Online Workshops
When: Monday, 11 August 2025 3:45pm – 4:15pm (ACST)
Where: Online
Presenter: Lisa Wolff
Cost: Free
In the early 2000’s Australia changed its mind about locking people up as its primary strategy for managing mental illness, intellectual disability, autism, addiction, acquired brain injury, child abuse, dysregulated behaviour, and criminal behaviour. The Education system has absorbed this exodus of children, adolescents, and adults from the old institutions.
Schools are responsible for things that they have never had responsibility for in the past. Join us for a bower(schools) workshop, where we will explore how schools manage children and families with complex needs and the importance of collaboration with the education and health systems. We explore the recalibration between these systems, so they work together to benefit children and their families.
Bower(schools) endeavours to address the boundary between schools and the mental health, medical, child protection, justice, and disability systems over the highly complex matters most schools and teachers are now engaged with.
Shattered Boundaries: Substance Use, Psychosis, and the Mental Health Crisis A 2-Hour Online Workshop with Dr. Lynette Rose, Psychiatrist and Malcolm Robinson, Social Worker and Director of Bower Place Complex Needs Clinic Methamphetamines and other drugs have blurred the line between psychosis and substance abuse, creating an unprecedented crisis in mental health treatment and management.
Join Dr. Lynette Rose and Malcolm Robinson for a powerful two-hour workshop exploring the implications of this crisis, including:
• The mental health impact of methamphetamines
• The role of ADHD medications
• Cannabis and medical cannabis challenges
• Service delivery implications across health, education, and human services
Who Should Attend?
Professionals in mental health, healthcare, education, and human services who need practical insight into this complex landscape.
When: Friday 5 September 2025, 3pm – 5pm (ACST)
Where: Online – interactive, live
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: $50 +GST
Reserve your spot now and equip yourself to respond to one of the most urgent challenges in mental health today.
Register here!
Are you a mental health professional, educator, psychologist, or social worker looking to enhance your skills in engaging and addressing difficulties presented by children through effective questioning?
Join us for this practical and insightful online workshop with internationally respected Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist, Catherine Sanders sharing her expertise in working with children and families in therapeutic settings.
🗓 Date: 25/9/2025
⏰ Time: 3:30pm – 5:30pm ACST
Cost: $80 + GST
💻 Location: Online (Teams link provided upon registration)
🎓 Certificate of Attendance and 3 CPD hours available
🔍 Workshop Highlights:
- Understand a systemic perspective when working with children
- Explore hypothesising as a tool to guide questioning
- Learn ways of managing inequality which undermines successful therapy
- Learn adaptations of difference questioning that are developmentally appropriate
- Explore the use of image and non-verbal questioning approaches
- Real-world examples from clinical practice
- Interactive Q&A with Catherine Sanders
