Skills for Working with Clients

This workshop will provide up to date information and introduce the fundamental skill set of Motivational Interviewing. Learn helpful skills to assist people to engage in behaviour change.

Participants will gain skills and practice in a model for formulating risk and tools for intervention. This is an advanced workshop suited to professionals with some level of training and experience in screening and managing youth and adults with self-harm and suicidal behaviours.

This workshop will provide an introduction to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and some of its key components. It will give participants an understanding of DBT skills and how they may be used in their daily practice with clients.

Gain the knowledge and skills to use an evidence-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) model designed in a way that is fun and engaging for children and youth.

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

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.

This workshop follows on from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Key DBT Skills for Helping Clients with Emotion Regulation. This workshop will focus on individual sessions and incorporating DBT skills as well as other DBT strategies into practice.

This workshop will cover current research on trauma, including Complex Trauma, and how this affects development for children and adolescents. Participants will learn about trauma and the relationship to Attachment theory. Develop practical skills and resources for trauma work and how mental health professionals can support clients.

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

This workshop will cover current research on trauma, including vicarious trauma, and how this affects the everyday life of people.

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.

Change is constant and it can sometimes be hard to manage. This workshop will explore perception, control and aims to develop your skills to help clients navigate change.

This workshop presents key information on the process and stages of relapse. It supports the idea that relapse can be anticipated and proactively responded to, in order to maintain change in the long-term.

An interactive introduction to Distress-Informed Care (DIC) involving the science behind trauma and distress associated with the acute and chronic stress response, along with simple guidelines for a variety of service provider and clinical practice backgrounds, followed by integration of the course content into a workshop involving hypothetical case studies.

An interactive introduction to Distress-Informed Care (DIC) involving the science behind trauma and distress associated with the acute and chronic stress response, along with simple guidelines for a variety of service provider and clinical practice backgrounds, followed by integration of the course content into a workshop involving hypothetical case studies.

An interactive introduction to Distress-Informed Care (DIC) involving the science behind trauma and distress and how this relates to Māori, along with simple guidelines for a variety of service provider and clinical practice backgrounds relating to Māori, followed by integration of the course content into a workshop involving hypothetical case studies.

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

This interactive workshop teaches participants the fundamental skills to recognise and treat disordered eating with clarity and confidence.

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

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