2 Day ONLINE Facilitators’ Workshop
This foundation workshop is for those who have not yet undergone facilitators training for the Imagine Create Belong (ICB) Social Development Programme for Adolescents. This workshop would be valuable for those working with tweens/teens who are neurodivergent and/or would like to develop socially. Professionals who often attend our workshops include social workers, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, psychologists, teachers, members of school wellbeing teams, youth mental health nurses and play therapists.
WORKSHOP PRESENTERS
“We operate from a strengths-perspective, drawing on theorists such as Vygotsky and Rogers, enlisting a person-centred approach involving unconditional positive regard.”
Associate Professor Sophie Goldingay
B.A, PG Dip SW, GCHE, PhD
Sophie Goldingay is an Associate Professor at Deakin University and the lead author of the Imagine Create Belong programme, the website www.imaginecreatebelong.com and the ‘Storying Beyond Social Difficulties’ training manual. Sophie is an experienced trainer of ICB facilitators and has facilitated ICB groups with young people in schools. Sophie’s expertise is in identity, well-being, and inclusion, especially for neurodivergent adolescents. She won the Vice Chancellor’s award for ‘Excellent Contributions to Equity and Access’ in 2012 and the Deakin University Vice Chancellor’s Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Education and Employability’ in 2022. She is also the recipient of three teaching awards and is a TedX speaker. See The transformative power of play and connection | A/Prof Sophie Goldingay | TEDxMalop St – YouTube
Jesse Ivelja (They/Them)
BForensicSc/BCrim, MSW, GCHELT
Jesse Ivelja is a Lecturer in Social Work at the National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute at Deakin University. Jesse has worked as a mentor for Neurodivergent young people and has a passion for social and emotional well-being and inclusion. Since 2020 Jesse has been a principal researcher with the Imagine Create Belong programme and is a celebrated group facilitator and teacher of neurodivergent adolescents.
For further information on this workshop and additional dates, see out Imagine, Create, Belong worksop page.
Our online workshops are run via Zoom and involve lecture components as well as group discussion and breakout rooms.
You will receive an emailed invite after ticket purchase, prior to the workshop.
Group Discount
5 or more people?- Organisations sending 5 or more staff members to the same workshop on the same date will receive a 10% discount off the total price.
- Purchase 5 or more tickets in one order
- Discount is automatically applied at checkout.
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Please note: group discount applies to workshops hosted and run by Learn to Play Therapy
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To receive a full refund please advise your cancellation 8 or more days prior to the commencement of the workshop.
Cancellations made within 7 days prior to the commencement of the workshop will be refunded 50% of the original workshop fee paid.
No refunds will be issued for cancellations made within 48 hours before the commencement of the workshop.
Learn To Play Therapy reserves the right to cancel the workshop and issue a full refund of the workshop fee to registrant.
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2 Day ONLINE Facilitators’ Workshop
This foundation workshop is for those who have not yet undergone facilitators training for the Imagine Create Belong (ICB) Social Development Programme for Adolescents. This workshop would be valuable for those working with tweens/teens who are neurodivergent and/or would like to develop socially. Professionals who often attend our workshops include social workers, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, psychologists, teachers, members of school wellbeing teams, youth mental health nurses and play therapists.
WORKSHOP PRESENTERS
“We operate from a strengths-perspective, drawing on theorists such as Vygotsky and Rogers, enlisting a person-centred approach involving unconditional positive regard.”
Associate Professor Sophie Goldingay
B.A, PG Dip SW, GCHE, PhD
Sophie Goldingay is an Associate Professor at Deakin University and the lead author of the Imagine Create Belong programme, the website www.imaginecreatebelong.com and the ‘Storying Beyond Social Difficulties’ training manual. Sophie is an experienced trainer of ICB facilitators and has facilitated ICB groups with young people in schools. Sophie’s expertise is in identity, well-being, and inclusion, especially for neurodivergent adolescents. She won the Vice Chancellor’s award for ‘Excellent Contributions to Equity and Access’ in 2012 and the Deakin University Vice Chancellor’s Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Education and Employability’ in 2022. She is also the recipient of three teaching awards and is a TedX speaker. See The transformative power of play and connection | A/Prof Sophie Goldingay | TEDxMalop St – YouTube
Jesse Ivelja (They/Them)
BForensicSc/BCrim, MSW, GCHELT
Jesse Ivelja is a Lecturer in Social Work at the National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute at Deakin University. Jesse has worked as a mentor for Neurodivergent young people and has a passion for social and emotional well-being and inclusion. Since 2020 Jesse has been a principal researcher with the Imagine Create Belong programme and is a celebrated group facilitator and teacher of neurodivergent adolescents.
For further information on this workshop and additional dates, see out Imagine, Create, Belong worksop page.