Description:
OPD Points: 5
Separation can be a difficult time for both parents and their children. Enhance your understanding of the separation process and how to support families going through separation or divorce.
It’s normal for separating families to experience a range of strong emotions and family members often need to adjust to new living arrangements. In this workshop, you’ll learn about the impacts of the separation process for parents, children and adolescents, and ways to help them manage this change, within your work context.Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
At the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge of the separation process and how it impacts families and children
- demonstrate knowledge of the family law system and family dispute resolution (FDR)
- identify behaviours that children may demonstrate as a result of separation, and strategies to manage those behaviours
- help parents to better manage their separation and support their children
- identify when families need more support and where to refer them
Assessment:
Presenter / Provider:
Astrid Horter, Adrien March and Cath Tregillis
Presenter Qualifications:
Astrid Horter is the program leader for learning delivery at Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV). She holds tertiary qualifications in law and psychology and is an experienced Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (FDRP), mediator and child consultant. Astrid leads the delivery of RAV’s accredited training programs, provides supervision to external organisations and designs and facilitates customised workshops. She has extensive experience working in community organisations as a clinical supervisor, trainer and manager.
Adrien March is a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (FDRP) with a broad base of skills and experience, including mediation practice, training and dispute resolution research. Her practice experience covers mediating using facilitative and transformative models in the Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) and Australian Mediator and Dispute Resolution Accreditation Standards (AMDRAS) schemes. Adrien’s specialisations include working with rainbow families and high-conflict disputes. Her training expertise includes course development and conducting FDR and NMAS training, coaching and evaluation for RAV and other organisations.
Cath Tregillis is a highly experienced Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (FDRP) with qualifications in dispute resolution and family therapy. She has worked across community organisations as a manager, clinical supervisor and trainer and has provided mediation and restorative processes in family, community and workplace settings. She is currently a trainer and assessor within Relationships Australia Victoria’s (RAVs) Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) and mediation training programs.
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Registration Instructions:
- When you register, you’ll be taken to our payment gateway to complete your registration. A new account will be automatically created for you in our Learning Management System (Moodle).
- Registrations for scheduled workshops close 48 hours before the event.
- Workshops must be paid for at least 2 business days before the training date, or your registration will be cancelled.
- If paying by invoice, proof of payment needs to be provided at least 24 hours ahead of the event.
