Workshop Catalogue

Building Resilience

Celebrate MHERC's 30th Birthday with this free webinar! Learn how to become more resilient by proactively developing a mental reservoir that you can draw upon, replenish and never fully exhaust.

Suicide Prevention: Simple Skills for Communities

This free workshop will provide valuable skills for those working in the community.

Connecting Through Motherhood

Weekly educational discussion group for new mums

Burnout: Dampening the Burn

The challenges over the last few years, have resulted in increasing experiences of depletion, exhaustion and ultimately burnout, which has been identified as resulting from an imbalance between chronic stress and coping resources.

Te Pūtaketanga: Introduction to Te Reo Māori (Part Two)

Join us online each week for 45 minutes of interactive learning.

A Review and Comparison of Modern Health and Wellbeing Literature with the Te Whare Tapa Whā Model

An in-depth review and comparison of the modern Health & Well-being literature and the four traditional core concepts of the Te Whare Tapa Whā Model involving Tinana, Hinengaro, Wairua, and Whānau in addition to presenting ideas for further integrated research.

Rainbow Diversity and How to Be a Supportive Ally

Free interactive educational groups to learn about rainbow diversity and practical tips and resources on how to be a supportive ally.

Improving Sleep for Wellbeing

Free Mental Health Awareness Week Webinar on Sleep

Making a Difference

Join us in celebrating MHERC's 30th Birthday with this lunch time talk with Sharon Bennett!

Moving Towards Restorative Responses in Healthcare: A Scoping Day to Identify the Needs of Neurodivergent Mental Health and Addictions Clients

This hui in Ōtautahi, Christchurch and online is to bring neurodivergent people and their allies together around the topic of restorative practice in healthcare.

Elevating the Lived Experience Voice – Being Agents of Change

Workshop for the CPSLE workforce with lived experience.

CPSLE Allies - Elevating the Lived Experience Voice (Webinar 1)

Have you heard about CPSLE, but are unsure of its meaning? Join us to develop your understanding of CPSLE and the advantages of peer support.

CPSLE Allies - Elevating the Lived Experience Voice (Webinar 2)

Have you heard about CPSLE, but are unsure of its meaning? Join us to develop your understanding of CPSLE and the advantages of peer support.

What is Peer Support? What does Lived Experience mean? What does CPSLE stand for? How can you support this workforce?

We have the answers to these questions. Join us to deepen your understanding of lived experience roles in the mental health and addiction sector, the history of the movement and the principles that drive them. Explore different CPSLE roles and discover how we can create supportive workplace environments for people to thrive.

Habits and Hints for Wellbeing

Free, weekly one-hour sessions to learn and gain skills around mental health.

Te Pūtaketanga: Introduction to Te Reo Māori

Basic Te Reo Māori to use in the workplace.

Tools for Managing Anxiety

Free online series for information and tips to help with anxiety

Connecting Through Motherhood

Weekly educational discussion group for new mums

Tools for Managing Anxiety

Free online series for information and tips to help with anxiety

Habits and Hints for Wellbeing

Free, weekly one-hour sessions to learn and gain skills around mental health.

Rainbow Diversity and How to Be a Supportive Ally

Free interactive educational groups to learn about rainbow diversity and practical tips and resources on how to be a supportive ally.

Co-existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems (CEP)

Explore an overview of working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Co-Existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems (CEP)

This workshop provides an overview and update of current approaches to working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Navigating Alcohol and Other Drug Services

Explore alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues for individuals. Recognise problematic AOD use, understand the impacts and how to access support services in Canterbury. 

Methamphetamine and Synthetic Substances: What You Need to Know

Explore synthetic drugs in today's society. Learn about longer term effects and gain tools and strategies around harm minimisation.

Understanding and Supporting Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Recognise the signs and symptoms of FASD, understand how it is diagnosed and learn how to adapt treatment to the different needs of those with the neurodisability.

Effective Brief Interventions for People Experiencing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems

In this highly interactive, practical workshop, explore information on AOD use and develop response to AOD issues in your setting.

Relapse Prevention and Growing Recovery Capital

This highly interactive, practical workshop explores the process and stages of relapse. Participants will apply theory to practice and case studies.

Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Youth: Motivational Tools for Harm Reduction

Develop your skills and increase your knowledge around supporting young people who present with alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues, from a harm reduction perspective.

