For more information and to register, see the event page.

As technology advances, AI tools are becoming ubiquitous in daily life, improving efficiency and resource access. However, they also raise trust and safety concerns, particularly for survivors of domestic violence. This one-hour training will discuss how AI can offer misleading but seemingly empathetic advice. Key topics include common myths, benefits, privacy concerns, environmental impact, and safe usage practices for survivors and frontline workers, highlighting how these tools store and share information.

This webinar is intended for practitioners and professionals who regularly support victim-survivors of domestic violence who want a better understanding about how technology is misused in domestic and family violence situations.

For all enquiries, contact the organiser.

For more information and to register, see the event page.

As technology advances, AI tools are becoming ubiquitous in daily life, improving efficiency and resource access. However, they also raise trust and safety concerns, particularly for survivors of domestic violence. This one-hour training will discuss how AI can offer misleading but seemingly empathetic advice. Key topics include common myths, benefits, privacy concerns, environmental impact, and safe usage practices for survivors and frontline workers, highlighting how these tools store and share information.

This webinar is intended for practitioners and professionals who regularly support victim-survivors of domestic violence who want a better understanding about how technology is misused in domestic and family violence situations.

For all enquiries, contact the organiser.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

Decult 2026 presents an opportunity for new voices in the cult survivor space, for professional networks for cult education, and for taking action to address human rights, social justice and mental health. Decult 2026 promises an enriching, stimulating and engaging experience held in a safe space that respects diversity.

Please direct all inquiries to the organiser: admin@decult.net.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

Decult 2026 presents an opportunity for new voices in the cult survivor space, for professional networks for cult education, and for taking action to address human rights, social justice and mental health. Decult 2026 promises an enriching, stimulating and engaging experience held in a safe space that respects diversity.

Please direct all inquiries to the organiser: admin@decult.net.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This is a practical and interactive day which will help develop skills in safe, effective responses. The day will be facilitated by Shine RESPOND trainers alongside specialist guest speakers. The training builds understanding of how children experience family violence, coercive control and entrapment, drawing on emerging research and practice in this field, alongside a child rights perspective under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

For all queries about Shine's training, contact trainer@2shine.org.nz.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This is a practical and interactive day which will help develop skills in safe, effective responses. The day will be facilitated by Shine RESPOND trainers alongside specialist guest speakers. The training builds understanding of how children experience family violence, coercive control and entrapment, drawing on emerging research and practice in this field, alongside a child rights perspective under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

For all queries about Shine's training, contact trainer@2shine.org.nz.

To learn more and to register, visit Safeguarding Children's training calendar.

This training is intended as an introduction or refresher to the essentials of safeguarding and child protection. Attendees will gain an understanding of the impact of child abuse and neglect, including family violence and sexual violence, along with the knowledge of what to do to prevent and minimise the risk of harm to children and young people, tamariki and rangatahi. Attendees will gain confidence in the actions they need to take when worried about a child or young person.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

To learn more and to register, visit Safeguarding Children's training calendar.

This training is intended as an introduction or refresher to the essentials of safeguarding and child protection. Attendees will gain an understanding of the impact of child abuse and neglect, including family violence and sexual violence, along with the knowledge of what to do to prevent and minimise the risk of harm to children and young people, tamariki and rangatahi. Attendees will gain confidence in the actions they need to take when worried about a child or young person.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

For more information about this webinar series, visit Data Talks: A three-part online series.

To learn more about the individual sessions and to register, follow the links below:

1. What is data governance, and why does it matter? - Wednesday 30 September 2026, 12pm
2. Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Values, Rights and Responsibilities - Wednesday 28 October 2026, 12pm
3. Data Governance: From Local Practice to Global Perspectives - Wednesday 11 November 2026, 12pm

This webinar series will explore how communities can lead, govern, and protect their data in a changing digital world.

These sessions are guided by experts in their field and are designed as conversation starters. Each session includes a short presentation followed by facilitated discussion and breakout conversations.

This series is not about having all the answers yet. This series is about recognising that communities have valuable insights, experiences, and aspirations that should help shape how community organisations govern data and artificial intelligence.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: info@communitygovernance.org.nz.

For more information about this webinar series, visit Data Talks: A three-part online series.

To learn more about the individual sessions and to register, follow the links below:

1. What is data governance, and why does it matter? - Wednesday 30 September 2026, 12pm
2. Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Values, Rights and Responsibilities - Wednesday 28 October 2026, 12pm
3. Data Governance: From Local Practice to Global Perspectives - Wednesday 11 November 2026, 12pm

This webinar series will explore how communities can lead, govern, and protect their data in a changing digital world.

