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