2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

7 CPD Hours

This workshop has been repeated due to popular demand. It will enable participants to learn to combine the personal use of mindfulness with a practice known as Grounding. This makes possible the active use of mindfulness skills when faced with intense feelings, conflicts, problems from the past, the prospect of future events, health issues, the desire for spiritual awakening, planning for the future.

**FPS Relevant Activity**

1.5 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

The practice group will be facilitated by Suzanne Smith who is an AMHSW and Director of the
Counselling, Psychotherapy and Mindfulness Centre. Suzanne will provide an overview,
description and rationale for Solution Focused Therapy.

Date: Thursday 17 May 2018
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm (5:30 arrivals)
Venue: Australian Catholic University
Room 307.G.11

The GRSWPG committee extend a warm invitation to the launch of the Grampians Region Social Work Practice Group.

1.5 CPD Hours

North Qld Domestic Violence Resource Service

The North Queensland Domestic Violence Resource Service have office locations in Townsville and Mount Isa and provide a range of flexible and culturally inclusive services working with the courts, police and clients to assist women and children to stay safe in their home. They offer information, support, referral and practical assistance to women and men alone, or with children escaping domestic and family violence who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. In addition, the NQDVRS provide community talks, education and training packages on a range of topics working in consultation with agencies to assess needs for education and training for service providers.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

Understanding the 2018 Federal Budget and the ACT Budget

Presented by ACTCOSS (ACT Council of Social Service)

A senior staff member of ACTCOSS will present an overview of social policy directions in the 2018 Federal Budget as well as the ACT Budget and offer a well informed opinion of the Budgets’s strengths, limitations and overall direction.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

1.5 CPD Hours
No cost to attend.

4 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

False Self Presentation Seminar
Presented by David Davis

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1.5 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

1.5 CPD Hours
No cost to attend.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

2 CPD Hours

The AASW in conjunction with Slater & Gordon Lawyers is pleased to present this workshop which will provide the information you need to know to improve your daily social work practice to assist you to minimise your legal risks and survive the court process.

4 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

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.

1.5 CPD Hours
No cost to attend.

1.5 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.

The course is suitable for practitioners who work in the Human Services sector at a managerial level who have had experience in providing supervision and for social workers and psychologists who offer supervision within their clinical practice.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

1 CPD Hour
No cost to attend.