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

In addition to strangulation, this workshop also introduces topics such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), sexual violence, threatening behaviour and other factors including ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) to enhance decision-making and ultimately safety for victims, families and whānau.

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Define strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence
• Describe the signs, symptoms and injuries associated with strangulation
• Know some of the resources available to facilitate effective documentation
• Understand behaviours often associated with strangulation including TBI, sexual violence, threats and separation
• Apply learnings to risk assessment and safety planning

If you have any questions please contact Rob Veale on 027 4988653 or email robveale@xtra.co.nz.

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

In addition to strangulation, this workshop also introduces topics such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), sexual violence, threatening behaviour and other factors including ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) to enhance decision-making and ultimately safety for victims, families and whānau.

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Define strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence
• Describe the signs, symptoms and injuries associated with strangulation
• Know some of the resources available to facilitate effective documentation
• Understand behaviours often associated with strangulation including TBI, sexual violence, threats and separation
• Apply learnings to risk assessment and safety planning

If you have any questions please contact Rob Veale on 027 4988653 or email robveale@xtra.co.nz.

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

Hoake Tātou | Walk With Me has been designed to bring service providers and support agencies together, help strengthen understanding of the barriers men face when seeking help, and highlight the benefits of a purposeful peer support and wellbeing approach to support recovery.

The presentation content includes:

• Safe access and effective engagement of male survivors with support services
• Dispelling some of the common myths about male victims of sexual harm
• Navigate the misunderstandings that create barriers to engagement with support services
• Highlight the role of lived experience as an effective engagement model
• Collaboration and partnerships to welcome and embrace cultural and gender diversity within the male survivor community

In total, 26 events will be held in 17 towns and cities, featuring a panel of presenters at each, including male survivors of sexual abuse.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

Upcoming dates:

• ‍Christchurch: 7  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Nelson: 8  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  North: 15  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  Central: 15  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  Central: 16  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  South: 16  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Hamilton: 29  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  – Lower Hutt: 11  November 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Wellington  – Porirua: 11  November 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  Central: 12  November 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Tauranga: 25  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Rotorua: 26  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Taupo: 27  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Hastings: 9  December 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Napier: 9  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Tairāwhiti: 10  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Whanganui: 11  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍New  Plymouth: 12  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Palmerston  North: 25  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Whangārei: 10  March 2026, 10.00am  & 2.00pm

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

Hoake Tātou | Walk With Me has been designed to bring service providers and support agencies together, help strengthen understanding of the barriers men face when seeking help, and highlight the benefits of a purposeful peer support and wellbeing approach to support recovery.

The presentation content includes:

• Safe access and effective engagement of male survivors with support services
• Dispelling some of the common myths about male victims of sexual harm
• Navigate the misunderstandings that create barriers to engagement with support services
• Highlight the role of lived experience as an effective engagement model
• Collaboration and partnerships to welcome and embrace cultural and gender diversity within the male survivor community

In total, 26 events will be held in 17 towns and cities, featuring a panel of presenters at each, including male survivors of sexual abuse.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

Upcoming dates:

• ‍Christchurch: 7  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Nelson: 8  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  North: 15  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  Central: 15  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  Central: 16  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  South: 16  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Hamilton: 29  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  – Lower Hutt: 11  November 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Wellington  – Porirua: 11  November 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  Central: 12  November 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Tauranga: 25  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Rotorua: 26  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Taupo: 27  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Hastings: 9  December 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Napier: 9  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Tairāwhiti: 10  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Whanganui: 11  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍New  Plymouth: 12  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Palmerston  North: 25  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Whangārei: 10  March 2026, 10.00am  & 2.00pm

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

This webinar is the second in a series co-hosted by the LNKH webinar series and the FVFL project. In it, DVDRC members will share lessons learned from homicides in the context of family law proceedings as well as unique issues for survivors in immigrant or refugee communities. The webinar will also explore the special needs of surviving children in the aftermath of domestic homicide deaths. 

