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

This webinar will explore how practitioners can better support the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ young people with a disability.

This webinar will provide:

• an introduction to intersectionality theory and how this framework can be applied in practice to help understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ young people with disability
• a better understanding of the factors that influence a young person’s exploration of their identity as an LGBTQ+ person with disability and the impact this can have on their mental health and wellbeing
• practical tips on how you can better support LGBTQ+ young people with disability.

A recording of the webinar will be made available on the AIFS website: https://aifs.gov.au/webinars

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

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

This webinar will explore how practitioners can better support the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ young people with a disability.

This webinar will provide:

• an introduction to intersectionality theory and how this framework can be applied in practice to help understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ young people with disability
• a better understanding of the factors that influence a young person’s exploration of their identity as an LGBTQ+ person with disability and the impact this can have on their mental health and wellbeing
• practical tips on how you can better support LGBTQ+ young people with disability.

A recording of the webinar will be made available on the AIFS website: https://aifs.gov.au/webinars

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

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

This session explores the risks linked to generative AI. Understanding these risks, how to minimise them, and how to respond when something goes wrong is essential for everyone, especially those working with children and young people.

This webinar for educators and youth-serving professionals will cover:

• Current and emerging risks including AI companion chatbots, sexual and non-sexual deepfakes, AI influencers, and AI-facilitated cyberbullying and harassment
• How these technologies affect young people’s safety, privacy, development, and mental and social health
• Practical strategies and resources to help children and young people navigate these risks, and guidance on how and where to seek help.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

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

This session explores the risks linked to generative AI. Understanding these risks, how to minimise them, and how to respond when something goes wrong is essential for everyone, especially those working with children and young people.

This webinar for educators and youth-serving professionals will cover:

• Current and emerging risks including AI companion chatbots, sexual and non-sexual deepfakes, AI influencers, and AI-facilitated cyberbullying and harassment
• How these technologies affect young people’s safety, privacy, development, and mental and social health
• Practical strategies and resources to help children and young people navigate these risks, and guidance on how and where to seek help.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

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

Join Te Whāriki Manawāhine o Hauraki and Wāhine Toa as they share their findings on how wāhine Māori connected to gang whānau are made homeless through the cumulative impacts of state violence, institutional exclusion, intergenerational trauma, and the ongoing criminalisation of Indigenous survival.

For all queries, contact the organiser: admin@cewh.org.

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

Join Te Whāriki Manawāhine o Hauraki and Wāhine Toa as they share their findings on how wāhine Māori connected to gang whānau are made homeless through the cumulative impacts of state violence, institutional exclusion, intergenerational trauma, and the ongoing criminalisation of Indigenous survival.

For all queries, contact the organiser: admin@cewh.org.

For more information and to access the event link, see the event listing.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Trauma Research (CITR) is hosting their 4th Colloquium in 2026. " The Sense of Safety Framework: a trauma informed and healing oriented approach for whole person care” will be presented by CITR Guest speaker Dr Johanna Lynch.

Across the disciplines, there is a growing awareness of the impact of trauma on health. This is enabling a paradigm shift in medicine - towards understanding the far-reaching impacts of life stories, relationships, place, and meaning-making on biology. This welcome shift is changing our understanding of disease formation and our understanding of ways people cope with distress. First wave trauma-informed care shifted attention from what is wrong with you to what happened to you. This attention to the past at times caused pain - as retelling stories without safety can cause harm - to both the clinician and those they care for. This session introduces part of a new strength-based and healing-oriented approach to trauma, developed by an Australian general practitioner psychotherapist. The Sense of Safety Theoretical Framework asks a new question: 'what can build your sense of safety?’ This approach defines whole person domains, sense of safety dynamics, and practitioner skills and attitudes that enable practitioners to attend to shifts in sense of safety in the consultation, across the healing journey, and in their own wellbeing. This internationally acclaimed approach is grounded in robust research, has been endorsed by First Nations academics, and been applied across the disciplines. Attendees are invited to consider the implications for their own practice or research and to dream of a healthcare system that recognises and responds to the imprint of trauma on people’s lives by building their sense of safety in the world.

Associate Professor Johanna Lynch MBBS PhD FRACGP FASPM Grad Cert(Grief and Loss) is Whole Person Care Lead and Deputy GP Lead at New Med Education, working in partnership with Federation University. She is a mentor and retired general practitioner of 25 years. She consults nationally and internationally across the health and domestic violence sectors on strength-based, trauma-informed and whole person approaches to health.

For all queries, contact the organisers: citr@aut.ac.nz.

For more information and to access the event link, see the event listing.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Trauma Research (CITR) is hosting their 4th Colloquium in 2026. " The Sense of Safety Framework: a trauma informed and healing oriented approach for whole person care” will be presented by CITR Guest speaker Dr Johanna Lynch.

