For more information and to register for any of the Privacy Week 2026 webinars, please see the official event page.

Privacy Week 2026 is a series of free webinars promoting privacy awareness regardless of how much one already knows. The 2026 theme is “Foundations for the future | He Tūāpapa Anamata”.

Webinars cover topics as varied as AI and Indigenous data sovereignty.

Please direct all queries to the organisers at privacyweek@privacy.org.nz

For more information and to register for any of the Privacy Week 2026 webinars, please see the official event page.

Privacy Week 2026 is a series of free webinars promoting privacy awareness regardless of how much one already knows. The 2026 theme is “Foundations for the future | He Tūāpapa Anamata”.

Webinars cover topics as varied as AI and Indigenous data sovereignty.

Please direct all queries to the organisers at privacyweek@privacy.org.nz

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, please visit the event page.

ECLIPSE's Child Protection and Family Violence training course provides participants with a greater understanding of child protection when family violence exists. This course will introduce you to important aspects of child protection, the complexities produced by family violence, legislation, and practitioner obligations and responses.

Course Outcomes:

• Be introduced to the dynamics and impacts of family violence and child abuse
• Have a greater understanding of child development and the effects of family violence on children's development
• Learn about the impacts of family violence on parenting and the protective nature of relationships
• Be exposed to legislation relating to family violence and child protection
• Learn about how practitioners can respond to concerns for children when family violence exists, including how to work with Oranga Tamariki
• Grow in your knowledge and confidence to work with whānau when there are concerns for the safety or wellbeing of children.

For all questions, please contact the organiser.

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

ECLIPSE's Child Protection and Family Violence training course provides participants with a greater understanding of child protection when family violence exists. This course will introduce you to important aspects of child protection, the complexities produced by family violence, legislation, and practitioner obligations and responses.

Course Outcomes:

• Be introduced to the dynamics and impacts of family violence and child abuse
• Have a greater understanding of child development and the effects of family violence on children's development
• Learn about the impacts of family violence on parenting and the protective nature of relationships
• Be exposed to legislation relating to family violence and child protection
• Learn about how practitioners can respond to concerns for children when family violence exists, including how to work with Oranga Tamariki
• Grow in your knowledge and confidence to work with whānau when there are concerns for the safety or wellbeing of children.

For all questions, please contact the organiser.

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

This webinar will present the key findings from the Commission's early intervention and secondary prevention effectiveness review. They will also bring rangatahi and young people together to talk about the importance of co-design, what does and does not work well, and examples of co-design in practice, with learnings for improvement.

For all queries, contact the organiser.

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

This webinar will present the key findings from the Commission's early intervention and secondary prevention effectiveness review. They will also bring rangatahi and young people together to talk about the importance of co-design, what does and does not work well, and examples of co-design in practice, with learnings for improvement.

For all queries, contact the organiser.

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.

For more information and to register, visit the conference webpage.

The Tech Abuse Conference 2026 will bring together 250 leading international stakeholders – including academics, policymakers, charities, and tech industry leaders – to explore emerging developments and collaborative responses to technology-facilitated gender-based violence and abuse.

For questions, contact the organisers at genderandtech@ucl.ac.uk.

For more information and to register, visit the conference webpage.

The Tech Abuse Conference 2026 will bring together 250 leading international stakeholders – including academics, policymakers, charities, and tech industry leaders – to explore emerging developments and collaborative responses to technology-facilitated gender-based violence and abuse.

For questions, contact the organisers at genderandtech@ucl.ac.uk.

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, 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

Anchor Collective offer all of their specialist Family Violence training packages to organisations on a fee-for-service basis, both online and in-person, across Australia and Aotearoa.

For questions related to this training or their fee-for-service training options, 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

Anchor Collective offer all of their specialist Family Violence training packages to organisations on a fee-for-service basis, both online and in-person, across Australia and Aotearoa.

For questions related to this training or their fee-for-service training options, please contact the organisers directly: resisting.collusion@gmail.com.

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

In this webinar, Children’s Commissioner, Dr Claire Achmad will share insights into her role as an independent advocate for children in Aotearoa New Zealand. The session will explore how Mana Mokopuna champions the rights of children to be recognised and upheld, and how it provides advice and guidance to government and other agencies.

