Training
Our trainings
Veritable offers face-to-face, interactive training tailored to the needs of your organisation.
Training is targeted at support workers, team leaders, practice leaders, professionals and managers. All full and half day trainings are based on the latest research from La Trobe University. These sessions can be adapted to your organisation and are provided on request at a time that suits (minimum 5 to a maximum of 20 attendees per workshop).
Our workshops:
- Based on interactive, adult learning principles
- Promote discussion and engagement at a deep level
- Practice-informed and action-orientated for skill development
- Content tailored to service delivery in remote Australia
- Develop reflective practice skills that help staff be resilient
- Create opportunities to develop solutions
Full day training
Safe and Stable Services
For Team Leaders, Practice Leaders and Managers in residential and community services
Learning outcomes:
- Understand ‘capable environments’ and how to proactively create safe environments for support
- Reduce behaviours of concern in a framework of human rights
- Create workplaces that improve staff retention and satisfaction
- Be high performing team leaders
- Be confident leaders providing the best service for your organisation and the people you support
$2750 + GST
Half day training options
$1450 each + GST
Active Support – Doing With, Not Doing For
For Team Leaders and Support Workers
Learning outcomes:
- The 4 Essentials of Active Support
- Why engagement is important to quality of life
- Why Active Support is needed for high quality service
- How to use Active Support in your everyday work
Supported Decision Making
For Support Coordinators, Team Leaders, Practice Leaders and Support Workers
Learning outcomes:
- Reflect on contemporary best practice for supporting people with cognitive impairments to make decisions
- Describe steps, principles and strategies for supported decision making
- How to apply this knowledge when acting as a decision supporter
Putting Positives First – Enabling Risk
For Team Leaders, Practice Leaders and Support Workers
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the benefits of working in a way that safely enables choices
- Define risk, outcomes and factors that influence risk-taking behaviour
- Understand the 4 Essentials of Risk Enablement and how you can best support people with cognitive disability
- Apply Risk Enablement to different case scenarios in your work
Include one of our Add-Ons for FREE!
The following can be added to any half day or full day training:
Inclusive Health Care
- How to improve communication with health systems for people with cognitive disability and communication difficulties (creating a ‘health passport’)
Active Listening
- Refresh and practice the principles of active listening in the context of your work
Culture and Disabilities
- Explore how your culture of origin impacts on your work and reflect on challenges and opportunities
2 Hour training options
$700 each + GST
Running low on time? Consider 2 hour training sessions to enhance your team skills as a “lunch and learn”, or at any time that suits.
Connect – Emotional Coregulation
For Frontline Staff, Team Leaders, Practice Leaders and Support Workers
Learning outcomes:
- Understand emotional coregulation
- Reflection on experiences with emotional coregulation in supporting people
- Consider strategies to use emotional coregulation for positive interactions with people with complex needs
Introduction to Reflective Practice
For Professionals, Team Leaders, Practice Leaders and Managers
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding reflective practice versus line management and debriefing
- Benefits of reflective practice for staff retention, service and wellbeing
- Introduction to reflective practice models
Active Support Refresher
For Team Leaders and Support Workers
Learning outcomes:
- Refresher training on principles of Person-Centred Active Support
- How to maintain strong commitment to Active Support in your teams