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BUILDING RESILIENCE 5-WEEK COURSE
THE COURSE OF OUR TIME Rewire your Brain to be More Resilient
Starts 15 August in Rangiora
This 5-week course is bursting with cool neuroscience and practical tools that actually make lasting changes to your brain and life — 80-minute sessions with practices to take away to rewire your brain. Based on the work of Dr Rick Hanson’s positive neuroplasticity training and much much more.
Resilient people make resilient communities: be part of making your community resilient in these uncertain and challenging times.
This is a community course based on a social permaculture model and is not profit making. Money that is made beyond expenses goes into the kete for the next course to provide supported places on the next one. Sponsorship and funding are welcome (business, organizations or individual) to keep this course going and available to all our community.
Some of the themes covered will include:
• Mindfulness: the power and pleasure of being present • Working with the ruminating mind • Rebalancing the negativity bias surviving to thriving • Making good experiences stick and become part of us • Connecting with and cultivating joy, kindness and compassion • Treating ourselves with kindness (as a friend) when things are difficult • Building connection for resilience.
Dates 5 Consecutive Sunday afternoons, 15 August – 12 September 2021, 4.30pm to 5.50pm.
To Register: https://forms.gle/t54JhYt5Rc5TBuaFA
www.mindfulnessnc.nz
CEP: Co-Existing Mental Health and Addiction Problems
This workshop provides an overview and update of current approaches to working clinically with Co-existing Problems (CEP). It is highly clinically focused and participants will leave with some useful clinical tools, access to further CEP resources and the ability to plan their own professional development in the area of CEP. Thursday 19 August 2021, 9am-12pm
Mental Health Legislation: Understanding the Law, Client’s Rights and Privacy
This workshop will provide you with the knowledge and understanding to ensure you are managing your role within the boundaries of relevant health related legislation in Aotearoa/New Zealand in order to protect the rights of those individuals affected. Monday 23 August 2021, 9am-1pm
Understanding Different Personality and Communication Styles in the Workplace
In all aspects of our daily lives we are interacting and communicating with others yet so often there are times when there is miscommunication and confusion leading at times to conflict and less than satisfactory outcomes in the workplace. Tuesday 24 August 2021, 9am-1pm
De-escalation: Effective Communication to Manage Distress
Gain the skills to identify and de-escalate an agitated person while keeping yourself and others safe. Gain confidence in managing distress and aggression, and strategies for self-control. Learn the role of communication and the importance of debriefing following a challenging situation. Tuesday 31 August 2021, 9am-1pm
For more information about the above workshops, cost and to register go to: https://mherc.arlo.co/w/
Training Research Evaluation Advocacy
Friday 10 September 12.30pm—1.30pm
Manawa Building, 276 Antigua Street, Christchurch Free to attend, but registration is essential
Our ever popular Research Seminar Series is returning in 2021. This series will present you with research findings on relevant youth focussed topics, which can be used both policy and practice. We welcome anyone with an interest in young people to attend these free lunchtime sessions! BYO lunch.
Doing Well for Those Who Want to do Good.
Presented by Associate Professor Billy Osteen and Dr Hilary Dutton, Postdoctoral Fellow : University of Canterbury
Immediately after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, thousands of University of Canterbury students provided relief and inspiration by assisting residents across the city. This Student Volunteer Army exemplified UC's vision of "preparing people to make a difference" and led to the creation of a course, CHCH101: Rebuilding Christchurch, that has been dedicated to facilitating student led projects. Last year, these efforts informed the design and launch of the Bachelor of Youth and Community Leadership. This seminar will share research conducted with the first cohorts of these students to discern their motivations and intentions for embarking on this programme and how the analysis is influencing our iterative curriculum process.
Workshop: Governance Bites: Bite #3: Better Board Decision Making
Tuesday 17 August, 5.15pm-7pm Facilitated by Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Registration essential (please include dietary requirements - pizza on arrival!) outreach@volcan.org.nz Non-profit boards only have authority as a group. What's the different dynamics between individual and group decision-making? And what key difference in approach is required when making routine decisions, and when looking to innovate to at least ensure we know what all the options are (beyond the same old-same old)? How can understanding the three key 'mindsets' that people can bring to the governance decision-making help us make better decisions, and help us ensure we are asking the right questions. This session will provide participants with two useful tools that will help you in making better group decisions.
Fit for Funding
Tuesday 21 September, 1-2pm Presenter: Liz Stephenson, DIA Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street RSVP outreach@volcan.org.nz So you want funding and want to make sure you have everything in place to get through the hoops?!
Workshop: Governance Bites: Bite #4: Keeping it Legal: Incorporation, Duties and Conflict of Interest
Tuesday 21 September, 5.15pm-7pm Facilitated by Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Registration essential (please include dietary requirements - pizza on arrival!) outreach@volcan.org.nz While staying on the right side of the law is not the end of your work as a non-profit board member, it is a good place to start. In this session we will briefly look at how laws (written and unwritten) impact on your organisation. We will also remind ourselves what being incorporated means, why it is important, and how to avoid losing its crucial protections. Finally, we will uncover why Conflicts of Interest are not a problem, but how we deal with them can be if we don’t follow three simple rules
Training Research Evaluation Advocacy
The Collaborative Trust is committed to assisting the healthy development of young people, through:
• Training the people who work with young people; • Undertaking and disseminating research and
evaluation so that training and services can be based on evidence; • Informing and influencing policy and practice.
UPCOMING ONLINE WORKSHOPS:
The Reality and Impact of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Tuesday 24 August 9.30am —12.30pm In this workshop, you will be given insight into the prevalence of FASD and how we can work to not only support those impacted by it, but also how to take a preventative approach. You will learn more about how alcohol impacts the brain of the unborn child and gain understanding of the many faces and many realities of FASD. Participants will learn strategies of how to work with tangata presenting with FASD.
Understanding Suicide : Latest Research and New Ideas
Wednesday 8 September 9.30am—12.30pm
In this workshop we will discuss some questions of great importance to those who work with and for young people. These include: • How have suicide trends changed during the last few years and the impact of the Covid pandemic? • How do we target and support the most at risk groups from suicide? • What are some of the latest risk factors that have been identified that can lead someone to suicide? • Why has there been a sharp increase in suicidal ideation among • children? • What are some new techniques and strategies to help someone • who may be suicidal? • What is the latest research about resilience and protective factors?
