Practice Possibilities for Responding to Intimate Partner Homicide

This workshop explores our collective capacities to hold risk, refine our risk assessment and management practices, and truly partner with victims/survivors in working towards safety and freedom.

This workshop offers collective scrutiny of the social and political context in which we conduct our work, as practitioners, teams and coordinated communities. We will explore our theories and assumptions about domestic and family violence homicide to strengthen our responses to men’s abuse and murder of women. Drawing on the work of Professor Jane Monckton-Smith and her development of her 8-stage homicide timeline, we will offer a set up for exploring this work. We will unpack stories of domestic violence homicide as a way of learning about what we, as workers and advocates who make up systems of entrapment can do better.

We hope that this will enable us to more effectively intervene at critical moments which may prevent yet another woman being murdered by a current or former male partner.

Learning Outcomes

• Create a space to better understand and make sense of the circumstances of domestic and family violence homicides
• Learnings from Professor Jane Monckton Smith who developed the 8-stage timeline to intimate partner homicide, exposing a sequential pattern to intimate partner homicide.
• Use these learnings to strengthen risk assessments and threat management plans to disrupt the patterns of harm by perpetrators.
• Utilise a social entrapment lens for systems to strengthen their coordinated risk and safety work. 

Event Details

Date: Monday, 18th August 2025
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm AEST 
Location: Karstens Brisbane, Level 24/215 Adelaide Street, Brisbane City, QLD, 4000

Who should attend

This session is for Domestic and Family Violence, Sexual Violence and Health and Wellbeing workers who are interested in learning more about responding to intimate partner homicide.

About the facilitator

Tracy Castelino 

Tracy has been working to challenge and eliminate injustice and inequality for over 20 years. She has a passion for seeking respectful and innovative ways of working with individuals, organisations and communities to respond to the various issues that cause marginalisation and vulnerability. Tracy, with her ShantiWorks’ team, works to create a reflective, educative space as a way to explore key issues such as domestic violence, whiteness and racism and responding to trauma.

Lisa French

Lisa French is a social worker living in Melbourne and has worked in the field of violence against women in Victoria and Queensland. She has worked in direct practice as an advocate and coordinator of a domestic violence crisis support program. Lisa remains engaged in working directly with women and survivors of violence providing individual counselling. She is a trainer and is passionate about creating a space for meaningful conversations that allows for critical discussion and action.

Travel support is available* – click here to apply. If you are unable to download the application form please email workforce@healingfoundation.org.au to receive a copy. *Target Group Services Only