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Training Courses
Empowering Teams with Expert-Led Training and Support
With over 25 years of practice and operational expertise, Pandora offers tailored workshops designed to strengthen your team’s skills and confidence in navigating complex cases.
Our Workforce Capacity Building Series provides in-depth training on preventing and addressing burnout, while empowering new and experienced leaders with essential communication and confidence-building tools to ensure appropriate responses to psychosocial hazards.
The Interrupt2Disrupt Coercive Control Training equips participants with the knowledge to identify, assess, and address coercive control behaviours in those using family violence. Further advancement and knowledge is now available through the Pandora Advanced Practice Series – now released to support senior practitioners, specialist professionals and advanced leads in informing secondary consultations.
At the heart of our family violence training is a commitment to victim-survivor safety and well-being. Our programs emphasise risk assessment, risk management, and safety planning while incorporating cutting-edge insights into social entrapment—examining how the social and ecological environment shapes victim-survivors’ experiences and barriers in accessing support.
Customised Training Across Australia
Based in Perth, Western Australia, Pandora Projects creates bespoke training solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of your team or organisation. Led by subject matter specialist Tori Cooke, our workshops are designed to build workforce capacity and deliver practical, impactful outcomes.
Workforce Capacity Building Series
The Workforce Capacity Building series enables human service professionals to cultivate a healthy work environment, preventing burnout and allowing for meaningful communication at work.
Burnout Prevention for Human Service Workers
Explore the professional vulnerability associated with frontline 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 and burnout.
Strategies for finding and maintaining balance are discussed and explored.
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.
Interrupt2Disrupt 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
This training uses interactive activities, role play and small group discussions to explore ideas, provide reflection opportunities and most importantly, build practice skills in engaging with men who are using abusive practices.
This four hour online or full day face to face workshop is perfect for practitioners who work directly with men in a range of interventions.
Working Effectively with Victim Survivors
Pandora Enterprise Projects brings the opportunity to build professional skills in respectfully working with victim survivors who have experienced coercive control. Tori will explore the Pandora Social Entrapment Approach and how this interacts with coercive control patterns the victim is experiencing.
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 only available as a bespoke booking for organisations on request.
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 only available as a bespoke booking for organisations on request.
Workforce Capacity Building Series
The Workforce Capacity Building series enables human service professionals to cultivate a healthy work style, preventing burnout and allowing for meaningful communication at work.
Burnout Prevention for Human Service Workers
This training explores the professional vulnerability associated with frontline work. Using a strength based approach by reconnecting professionals to their passion and choice in working with people, this training takes a deep dive into understanding the difference between ordinary workplace stress and burnout.
Professional Communication for Leaders
This online workshop 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 is suitable for careers in human service organisations and corporate environments.
Leading and Supporting a Culture of Care
This training aims to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to identify, assess, and effectively manage psychosocial hazards in the workplace, in accordance with the Safe Work Australia Code of Practice.
Interrupt2Disrupt 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
The training uses interactive activities, role play and small group discussions to explore ideas, provide reflection opportunities and most importantly, build practice skills in engaging with men who are using abusive practices.
This four hour online or full day face to face workshop is perfect for practitioners who work directly with men.
Working Effectively with Victim Survivors
Pandora Enterprise Projects brings the opportunity to build professional skills in respectfully working with victim survivors who have experienced coercive control and violence in their relationships. Tori will explore the social entrapment model and how this interacts with coercive control patterns the victim is experiencing. We then unpack the impact of violence on effected family members/communities.
Training Delivery
The importance of skilled and qualified trainers
Our work in family and domestic violence requires ethical consideration of the qualifications and practice experience of the trainers. All Pandora trainers are social workers or have a specialist graduate degree in social science with significant experience as practitioners and are known leaders in their fields of specialty.
Pandora trainers are required to hold a current TAE to demonstrate competency in assisting practitioners to learn the unique skills and techniques in working with clients experiencing or perpetrating family violence. Your Pandora trainer is not only qualified and experienced in their field as well as having an immense understanding about how people learn. All trainers are skilled and qualified educators in online and face to face training delivery.
Lived Experience Acknowledgement
We acknowledge the diverse and profound lived experiences of individuals affected by family and domestic violence. These experiences are deepy personal, varied and impactful, shaping perspectives and narratives in unique ways. We recognise the courage, strength and resilience demonstrated by survivors, advocates and allies in navigating and addressing these complex issues.
Our commitment to understanding, support, and action is guides by these lived experiences, driving us toward creating safer, more compassionate communities for all.