Coercive Control and Social Entrapment Workshop Series (Online) - October 2026

This series aims to explore and develop our understandings of coercive control and social entrapment and how concepts strengthen our work with victims/survivors, with perpetrators as well as making sense of our role and responsibilities as part of a system that can contribute to safety and manage risk. 

COERCIVE CONTROL AND SOCIAL ENTRAPMENT WORKSHOP SERIES 

Coercive control and social entrapment are critical concepts that when translated into practice allow us to challenge perpetrators systematic tactics of isolation, fear and coercion; the limitations of our service systems; and support victims/survivors to interrupt and alleviate entrapment.  

WORKSHOP 1: Foundational - Coercive Control and Social Entrapment 

• Detailing concept of coercive control and social entrapment. 

• Using this framework to shape the understanding of context for responding to victims/survivors and perpetrators. 

WORKSHOP 2: Risk Assessment and Coordinated Safety Responses 

• Explorations for risk assessment, safety planning, risk management, and coordinated safety responses. 

• Risk assessment beyond just asking questions. 

• Collaborative decision making. 

• Developing interventions to disrupt entrapment. 

WORKSHOP 3: Working with perpetrators with dignity and accountability 

This workshop explores the how-to of conversations with men who hurt the women they say they love through exploring: 

• naming and detailing the hopes of men; 

• moving beyond good intentions to daily practices of respect, reparations, and accountability; considering responsible interventions prioritising safety of those harmed; and 

• collusive messages and practices that occur at structural, organisational, relational, and individual levels. 

WORKSHOP 4: Resistive Violence 

• Locate and explore the concept of resistive violence within the context of coercive control and intimate partner violence and what this means for victims/survivors. 

• Explore the links between our assumptions and theories and interventions to resistive violence. 

• Practice possibilities for responding that centers safety and dignity 

WORKSHOP 5: Documenting the Evidence  

Documentation is a critical part of survivor-centred practice.  

• Establish a common language around what effective and ethical case notes looks like. 

• Demonstrate how collaborative documentation is a survivor-centered approach that results in more dignifying and safer care, treatment, and notes. 

• Explore the collaborative documentation and discuss best practices for process and context. 

Learning Outcomes

Online Workshop 1 

• Exploration of the framework of coercive control social entrapment 

• Expose and explore possibilities to shift the burden of responsibility from victims/survivors to systems 

• Exploring the limitations for safety and accountability in our current service systems 

Workshop day 2 

• Exploring our frameworks, beliefs, assumptions, and biases that shapes how we understand and respond to domestic and family violence 

• Explore ways of undertaking a critical risk assessment with victims/survivors and perpetrators that goes beyond just asking questions  

• Translate theories to practices to develop coordinated and collaborative safety plans and threat management plans 

Workshop 3  

• Make sense of perpetration of domestic and family violence from a coercive control and social entrapment framework 

• Explore practice possibilities of working with men with dignity and accountability  

Workshop 4 

• Locate and explore the concept of resistive violence within the context of coercive control and intimate partner violence and what this means for victims/survivors. 

• Explore the links between our assumptions and theories and interventions to resistive violence. 

Practice possibilities for responding that centers safety and dignity 

Workshop 5 

• Establish a common language around what effective and ethical case notes looks like. 

• Demonstrate how collaborative documentation is a survivor-centered 

approach that results in more dignifying and safer care, treatment, and notes. 

• Explore the collaborative documentation and discuss best practices for 

process and context. 

Event details 

Workshop 1: Tuesday, 20th October 2026

Workshop 2: Wednesday, 21st October 2026

Workshop 3: Tuesday, 27th October 2026

Workshop 4: Wednesday, 28th October 2026

Workshop 5: Thursday, 29th October 2026

Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm AEST Qld time (all sessions)
Location: Online

Please note this is a five part series. Participants should attend all sessions. 

Who should attend

This workshop is great for anyone with an interest in gaining deeper understanding of coercive control and social entrapment. Pitched at advanced level.  Open to all. 

About the facilitator

ShantiWorks is committed to working with colleagues across sectors and spaces to develop meaningful and engaging support, training, and reflective spaces. We are committed to developing training packages that are engaging and dignifying for people to explore their work and build possibilities for strengthening collective feminist, intersectional and anti-oppressive practice. Tracy, Lisa, Ashanthi, and Tracey have solid experience in domestic violence – frontline practice, management, supervision and policy advocacy. We are passionate about responding to men’s violence against women and creating a safer community for everyone.