Understanding School Avoidance and How to Re-engage Young People

Understanding, Identifying and Addressing Health Needs: Wellbeing in Clinical Practice

Improve health outcomes in clinical practice by exploring key health determinants and the influence of Aotearoa New Zealand’s legislation and policy.

Boundaries and Ethics in Health and Community Settings

Develop an understanding of significant ethics and boundaries concepts and explore an ethical dilemma problem-solving framework.

Communication and Breakaway Techniques: De-escalation Refresher

Revisit verbal de-escalation strategies and environmental considerations to ensure that both you and your client are kept as safe as possible in an actual or potential physical assault situation.

Effective Communication to Manage Distress: De-escalation Techniques

Gain the skills to identify and de-escalate an agitated person while keeping yourself and others safe. Gain confidence in managing distress and aggression, and strategies for self-control.

Effective Note Writing for Community Support Work

Develop your skills to effectively and clearly document your work in supporting people with mental health conditions.

Compassion Fatigue and Burnout: Recognising the Signs and Strategies for Prevention and Recovery

Know how to respond and recover from empathy fatigue and emotional burnout – essential tips and strategies.

Mental Health Legislation: Understanding the Law, Client’s Rights and Privacy

Explore health-related legislation for community workers and ensure you are managing your role within the boundaries of relevant health-related legislation in Aotearoa.

Home Visiting in Community Work

When working in the community and in private homes, we need to ensure everyone’s safety and be respectful. Develop your confidence and skills to decrease risk and manage difficult situations.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Healthcare

Explore Te Tiriti o Waitangi with a lens of understanding and opportunities for healthcare practitioners and services in the broader healthcare setting.

Understanding the Mental Health System: Specialist Services, NGOs and Community Agencies

This workshop will introduce those new to the Mental Health workforce or those working outside of this sector, an insight into the workings of the Mental Health sector.

Understanding, Identifying and Addressing Health Needs: Wellbeing in Clinical Practice

Improve health outcomes in clinical practice by exploring key health determinants and the influence of Aotearoa New Zealand’s legislation and policy.

Understanding Māori Health Models

This interactive workshop will explore Māori Models of Health for participants to develop and enhance their work practice and cultural competency.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Healthcare

Explore Te Tiriti o Waitangi with a lens of understanding and opportunities for healthcare practitioners and services in the broader healthcare setting.

Maximising Mental Health through Menopause

Understand the link between menopause and mental health. Gain insight into the common emotional and cognitive symptoms experienced during menopause. Learn and practise techniques to support their own mental health. Explore ways to have supportive conversations about menopause. Reflect on individual current wellbeing and create at least one action step to maximise mental health.

Grief and Growth: How to Walk with Others through Loss

Enhance understanding of grief and loss and develop compassionate strategies to support others.

Cultural Intelligence (CQ): Effectively Working in Diverse Cultural Contexts

This workshop encourages participants to explore challenges, opportunities, and tools to apply CQ to their professional practice.

Navigating Conflict and Difficult Conversations: Achieving Collaborative Solutions and Strengthening Relationships

This workshop will equip you with key skills that can help you manage conflict, and transform challenging conversations into constructive and beneficial discussions.

Cultural Safety and Diversity: Taking Your Practice to a New Level

This workshop will guide you to provide the support and care that meets the client’s needs in a way that maintains their and your personal, social and cultural identity.

Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse People (CALD)

Explore refugee and migrant experiences, principals of working with interpreters, cultural framework and values.

Understanding Different Personality and Communication Styles in the Workplace

In all aspects of our daily lives we are interacting and communicating with others yet so often there are times when there is miscommunication and confusion leading at times to conflict and less than satisfactory outcomes in the workplace.

Alternative Experiences of Reality: A Fresh Perspective of ‘Psychosis’

Explore a trauma-informed, lived experience and person-centered approach to alternative states of reality (aka ‘psychosis’).

An Insider’s View on Autism: Recognising Autistic Culture and Experience

Learn about autistic experiences compared to those of people who are seen as ‘normal’ (neurotypical), from a lived experience facilitator who is autistic.

Understanding and Supporting Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Recognise the signs and symptoms of FASD, understand how it is diagnosed and learn how to adapt treatment to the different needs of those with the neurodisability.

Insight into Autism: Understanding People with Autism and Adapting Support to Meet Their Needs

Develop your understanding of people with autism, so that you can better respond to, and support them.

Anxiety Disorders: Understanding and Providing Effective Support

This workshop will provide a general introduction to the experiences and impacts of anxiety. Particular focus will be given to Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder and Generalised Anxiety Disorder.

