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If you have a team/group of people that require training, feel free to book online on any upcoming public course. However, we can also provide dedicated courses just for you - at our premises or yours - from our catalogue or bespoke. Please contact us so that we can discuss your exact needs.
Wellbeing is not just the absence of illness. It is a whole-of-life concept which is strongly linked to happiness and life satisfaction, along with resilience and our ability to cope with adversity.
How’s your relationship with your stress levels?
Does your anxiety do what it’s told? Or does it sometimes misbehave?
This course explores practical ways you can manage your emotions, reign in your worry and get your anxiety to lie down and roll over!
Many people find themselves on a board or management committee without the fundamental skills and understandings which are essential for basic legal compliance – let alone a thriving organisation!
Stewardship of an organisation is an essential contribution to community life. A Board or Management Committee with strong skills makes a key difference to staff, members and stakeholders, improving corporate competence and confidence.
While many income streams and traditional funding sources have diminished in the COVID era, other opportunities have opened up.
This course is an overview of everything your non-profit organisation, small business or charity needs to know for diversifying income and financial sustainability.
Cultural identity can have a profound impact on our perspectives and service needs. The ability to facilitate the cultural security of others is a crucial skill for anyone working with diverse people, especially in health, community or education sectors.
So many aspects of our personal and professional lives involve informal but often vitally important counselling situations. This two-day course explores practical counselling skills for those who find themselves in a counselling role, through their work or everyday life.
Over half of people with a serious mental illness are known to misuse substances, while 84% of substance misusers have some sort of mental health disorder.
These statistics are even more troubling in view of the fact that the mental health and AOD sectors were historically very separate in Australia and even today a majority of professionals are not comprehensively dual-trained.
To paraphrase Einstein, if you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got. So to come up with a genuinely innovative idea or break-through solution, we need to be willing to change our thinking and use our brains in a different way. This stimulating and rewarding course explores how ordinary people can come up with game-changing ideas, and how mental leaps are made.
How we respond to a potential crisis can make the difference between smooth resolution and an emergency situation. De-escalation skills are all about developing responses which prevent violence and defuse volatile situations. Based on our popular standard De-escalation course, this specialist version is designed especially for disability sector professionals.