Family violence training and workshops

Family Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand is a significant concern today.  Women, Children, and in some instances, Men, are still dying at the hands of an abusive spouse, parent, or caregiver

In this workshop, we look at:

• The normalisation of gender based power and control - Movies and cartoons over the years
• The silence and normalisation of spousal abuse and neglect and the impacts - 
• The myths of Family Violence 'we can keep the abuse from the children', 'leaving is the easy thing to do'
• 'Why doesn't she just leave?' explaining coercive control and entrapment, and the '7 times rule'
• Health and wellbeing impacts across the lifespan - intergenerational transmission of trauma and epigenetic changes that lead to poor health outcomes.
• How to support someone who is experiencing Family Violence - information sharing and the Privacy Act. 

*6 hour workshop*

$175.00/person

Large group discounts pay apply

We need to rethink our perceptions of TBI in Family Violence. When we consider the current conversation and evidence about the long term impacts of subconcussive and concussive injury in contact sports and the correlation to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy 'CTE', we should be giving the same consideration to the risks of subconcussive and concussive injuries sustained in Family Violence, due to the age of onset (childhood abuse), severity, and chronicity, this is not without consequences. 

This workshop looks at the cause and affect of concussive and subconcussive head injury through Family Violence:

• What forces are involved that cause concussive and subconcussive head injury
• Discusses sex differences that lead to the likelihood of sustaining TBI from concussive and subconcussive head injury and recovery from head injury
• Discusses the physiological signs and symptoms of concussive and subconcussive brain injury
• Discusses the findings of current research into CTE and the links to TBI in Family Violence
• Discusses the threshold(s) for brain injury - early signs of neurological impact following a blow or shake to the head, and the effect of cumulative injuries as is found in Family Violence
• Discusses the difference in physiological risks between adults and children
• Gives a lived experience account of TBI in Family Violence and the affects over the lifetime

*6 hour workshop*

                                               $175.00/person

Large group discounts may apply

FThis workshop covers all over the topics:

• History of Family Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Normalisation of gender based violence
• Legislation over the decades and Family Violence Leave
• Health and Wellbeing impacts across the lifespan - the physio-emotional toll - what to look out for, and what to ask for when help seeking. 
• Adaptive strategies Adaptive Strategies of surviving abuse and neglect - Tend/Befriend, Please/Appease, Collapse/Submit, Attach/Cry for Help
• Difficult conversations, and how to support someone experiencing Family Violence. 
• Information sharing and the Privacy Act

*12 hour workshop - 8 + 4 hour, or 6 + 6 hour, workshops*

$350.00/person

Large group discount may apply