Understanding and Supporting People Experiencing Psychosis

This workshop will provide a general introduction to the experiences and impacts of Psychosis.

Understanding and Supporting People Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder

Develop your understanding of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and learn strategies for effective support.

Understanding and Supporting People Diagnosed with Mood Disorders

Explore an overview of people diagnosed with mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar. Identify ways you can offer support and what treatment options are available.

Personality Disorders: The Impact on Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviour

Explore and identify personality disorders, the aetiology of personality disorders including trauma and other life impacts, and key features of each personality disorder.

Beyond the Label: Understanding Different Mental Health Diagnoses and What They Mean for People

(Formerly ‘Common Mental Health Disorders’) This workshop will explore mental diagnosis and conditions, such as mood disorders, psychosis, and anxiety disorders.

Supporting People Experiencing Suicidal Ideation and Nonsuicidal Self-Injurious Behaviour

Develop your confidence in how to manage persons experiencing suicidal ideation and nonsuicidal self-injurious behaviour. Explore models and frameworks in your setting.

Advanced Suicidal Ideation and Nonsuicidal Self-Injurious Behaviour: Models and Strategies for Interventions

An advanced workshop for professionals with some level of training and experience in screening and managing youth and adults with self-injurious and suicidal behaviours.

Co-Existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems (CEP)

This workshop provides an overview and update of current approaches to working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Children’s Anxiety: What Adults Need to Know and Strategies for Management

Gain a basic understanding of anxiety and how it particularly relates to children and how to support parents and workers.

Co-existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems (CEP)

Explore an overview of working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Understanding the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury and Ways to Support Clients

Understand what traumatic brain injury (TBI) is, how it affects people, strategies to support them and how to access specialist services.

Multiplicity: Plural Aspects of Self

Gain an insider’s view on multiplicity (also known as Plurality) from a mental health professional with lived experience, and learn ways to provide effective support.

Mental Health First Aid

Become a certified mental health first aider

The Connection Between Nutrients, Nutrition and Mental Health

Despite the advent of medications and other therapies over the last 50 years, rates of mental illness have been on the rise. Scientists have been uncovering an uncomfortable truth: What we eat is affecting our mental health.

Supporting Healthy Sleep

(Previously Sleep Matters in Mental Health) Learn strategies and tools to optimise sleep ‘health’ for self-management and/or to help clients.

Trauma Informed Care for Practitioners: Applying Principles to Practice and Responding to Challenges

This advanced workshop explores how the principles of trauma informed care could be applied to your particular field of practice.

Rainbow Wellness: Supporting LGBTTQIA+ People’s Wellbeing

This workshop will provide an introduction to the influences which shape LGBTTQIA+ people’s wellbeing and practical strategies in how to support them.

Men's Mental Health and Wellbeing: What's Different and What Works

This focused workshop explores how best to support men’s wellbeing, how to identify signs of distress and how to engage in a way that resonates with them.

Compassion Fatigue and Burnout: Recognising the Signs and Strategies for Prevention and Recovery

Know how to respond and recover from empathy fatigue and emotional burnout – essential tips and strategies.

Resilience: Build, Adapt, Grow

This workshop will explore how we develop, maintain, adapt and sustain our resilience in order to preserve our wellbeing in demanding times.

Building Resilience

Celebrate MHERC's 30th Birthday with this free webinar! Learn how to become more resilient by proactively developing a mental reservoir that you can draw upon, replenish and never fully exhaust.

Maximising Mental Health through Menopause

Understand the link between menopause and mental health. Gain insight into the common emotional and cognitive symptoms experienced during menopause. Learn and practise techniques to support their own mental health. Explore ways to have supportive conversations about menopause. Reflect on individual current wellbeing and create at least one action step to maximise mental health.

Making a Difference

Join us in celebrating MHERC's 30th Birthday with this lunch time talk with Sharon Bennett!

Gender and Gender Expression

This ‘101’ level workshop is designed to equip you with the foundational knowledge and tools needed to support trans individuals in your workplace community. It is our recommended starting point for building cultural competency around trans inclusion and allyship.

Navigating Conflict and Difficult Conversations: Achieving Collaborative Solutions and Strengthening Relationships

This workshop will equip you with key skills that can help you manage conflict, and transform challenging conversations into constructive and beneficial discussions.

Insight into Autism: Understanding People with Autism and Adapting Support to Meet Their Needs

Develop your understanding of people with autism, so that you can better respond to, and support them.