Claire will also reflect on her own career path and the experiences that led her to her current role.

For enquiries, contact the organiser: events@ipanz.org.nz

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

In this webinar, Children’s Commissioner, Dr Claire Achmad will share insights into her role as an independent advocate for children in Aotearoa New Zealand. The session will explore how Mana Mokopuna champions the rights of children to be recognised and upheld, and how it provides advice and guidance to government and other agencies.

Claire will also reflect on her own career path and the experiences that led her to her current role.

For enquiries, contact the organiser: events@ipanz.org.nz

For more information and to register, see the seminar listing.

The topic for this seminar is youth justice in a changing international landscape: Trends, evidence and promising approaches.

In this seminar, speaker Dr Iain Matheson, will explore the shifts that have taken place, including trends, evidence, and promising approaches. He will examine changing contexts, policy and practice responses, and key system enablers. He will consider the full range of youth justice services, from prevention and early intervention through to residential care and youth detention.

He will use overseas research and evaluation, our own organisational oversight, lived experiences, and practice-based evidence. He’ll also include relevant community, cultural, and Indigenous knowledge.

Please direct all queries to the Ministry at research@ot.govt.nz.

For more information and to register, see the seminar listing.

The topic for this seminar is youth justice in a changing international landscape: Trends, evidence and promising approaches.

In this seminar, speaker Dr Iain Matheson, will explore the shifts that have taken place, including trends, evidence, and promising approaches. He will examine changing contexts, policy and practice responses, and key system enablers. He will consider the full range of youth justice services, from prevention and early intervention through to residential care and youth detention.

He will use overseas research and evaluation, our own organisational oversight, lived experiences, and practice-based evidence. He’ll also include relevant community, cultural, and Indigenous knowledge.

Please direct all queries to the Ministry at research@ot.govt.nz.

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

From the event page:

"About this webinar: We learn about sex, desire, and relationships in all sorts of ways. This might be sex-ed, our friends, our family, but a lot of the time it’s through the media that we watch, read, and scroll past on the daily. This presentation will report on research that looked at how sexual desire was represented across different media and textual sites. The presenter, Dr Jessica Tappin, will discuss what representations of desire exist in the mainstream media space, explore media that are opening up possibilities for sexual desire, and consider what all this means for sexual wellbeing and subjectivity (what we can do, say, and think about ourselves)."

Please direct all queries to the organiser: ragnar.anderson@sexualwellbeing.org.nz

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

From the event page:

"About this webinar: We learn about sex, desire, and relationships in all sorts of ways. This might be sex-ed, our friends, our family, but a lot of the time it’s through the media that we watch, read, and scroll past on the daily. This presentation will report on research that looked at how sexual desire was represented across different media and textual sites. The presenter, Dr Jessica Tappin, will discuss what representations of desire exist in the mainstream media space, explore media that are opening up possibilities for sexual desire, and consider what all this means for sexual wellbeing and subjectivity (what we can do, say, and think about ourselves)."

Please direct all queries to the organiser: ragnar.anderson@sexualwellbeing.org.nz

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

This two day ‘train-the-trainers’ workshop has been designed to assist those individuals wanting to upskill and deliver training sessions for their workplace colleagues, their local community agencies or for those wanting to provide training as part of their training business.

The focus of this workshop will be ‘strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence’.  Described as ‘a red flag on the trajectory to homicide’, it is critical that agencies, professionals and the wider community recognise the signs, symptoms and dynamics associated with strangulation within the context of IPV.

If you have any questions please contact Rob Veale at robveale@xtra.co.nz.

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

This two day ‘train-the-trainers’ workshop has been designed to assist those individuals wanting to upskill and deliver training sessions for their workplace colleagues, their local community agencies or for those wanting to provide training as part of their training business.

The focus of this workshop will be ‘strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence’.  Described as ‘a red flag on the trajectory to homicide’, it is critical that agencies, professionals and the wider community recognise the signs, symptoms and dynamics associated with strangulation within the context of IPV.

If you have any questions please contact Rob Veale at robveale@xtra.co.nz.