TRAINING WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Workshop 1: Working Through Trauma

Understanding trauma and building a tool kit to heal traumatic experiences.

Trauma is the catastrophic curve ball that we all experience at some stage. Understanding the impact of trauma and building a trauma tool kit can help us to survive the storm and find new ways forward. In this half-day workshop you will gain insights that will empower you to help yourself and others to survive the trauma trails.

Workshop 2: Transformative Tools

A practical psychoanalytic toolbox.

How do we rebuild shattered lives, sustain change and heal minds? What are some tools we can use? In this workshop we explore the transformative tools of listening, thinking, feeling, talking, and sharing stories and dreams, together. There are more tools in our toolbox which can be helpful!

Workshop 3: Mentalising Violence

MENTALISING VIOLENCE

Using the psychoanalytic tool of mentalisation to break the cycle of violence. We also offer this workshop with more focus on violence from an Indigenous and cultural perspective.

We are not born violent however we can all experience angry or violent feelings. Bad men do what good men dream! At the heart of the matter though is the fact that we all have a choice and we can all choose not to act on violent feelings. In some communities, the cycle of violence has become so entrenched it has become the norm. But it is possible to break this cycle and empower people to find new possibilities and new power for a future without violence. This half-day workshop will help participants to think about themselves and others in relation to the occurrence of violence and to the cessation of violence. We can offer a culturally-informed workshop on violence for Aboriginal communities which includes payback.

Mentalisation is a psychoanalytic approach which focuses on the underlying mental states of mind in the context of intimate, responsive, secure attachment relationships and focuses on self and other.

Workshop 4: Saving Lives – Preventing Suicide

Using the psychoanalytic tool of mentalisation to understand suicide.

Suicide is a silent killer that hurts many people. It is an attempt to solve a problem of intense emotional pain with impaired (poor) coping skills. It is a deadly solution. But suicide can be stopped. People who are suicidal can be helped. Let’s end the silence!
This half-day workshop will help participants to open up conversations about suicide and find new ways to think about living.

Audience: Mental health workers.

Workshop 5: Tjilirra Cultural Tools

Reviving an ancient cultural practice to restore mental health.

The making of traditional tools is an ancient practice of Aboriginal people and cultural learning entails a ‘giving’ of knowledge from the elders to the younger generation. These old tools in the Men’s Tjilirra Movement have become new tools for living. The making of the tools on country, changes emotional states, provides continuity, a sense of place, identity and pride. This half-day workshop will provide participants with knowledge of old and new tools for living.

Workshop 6: Transgenerational Trauma

Understanding historical trauma in the present – opening up the hard conversations about trauma, both historical and present, in Aboriginal communities using film.

Transgenerational trauma is trauma transferred from the first generation to the second and third. There can be haunting legacies and ghosts from the past. The past has a living presence. When there is trauma however it often remains unrepresented and silenced or forgotten. This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the transgenerational trauma sustained by Aboriginal people in the western desert and their resilience in going forward. It will open up hard conversations about historical and current trauma and how people can ‘wake up strong’. Three films are shown.