Thursday 3 July

08:00am | Registration Open
8:45am | Plenary Session: Welcome to Country Ceremony & AAFT Welcome
9:15am | Plenary Session: Keynote Address

Bringing Indigenous knowledge to family healing: A cross-cultural, single session service. Workin’ with the Mob Practice-Research Team at The Bouverie Centre – Alison Elliott, Aunty Darlene Christensen, Dr Zoe Cloud and Kate Cordukes.

10:15am | Morning Tea

10:45am | Concurrent Sessions 1

Paper Presentation 1 - Hayden Jones and Jane English (Park Room)

Youth Brief Intervention Service (YBIS) connecting systems in the healing of young people: Reflections Pre and Post COVID

Paper Presentation 2 - Kate Barrett-Lennard (Lake Room 3 & 4)

Reaching the Systemic Family Wounds-Trauma Complexities Behind Criminal Cases

Paper Presentation 3 - Dr Glenn Larner (Plenary A)

Systemic Family Therapy and the Politics of Practice

Paper Presentation 4 - Ellen Welsh, James Boyd, Dr Zoe Cloud and Prof Jennifer McIntosh (Lake Room 1 & 2)

Optimising Engagement With a Family Digital Mental Health Intervention

11:40am | Concurrent Sessions 2

Paper Presentation 1 - Carol Smith (Plenary A)

Family therapy when parents are at war:
Systemic approaches in the Family Court

Paper Presentation 2 - Alicia Battestini and Matthew Broadbridge (Plenary B)

Learnings: Relationship Counselling with Clients Who Identify as Having Disabilities

Paper Presentation 3 - A/Prof Sandra Kuntsche, An Vuong and Dr Mohajer Hameed (Lake Room 3 & 4)

Family Inclusive Approaches in the Context of a Dual Diagnosis

Paper Presentation 4 - Natasha Moshinsky and Miruna Iser (Park Room)

The System Not the Symptom

12:30pm | Lunch Break & Meet the ANZJFT Team
1:30pm | Plenary Session: Keynote Address

Supporting Parents and Children after Divorce: A Data-Driven 30-year Retrospective.
Professor Bruce Smyth, Australian National University Professor of Family Studies, with Professor Lawrie Moloney.

2:40pm | Concurrent Sessions 3

Paper Presentation 1 - Laura Hawkins, Catherine Falco, Seanna Keeley and Stephanie Heard (Plenary A)

The Theory Helicopter: Taking Flight in Group Supervision

Paper Presentation 2 - Martin Pradel, Kate Cordukes, Jacqueline Clearly, Ellen Welsh, Dr Zoe Cloud, and Prof Jenn McIntosh (Park Room)

Clinical Service Innovation: Rapid Access Family Therapy

Paper Presentation 3 - Elsha Young (Lake Room 1 & 2)

Creating Safety in the Therapy Room. Working with Children,
Adolescents and Families

Paper Presentation 4 - Anne-Marie Wilson (Lake Room 3 & 4)

Functional Family Therapy: Tools to Create Authentic and Enduring Change

3:15pm | Afternoon Tea

3:45pm | Concurrent Sessions 4

Workshop 1 - Aldo Gurgone (Lake Room 1 & 2)

The Use of Rituals, Ceremonies & Symbols in Therapy

Workshop 2 - Michael Derby (Lake Room 3 & 4)

Shame – It’s Time We Talk: Supporting Families to Heal

Workshop 3 - Prof Paul Rhodes & Youth Forensic Disability Clinical Service (Plenary A)

Working Systemically with Violence, Sexual Violence and Intellectual Disability

Workshop 5 - Dr Anne Welfare, Laurel Downey, Jaya Winter, Lauren Brooks and Selene Foster Zuluaga (Park Room)

Chasing Connection: Working With Family in Residential Care

Workshop 4 - Brian Stagoll, Peter Churven, and Banu Moloney. Facilitated by Melanie Xavier (Plenary B)

Where did we come from? Where are we going?

Join us in an Intergenerational Conversation

5:15pm | Day 1 Close
6:00pm - 10:00pm | Cocktails + Dinner & Entertainment

Friday 4 July

8:00am | Registration Open
8:30am | Plenary Session: AAFT Welcome
8:45am | Plenary Session: ANZJFT Awards

8:45am | Special Session (limited spaces)

Workshop 1 | Park Room - Robyne Latham

First Nations’ Ways of Being

9:15am | Plenary Session: Keynote Address

Healing and Reconnecting: Contemporary Systemic Perspectives
Professional Panel; Prof Paul Rhodes, Dr Leonie White and Sonja Baram
Facilitated by Catherine Falco

10:30am | Morning Tea

11:00am | Concurrent Sessions 6

Paper Presentation 1 - Martin Pradel, Kate Cordukes, Tara Schintler, Colleen Cousins and Robyn Elliott (Plenary A)

Families Impacted by Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse: Reconnecting with Our Systemic Practice

Paper Presentation 2 - Dr Maria Nichterlein (Lake Room 3 & 4)

Grit

Paper Presentation 3 - Naomi Rottem, Prof Jennifer McIntosh and A/Prof Sandra Kuntsche (Park Room)

Single-Session and Multi-Session Family Therapy: A 12-month Comparative Outcomes Study

Paper Presentation 4 - Alicia Martin, Freya Reynolds, Julie Goldsmith, Selva Anandakumarasamy, and Dr Zoe Cloud (Lake Room 1 & 2)

The Value of Systemic Practice Within a Public CYMHS Setting

11:50am | Concurrent Sessions 7

Paper Presentation 1 - Dr Holly Foster, Dr Zoe Cloud and Rob Anderson (Lake Room 3 & 4)

Piloting Walk-in Together Single Session Family Therapy for Families Post-Autism Diagnosis

Paper Presentation 2 - Nella Charles and Franca Butera (Lake Room 1 & 2)

The Gift That Is Family Therapy:  Families’ healing journey through family violence and trauma

Paper Presentation 3 - Dr Kate Owen (Plenary A)

Theory of Change Revisited: Adding the Neurobiological Pathway

Paper Presentation 4 - Josephine Thien and Anne Holloway (Plenary B)

Promoting Healing Pathways. A Systemic Perspective of Trauma in Organisations

12:40pm | Lunch Break

1:40pm | Concurrent Sessions 8

Workshop 1 - Rana Kokcinar (Park Room)

Family Therapy in Climate Breakdown: Systemic Responses to Climate Distress

Workshop 3 - Bliss Jackman and Chantel Kleiner (Lake Room 3 & 4)

Leading Change: Co-Designing Eating Disorder Training Approaches with Lived Experience

Workshop 2 - Lauren Errington (Plenary A)

Using Sequences to Track Emotional Process in Relationship Interactions

Workshop 4 - Claire Barbagallo and Seanna Keeley (Lake Room 1 & 2)

Thinking Systemically with Neuroqueer Families

2:40pm | Afternoon Tea
3:00pm | Plenary Session: Keynote Address

Lived Experience Panel.
Facilitated by Prof Jennifer McIntosh and Aldo Gurgone

4:15pm | Conference Close