Watch part 1 of this series, here (Part 2 will become available here after the fact).

By participating in this webinar, participants will:

• Understand post-separation abuse and appreciate how family court contexts can increase risk for lethality  
• Identify unique challenges and risks for IPV homicide faced by immigrant and refugee communities  
• Gain knowledge about the steps that court systems, legal professionals, community-based professionals can take to prevent of intimate partner homicide  
• Consider the profound impact on, and needs of, child survivors of intimate partner homicide. Understand changes we need to make to better respond to these children.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: gbvln@uwo.ca.

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

This webinar is the second in a series co-hosted by the LNKH webinar series and the FVFL project. In it, DVDRC members will share lessons learned from homicides in the context of family law proceedings as well as unique issues for survivors in immigrant or refugee communities. The webinar will also explore the special needs of surviving children in the aftermath of domestic homicide deaths. 

Watch part 1 of this series, here (Part 2 will become available here after the fact).

By participating in this webinar, participants will:

• Understand post-separation abuse and appreciate how family court contexts can increase risk for lethality  
• Identify unique challenges and risks for IPV homicide faced by immigrant and refugee communities  
• Gain knowledge about the steps that court systems, legal professionals, community-based professionals can take to prevent of intimate partner homicide  
• Consider the profound impact on, and needs of, child survivors of intimate partner homicide. Understand changes we need to make to better respond to these children.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: gbvln@uwo.ca.

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

As part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, eSafety is hosting a series of webinars focused on empowering Australians to recognise and respond to technology-facilitated abuse. These sessions will provide practical advice and tools to help people stay safe, supported and in control when navigating digital spaces.

This training explores: 

• 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 direct all queries to the organiser.

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

As part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, eSafety is hosting a series of webinars focused on empowering Australians to recognise and respond to technology-facilitated abuse. These sessions will provide practical advice and tools to help people stay safe, supported and in control when navigating digital spaces.

This training explores: 

• 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 direct all queries to the organiser.

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

This 45-minute webinar is for upper primary and secondary educators, and school support staff.

Sexual extortion is a serious, growing online concern, especially for young people. But what exactly is it? What conversations may help prevent it and how can one support young people if they’re targeted?

This webinar will cover:

• what sexual extortion is
• the impacts and potential harms sexual extortion may have on young people
• strategies to support young people who may experience sexual extortion, including how to respond and access support

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

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

This 45-minute webinar is for upper primary and secondary educators, and school support staff.

Sexual extortion is a serious, growing online concern, especially for young people. But what exactly is it? What conversations may help prevent it and how can one support young people if they’re targeted?

This webinar will cover:

• what sexual extortion is
• the impacts and potential harms sexual extortion may have on young people
• strategies to support young people who may experience sexual extortion, including how to respond and access support

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, please see the official conference webpage.

The theme for this year's conference is 'A Sociology of Beauty and Joy', reflecting the need, amidst the present situation of 'polycrisis', to bring to the fore the dimensions of beauty and joy present in the social world, as modes of resistance and ways forward. More on the theme can be found online at the link above.

The conference takes place this year at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

Programme forthcoming.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: Janepicha.cheva-isarakul@vuw.ac.nz.

For more information and to register, please see the official conference webpage.

The theme for this year's conference is 'A Sociology of Beauty and Joy', reflecting the need, amidst the present situation of 'polycrisis', to bring to the fore the dimensions of beauty and joy present in the social world, as modes of resistance and ways forward. More on the theme can be found online at the link above.

The conference takes place this year at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

Programme forthcoming.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: Janepicha.cheva-isarakul@vuw.ac.nz.

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

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Recognise the importance of risk assessment as part of the safety planning process
• Consider some of the types of risk assessment tools used in the context of IPV
• Understand and describe common risk markers associated with family violence and serious harm
• Be aware of stalking as a high risk marker of serious harm in the context of IPV
• Be able to apply their understanding of risk assessment to workshop scenarios (note: details of actual cases will be presented in this session).

