2012 Solution-Focused training
2012 dates for our popular training course Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Comprehensive Introduction have been announced.
2012 Solution-Focused training in Melbourne and Orange
The two day course Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Comprehensive Introduction will be offered in Melbourne in April and Orange in June.
Frances Huber presents at European conference
Frances Huber, along with Dr Harry Korman from Sweden, gave an acclaimed presentation at the European Brief Therapy Conference. "To break, or NOT to break ... that is the question!"
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Allan Wade workshop HIGHLY successful
The two day workshop with Dr Allan Wade was widely aclaimed by participants as being entertaining and extremely useful in working with violence.
APS, AASW and ACMHN accreditation
The two day Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training has been granted accreditation by APS (Clinical, Counselling and Education Development colleges), by AASW (for mental health social workers) and by the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses for CPD/CPE purposes.
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International presentation ... Dr Allan Wade (Canada).
Small Acts of Living: Violence, Resistance and the Power of Language
Working with victims of violence ... OR with the offenders? Interested in how to have conversations about violence (in therapy, legal or other contexts) in ways that restore dignity to victims and clarify responsibility of offenders??
Violence, broadly defined, is the most urgent problem of our times. The challenge for human services and criminal justice workers is to respond justly and effectively in cases of violence, from sexualized assault and wife-assault to workplace harassment and child abuse. In this workshop, Allan will present a response-based approach to direct intervention, research, and critical analysis.
The response-based approach developed from the observation that victims of violence invariably respond in ways that amount to overt or covert resistance (and perpetrators seek to conceal or suppress these responses). Allan and his colleagues sought to develop ways of having conversations with clients that elucidated and honoured these responses. This led to very different kinds of therapeutic conversations — and also to the re-consideration of the language we use about violence in a variety of other human services and legal contexts.
Topics will include the nature of violence and resistance, the role of social responses, interviewing, and the analysis of violence and language in a variety of therapeutic and forensic contexts.
Participants will review recorded interviews, swap lies and half-truths, practice interviewing, and examine language use in diverse forms of talk and text, such as courts, professional texts, psychological reports, treatment manuals, and news media.
The workshop will relate directly to the work of therapists working with victims and offenders and children, transition house staff, crown counsel, psychiatrists, victim assistance workers, advocates, academics, policy advisors, police and child protection workers. The workshop will include a PRACTICAL focus on HOW to have helpful conversations about violence but will also focus on how we THINK about violence.
Allan Wade Ph.D. lives on Vancouver Island, Canada, where he works as a family therapist, researcher and educator. He is senior faculty in the Master of Counselling Program, City University of Seattle and Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Victoria. Allan is perhaps best known for developing a response-based approach to therapy with people who have experienced and committed violence, and their families. Allan works from a human rights perspective with the full range of human services and criminal justice professionals who respond to cases of violence. He also works extensively with Indigenous people in Canada and is involved in several initiatives to improve the quality of local and state responses to all forms of violence.
| “ | If you are a therapist or helping professional wanting to make a difference and build hope and change in situations of violence you have to hear Allan Wade! Allan's work is ground-breaking, simultaneously rigorous and compassionate, it challenges us as professionals about how we think about violence and provides concrete skills to guide us in working with people whose lives are affected by the problem. | ” | ||
| — Dr Andrew Turnell (social worker, child protection consultant, co-developer of the "Signs of Safety" approach) |
Sydney, 1 & 2 December 2011
| “ | Allan's response-based therapy model clarifies the violence and the responsibility of the perpetrator while at the same time honouring the victim's resistance as it becomes clear what the victim actually did to resist. The whole process leads to a depathologization of the victim. Few people understand how language works in therapy as well as Allan Wade and he is tremendously good at teaching it. | ” | ||
| — Dr Harry Korman (psychiatrist, Brief Therapy trainer, Malmö, Sweden) |
DETAILS:
VENUE: Sydney Masonic Centre Conference Centre, Goulburn St, Sydney. 9:30–4.30 both days.
COST — $440 for two days (incl lunch, morning & afternoon tea).
GROUP DISCOUNTS:
For three or more people from the same organisation, registered and paid together — $340 per person (that means the fourth person is almost free!). If you want to register EIGHT or more people, please email Michael and we will see what we can offer you.
PD POINTS:
Due to the very short period until this workshop, we have not been able to apply for accreditation for the workshop from any professional body. However, PLEASE NOTE that the Australian Psychologists Registration Board and the Australian Association of Social Workers do not require that PD activities be endorsed by them. Rather, the onus is on the individual to assess (and justify, if required) the relevance of the PD activity. Other professional bodies may have similar requirements. The Australian Psychology Society has announced that it will NO LONGER accredit PD activities after 31 October 2011 and, again, the onus will be on the individual psychologist. INTERN PSYCHOLOGISTS are required to document the relevance of PD activities with their supervisor.
Allan Wade has a PhD in psychology, has two university appointments, more than a dozen publications in professional books and journals and an international reputation as a training presenter. We believe that this training activity will meet the requirements for Professional Development recognition for most human services professionals. While we are NOT in a position to guarantee that your particular association will recognise the activity, we can assure you that the training is conducted in a thoroughly professional manner, you will receive a detailed Certificate of Attendance and we are happy to provide any other information that you may need to support your PD records.
TRAVEL, PARKING & ACCOMMODATION
There are a number of hotels within walking distance of the venue. See the SMC web site for details. The venue is a short walk from Museum Station (closest) or Central Station. Closest parking is Goulburn St parking station.
REGISTER FOR THIS TRAINING:
Individual registrations — Register online here
Three or more registrations together — Register online here
Eight or more registrations together — email Michael Durrant to discuss the price per person
Alternatively, download the brochure (and mail or fax your registration).
