Narrative conversations with children & families affected by family violence

This workshop will explore some dilemmas and possibilities for enhancing children’s safety and wellbeing in family violence support work. The workshop will provide an opportunity to practice and develop skills for having conversations with all members of the family and critically reflect on practice.

This workshop can be run over two days or adapted for online. They are structured as follows:

Session 1: Children’s safety and wellbeing within the context of family violence with a focus on the ‘how’ of having conversations with children and the theoretical and practice issues for supportive counselling conversations with children.

Session 2: Working with fathers who are perpetrators and working with mothers who are living with perpetrators of domestic violence. This day focuses on the ‘how’ of having conversations with women and men and a therapeutic framework to navigate the difficult and complex work with families.

The workshop will provide an opportunity to practice and develop skills for having conversations with all members of the family and critically reflect on practice.