Masterclass: Engaging with Men using Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (FDSV)

Engaging men using family and domestic violence (FDSV) towards behaviour change is a crucial part of reducing the impacts on adult and child victim-survivors. Safe engagement with men using FDSV requires a whole of system response. This masterclass provides advance knowledge and skills required for specialist perpetrator intervention practitioners, across individual or group settings, and is aligned with the ‘Practice Standards for Perpetrator Interventions’ in Western Australia.

Who is this training for?

Men’s behaviour change program providers
FDSV perpetrator intervention specialist services
Individuals working with men using FDSV through individual and brief intervention work as well as case management

Learning Outcomes:

Identify and understand requirements to establish and maintain professional relationships and safety for families
Increase skills in challenging practitioner bias and invitations to collude with men using FDSV
Increase confidence in practitioner requirements when providing individual and group perpetrator intervention work
Identify and develop a comprehensive assessment of risk and harm including related issues and factors directly impacting on the men using FDSV, and victim-survivors.
Improved skills and knowledge in collaboratively planning, and developing safety and accountability plans
Learn contemporary strategies for supporting men to take accountability for their behaviours and elicit personal responsibility for change
Enhance group facilitation skills for working with men

Knowledge Pre-Requisites:

The colonial and gender drivers of FDSV (Our Watch research)
That FDSV, although can be perpetrated by anybody, is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men against women
Perpetrators of FDSV have numerous contributing factors for their behaviours, however, their behaviours are always a choice
Victim Survivors are never to blame for perpetrators’ choice to use violence
Children do not have to see or hear the violence to be impacted
If any of these statements are new, or challenging for you, prior training is required to attend the Masterclass

Options for additional training to reach the Pre-Requisite:

Book in for Safe & Together CORE training 1-4 September 2025 and then book for this Masterclass
Attend Recognising and Responding to People Perpetrating Family and Domestic Violence on the 28-29 October

*Sexual violence will focus on behaviours perpetrated within an intimate partner family violence context. This training will not address knowledge and skills required for specialist sexual offending behaviour interventions.