For more information and to register, visit the Safeguarding Children's Training Calendar.

Register for the 2-part online workshop series.

In this Safeguarding Children's training, participants will learn:

• How to apply wise child protection practice in one's work; acknowledging there is no “best” way of doing things for all groups. Participants will need to reconcile new learning with existing and trusted cultural practices.
• The ‘grey areas’ in child protection concerns and reporting thresholds.
• Participants own personal barriers and what professional dangerousness could look link in their work; how this affects decision-making, and how to manage this.
• How to safely handle disclosures of harm.
• How to have conversations with family and whānau when there are child protection concerns.
• How to use Information Sharing legislation and engage in collaborative working.
• How to make an effective Report of Concern.

For all queries, please contact Safeguarding Children directly.

For more information and to register, visit the Safeguarding Children's Training Calendar.

Register for the 2-part online workshop series.

In this Safeguarding Children's training, participants will learn:

• How to apply wise child protection practice in one's work; acknowledging there is no “best” way of doing things for all groups. Participants will need to reconcile new learning with existing and trusted cultural practices.
• The ‘grey areas’ in child protection concerns and reporting thresholds.
• Participants own personal barriers and what professional dangerousness could look link in their work; how this affects decision-making, and how to manage this.
• How to safely handle disclosures of harm.
• How to have conversations with family and whānau when there are child protection concerns.
• How to use Information Sharing legislation and engage in collaborative working.
• How to make an effective Report of Concern.

For all queries, please contact Safeguarding Children directly.

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, please visit the event page.

To register for the special session for schools and special education providers, see Empowering Educators.

This training is for any professional working with young people in any capacity, including group and 1-1 work.  This training focuses on topics relating specifically to sexual wellbeing, such as contraception, STIs, and pregnancy options.  It is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including youth workers, sports coaches, social workers, public health nurses, teachers, and educators.

This full-day training focuses on increasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of professionals to support the young people they work with to navigate their sexual wellbeing.  

This training includes:

• Key information for young people on sexual wellbeing topics
• Guidance to navigate personal values when supporting young people with their sexual wellbeing
• Practical tools to integrate into daily practice and conversations
• Support and signposting information

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

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

To register for the special session for schools and special education providers, see Empowering Educators.

This training is for any professional working with young people in any capacity, including group and 1-1 work.  This training focuses on topics relating specifically to sexual wellbeing, such as contraception, STIs, and pregnancy options.  It is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including youth workers, sports coaches, social workers, public health nurses, teachers, and educators.

This full-day training focuses on increasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of professionals to support the young people they work with to navigate their sexual wellbeing.  

This training includes:

• Key information for young people on sexual wellbeing topics
• Guidance to navigate personal values when supporting young people with their sexual wellbeing
• Practical tools to integrate into daily practice and conversations
• Support and signposting information

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and access the webinar link, see the event page.

Join Dr Bakogianni online to learn more about the lives of ancient Greek women and how they continue to shape our modern ideas about the role of women in society and at home in the seventh webinar of the This Thinking Life webinar series.

Dr Anastasia Bakogianni is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at Massey University. She has published extensively on Greek tragedy and its modern adaptations on stage, screen and the visual arts.

About This Thinking Life webinar series:

The Thinking Life: Ideas That Shape Us is a free online seminar series brought to you by Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, running from 17 June to 9 July.

For more information, please contact the organiser: e.tilley@massey.ac.nz.

For more information and access the webinar link, see the event page.

Join Dr Bakogianni online to learn more about the lives of ancient Greek women and how they continue to shape our modern ideas about the role of women in society and at home in the seventh webinar of the This Thinking Life webinar series.

Dr Anastasia Bakogianni is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at Massey University. She has published extensively on Greek tragedy and its modern adaptations on stage, screen and the visual arts.

About This Thinking Life webinar series:

The Thinking Life: Ideas That Shape Us is a free online seminar series brought to you by Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, running from 17 June to 9 July.

For more information, please contact the organiser: e.tilley@massey.ac.nz.

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, see the event page.

This interactive workshop introduces people to the dynamics underlying violence against disabled people. Participants will examine:

• language used about disabled people
• a history that contextualises violence against disabled people in Aotearoa
• forms of violence against disabled people
• barriers to disclosure
• what a service requires to be fully accessible
• some general ideas for working with disabled clients.

The facilitator, Dr. Debbie Hager, is a public health researcher and activist with a focus on men’s violence against women, violence against disabled people, and the intersections between violence, substance abuse and mental distress.  Her teaching and research work explores the gender/violence impacts of intersectional hegemonic privilege, and how to use policy to advance equity and empowerment for marginalised populations.

For queries, contact the organiser.

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

This interactive workshop introduces people to the dynamics underlying violence against disabled people. Participants will examine:

• language used about disabled people
• a history that contextualises violence against disabled people in Aotearoa
• forms of violence against disabled people
• barriers to disclosure
• what a service requires to be fully accessible
• some general ideas for working with disabled clients.

The facilitator, Dr. Debbie Hager, is a public health researcher and activist with a focus on men’s violence against women, violence against disabled people, and the intersections between violence, substance abuse and mental distress.  Her teaching and research work explores the gender/violence impacts of intersectional hegemonic privilege, and how to use policy to advance equity and empowerment for marginalised populations.

For queries, contact the organiser.

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

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.

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 webinar will explore two key concepts – compassion and uncertainty tolerance – and how they shape the way one understands and relates to themselves, their colleagues and the families they support. Together, these concepts underpin reflective, relational practice and support more thoughtful, responsive engagement grounded in curiosity and care.

This webinar will provide:

• an introduction to uncertainty tolerance, and how it might manifest in one's work in the child and family sector
• insight into how stress and organisational conditions can influence one's ability to tolerate uncertainty
• practical tips on how to apply a compassionate practice lens to oneself, one's colleagues and the children and families one works with
• insight into how organisations can create psychologically safer work environment that support good practice.

For enquiries, please contact the organiser.

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

This webinar will explore two key concepts – compassion and uncertainty tolerance – and how they shape the way one understands and relates to themselves, their colleagues and the families they support. Together, these concepts underpin reflective, relational practice and support more thoughtful, responsive engagement grounded in curiosity and care.

This webinar will provide:

• an introduction to uncertainty tolerance, and how it might manifest in one's work in the child and family sector
• insight into how stress and organisational conditions can influence one's ability to tolerate uncertainty
• practical tips on how to apply a compassionate practice lens to oneself, one's colleagues and the children and families one works with
• insight into how organisations can create psychologically safer work environment that support good practice.

For enquiries, please contact the organiser.

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 for the online training, visit the webinar event page. For in-person training, visit the workshop event 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 event page. For in-person training, visit the workshop event 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.