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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 *

The emphasis of this two-day training program is upon imparting practical, accessible skills to use immediately with survivors of complex trauma (especially child abuse and neglect).

* FPS Relevant Activity *

This one week intensive training will provide an immersion in the practices and theories of narrative therapy. Many opportunities will be provided for participants to develop their skills in narrative concepts and questioning through training exercises, making this training relevant to counsellors, therapists, psychologists, social workers, welfare workers and more working in diverse contexts.

This two-day interactive professional development training presents the 3-phased approach for working therapeutically with complex trauma clients. The training is interactive and involves role plays, vignettes and case studies. Participants will leave the training with insights and tools which foster hope, recovery, enhance client and staff wellbeing and minimise the risks of re-traumatisation.

The AASW invites you to attend the 2018 Annual Members Meeting which will be held at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel in Perth. The meeting will commence at 5pm, directly after the WA Trauma-Informed Care Symposium.

1-2 CPD hours
No cost to attend.

Thursday November 15, 2018

6.00pm

La Scala
169 Unley Road

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with Private Practitioner social workers in your region.

Information sharing and dinner

Coordinator:

Diane Cass

Berri Hotel, Berri
1-2pm. buy lunch at the hotel if you like. Informal networking, information, connecting with other social workers in the region.

Murray Bridge Networking Evening

Murray Bridge Golf Club
Lot 1/Ritter Street, Murray Bridge

Wednesday November 21, 2018, 5:30pm

There is no cost for attendance. Meals and drinks can be purchased at the club.

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:

Colleen Haskett

The AASW is delighted to be able to offer a new continuing professional development program for social work, mental health and welfare professionals around the theme of Building Resilience & Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism - An Awareness Raising Workshop.

This workshop will be offered free to all attendees with priority given to AASW members.

Tuesday December 11, 2018
6.00pm to 8.00pm
Tonsley Hotel, Clovely Park

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:
Diane Cass
0406 646 665
Email Diane

The AASW is pleased to be able to offer this continuing professional development program for social work, mental health and welfare professionals around the theme of Building Resilience & Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism - An Awareness Raising Workshop.

This workshop will be offered free to all attendees with priority given to AASW members.

The AASW is pleased to be able to offer this continuing professional development program for social work, mental health and welfare professionals around the theme of Building Resilience & Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism - An Awareness Raising Workshop.

This workshop will be offered free to all attendees with priority given to AASW members.

Thursday January 24, 2019

6.00pm

La Scala
169 Unley Road

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with Private Practitioner social workers in your region.

Information sharing and dinner

Coordinator:

Diane Cass

This one week intensive training will provide an immersion in the practices and theories of narrative therapy. Many opportunities will be provided for participants to develop their skills in narrative concepts and questioning through training exercises, making this training relevant to counsellors, therapists, psychologists, social workers, welfare workers and more working in diverse contexts.

Tuesday February 12, 2019
6.00pm to 8.00pm
Tonsley Hotel, Clovely Park

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:
Diane Cass
0406 646 665
Email Diane

The AASW is delighted to be able to offer this continuing professional development program for social work, mental health and welfare professionals around the theme of Building Resilience & Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism - An Awareness Raising Workshop.

This workshop will be offered free to all attendees with priority given to AASW members.

The AASW is delighted to be able to offer this continuing professional development program for social work, mental health and welfare professionals around the theme of Building Resilience & Preventing Radicalisation to Violent Extremism - An Awareness Raising Workshop.

This workshop will be offered free to all attendees with priority given to AASW members.

Thursday March 21, 2019

6.00pm

La Scala
169 Unley Road

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with Private Practitioner social workers in your region.

Information sharing and dinner

Coordinator:

Diane Cass

Tuesday April 30, 2019
6.00pm to 8.00pm
Tonsley Hotel, Clovely Park

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:
Diane Cass
0406 646 665
Email Diane

While many of us try to maintain a good therapeutic relationship, this can be difficult. Trauma clients struggle to trust the therapist; many minimise their own traumatic experiences, or become help-rejecting. Others rush into the work, seeking a “quick fix,” despite a long history of interpersonal trauma.

Through the lens of attachment theory, using a relational, integrative approach, Dr Muller follows the ups and downs of the therapy relationship with trauma survivors. How do we tell when we’ve unknowingly compromised safety in the relationship? What happens to the relationship when clients or therapists rush into the process, and how can this be addressed? And how can subtle conflicts in the relationship become useful in treatment? Dr Muller points to the different choices therapists make in navigating the relationship. In trauma therapy, those choices have a strong impact on outcome.

Recovering from trauma is a complicated process. When people reveal too much, too soon, they may feel worse. The pacing of therapy is critical. Here too, the key is in the therapist-client relationship. Dr Muller walks you through the relational approaches that help pace the process of opening up –so that people find the experience helpful, not harmful.

Throughout the workshop, theory is complemented by case examples, practical exercises, and segments from Dr Muller's own treatment sessions. This workshop focuses on clinical skills that are directly applicable in your work as therapists. You will learn specific skills to ensure ethical practice with all clients.

Tuesday June 18, 2019
6.00pm to 8.00pm
Tonsley Hotel, Clovely Park

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:
Diane Cass
0406 646 665
Email Diane

Thursday June 20, 2019

6.00pm

La Scala
169 Unley Road

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with Private Practitioner social workers in your region.

Information sharing and dinner

Coordinator:

Diane Cass

This one week intensive training will provide an immersion in the practices and theories of narrative therapy. Many opportunities will be provided for participants to develop their skills in narrative concepts and questioning through training exercises, making this training relevant to counsellors, therapists, psychologists, social workers, welfare workers and more working in diverse contexts.