Professional Development

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

Explore the fundamental skill set of Motivational Interviewing and learn how to assist people to engage in behaviour change.

Explore the most prevalent mental health conditions that older people experience, including dementia and depression.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Further develop your Motivational Interviewing (MI) skill set with a focus on enhancing evoking and change talk.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

This is a tailored one-day introductory workshop for anyone working in a health or social service setting that supports clients who may present behaviours (due to a health or development impact) that others might find challenging. PLEASE NOTE: The focus of this workshop is in the areas of intellectual/developmental/learning disabilities only.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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