An Insider’s View on Autism: Recognising Autistic Culture and Experience

Learn about autistic experiences compared to those of people who are seen as ‘normal’ (neurotypical), from a lived experience facilitator who is autistic.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Understanding the Impact on Adult Mental Health and Pathways to Healing

Gain an insider’s view on the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma and develop effective ways to provide support.

Neurodiversity: An Overview of its Origins and Place in Society

The first workshop in this series will cover an overview of the origins of neurodiversity, current diagnoses and the experiences that are associated with neurodiversity.

Multiplicity: Plural Aspects of Self

Gain an insider’s view on multiplicity (also known as Plurality) from a mental health professional with lived experience, and learn ways to provide effective support.

Autism/ADHD: Two Core Features of Neurodiversity Experience

The second workshop in this series focuses on autism and ADHD as two core features of neurodiversity experience.

Moving Towards Restorative Responses in Healthcare: A Scoping Day to Identify the Needs of Neurodivergent Mental Health and Addictions Clients

This hui in Ōtautahi, Christchurch and online is to bring neurodivergent people and their allies together around the topic of restorative practice in healthcare.

Supporting Healthy Sleep

(Previously Sleep Matters in Mental Health) Learn strategies and tools to optimise sleep ‘health’ for self-management and/or to help clients.

Men's Mental Health and Wellbeing: What's Different and What Works

This focused workshop explores how best to support men’s wellbeing, how to identify signs of distress and how to engage in a way that resonates with them.

Rainbow Wellness: Supporting LGBTTQIA+ People’s Wellbeing

This workshop will provide an introduction to the influences which shape LGBTTQIA+ people’s wellbeing and practical strategies in how to support them.

Tools for Managing Anxiety

Free online series for information and tips to help with anxiety

Connecting Through Motherhood

Weekly educational discussion group for new mums

Habits and Hints for Wellbeing

Free, weekly one-hour sessions to learn and gain skills around mental health.

Suicide Prevention: Simple Skills for Communities

This free workshop will provide valuable skills for those working in the community.

Building Resilience

Celebrate MHERC's 30th Birthday with this free webinar! Learn how to become more resilient by proactively developing a mental reservoir that you can draw upon, replenish and never fully exhaust.

Resilience: Build, Adapt, Grow

This workshop will explore how we develop, maintain, adapt and sustain our resilience in order to preserve our wellbeing in demanding times.

The Connection Between Nutrients, Nutrition and Mental Health

Despite the advent of medications and other therapies over the last 50 years, rates of mental illness have been on the rise. Scientists have been uncovering an uncomfortable truth: What we eat is affecting our mental health.

Elevating the Lived Experience Voice – Being Agents of Change

Workshop for the CPSLE workforce with lived experience.

Enabling Equity Through Exploring Power and Privilege

Explore the dynamics of power and privilege in a safe, reflective and collaborative space. Reflect on your experience of disadvantage, discrimination and privilege.

Autism/ADHD: Two Core Features of Neurodiversity Experience

The second workshop in this series focuses on autism and ADHD as two core features of neurodiversity experience.

Understanding the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury and Ways to Support Clients

Understand what traumatic brain injury (TBI) is, how it affects people, strategies to support them and how to access specialist services.

Rainbow Diversity and How to Be a Supportive Ally

Free interactive educational groups to learn about rainbow diversity and practical tips and resources on how to be a supportive ally.

Improving Sleep for Wellbeing

Free Mental Health Awareness Week Webinar on Sleep

Te Pūtaketanga: Introduction to Te Reo Māori (Part Two)

Join us online each week for 45 minutes of interactive learning.

Neurodiversity: An Overview of its Origins and Place in Society

The first workshop in this series will cover an overview of the origins of neurodiversity, current diagnoses and the experiences that are associated with neurodiversity.

Burnout: Dampening the Burn

The challenges over the last few years, have resulted in increasing experiences of depletion, exhaustion and ultimately burnout, which has been identified as resulting from an imbalance between chronic stress and coping resources.

Cultural Intelligence (CQ): Effectively Working in Diverse Cultural Contexts

This workshop encourages participants to explore challenges, opportunities, and tools to apply CQ to their professional practice.

Mental Health First Aid

Become a certified mental health first aider

Let’s Talk Concussion: Understanding the Effects of Concussion and Ways to Support People

Understand what concussion is, how if affects people and strategies for support.

