important, and are inter-related. This session will explore what effective leadership is, and how leadership potential can be developed.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

2.5 CPD hours

How you behave impacts on your chance of success when trying to influence others. This session invites you to reflect on your approach to influencing, and how you may be able to enhance your personal impact.

Topic to be confirmed.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1.5 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1.5 CPD Hours
No cost to attend.

2.5 CPD hours

When it comes to promoting fairness, diversity and inclusion, we need to look inwardly first. While we can't change what we do not see or acknowledge, we can change make the unconscious conscious, and challenge attitudes and beliefs. Looking through a management lens, this workshop explores how unconscious bias filters our approach to how we recruit, promote, allocate work and manage performance.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

2.5 CPD hours

This session offers frameworks for understanding the change process, and strategies to survive, thrive, and support others.

1.5 CPD hours
No cost to attend.