Upcoming trainings and events

Trauma Informed Care and Practice - An Indigenous Approach to Developing Worker Skills

Gadigal / Sydney

8th-9th August 2025

Venue: National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern

Trauma Informed Care and Practice - An Indigenous approach to developing worker skills is a 2-day workshop is designed for anybody wanting to work with first nations people or diverse communities.

The content introduces the concept of 'Symptom as History' and provides tools to develop generational resilience in healing from trauma and systems transformation.

Developed by Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson AO and Dr Caroline Atkinson PhD and facilitated by IPAT.

The course unpacks the topics that are most commonly requested by therapists or those working in the Human Services field with Indigenous people who are living with trauma behaviours. This is an experiential and interactive workshop. A safe space to talk and lean about cultural issues that can support your confidence when working safely with diversity.

Learning Outcomes

  • Provides culturally relevant, trauma-informed and trauma specific, safe teaching learning experience.

  • Develop superior levels of confidence and ability to work in diverse and difficult situations.

  • Provides community based training linked to specific community needs.

  • Strengthens relationships between individuals, families, communities and workforce skills.

  • Fosters abilities and competence in the process of working with groups and communities in distress.

This is suitable for primary health workers or anyone working in the Human Service Sector.

Limited spaces available.

Cost:

$999

Times:

From 9:00am to 5:00pm daily

What is Provided :

  • Participants Training Manual

  • Workshop materials

  • Morning and afternoon tea

  • Certificate of attainment (PACFA Accredited)

Trauma Informed Care and Practice - An Indigenous Approach to Developing Worker Skills

Boorloo / Perth

17th-18th November 2025

Venue: The PAX Centre, West Leederville

Trauma Informed Care and Practice - An Indigenous approach to developing worker skills is a 2-day workshop is designed for anybody wanting to work with first nations people or diverse communities.

The content introduces the concept of 'Symptom as History' and provides tools to develop generational resilience in healing from trauma and systems transformation.

Developed by Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson AO and Dr Caroline Atkinson PhD and facilitated by IPAT.

The course unpacks the topics that are most commonly requested by therapists or those working in the Human Services field with Indigenous people who are living with trauma behaviours. This is an experiential and interactive workshop. A safe space to talk and lean about cultural issues that can support your confidence when working safely with diversity.

Learning Outcomes

  • Provides culturally relevant, trauma-informed and trauma specific, safe teaching learning experience.

  • Develop superior levels of confidence and ability to work in diverse and difficult situations.

  • Provides community based training linked to specific community needs.

  • Strengthens relationships between individuals, families, communities and workforce skills.

  • Fosters abilities and competence in the process of working with groups and communities in distress.

This is suitable for primary health workers or anyone working in the Human Service Sector.

Limited spaces available.

Cost:

$999

Times:

From 9:00am to 5:00pm daily

What is Provided :

  • Participants Training Manual

  • Workshop materials

  • Morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea

  • Certificate of attainment (PACFA Accredited)

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