Across the disciplines, there is a growing awareness of the impact of trauma on health. This is enabling a paradigm shift in medicine - towards understanding the far-reaching impacts of life stories, relationships, place, and meaning-making on biology. This welcome shift is changing our understanding of disease formation and our understanding of ways people cope with distress. First wave trauma-informed care shifted attention from what is wrong with you to what happened to you. This attention to the past at times caused pain - as retelling stories without safety can cause harm - to both the clinician and those they care for. This session introduces part of a new strength-based and healing-oriented approach to trauma, developed by an Australian general practitioner psychotherapist. The Sense of Safety Theoretical Framework asks a new question: 'what can build your sense of safety?’ This approach defines whole person domains, sense of safety dynamics, and practitioner skills and attitudes that enable practitioners to attend to shifts in sense of safety in the consultation, across the healing journey, and in their own wellbeing. This internationally acclaimed approach is grounded in robust research, has been endorsed by First Nations academics, and been applied across the disciplines. Attendees are invited to consider the implications for their own practice or research and to dream of a healthcare system that recognises and responds to the imprint of trauma on people’s lives by building their sense of safety in the world.

Associate Professor Johanna Lynch MBBS PhD FRACGP FASPM Grad Cert(Grief and Loss) is Whole Person Care Lead and Deputy GP Lead at New Med Education, working in partnership with Federation University. She is a mentor and retired general practitioner of 25 years. She consults nationally and internationally across the health and domestic violence sectors on strength-based, trauma-informed and whole person approaches to health.

For all queries, contact the organisers: citr@aut.ac.nz.

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

This conference is focused on anti-racism in education. It is designed to give educators, school boards, policy makers and community leaders an opportunity to learn from anti-racist scholars and each other.

The key themes of this conference are:

• Supporting the profession with an understanding of anti-racism and building confidence
• Honouring Te Tiriti and anti-racist praxis
• Responding to student voice
• Impacts of racialised trauma and responses on wellbeing
• Tackling whiteness in decision making
• Multiple perspectives (including Indigenous, Oceanic, Global Majority)
• An introduction to Takarangi, a framework created through WERO (working to end racial oppression) project
• Practical skills to effectively address racism in schools
• Co-development of a framework for implementing school-wide anti-racism policies

For all enquiries, please contact the organiser.

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

This conference is focused on anti-racism in education. It is designed to give educators, school boards, policy makers and community leaders an opportunity to learn from anti-racist scholars and each other.

The key themes of this conference are:

• Supporting the profession with an understanding of anti-racism and building confidence
• Honouring Te Tiriti and anti-racist praxis
• Responding to student voice
• Impacts of racialised trauma and responses on wellbeing
• Tackling whiteness in decision making
• Multiple perspectives (including Indigenous, Oceanic, Global Majority)
• An introduction to Takarangi, a framework created through WERO (working to end racial oppression) project
• Practical skills to effectively address racism in schools
• Co-development of a framework for implementing school-wide anti-racism policies

For all enquiries, please contact the organiser.

For more information and to register, visit Empowering Indigenous Voices.

From the event page:

"We welcome you to fill your baskets of knowledge, to dive into the wellsprings of intellect, experience and ancient-knowing. To bring with you your wisdom that will bind together with mine, to bring our collective prosperity to light. It is affirmed with the breath of life! Tihei, mauri ora!

Indigenous communities are at the forefront of innovative development, drawing on ancestral knowledge and contemporary strategies to address issues in all aspects of our worlds. From health and wellbeing to education, environmental stewardship to justice, technology and innovation to cultural revitalisation, we will be bringing these various threads together in one place.

Join us as we gather alongside Indigenous change makers, visionaries, and leaders from across Aotearoa New Zealand in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland for the Empowering Indigenous Voices International Symposium"

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, visit Empowering Indigenous Voices.

From the event page:

"We welcome you to fill your baskets of knowledge, to dive into the wellsprings of intellect, experience and ancient-knowing. To bring with you your wisdom that will bind together with mine, to bring our collective prosperity to light. It is affirmed with the breath of life! Tihei, mauri ora!

Indigenous communities are at the forefront of innovative development, drawing on ancestral knowledge and contemporary strategies to address issues in all aspects of our worlds. From health and wellbeing to education, environmental stewardship to justice, technology and innovation to cultural revitalisation, we will be bringing these various threads together in one place.

Join us as we gather alongside Indigenous change makers, visionaries, and leaders from across Aotearoa New Zealand in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland for the Empowering Indigenous Voices International Symposium"

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

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

This conference will bring together leading scholars, policy makers, and members of the community sector. Presentations will showcase new research on the manosphere and digital misogyny, discuss the challenges of researching this area, and highlight strategies and interventions for responding to and countering manosphere-related harms.

The conference will feature presentations from leading scholars across Critical Masculinities Studies, Violence Prevention, Extremism Studies, Digital Media Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

This conference will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, educators, and community practitioners working in gender equality, violence prevention, online safety, and violent extremism.

