| Ticket type | All-day workshop | 1/2-day workshops |
| AACBT Student Member | $110 | $55 |
| AACBT Member | $325 | $165 |
| Non-member | $455 | $230 |
| All-day | 1/2-day |
| Professor Liz Pellicano | Professor Nicole Lee |
| " | Professor Lauren Breen |
Power shift: transforming clinical service delivery through authentic partnerships with Autistic people.
ALL-DAY WORKSHOP
Come and learn how to shape service delivery of CBT for neurodivergent clients.
How can you transform your clinical service delivery based on learnings from partnerships with people with lived experience?
This workshop will focus on how to effectively provide therapy to and collaborate with neurodivergent clients. Participants will develop skills and strategies to enhance clinical practice.
Participatory (or ‘co-production’) approaches are having major effects on research across the globe, in disciplines ranging from agriculture and environmental science to health-related research and research with minority communities. Such approaches challenge conventional research methods and service design, in which research is typically done to, on or for individuals. Instead, participatory approaches aim to work together with individuals with lived experience to drawing on the ‘practical wisdom’ of community members to shape the research process and service design.
Encouragingly, these approaches are increasingly being applied to the design and delivery of clinical services. This entails direct involvement of people (with lived experience) using the service in defining the need or problem, designing the solution, delivering it, and evaluating it, in partnership with the people (with learnt experience) who provide the service. Yet, participatory approaches are not without their challenges. This workshop will describe these challenges and ways to avoid them. When done well, services designed in active partnership with patients and community members can have enormous benefit, resulting in improved experiences, efficiency and clinical outcomes. When done less well, however, partnerships can be ineffective and burdensome – and community members can be left feeling that their views are not taken seriously, which can even cause harm.
In this workshop, Liz will outline the key principles of participatory approaches to research and practice. She will provide examples of her own work that actively involves Autistic community members in projects related to research and clinical practice, including in the design and development of a new Autism Assessment Service in London. She will discuss lessons learned, including of ways to redress longstanding power imbalances in research and clinical practice – and potentially even the clinical encounter itself.
Lived experience is critical to future clinical research and interventions. This workshop offers a practical view on how to collaborate and how to utilise key strategies and approaches in improving clinical practice.
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Event detail:
This is an all-day workshop from 9am-5pm, with 6 hours CPD.
The ticket includes all catering - please include your dietary requirements when you book your ticket.
More from Liz.
CEO Hello Sunday Morning; CEO 360Edge; Adjunct Prof National Drug Research Institute
Working with people with co-occurring mental health issues and alcohol and other drug use.
1/2-DAY WORKSHOP (9am start)
Learn real-world CBT strategies to help you navigate co-occurring mental health and alcohol and other drug issues in treatment.
Gain practical CBT tools for working with co-occurring mental health and alcohol and other drug issues.
Life (and therapy) can get messy when people are dealing with both mental health issues and alcohol or other drug use. These co-occurring challenges often show up together, yet the systems we work in - and sometimes the models we use and the way we are trained - aren’t always built to handle the overlap. This practical, hands-on workshop is all about helping you feel more confident and equipped to work in that grey area. We’ll explore how to use CBT in a flexible, client-centred way to support people navigating both mental health symptoms and substance use—whether they’re trying to cut back, quit altogether, or just stay safe. Through real-world examples, clinical tips, and interactive activities, we’ll unpack how to work with ambivalence, build motivation and adapt CBT tools like behavioural activation, cognitive strategies, and relapse planning to the complexities of dual presentations. If you’ve got the CBT basics and want to feel more confident working with co-occurring issues, this workshop is for you. You’ll leave with practical tools and a renewed energy for this sometimes complex work.
Event detail:
This is a 1/2-day workshop from 9am-12:30pm, with 3 hours CPD.
The ticket includes morning tea and lunch in your catering - please include your dietary requirements when you book your ticket.
More from Nicole.
Supporting grieving clients.
1/2-DAY WORKSHOP (1:30pm start)
Everyone grieves, so we don’t need to learn about it, right? Wrong!
This presentation will dispel some grief myths and include some of the latest information about grief support, grief counselling, and grief therapies.
Understanding grief is important background knowledge for clinicians. Grief is normal and natural responses to death and non-death losses. However, grief is also associated with anxiety and depression, as well as sleep disturbances and other important outcomes that affect mental health, well-being, and quality of life. This workshop is designed to will help clinicians understand grief and feel more confident working with clients experiencing loss and grief. Lauren will debunk some myths about grief, differentiate between “normal” grief and Prolonged Grief Disorder, and summarise aspects of evidence-based interventions according to need. She will draw on some of her work with children, young people, and adults.
Event detail:
This is a 1/2-day workshop from 1:30pm-5pm, with 3 hours CPD.
The ticket includes lunch and afternoon tea in your catering - please include your dietary requirements when you book your ticket.
More from Lauren.
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