Live Webinars

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Develop your understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and learn strategies for effective support.

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

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

Deepen your understanding of maternal mental health, matrescence and perinatal wellbeing to enhance your ability to support mothers and parents.

Gain an understanding of the issues, impacts, and supports that are relevant for children and young people who are going through experiences of loss and grief.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Ideas for the adults supporting young people through the experience of change.

An in-depth review of the four Pou of the Whare Tapa Wha Model involving Tinana, Hinengaro, Wairua, and Whanau, as well as the comparative concepts contained within health and well-being literature, the respective hierarchy of the 4 Pou, and integration of this into Clinical Practice.

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

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

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