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Introduction to Family Therapy
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. -
Building Team Resilience
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. -
Shame, Trauma and Family Relationships
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. -
Families and Trauma Work: Integrating Key Ideas from Individual & Systemic Practice
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. -
Attachment Assessment: The Essentials for Clinicians - Part B: Adolescence and Adulthood
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. -
Adolescent Family Violence: Systemic Interventions with Families
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. -
Using Narrative Work with Indigenous Families
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. -
Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma
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. -
Introduction to Family Therapy
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. -
Single Session Family Consultation in Practice (Sept)
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. -
20th Annual Mental Health Mini-Conference
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". -
Single Session Thinking in Practice
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. -
Adolescent Family Violence: Systemic Interventions with Families
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. -
Systemic Family Work After Family Violence
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. -
No Bullshit Therapy in Practice
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. -
Grief and Family Work
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.
Read the latest news from our Centre.
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How to build a resilient team
When times are tough, we often talk about our resilience as individuals. But have you heard about team resilience? La Trobe University staff from The Bouverie Centre share their tips on creating a resilient team.
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Meet the new graduates of Australia's only First Nations Family Therapy course
Did you know La Trobe University delivers Australia’s only Graduate Certificate in Family Therapy for First Nations workers? Meet some of our alumni from Queensland and find out what makes the course culturally safe.
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Body image research gives pause for reflection
New study by Dr Sian McLean shows there is no detrimental effect in taking part in body image research.