This very special professional development event brings our workforce together for two days of:

Resisting Burnout with Justice-Doing and Solidarity: The Zone of Fabulousness
Trauma & Resistance: Innovative responses to suffering violence & oppression

Join Vikki Reynolds (Canada) who will encourage you to foster solidarity and justice-doing as central to Collective Care and resistance against “vicarious trauma” and “burnout”. This is an invitation to learn how you can thrive in, and sustain ethical relationships shouldering up your team, clients and yourself.

Vikki invites you to reflect and lean into:

Alternate approaches to understanding vicarious trauma as different from the ethical pains of what is experienced supporting people through your service
Believed-in hope
Frameworks for resisting burn-out that hold clients at the centre
Introduction to the “Zone of Fabulousness” - elevating connection, collective ethics and the person at the centre of your work
Leaning into and co-creating team cultures of “Collective Accountability”
Justice-Doing through dignity and respect
Questions about power and responsibility, dynamics and injustice and what this means for your own fabulous zone moving forward

Read more about Vikki here: https://vikkireynolds.ca/

Vikki encourages attendees to familiarise themselves where possible, with the “Zone of Fabulousness”, ahead of this event, which can be accessed via the video link: https://vimeo.com/277787618

Leaders who have attended the Online Leadership Consultation with Vikki are warmly encouraged.

Learning Outcomes:

Deepen practice frameworks enhancing workforce wellbeing and centring clients
Engage with emerging models of collective care in practice and leadership, justice-doing and resisting burn-out within services delivering support within gender-based violence contexts

Event Details:

Session One: Thursday, 29th May 2025
Session Two: Friday, 30th May 2025

Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm AEST (both days)
Location: Banksia Room, Walkabout Creek Events, 60 Mt Nebo Road, Enogerra Reservoir, QLD 4520

Participants are required to attend both days - face to face only.

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

Who should attend

Leaders, Practitioners, Allied Services Staff and workforce across QLD’s specialist DFV, Sexual Violence and Women’s Health and Wellbeing sector organisations.

Workforce across the service types of the target group would benefit from this training as it provides direct engagement with frameworks and ethics supporting collaboration, connection and wellbeing in client-centred work. This “Zone of Fabulousness” fosters sustainability and justice-doing in critical gender-based community support.

This event is capped to fifty attendees to support meaningful engagement with Vikki across the two days.

Due to very high interest, and to ensure the specialist DFV, sexual violence and women’s health and wellbeing sector workforce state-wide have opportunity to attend, tickets will be limited to three registrations per organisation.

For organisations who have registered more than three staff - if the event becomes waitlisted, you may be asked to reduce your attendees to three. We will contact you directly should this occur.

About the presenter

Vikki Reynolds

Vikki (PhD RCC) is an activist/ therapist and community organizer working to bridge the worlds of social justice activism with community work and therapy. Vikki is a white heterosexual settler with cisgender privilege living on Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations territories. Vikki writes and presents internationally, including supervision and therapy with People with Lived/Living Experience and workers responding to the drug poisoning catastrophe, refugees and survivors of torture including Indigenous survivors of residential schools and state violence, sexualized violence counsellors, mental health and substance misuse counsellors, housing and shelter workers, activists and works alongside gender and sexually diverse communities. www.vikkireynolds.ca