UPCOMING EVENTS

DRUMBEAT Building Resilience Through Rhythm

Facilitator Training Program Auckland 8th, 9th & 10th September

The Holyoake DRUMBEAT (Discovering Relationships Using Music, Beliefs, Emotions, Attitudes & Thoughts) program is an early intervention program used widely across Australia with ‘high risk’ population groups including young people & adults. This award winning program explores a range of relationship issues, including peer pressure, dealing with emotions, identity, communication, social responsibility, bullying & teamwork using analogies drawn from the drum circle. DRUMBEAT has been designed to engage participants alienated from society and averse to talk based therapies. Much of the learning is experiential and fun with simple and clear connections made between what happens in the drumming group to other relationship contexts drawn from participant’s real life. This is an evidence based program being used in over 400 centres across Australia including schools (both primary & secondary) youth centres, child protection centres, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centres, prisons, mental health facilities and refugee trauma centres.

Further information and evaluations can be located online at www.holyoake.org.au 

The training is a three day PD and covers managing difficult behaviours, building a therapeutic relationship and the theory and practice of the DRUMBEAT program itself. For registrations go to http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-centre/fac/workshops/drumbeat/

Resources and information also available in Tools and Resources menu.

The International Conference: Developing Strength and Resilience in Children

1-2 November 2010 Oslo - Registration Closing date: 6th of September 2010

The Norwegian NGO Voksne for Barn invites you to an international conference with the following thematic focus:

How to develop good schools promoting children’s wellbeing and mental health

How to prevent mental health problems and illness in children at risk – the Second International Conference on Children with Mentally Ill Parents (COPMI 2).

We welcome anyone working with or are responsible for children and adolescents in schools and minicipal or specialist services.  We will present updated knowledge in fields relating to the conference topics, and show new ways of giving children an opportunity to develop strength and joy in life.

There will be parallel sessions both days where the main objective is to emphasize how we can 
Create a supportive and empowering environment in schools and the community for children and adolescents through:

• Research connected to health promotion and prevention
• Interventions – main focus in programmes and methods of social and emotional learning 
• Implementation of theory and methods 
• Experience-based knowledge 

A network meeting focusing on national strategies for the work on children with mentally ill parents (COPMI) will be held on 3 November.