FAQ

 

What is Resisting Collusion & Motivating Change: Working with Men who use Intimate Partner Violence training?

Resisting Collusion is a full day (9.30am - 3.30pm) interactive, online training module, which assists professionals to effectively identify, understand and resist invitations to collude with men who use family violence.

Attendees will be able to:

  • Explain what family violence is and its causes

  • Articulate elements of perpetrator accountability

  • Identify core beliefs held by men who use violence

  • Examine, understand, and resist invitations to collude

  • Examine shame as a change motivator

  • Use invitational approaches to keep men who use violence in view

  • Consider how to motivate change and referral readiness

  • Name key referral and secondary consultation options.

How is this different from Men’s Behaviour Change Program training?

Men’s Behaviour Change Program training qualifies a professional to facilitate a Men’s Behaviour Change Program, working directly with men to address their use of violence. The Resisting Collusion training focuses on how professionals, working to address other needs (such as housing, parenting, AOD supports) who become aware of men who are using violence, can actively resist colluding with their use of violence, and motivate them to address their behaviours moving forward.

Who should attend this training?

This training is open to any professional who may interact with men who use intimate partner violence, but where the focus of their practice is not behaviour change work specifically. Family violence professionals who support and respond to victim survivors are also welcome to attend.

Practitioners from the following sectors have benefitted from this training:

  • Child protection

  • Child and family welfare

  • Justice and Community Safety

  • Mental health

  • AOD

  • Specialist family violence (adult and child victim survivors)

  • Youth work

  • Counsellors and psychologists

  • Disability support

  • Housing/homelessness

  • Community health/hospitals

  • Community Legal Centres.


How is this training delivered?

The training is delivered online, via zoom, and the link to the training will be emailed to participants three working days beforehand. It has been designed to be interactive, and includes large group discussion, small group break out room activities, PowerPoint presentation slides, case studies (for practical application of learning) and trainer demonstration videos. The training is aligned with adult learning principles, as well as the MARAM Framework.

In addition to this, participants are given a Participant Guide Book to support their learning throughout the day, which provides an array of relevant resources to enhance their practice. Throughout the session, multiple links to relevant websites, and academic articles related to working with men who use violence are also shared with participants.

Are there any prerequisites?

It is a requirement that professionals attending this training already have a good understanding of family violence, through previous training, such as Identifying Family Violence: Responding to Victim Survivors and/or Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) training, or equivalent if working outside of Victoria, within the last two years.