For all queries, contact the organiser.

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

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Recognise the importance of risk assessment as part of the safety planning process
• Consider some of the types of risk assessment tools used in the context of IPV
• Understand and describe common risk markers associated with family violence and serious harm
• Be aware of stalking as a high risk marker of serious harm in the context of IPV
• Be able to apply their understanding of risk assessment to workshop scenarios (note: details of actual cases will be presented in this session).

For all queries, contact the organiser.

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

Register to attend the 5th Annual Peter Jaffe Lectures, featuring Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss presenting Gender-Based Violence and Violent Extremism.

In this lecture, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a leading expert on extremism, will explain the importance of recognizing and calling out the thread of misogyny running through these attacks. She will offer essential strategies that we can use in our everyday lives to address and respond to gendered hate and violence, mapping a pathway to building healthier, more inclusive spaces for everyone. 

This hybrid event can be attended in person or live via Zoom webinar. The lecture will be delivered in English, with French simultaneous interpretation and closed captioning in both English and French available for online participants.

Please direct all queries to the organisers: alumni@uwo.ca.

About the speaker:

Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at the American University in Washington, DC, where she is also the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL).

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

Register to attend the 5th Annual Peter Jaffe Lectures, featuring Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss presenting Gender-Based Violence and Violent Extremism.

In this lecture, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a leading expert on extremism, will explain the importance of recognizing and calling out the thread of misogyny running through these attacks. She will offer essential strategies that we can use in our everyday lives to address and respond to gendered hate and violence, mapping a pathway to building healthier, more inclusive spaces for everyone. 

This hybrid event can be attended in person or live via Zoom webinar. The lecture will be delivered in English, with French simultaneous interpretation and closed captioning in both English and French available for online participants.

Please direct all queries to the organisers: alumni@uwo.ca.

About the speaker:

Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at the American University in Washington, DC, where she is also the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL).

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

During this workshop, attendees will explore how to undertake an appropriate risk analysis for technology facilitated family violence and develop robust safety strategies to keep primary victims safe on devices. They will explore the tracking capabilities of unexpected everyday devices, such as pet microchips, and electronic tools in homes, such as automatic curtains openers, appliance apps, and how these can be used to perpetrate harm. This workshop will provide tools to appropriately consider, recognise and respond to technology facilitated family violence.

Through attending this course attendee's will:

• Obtain an understanding of the prevalence of technologically facilitated family violence.
• Obtain an understanding of what and how devices and apps can be utilised to track, monitor and control victims of family violence.
• Understand how to include analysis of technology in risk analysis and develop robust safety strategies for devices and apps.
• How to record and gather evidence via electronic footprints.
• How to recognise technological violations.
• How children's devices can be used by predominant aggressors to monitor primary victims.
• Toolkits and information to support ongoing safety for whānau and for you as practitioners.

For all questions, please contact the organiser.

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

During this workshop, attendees will explore how to undertake an appropriate risk analysis for technology facilitated family violence and develop robust safety strategies to keep primary victims safe on devices. They will explore the tracking capabilities of unexpected everyday devices, such as pet microchips, and electronic tools in homes, such as automatic curtains openers, appliance apps, and how these can be used to perpetrate harm. This workshop will provide tools to appropriately consider, recognise and respond to technology facilitated family violence.

Through attending this course attendee's will:

• Obtain an understanding of the prevalence of technologically facilitated family violence.
• Obtain an understanding of what and how devices and apps can be utilised to track, monitor and control victims of family violence.
• Understand how to include analysis of technology in risk analysis and develop robust safety strategies for devices and apps.
• How to record and gather evidence via electronic footprints.
• How to recognise technological violations.
• How children's devices can be used by predominant aggressors to monitor primary victims.
• Toolkits and information to support ongoing safety for whānau and for you as practitioners.

For all questions, please contact the organiser.

