Skills for Working with Clients

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This highly interactive, practical workshop explores the process and stages of relapse. Participants will apply theory to practice and 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 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 of the four Pou of the Whare Tapa Whā Model involving Tinana, Hinengaro, Wairua, and Whānau, as well as the respective hierarchy of the four Pou.

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.