These sessions are guided by experts in their field and are designed as conversation starters. Each session includes a short presentation followed by facilitated discussion and breakout conversations.

This series is not about having all the answers yet. This series is about recognising that communities have valuable insights, experiences, and aspirations that should help shape how community organisations govern data and artificial intelligence.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: info@communitygovernance.org.nz.

For more information and to register, see the event page.

In this session Michael Seto (PhD) will provide an overview of key research and clinical findings about men who commit child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) offenses including the factors associated with the likelihood they will sexually offend again, such as escalation to contact sexual offenses. He will also briefly review the development and validation of the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT) and the recent revisions leading to the CPORT-R. Implications for risk assessment and management will be discussed.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: office@psychology.org.nz.

For more information and to register, see the event page.

In this session Michael Seto (PhD) will provide an overview of key research and clinical findings about men who commit child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) offenses including the factors associated with the likelihood they will sexually offend again, such as escalation to contact sexual offenses. He will also briefly review the development and validation of the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT) and the recent revisions leading to the CPORT-R. Implications for risk assessment and management will be discussed.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: office@psychology.org.nz.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This interactive one-day training is designed to advance practitioners’ understanding and application of strategies and tools to build organisational support and commitment for social change addressing the drivers of family and gender-based violence, and proactively plan for and manage institutional resistance to this change.

This is not foundational or introductory training; Safe and Equal strongly advise the completion of Unpacking Resistance prior to this training.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This interactive one-day training is designed to advance practitioners’ understanding and application of strategies and tools to build organisational support and commitment for social change addressing the drivers of family and gender-based violence, and proactively plan for and manage institutional resistance to this change.

This is not foundational or introductory training; Safe and Equal strongly advise the completion of Unpacking Resistance prior to this training.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and to register, see the event page.

This presentation will highlight how environmental criminology can be applied to financial elder abuse, specifically focusing on the misuse of power of attorney documents. Drawing on routine activity theory and situational crime prevention, this presentation will outline a model for prevention, focusing on enhancing primary prevention, attorney ability, and regular auditing of financial transactions.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: tepunahaumaru@waikato.ac.nz.

For more information and to register, see the event page.

This presentation will highlight how environmental criminology can be applied to financial elder abuse, specifically focusing on the misuse of power of attorney documents. Drawing on routine activity theory and situational crime prevention, this presentation will outline a model for prevention, focusing on enhancing primary prevention, attorney ability, and regular auditing of financial transactions.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: tepunahaumaru@waikato.ac.nz.

More information and to register, please visit the event page.

This workshop aims to equip family violence responders' with the knowledge to better understand Institutional Systems Abuse in the context of Systemic Coercive Control.

Key Learnings Include:

1. Understanding Systems Abuse and the various tactics used within these abuse forms
2. Informed – Reflects on models of understanding and offers a deconstruction of Social Entrapment Theory, moving beyond the framing of institutional harm as inadvertent or indifferent
3. Applied – This section introduces the pathways of harmful responses
4. Accountable – Takes a closer look at our ethical responsibilities as responders, to ourselves and to others.

For all queries, please contact the organiser: hello@jacki.co.nz.

More information and to register, please visit the event page.

This workshop aims to equip family violence responders' with the knowledge to better understand Institutional Systems Abuse in the context of Systemic Coercive Control.

Key Learnings Include:

1. Understanding Systems Abuse and the various tactics used within these abuse forms
2. Informed – Reflects on models of understanding and offers a deconstruction of Social Entrapment Theory, moving beyond the framing of institutional harm as inadvertent or indifferent
3. Applied – This section introduces the pathways of harmful responses
4. Accountable – Takes a closer look at our ethical responsibilities as responders, to ourselves and to others.

For all queries, please contact the organiser: hello@jacki.co.nz.

For more information and to register, see the event page.

This training is jointly presented by Louise Nicholas (Founder of the Louise Nicholas Trust) and Debbs Murray (Founder of ECLIPSE).

By combining the presenters lived experiences of both family and sexual violence, with their specialist practice knowledge, skills and capability, the true position of sexual violence in family violence perpetration will be exposed. With an increase in awareness of indicators of sexual violence within family violence, the intersection between the two can no longer be overlooked. Sexual violence can and is a form of family violence, and with increased practitioner knowledge, the voices of primary victims of family and sexual violence will be recognised.

