Events Calendar

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 *

Thursday June 14, 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

Wednesday 23 May, 2018

5.30pm

Wheatsheaf Hotel 39 George Street, Thebarton
(Southern Lounge area)

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

Coordinator:

Julie O'Dea

Thursday August 23, 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

The AASW SA Branch Ethics Group have brought local & national practitioners to explore developments in Social Work in response to growing environmental challenges relevant to everyone - but not equally.

Using key theories and principles, this workshop is designed to assist participants to integrate theory with practice, in keeping with the AASW code of ethics, towards achieving anti-oppressive practice.

This 5 day intensive workshop will provide opportunities for participants to extend on ideas and practices of narrative therapy they have gained through previous training/practice. Further maps of practice - 'the absent but implicit', 'experiences of personal failure', 'trauma' - will be explored, as will the metaphor of 'journey' and some emerging resonances between recent developments in neuroscience and narrative therapy.

Enhance your knowledge around cultural knowledge to consider when working with Aboriginal families.

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 September 19, 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

People connect to their work in professional and personal ways. At times challenging work can shake up our values and can confuse or demoralise. Narrative approaches to being a supervisor or receiving supervision stimulate conversations and practices that re-invigorate intentions and practices for the chosen field of work.

The workshop is best suited to those who are familiar with Narrative approaches. Supervision takes many forms and it is not necessary to be in a supervisory relationship to engage with the content of this workshop.

**FPS relevant**

This is the final 2-day workshop that comprises the certification curriculum and is suitable for Schema Therapists at all levels and clinicians who have some knowledge and experience in using the basic schema therapy model. The focus will be on core schema therapy interventions to work with the issues presented by clients with personality disorders (e.g. Borderline PD, Avoidant PD, Narcissistic PD) and features of these disorders.

**FPS Relevant Activity**

In this seminar, an overview will be given of attachment theory and the ongoing developments and applications relevant to all areas of Allied Health.

Seminar will be held at Department of Education & Child Development, Conference Room - 3/7 Mortlock Terrace, Port Lincoln

This one-day workshop delivers a research-based, resource-building program, based on the Mindfulness and Self-Compassion (MSC) approach. Many of the skills taught offer psychological strategies for calming the nervous system during moments of problematic stress, allowing for wiser responses and actions. As opposed to other self-care techniques, MSC practices can be used on the spot while at work with patients / clients and colleagues.

The workshop is delivered by a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher, the only Teacher trainer in Australia.

*FPS Related Activity*

Tuesday October 16, 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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