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  • Thursday 14 July 09:30am
    This 4-day live stream course, presented by The Bouverie Centre, provides a basic introduction to core concepts of family therapy theory and practice.

  • Monday 15 August 09:30am
    Are you a manager or supervisor in the helping professions looking to build positive team cultures? This workshop considers the challenges staff working in these professions face and explores the personal, professional and organisational responses in sustaining team resilience.

  • Thursday 18 August 09:30am
    This live-stream online course, presented by The Bouverie Centre, explores shame as a byproduct of trauma. It draws on Attachment and Trauma theories, Narrative Therapy and Family Therapy to explore how shame is manifest through the experience of trauma.

  • Tuesday 30 August 09:30am
    This 2-day course, presented by The Bouverie Centre, integrates theoretical and practical ideas from both individually oriented and systemic approaches when working with families and individuals where there has been trauma.

  • Monday 05 September 09:30am
    This course, which will be held in person at The Bouverie Centre, takes you through narrative, projective and questionnaire methods for assessing teen and adult attachment, with case examples.

  • Wednesday 07 September 09:30am
    This face-to-face workshop, presented at The Bouverie Centre, Brunswick will explore the determinants and contexts that underpin the use of violence by adolescents against parents/carers. We will then look at how systemic ways of working with the adolescent, parent/carer and other family members can support positive change and enhanced family trust, respect and safety.

  • Thursday 08 September 09:30am
    This live streamed course, presented by The Bouverie Centre, provides a practice-based introduction to using narrative therapy and other creative processes with Indigenous families. You will get to explore the principles, philosophies and concepts underpinning the narrative approach.

  • Friday 09 September 09:30am
    This live-stream online course, presented by The Bouverie Centre, introduces and explores concepts and techniques of the narrative approach to working with clients who have experienced trauma.

  • Monday 12 September 09:30am
    This 4-day course held in person and presented by The Bouverie Centre, provides a basic introduction to core concepts of family therapy theory and practice.

  • Wednesday 14 September 09:00am
    Presented by The Bouverie Centre, this live-stream half-day course is the practice companion to Bouverie’s Single Session Family Consultation (SSFC) self-paced online course. It provides you with an opportunity to consolidate your knowledge of SSFC and enhance the application of these ideas in your clinical practice.

  • Tuesday 11 October 09:30am
    Save the date to The Bouverie Centre's 20th Annual Mental Health Mini-Conference. The conference program promises to be a heady mix of celebration, stimulation and challenge as we explore "How are we really getting on? Relationships between consumers, families & practitioners in mental health".

  • Thursday 20 October 01:00pm
    This in-person half-day implementation focused training is the practice companion to The Bouverie Centre’s Single Session Thinking (SST) self-paced online course. SST involves approaching the first session as if it will be the last, whilst creating opportunities for further work if requested by the client. This training is designed to consolidate your SST knowledge and enhance the application of these ideas in your clinical practice.

  • Thursday 20 October 09:30am
    This live-stream workshop, presented by The Bouverie Centre, will explore the determinants and contexts that underpin the use of violence by adolescents against parents/carers. We will then look at how systemic ways of working with the adolescent, parent/carer and other family members can support positive change and enhanced family trust, respect and safety.

  • Thursday 27 October 09:30am
    This live-stream course, presented by The Bouverie Centre, assists healthcare and welfare practitioners work systemically with families (non-offending parent, children, grandparents, etc) in the aftermath of domestic and family violence.

  • Thursday 10 November 09:00am
    his half-day live stream workshop, presented by The Bouverie Centre, complements our No Bullshit Therapy (NBT) self-paced online course. It supports the content of the self-paced online modules by building on your existing knowledge of NBT as a way to work respectfully with all people, including those reluctant to engage.

  • Thursday 24 November 09:30am
    Gain conceptual knowledge of frameworks for understanding and working with families experiencing loss and grief. Aside from bereavement grief, this live stream workshop, presented by The Bouverie Centre, explores the impact on families of grief associated with experiences such as mental illness, disability such as acquired brain injury, chronic illness, and the many other life events which lead to non-finite (disenfranchised) grief.

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