Training schedule

This advanced program is designed for participants who have previously completed WAAMH’s Reflective Supervision – A Non Clinical Approach foundation course. Scheduled at least 12 weeks after the initial training, this timing enables participants to consolidate foundational knowledge, apply key concepts within their practice, and return with practical insights that enrich the applied learning experience.

The Being Trauma Responsive course has recently been revised for delivery as a half-day online learning session and is an ideal refresher course for those with a foundational understanding of this topic. This workshop will explore how to safely engage with someone affected by trauma and provide practical strategies to support their recovery.

The De-escalation Skills course has been redesigned specifically for an online learning setting and will support workers to recognise when a person is becoming distressed or a situation is escalating. This condensed half-day refresher course is ideal for those with a foundational understanding of this topic and who is seeking practical tools and strategies to effectively respond in ways that promote positive outcomes.

Participants will gain a foundational understanding of the early signs of stress and trauma exposure in themselves and others, explore the general impact on wellbeing, and be introduced to practical, preventative strategies to support personal and professional resilience.

This course provides tools in helping to identify and respond to mental distress in people with any kind of disability (including co-existing disability).

This course examines the nature of boundaries and how to work within boundary frameworks while maintaining care and compassion.

This workshop discusses talking safely with someone who has been impacted by trauma and teaches simple strategies to support recovery, respond to someone experiencing triggers and improve the experiences of people impacted by trauma when seeking support.

People often experience both mental health challenges and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) issues. The intersection of mental health and AOD use is recognised as presenting complex challenges across both domains. This course examines each challenge and its interrelationship with the other.

This course explores the importance of professional boundaries and how to navigate them while delivering care with empathy and respect. Through theory and practical strategies, participants will reflect on their current practice, identify areas for improvement and develop skills to strengthen ethical and compassionate client interactions. Maintaining clear boundaries is essential for building trust and ensuring effective, responsible care in client-facing roles.

Many non-counselling professionals find themselves in day-to-day situations where they are called to support another person emotionally, such as responding to someone experiencing distress, anger, confusion, anxiety or fear.

This course facilitates an understanding of what meditation is, how it works and most importantly provides experiential, person-centred learning in a safe environment. The course strips meditation from any religious orientation; grounding it in a secular, rational perspective suitable for all.

This workshop is about building our confidence as first responders to support someone experiencing a mental health challenge. It prepares participants to know how to recognise signs of mental health issues and how to respond in an effective way.

People often experience both mental health challenges and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) issues. The intersection of mental health and AOD use is recognised as presenting complex challenges across both domains. This course examines each challenge and its interrelationship with the other.

This workshop discusses talking safely with someone who is impacted by trauma and teaching simple strategies to support recovery, respond to someone experiencing triggers and improve the experiences of people impacted by trauma when seeking support.

Increase confidence to safely de-escalate an event. This course is designed to assist in the understanding of emotional escalation, triggers, distress, sense of the adolescent self and coping strategies to effectively de-escalate an adolescent.

**BUY TWO PLACES, AND GET ANOTHER PLACE FOR FREE!** This course explores the common mental health challenges faced by older people, key risk factors, the signs and symptoms and the co-occurrence of mental health and other issues, including cognitive and physical health difficulties.

A two-day interactive course, MHFA will equip you with the skills and resources to recognise and respond appropriately to someone experiencing a mental health crisis, until professional help arrives.

One in four Australians will experience a mental illness at some point in their lives. That means that at any given point, a proportion of your workforce is either experiencing, heading towards or recovering from a mental health challenge or disorder.

This course was developed to provide participants with practical tools that they can use in their work as well as in their daily lives to build and maintain resilience and a sense of wellbeing. The course blends theory/practical activities to provide a pathway to an improved sense of wellbeing.

Build capacity to support others who self-harm. As well as the knowledge component, participants will develop their practical skills by using practice tools to respond to real-life scenarios.

**2-FOR-1 SPECIAL OFFER!** This workshop is designed to help both professionals and those touched by grief to understand its complexities and explore links with mental health and personal wellbeing.

This course will look at how effective supervision plays a strong role in attracting, retaining, and providing ongoing support to a motivated and highly skilled workforce.

