Ongoing

Training and other forms of professional development to support sustained good practice and career progression. 

Specialist Training

Peer workers

  • Mental Health Coordinating Council 

    Introductory online workshop on the Hearing Voices model, a recovery-oriented, compassion-focused approach to working with people with experiences of hearing voices and paranoia that aims to alleviate the distress associated with these experiences. 

    Find out more here: https://mhcc.org.au/course/responding-to-voices/  

  • Open Dialogue is recognised by the World Health Organisation as an alternative approach to conventional clinical interventions which enables compassionate, recovery-oriented, rights-based care. The Centre offers a range of different training programs. 

    Find out more here: https://opendialoguecentre.org.au/

  • Organisation that provides workplace training and consultancy services to develop the framework to implement the following approaches – dissociachotic framework, suicide narratives, hearing voices and power threat meaning, and just listening. 

    Find out more here: https://www.humaneclinic.com.au/workshops-training  

  • Organisation that develops and delivers customised and customisable programs and training for a range of organisations and services that draw on lived experience perspectives. 

    Find out more here: https://insideoutconversations.com.au/what-we-do/customised-training/#  

Career Progression

  • Mental Health Coordinating Council 

    Online course designed for senior peer workers and emerging lived experience leaders that aims to foster new peer work skills and knowledge and provide opportunities to develop connection and networking with other peer leaders across NSW. 

    Find out more here: https://mhcc.org.au/course/peer-leadership/  

  • Self Help Addiction Resource Centre 

    T4T program that teaches the full content of the IPS Core and Advanced trainings to peer workers who have completed both courses and prepares them to deliver IPS in their organisations. 

    Find out more here: https://www.intentionalpeersupport.org/trainings/?v=b8a74b2fbcbb