Description
This course is great if you:Would like to have more open and compassionate conversations about self-harm
Are interested in learning more about how to reduce self-harm
Would like to explore ideas about how to respond to self-harm
Often people find it difficult to talk about self-harm. This course offers opportunity to safely share different perspectives, and explore use of language, stereotypes and helpful and unhelpful experiences.
This course will explore facts, myths and meanings of self-harm from a range of lived and professional experiences to encourage a broader and deeper knowledge of self-harm and healthier alternatives.
Through the voices of lived and professional experience in relation to self-harm, this course will open up a space to explore tools, techniques and strategies for treating, managing or supporting the experience of self-harm.
This event will cover:
- create a safe place to share and understand different perspectives about self-harm
- consider different experiences of self-harm
- explore language, assumptions and behaviours about self-harm
- explore different facts and myths about self-harm
- consider a range of different supports and tools in relation to self-harm
- recognise ways to create open, comfortable and safe communication around self-harm
Trainers
- Jesse Scott (Peer Support) — headspace Early Psychosis
- Emily Wilson (Social Worker / Recovery Group Program Leader) — headspace Early Psychosis
Categories:
Capability 9 - Delivering holistic and collaborative assessment and care planning,
Working with infants, children, and younger persons
Disciplines:
Allied Health,
Lived Experience Workforce,
Medical,
Nursing,
Other
Levels:
Intermediate
Lifespans:
Child,
Adolescent,
Youth,
Adult,
Older Persons
10:00 to 16:00 Add to calendar
Kingston Arts Centre 979 Nepean Highway, Moorabbin VIC 3189