This course provides tools in helping to identify and respond to mental distress in people with any kind of disability (including co-existing disability).

People often experience both mental health challenges and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) issues. The intersection of mental health and AOD use is recognised as presenting complex challenges across both domains. This course examines each challenge and its interrelationship with the other.

This course is designed to assist individuals to recognise when a person is becoming distressed or when their behaviour is escalating, and it provides a set of tools and strategies to respond in ways that are likely to result in positive outcomes.

This course is designed to support workers to recognise when a person is becoming distressed or when their behaviour is escalating, and it provides a set of tools and strategies to respond in ways that are likely to result in positive outcomes.

summarise

This workshop discusses talking safely with someone who has been impacted by trauma and teaches simple strategies to support recovery, respond to someone experiencing triggers and improve the experiences of people impacted by trauma when seeking support.

This course examines the nature of boundaries and how to work within boundary frameworks while maintaining care and compassion.

This course has been designed for people who are accredited MHFA aiders and it offers the opportunity for them to extend their accreditation for a further 3 years by completing the refresher course.

This course provides tools in helping to identify and respond to mental distress in people with any kind of disability (including co-existing disability).

Participants will learn from this course how to establish and build safe and person-centered relationships that are strengths-focused. Participants will also learn practical strategies to support their clients with their recovery goals.

Prevention and minimalization of harm and bolstering recovery from co-occurring mental health and AOD challenges is possible for consumers and their families by encouraging hope and cultivating resilience.

If you have lived/living experience as a consumer, carer or family member and want to share your experience, this professional development opportunity may be for you. This workshop series will be facilitated by the WAAMH Lived Experience Engagement Coordinator.

This condensed half-day refresher course is perfect for those with foundational knowledge on this topic. In this course participants will revisit the topic with the focus on building their confidence in recognizing and safely de-escalating situations and developing an awareness of strategies to use.

The Being Trauma Responsive course has recently been revised for delivery as a half-day face-to-face learning session and is an ideal refresher course for those with a foundational understanding of this topic. This workshop will explore how to safely engage with someone affected by trauma and provide practical strategies to support their recovery.

Participants will explore how self-care, reflective practice and awareness of power dynamics support ethical interactions. The course also covers essential strategies for navigating boundaries, responding to breaches and aligning with organisational policies in a way that remains ethically responsive. Designed for those seeking a strong foundation, this condensed program focuses on core principles rather than in-depth appliation.

One in four Australians will experience a mental illness at some point in their lives. That means that at any given point, a proportion of your workforce is either experiencing, heading towards or recovering from a mental health challenge or disorder.

This advanced program is designed for participants who have previously completed WAAMH’s Reflective Supervision – A Non Clinical Approach foundation course. Scheduled at least 12 weeks after the initial training, this timing enables participants to consolidate foundational knowledge, apply key concepts within their practice, and return with practical insights that enrich the applied learning experience.

Participants will learn how to recognise early warning signs in themselves and others, understand the impact of sustained exposure to trauma and apply proactive measures to reduce risk and maintain personal wellbeing.

This introductory workshop offers a clear and practical overview of neurodiversity and neurodivergence in the workplace.

Share your lived experience with confidence and purpose. Expressions of Interest - Now Open! Applications close on 4 June 2026.

This FREE microlearning session previews the 'Understanding Grief and Loss' course, online over 30 mins and provides a snapshot on the full course.

A positive workplace culture is good for building a person's own mental health and wellbeing and can lead to staff feeling more valued and productive. This microlearning session will explore some aspects of the full day course.

Microlearning is a great opportunity to develop skills in a short time. Held over lunchtime, this session will introduce you to a wealth of NDIS terms in an easily accessible format.

Understanding how to support our older citizens in the community is essential for promoting their well-being and enhancing their quality of life. This brief information session will take a closer look at some aspects the full-day course will cover and in the process provide an insight into what to expect from the course.

This course will look at how effective supervision plays a strong role in attracting, retaining, and providing ongoing support to a motivated and highly skilled workforce. This brief information session will take a closer look at some aspects the full-day course will cover and in the process provide an insight into what to expect from the course.

Shelter WA is hosting a forum with representatives from each major political party to discuss their housing and homelessness policies to keep one of WA's biggest issues firmly on the agenda.