Through attending this course attendees will:

• Obtain a deeper understanding of both sexual violence and family violence indicators and impacts.
• Learn about current and relevant sexual violence and family violence legislation, court processes, and effective support strategies.
• Obtain a deeper understanding of sexual violence in the context of Family Violence and how this is often missed, minimised or misunderstood as family violence.
• Gain understanding of coercive control as a tactic to coerce primary victims of family violence into acts of sexual violence.
• Develop knowledge of resistance strategies and how victims resist family and sexual violence through acts of active submission and active compliance.
• Be provided with practice tools and guidelines developed by victim-survivors and that are embedded with and informed by the voice of lived experience of sexual and family violence.

Please direct all questions to the organiser.

For more information and to register, see the event page.

This training is jointly presented by Louise Nicholas (Founder of the Louise Nicholas Trust) and Debbs Murray (Founder of ECLIPSE).

By combining the presenters lived experiences of both family and sexual violence, with their specialist practice knowledge, skills and capability, the true position of sexual violence in family violence perpetration will be exposed. With an increase in awareness of indicators of sexual violence within family violence, the intersection between the two can no longer be overlooked. Sexual violence can and is a form of family violence, and with increased practitioner knowledge, the voices of primary victims of family and sexual violence will be recognised.

Through attending this course attendees will:

• Obtain a deeper understanding of both sexual violence and family violence indicators and impacts.
• Learn about current and relevant sexual violence and family violence legislation, court processes, and effective support strategies.
• Obtain a deeper understanding of sexual violence in the context of Family Violence and how this is often missed, minimised or misunderstood as family violence.
• Gain understanding of coercive control as a tactic to coerce primary victims of family violence into acts of sexual violence.
• Develop knowledge of resistance strategies and how victims resist family and sexual violence through acts of active submission and active compliance.
• Be provided with practice tools and guidelines developed by victim-survivors and that are embedded with and informed by the voice of lived experience of sexual and family violence.

Please direct all questions to the organiser.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

The purpose of this training is to support practitioners delivering primary prevention work. This training does not focus on resistance from people using violence within early intervention or response practice contexts.

Unpacking Resistance training focuses on interpersonal resistance. Attendees will learn how to identify resistant behaviours and attitudes, and develop strategies and tools to support meaningful and solutions-focused conversations. These learnings will help attendees strengthen conversations with those they work with, to progress gender equality in workplaces, sporting clubs or councils.  Establishing spaces and conversations that are built on trust, care and respect will enable you to create change in the long run.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

The purpose of this training is to support practitioners delivering primary prevention work. This training does not focus on resistance from people using violence within early intervention or response practice contexts.

Unpacking Resistance training focuses on interpersonal resistance. Attendees will learn how to identify resistant behaviours and attitudes, and develop strategies and tools to support meaningful and solutions-focused conversations. These learnings will help attendees strengthen conversations with those they work with, to progress gender equality in workplaces, sporting clubs or councils.  Establishing spaces and conversations that are built on trust, care and respect will enable you to create change in the long run.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

Thursday 3 September 2026 - Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, register here. Ticket purchase also comes with 12 months access to Te Kete Koha - ongoing online professional development sessions.

Friday 6 November 2026 - Ōtepoti | Dunedin, register here. Ticket purchase also comes with 12 months access to Te Kete Koha - ongoing online professional development sessions.

To see more from Hohou Te rongo Kahukura - Outing Violence, visit their Courses page.

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These full day, Te Tiriti-based trainings are for kaimahi in family violence, sexual violence and connected sectors.

Trainings aim to deepen understanding of how Takatāpui and Rainbow people are affected by violence and to improve systems and practice when working with victim-survivors. Participants will consider the impacts of stigma and discrimination, explore risk and protective factors and embed learnings into practice through groupwork and discussion.

For all queries, please contact the organiser: wellbeing@kahukura.co.nz.

Thursday 3 September 2026 - Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, register here. Ticket purchase also comes with 12 months access to Te Kete Koha - ongoing online professional development sessions.

Friday 6 November 2026 - Ōtepoti | Dunedin, register here. Ticket purchase also comes with 12 months access to Te Kete Koha - ongoing online professional development sessions.

To see more from Hohou Te rongo Kahukura - Outing Violence, visit their Courses page.

*****

These full day, Te Tiriti-based trainings are for kaimahi in family violence, sexual violence and connected sectors.

Trainings aim to deepen understanding of how Takatāpui and Rainbow people are affected by violence and to improve systems and practice when working with victim-survivors. Participants will consider the impacts of stigma and discrimination, explore risk and protective factors and embed learnings into practice through groupwork and discussion.

For all queries, please contact the organiser: wellbeing@kahukura.co.nz.