CPSLE Allies - Elevating the Lived Experience Voice (Webinar 2)

Have you heard about CPSLE, but are unsure of its meaning? Join us to develop your understanding of CPSLE and the advantages of peer support.

What is Peer Support? What does Lived Experience mean? What does CPSLE stand for? How can you support this workforce?

We have the answers to these questions. Join us to deepen your understanding of lived experience roles in the mental health and addiction sector, the history of the movement and the principles that drive them. Explore different CPSLE roles and discover how we can create supportive workplace environments for people to thrive.

Understanding and Preventing Youth Suicide: Masterclass for Working with Youth

This comprehensive workshop aims to equip people working with youth with strategies and tools to effectively identify and address suicide risk in young people. Participants will gain a understanding of the factors contributing to youth suicide and learn evidence-based approaches to support young people in crisis.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Understanding the Impact on Adult Mental Health and Pathways to Healing

Gain an insider’s view on the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma and develop effective ways to provide support.

Self-Hypnosis for Managing Stress and Boosting Productivity

Learn simple yet impactful techniques for utilising self-hypnosis to manage stress, enhance mental clarity and boost your productivity.

Harnessing Hypnosis: Therapeutic Tools for Clinical Practice

Explore how to utilise hypnosis in your clinical practice as a method for mental and somatic therapeutic change.

Grief and Growth: How to Walk with Others through Loss

Enhance understanding of grief and loss and develop compassionate strategies to support others.

Maximising Mental Health through Menopause

Understand the link between menopause and mental health. Gain insight into the common emotional and cognitive symptoms experienced during menopause. Learn and practise techniques to support their own mental health. Explore ways to have supportive conversations about menopause. Reflect on individual current wellbeing and create at least one action step to maximise mental health.

Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Youth: Motivational Tools for Harm Reduction

Develop your skills and increase your knowledge around supporting young people who present with alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues, from a harm reduction perspective.

Trauma Informed Care for Practitioners: Applying Principles to Practice and Responding to Challenges

This advanced workshop explores how the principles of trauma informed care could be applied to your particular field of practice.

Supporting Healthy Sleep

(Previously Sleep Matters in Mental Health) Learn strategies and tools to optimise sleep ‘health’ for self-management and/or to help clients.

Understanding and Managing Change: Skills to Assist People

Explore perception, control and aims to develop your skills to help people navigate change.

Rainbow Wellness: Supporting LGBTTQIA+ People’s Wellbeing

This workshop will provide an introduction to the influences which shape LGBTTQIA+ people’s wellbeing and practical strategies in how to support them.

Men's Mental Health and Wellbeing: What's Different and What Works

This focused workshop explores how best to support men’s wellbeing, how to identify signs of distress and how to engage in a way that resonates with them.

Relapse Prevention and Growing Recovery Capital

This highly interactive, practical workshop explores the process and stages of relapse. Participants will apply theory to practice and case studies.

Effective Brief Interventions for People Experiencing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems

In this highly interactive, practical workshop, explore information on AOD use and develop response to AOD issues in your setting.

Te Pūtaketanga: Introduction to Te Reo Māori

Basic Te Reo Māori to use in the workplace.

Understanding Māori Health Models

This interactive workshop will explore Māori Models of Health for participants to develop and enhance their work practice and cultural competency.

An Insider’s View on Autism: Recognising Autistic Culture and Experience

Learn about autistic experiences compared to those of people who are seen as ‘normal’ (neurotypical), from a lived experience facilitator who is autistic.

Alternative Experiences of Reality: A Fresh Perspective of ‘Psychosis’

Explore a trauma-informed, lived experience and person-centered approach to alternative states of reality (aka ‘psychosis’).

Understanding and Supporting Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Recognise the signs and symptoms of FASD, understand how it is diagnosed and learn how to adapt treatment to the different needs of those with the neurodisability.

Compassion Fatigue and Burnout: Recognising the Signs and Strategies for Prevention and Recovery

Know how to respond and recover from empathy fatigue and emotional burnout – essential tips and strategies.

Insight into Autism: Understanding People with Autism and Adapting Support to Meet Their Needs

Develop your understanding of people with autism, so that you can better respond to, and support them.

Managing Psychological Distress and Suicide Risk

Develop your understanding, skills and confidence to recognise and care for people experiencing psychological distress or who may be at risk of suicide

Understanding and Supporting People Experiencing Psychosis

This workshop will provide a general introduction to the experiences and impacts of Psychosis.