A recording of the event will be made available to registered attendees following the conference.

Please direct any questions to the organisers at ben.hemmings@deakin.edu.au

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

This conference will bring together leading scholars, policy makers, and members of the community sector. Presentations will showcase new research on the manosphere and digital misogyny, discuss the challenges of researching this area, and highlight strategies and interventions for responding to and countering manosphere-related harms.

The conference will feature presentations from leading scholars across Critical Masculinities Studies, Violence Prevention, Extremism Studies, Digital Media Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

This conference will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, educators, and community practitioners working in gender equality, violence prevention, online safety, and violent extremism.

A recording of the event will be made available to registered attendees following the conference.

Please direct any questions to the organisers at ben.hemmings@deakin.edu.au

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

This workshop aims to equip family violence responders' with the knowledge to understand, identify and disrupt 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 understand, identify and disrupt 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, please visit the event page.

This introductory training prepares attendees to respond appropriately and safely to people experiencing family violence. The session will introduce attendees to an understanding of the impact family violence has on adults and children and of the complexity of family violence and its effects on a person’s dignity and wellbeing. Attendees will also learn and practice the Recognise/Respond/Refer model with scenarios whilst also interactively exploring the concepts of social entrapment, coercive control and resistance.

For any queries about this training, contact the organisers at: trainer@2shine.org.nz.

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

This introductory training prepares attendees to respond appropriately and safely to people experiencing family violence. The session will introduce attendees to an understanding of the impact family violence has on adults and children and of the complexity of family violence and its effects on a person’s dignity and wellbeing. Attendees will also learn and practice the Recognise/Respond/Refer model with scenarios whilst also interactively exploring the concepts of social entrapment, coercive control and resistance.

For any queries about this training, contact the organisers at: trainer@2shine.org.nz.

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

This training will equip you with knowledge and skills to design and implement programs for the primary prevention of family and gender-based violence with an intersectional lens, ensuring that our efforts reflect the diversity and unique strengths of all people and are driven by effective and equitable stakeholder partnerships.

Participants will learn:

• Build understanding key settings and strategies for primary prevention of family and gender-based violence prevention
• Develop skills to design and deliver prevention programs with embedded intersectional practice
• Increase ability to work effectively with stakeholders and advisory groups
• Build understanding of best practice evaluation and monitoring tools and approaches

Please direct all queries to the organiser at training@safeandequal.org.au.

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

This training will equip you with knowledge and skills to design and implement programs for the primary prevention of family and gender-based violence with an intersectional lens, ensuring that our efforts reflect the diversity and unique strengths of all people and are driven by effective and equitable stakeholder partnerships.

Participants will learn:

• Build understanding key settings and strategies for primary prevention of family and gender-based violence prevention
• Develop skills to design and deliver prevention programs with embedded intersectional practice
• Increase ability to work effectively with stakeholders and advisory groups
• Build understanding of best practice evaluation and monitoring tools and approaches

Please direct all queries to the organiser at training@safeandequal.org.au.

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

This webinar is for secondary educators and school support.

Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviours that uses manipulation, monitoring, surveillance, pressure, and fear to limit someone’s freedom and independence. When technology is involved, it can be harder to recognise.

This webinar will explore:

• how technology-facilitated coercive control impacts young people;
• the common red flags to watch for;
• practical ways to respond and support those experiencing it.

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

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

This webinar is for secondary educators and school support.

Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviours that uses manipulation, monitoring, surveillance, pressure, and fear to limit someone’s freedom and independence. When technology is involved, it can be harder to recognise.

This webinar will explore:

• how technology-facilitated coercive control impacts young people;
• the common red flags to watch for;
• practical ways to respond and support those experiencing it.

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

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

Course Outcomes:

• Become introduced to the concept of victim-survivor resistance and ECLIPSE's Whole of Person Approach
• Have a greater understanding of how to analyse risk, consider the cumulative impact of harm, and identify other unseen areas of harm (such as retaliatory violence and gang association)
• Develop insight into protective factors and safety strategies victim-survivors utilise to keep themselves and their whānau safe
• Learn about how to undertake safety strategising and safety planning
• Grow in awareness and knowledge of the dynamics of family violence and how one can respond in a more empathetic manner.

Please direct all questions to the organiser.

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

Course Outcomes:

• Become introduced to the concept of victim-survivor resistance and ECLIPSE's Whole of Person Approach
• Have a greater understanding of how to analyse risk, consider the cumulative impact of harm, and identify other unseen areas of harm (such as retaliatory violence and gang association)
• Develop insight into protective factors and safety strategies victim-survivors utilise to keep themselves and their whānau safe
• Learn about how to undertake safety strategising and safety planning
• Grow in awareness and knowledge of the dynamics of family violence and how one can respond in a more empathetic manner.

Please direct all questions to the organiser.