Mental Health Week is celebrated every October to inform and educate the community on how to better respond to the challenges mental health issues present, build resilience, reduce stigma associated with mental illness and promote mentally healthy communities.

Your conference ticket includes access to the two-day WA Mental Health Conference 2022 with optional add-on networking sundowner on the first evening.

On ANZAC Day, we remember those who served in war and who did not return to receive the grateful thanks of the nation.

The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) celebrates LGBTQIA+ people globally and raises awareness for the work still needed to combat discrimination.

In 2022, Schizophrenia Awareness Week (SAW) will be held 22-28 May.

National Volunteer Week (NVW) is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteers.

Hear about WAAMH’s regional mental health community support project and the need for increased investment in community support for people with mental health challenges in regional WA.

We know that people experiencing homelessness and those at risk of homelessness are among Western Australia’s most socially and economically disadvantaged.

Youth Week WA celebrates the positive contributions of young people within our community.

Be the Bridge - bridging research, practice & lived experience

Get involved with Men's Health Week 2022

This years theme: Every action counts

National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Are they really OK? Ask them today. Your conversation could change a life.

Remembrance Day

White Ribbon Australia is a part of a global social movement working to eliminate gendered violence.

Hear about WAAMH’s regional mental health community support project and the need for increased investment in community support for people with mental health challenges in regional WA.

Join us in celebrating individuals and organisations that made an outstanding contribution to mental health in the calendar year of 2021.

Join the Western Australian Association for Mental Health and the Mental Health Commission of Western Australia on Thursday, 6 October from 3pm at Luna Palace Cinemas in Leederville for the Perth premiere of the PIECES to celebrate WA Mental Health Week.

Women’s Health Week, run by Jean Hailes for Women's Health Australia, is a week dedicated to all women across Australia to make good health a priority.

Hear about WAAMH’s regional mental health community support project and the need for increased investment in community support for people with mental health challenges in regional WA.

Mental Health Week is celebrated each year in October around World Mental Health Day on October 10.

The theme for World Social Work Day in 2022 is 'Co-building a new eco-social world: leaving no one behind'.

Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

Rural women are key for a world free from hunger and poverty.

Every May 26 in Australia, National Sorry Day reminds the colonist-descended people of the nation to remember the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (NDA) is a day to stand together against bullying and violence.

Celebrating stories and language.

National Reconciliation Week is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.

World Suicide Prevention Day is a chance for us to raise awareness of the impact of suicide in our communities and share support for the people that need it.

Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week (BIEDAW) is a national week to raise awareness of body image concerns and eating disorders, celebrated annually 6-12 September.

World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) aims to put a spotlight on the hurdles that people with autism and others living with autism face every day.

Purple Day is a global initiative dedicated to raising epilepsy awareness, dispelling myths, and increasing support to those affected.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Awareness Week aims to heighten awareness for the need of access to treatment, promote resilience, hope and recovery.

International Day of People With Disability (IDPwD) is a United Nations-observed day aimed at increasing public awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability.

Designated to raise awareness for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the hope that when more people know about the condition, more people who suffer from it will get proper treatment.

Every child in every community needs a fair go.

An annual week of action that takes place in Australia during the first week of August to raise awareness of the significant issues surrounding missing persons. The week is also used to profile long-term missing persons, and to educate the Australian community.

Thank you to all our State emergency services (SES) volunteers.

First responders are ordinary people with an extraordinary spirit.

Stronger families, stronger communities. More than 100,000 people get involved in hundreds of community events during the week in Australia’s biggest celebration of families in all their diversity.

Together we can heal, learn and shine. Each year on 20 June the world celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.

The 2025 WA Mental Health Awards will be held at Beaumonde on the Point on World Mental Health Day, Friday 10 October, where the finalists will be recognised and the winners will be announced.

2hr interactive face to face workshop for organisational and sector leaders

2.5hr interactive face to face workshop for organisational and sector leaders

Movement, Music, Mental Health

2024 WA Mental Health Awards

World Day of Social Justice

Be the Bridge - bridging research, practice & lived experience

Your conference ticket includes access to the two-day WA Mental Health Conference 2022 with optional add-on networking sundowner on the first evening.