Understanding the Mental Health System: Specialist Services, NGOs and Community Agencies

This workshop will introduce those new to the Mental Health workforce or those working outside of this sector, an insight into the workings of the Mental Health sector.

Anxiety Disorders: Understanding and Providing Effective Support

This workshop will provide a general introduction to the experiences and impacts of anxiety. Particular focus will be given to Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder and Generalised Anxiety Disorder.

Resilience: Build, Adapt, Grow

This workshop will explore how we develop, maintain, adapt and sustain our resilience in order to preserve our wellbeing in demanding times.

Understanding Different Personality and Communication Styles in the Workplace

In all aspects of our daily lives we are interacting and communicating with others yet so often there are times when there is miscommunication and confusion leading at times to conflict and less than satisfactory outcomes in the workplace.

The Mental Health Intervention Web: Responding to Complex Issues

The Intervention Web presents an engaging exploration into the world of one individual in community care, who is experiencing complex impacts on their mental health and wellbeing. This workshop is suitable for anyone working in the mental health sector supporting people in residential care.

Methamphetamine and Synthetic Substances: What You Need to Know

Explore synthetic drugs in today's society. Learn about longer term effects and gain tools and strategies around harm minimisation.

Understanding and Supporting People Diagnosed with Mood Disorders

Explore an overview of people diagnosed with mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar. Identify ways you can offer support and what treatment options are available.

Communication and Breakaway Techniques: De-escalation Refresher

Revisit verbal de-escalation strategies and environmental considerations to ensure that both you and your client are kept as safe as possible in an actual or potential physical assault situation.

The Connection Between Nutrients, Nutrition and Mental Health

Despite the advent of medications and other therapies over the last 50 years, rates of mental illness have been on the rise. Scientists have been uncovering an uncomfortable truth: What we eat is affecting our mental health.

Understanding and Supporting People Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder

Develop your understanding of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and learn strategies for effective support.

Trauma Informed Care: Providing Safe and Effective Support to Adults

Explore current research on trauma, including vicarious trauma, and how this affects people’s everyday lives.

Self-Care and Professional Practice When Working with Trauma and Tragedy

Learn how to support people better by not burning-out and being a support for your colleagues and agency. This is about recognising our recent experiences and how to work through it.

Cultural Safety and Diversity: Taking Your Practice to a New Level

This workshop will guide you to provide the support and care that meets the client’s needs in a way that maintains their and your personal, social and cultural identity.

Navigating Alcohol and Other Drug Services

Explore alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues for individuals. Recognise problematic AOD use, understand the impacts and how to access support services in Canterbury. 

Understanding and Working with Attachment in Children and Adolescents

This workshop will provide an overview of traditional attachment theory as well as current approaches in relation to trauma in children and young people.

An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT is a transdiagnostic model and has an impressive body of research showing its efficacy across a range of disorders. This workshop will provide an introductory overview of the ACT model and its components. Participants will have an opportunity to practice and build skills over the day.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Healthcare

Explore Te Tiriti o Waitangi with a lens of understanding and opportunities for healthcare practitioners and services in the broader healthcare setting.

Personality Disorders: The Impact on Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviour

Explore and identify personality disorders, the aetiology of personality disorders including trauma and other life impacts, and key features of each personality disorder.

Improving Client Interventions through Therapeutic Communication

This workshop introduces an advanced linguistic model which enables counsellors, therapists and helpers to conversationally assist healing and change in their clients.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Applying DBT Informed Skills

This follow on workshop will focus on individual sessions and incorporating DBT skills as well as other DBT strategies into practice.

Trauma Informed Care: Providing Support to Children and Adolescents

Explore current research on trauma, including Complex Trauma, and the affects on development for children and adolescents.

Co-Existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems (CEP)

This workshop provides an overview and update of current approaches to working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Children’s Anxiety: What Adults Need to Know and Strategies for Management

Gain a basic understanding of anxiety and how it particularly relates to children and how to support parents and workers.

Home Visiting in Community Work

When working in the community and in private homes, we need to ensure everyone’s safety and be respectful. Develop your confidence and skills to decrease risk and manage difficult situations.

Effective Note Writing for Community Support Work

Develop your skills to effectively and clearly document your work in supporting people with mental health conditions.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Key DBT Skills for Helping Clients with Emotion Regulation

An introduction to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and some of its key components. Develop an understanding of DBT skills and how they may be used in their daily practice with clients.