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

This interactive, online training module will assist professionals to effectively identify, understand and resist invitations to collude with men who use family violence.

Participants who attend this training will be able to:

• Explain the causes, mechanisms, and purpose of family violence
• Explore perpetrator accountability
• Identify core beliefs held by men who use violence
• Identify 'smoke screens' used to conceal violence
• Use invitational approaches to build rapport and enhance reflection
• Understand the nature of collusion and how to resist invitations to collude
• Examine shame and values
• Motivate change and referral readiness
• Understand safety planning and referral pathways

For questions, please contact the organisers directly: resisting.collusion@gmail.com.

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

This interactive, online training module will assist professionals to effectively identify, understand and resist invitations to collude with men who use family violence.

Participants who attend this training will be able to:

• Explain the causes, mechanisms, and purpose of family violence
• Explore perpetrator accountability
• Identify core beliefs held by men who use violence
• Identify 'smoke screens' used to conceal violence
• Use invitational approaches to build rapport and enhance reflection
• Understand the nature of collusion and how to resist invitations to collude
• Examine shame and values
• Motivate change and referral readiness
• Understand safety planning and referral pathways

For questions, please contact the organisers directly: resisting.collusion@gmail.com.

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

This webinar, part of the Learning Network & Knowledge Hub (LN/KH) Webinar Series and co-hosted with Respect at Work is grounded in a real-life arbitration case and invites participants to examine how a trauma- and violence-informed (TVI) lens might have changed an employer’s response to an employee experiencing intimate partner violence. The webinar explores what a TVI analysis would have revealed about the survivors needs and barriers to participation in the accommodation process. Understanding these dynamics can also further help service providers potential barriers and more effectively support survivors in navigating workplace responses. Building on these insights, the session will reverse-engineer the employer's legally required workplace violence program to identify policy and procedural measures that could have recognized risks and warning signs of IPV earlier , reduced harm, and strengthened support for survivors.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify the unique barriers that survivors— including those who are racialized, rural, or otherwise marginalized—face when seeking support for intimate partner violence at work.
• Enhance standard template workplace violence policies to make them more trauma- and violence-informed and survivor-centred.
• Deepen understanding of workplace violence procedures and legislative obligations, and how these shape the experiences of employees experiencing intimate partner violence.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: gbvln@uwo.ca.

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

This webinar, part of the Learning Network & Knowledge Hub (LN/KH) Webinar Series and co-hosted with Respect at Work is grounded in a real-life arbitration case and invites participants to examine how a trauma- and violence-informed (TVI) lens might have changed an employer’s response to an employee experiencing intimate partner violence. The webinar explores what a TVI analysis would have revealed about the survivors needs and barriers to participation in the accommodation process. Understanding these dynamics can also further help service providers potential barriers and more effectively support survivors in navigating workplace responses. Building on these insights, the session will reverse-engineer the employer's legally required workplace violence program to identify policy and procedural measures that could have recognized risks and warning signs of IPV earlier , reduced harm, and strengthened support for survivors.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify the unique barriers that survivors— including those who are racialized, rural, or otherwise marginalized—face when seeking support for intimate partner violence at work.
• Enhance standard template workplace violence policies to make them more trauma- and violence-informed and survivor-centred.
• Deepen understanding of workplace violence procedures and legislative obligations, and how these shape the experiences of employees experiencing intimate partner violence.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: gbvln@uwo.ca.

For more information and to register for the online training, visit the webinar events page.

This workshop focuses on understanding the concept of vulnerability and explores factors that contribute to vulnerability, risk and child abuse. Participants will learn how to identify when children and young people are vulnerable to abuse and neglect, and how to intervene early.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and to register for the online training, visit the webinar events page.

This workshop focuses on understanding the concept of vulnerability and explores factors that contribute to vulnerability, risk and child abuse. Participants will learn how to identify when children and young people are vulnerable to abuse and neglect, and how to intervene early.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.