Interrupting Male Violence with Men who use Domestic and Family Violence

Disrupting Patterns of Behaviour in Men's Engagement Work

Micro Skills Series - 2 sessions over 2 days delivered online 

Virtual Admission Series Special: $499.00 - normally valued at $699.00

Over two immersive days, we will unpack accountability in men’s work and build skills to disrupt patterns of behaviour in men’s engagement work.

• Series 1 - Thursday, 13 June - 9:00am to 1:00pm AWST (Perth Time)
• Series 2 - Friday, 14 June - 9:00am to 1:00pm AWST (Perth Time)
  

Outcomes of Learning

1. Placing the safety of women and children at the forefront of working with men
2. Establish and maintain professional, respectful, and safe practices
3. Awareness and understanding of coercive control
4. Establish a focus on users’ responsibility for change and conditions for intervention
5. Identify and capture perpetrator driven risk and impacts through documentation
6. Engagement strategies through Motivational Interviewing and Ethical Ground™ approaches.

Overview

• Redefining FDV and coercive control
• Perpetrator risk factors (typologies and stages to homicide)
• Understanding privilege and bias in men’s change work
• Impacts of FDV behaviour on the whole of family functioning: what we need to know as practitioners.
• FDV informed language and documentation

• Reflecting on practitioner bias
• Therapeutic Tools (theory and practice):
• Change Talk: Motivational Interviewing
• Finding the Ethical Ground™

Trainer/Facilitator: DART Institute CEO, Jolene Ellat 

Who should attend?

This micro skills series is designed for individuals working with men who are using violence or suspect men who may be using violence.

While there are no prerequisites for attending this training, possessing a foundational awareness of domestic abuse tactics, behaviours, and their impacts is highly recommended.

Any questions about the training series, email info@dartinstitute.org.au