Workforce Capacity Building Series
The Workforce Capacity Building series enables human service professionals to cultivate a healthy work environment and mitigate psychosocial hazards through a specialist burnout prevention program. The Pandora Leadership program provides non accredited course work and critical reflective discussions specifically for the transitional growth into early leadership roles.
Burnout Prevention for Human Service Workers
Explore the professional vulnerability associated with frontline human service work. Pandora uses a strength based approach by reconnecting you back to your passion and choice in the work you’ve chosen to do.
This training takes a deep dive into understanding productive stress, ordinary workplace stress, chronic stress, burnout and vicarious trauma.
With evidence based tools and resources, this training provides a practical and resourceful toolkit for stress management and identifying early indicators of chronic stress.
Learning about psychosocial care
This training works with leaders and managers keen to ensure their governance strategies appropriately address psychosocial hazards in the workplace.
Participants will gain knowledge and skills to identify, assess, review, apply controls, monitor and effectively risk mitigate psychosocial hazards in the workplace.
Pandora Leadership Program
This popular course explores learning and practicing high-level communication and reflective skills to support management and leadership career growth.
With an emphasis on governance and developing your leadership skills this course is suitable for careers in human service organisations as well as corporate environments.
Coercive Control Workshops
Informed by national competency based accredited training, these are ideal for those providing direct responses to victim survivors to assist in discussions about coercive control patterns as well as the complex and specialist interventions needed with men using coercive control patterns of behaviour.
Working Effectively with Men Using Family Violence
Pandora offers a number of training options including microskills development, FDV informed mental health practices, Soundbyte Sessions focused on exploration group techniques and a full three day course including specialist groupwork training. We use interactive and experiencial activities and small group discussions to explore ideas, techniques, reflection opportunities and most importantly, build practice skills in engaging with men who are using abusive practices.
With half and full day and online or in person delivery options available, these learning programs are perfect for practitioners who work directly with men in a range of counselling and case management interventions.
Working Effectively with Victim Survivors
We offer practical training and reflective learning opportunities to strengthen safe, sensitive and effective work with victim-survivors. Through the Pandora Social Entrapment Approach, specialist Soundbyte Sessions and companion practice resources, practitioners build their understanding of coercive control and its impact on safety, autonomy and decision-making.
These offerings provide practical tools and analytical resources for recognising patterns of abuse, discussing coercive control, supporting victim-survivor agency and strengthening trauma-informed practice.
Available in half-day and full-day and online or in person delivery options - our specialist practice focused training team are committed to building skills and growing knowledge that centres the safety of women and children impacted by family and domestic violence.
Advanced Practice Series
This series has been designed specifically for those with at least 3 years of experience who wish to refresh or develop specialist analytical skills in assessment and risk management associated with patterns of coercive control.
Homicide prevention in family violence assessment
This one day face to face or online training aims to equip senior practitioners who have significant experience in family violence work with knowledge and skills to identify patterns of behaviours associated with homicide.
Exploring evidence-based theories and tools, participants will learn a range of analytical approaches to assist in risk assessment and risk management strategies. Participants must have at least 3 years of work experience and completed foundational family and domestic training and training associated with risk assessment frameworks – eg. WA CRARMF or MARAM prior to entry. Foundational training can include:
Safe and Together, Caring Dads, CHCDFV001 etc.
Suitable for: Social workers and senior family violence practitoners working as advanced practice leaders, family violence liaison police officers and child protection officers and legal and healthcare professionals. This training is available as a bespoke booking and our Humanitix public calendar.
Assessment skills in identifying the predominant aggressor in family violence
Misidentification in family violence cases can have serious, traumatic and lasting consequences to the victim survivor. Pandora is now offering a comprehensive one-day workshop designed to equip professionals with skills and knowledge needed to identify the predominant aggressor.
Drawing from the current evidence base in Australia as well as international best practices, participants will learn tools to analyse and navigate complex family violence dynamics including the ways in which perpetrators use manipulation tactics associated with system abuse.
Suitable for: Social workers and senior family violence practitoners working as advanced practice leaders, family violence liaison police officers and child protection officers and legal and healthcare professionals. This training is available as a bespoke booking and our Humanitix public calendar.
