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, Zoe Cloud and Kate Cordukes.
10:15am | Morning Tea
10:45am | Concurrent Sessions 1
Paper Presentation 1 - Hayden Jones and Jane English
Youth Brief Intervention Service (YBIS) connecting systems in the healing of young people: Reflections Pre and Post COVID
Paper Presentation 2 - Kate Barrett-Lennard
Reaching the Systemic Family Wounds-Trauma Complexities Behind Two Criminal Cases
Paper Presentation 3 - Dr Glenn Larner
Systemic Family Therapy and the Politics of Practice
Paper Presentation 4 - Ellen Welsh, James Boyd, Dr Zoe Cloud and Prof Jennifer McIntosh
Optimising Engagement With a Family Digital Mental Health Intervention
11:40am | Concurrent Sessions 2
Paper Presentation 1 - Carol Smith
Family Therapy When Parents Are at War
Paper Presentation 2 - Alicia Battestini
Learnings: Relationship Counselling with Clients Who Identify as Having Disabilities
Paper Presentation 3 - A/Prof Sandra Kuntsche, An Vuong and Dr Mohajer Hameed
Family Inclusive Approaches in the Context of a Dual Diagnosis
Paper Presentation 4 - Natasha Moshinsky and Miruna Iser
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.
2:40pm | Concurrent Sessions 3
Paper Presentation 1 - Laura Hawkins
The Theory Helicopter: Taking Flight in Group Supervision
Paper Presentation 2 - Martin Pradel
Clinical Service Innovation: Rapid Access Family Therapy
Paper Presentation 3 - Elsha Young
Creating Safety in the Therapy Room. Working with Children,
Adolescents and Families
Paper Presentation 4 - Anne-Marie Wilson
3:15pm | Afternoon Tea
3:45pm | Workshop Sessions
Workshop 1 - Aldo Gurgone
The Use of Rituals, Ceremonies & Symbols in Therapy
Workshop 2 - Michael Derby
Shame – It’s Time We Talk: Supporting Families to Heal
Workshop 3 - Prof Jennifer McIntosh
Infant-led Healing of Transgenerational Trauma Through the Foundations of Trust
Workshop 4 - Dr Vanessa Delle-Vergini and Prof Paul Rhodes
Stronger Together: The Youth Forensic Disability Clinical Service
5:15pm | Day 1 Close
5:30pm | Cocktails
6:15pm | Dinner & Entertainment
Friday 4 July
8:00am | Registration Open
8:30am | Plenary Session: AAFT Welcome
8:45am | Plenary Session: ANZJFT Awards
9:15am | Plenary Session: Keynote Address
Healing and Reconnecting: Contemporary Systemic Perspectives
Professional Panel; Prof Paul Rhodes, Roxanne Garven, and Dr Leonie White
10:30am | Morning Tea
11:00am | Concurrent Sessions 4
Paper Presentation 1 - Martin Pradel, Kate Cordukes, Tara Schintler, Colleen Cousins and Robyn Elliott
Families Impacted by Sexual Abuse: Reconnecting with Our Systemic Practice
Paper Presentation 2 - Dr Maria Nichterlein
Grit
Paper Presentation 3 - Naomi Rottem, Prof Jennifer McIntosh and A/Prof Sandra Kuntsche
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
The Value of Systemic Practice Within a Public CYMHS Setting
11:50am | Concurrent Sessions 5
Paper Presentation 1 - Dr Holly Foster, Dr Zoe Cloud and A/Prof Josephine Barbaro
Piloting Walk-in Together Single Session Family Therapy for Families Post-Autism Diagnosis
Paper Presentation 2 - Nella Charles
The Gift That Is Family Therapy
Paper Presentation 3 - Dr Kate Owen
Theory of Change Revisited: Adding Somatic Techniques to Systemic Practice
Paper Presentation 4 - Josephine Thien and Anne Holloway
Promoting Healing Pathways. A Systemic Perspective of Trauma in Organisations
12:40pm | Lunch Break
1:40pm | Workshop Sessions
Workshop 1 - Rana Kokcinar
Family Therapy in Climate Breakdown: Systemic Responses to Climate Distress
Workshop 2 - Dr Anne Welfare, Laurel Downey, Jaya Winter, Lauren Brooks and Selene Foster Zuluaga
Chasing Connection: Working With Family in Residential Care
Workshop 3 - Lauren Errington
Using Sequences to Track Emotional Process in Relationship Interactions
Workshop 4 - Katherine Hubbard
2:40pm | Afternoon Tea
3:00pm | Plenary Session: Keynote Address
Lived Experience Panel.
Facilitated by Prof Jennifer McIntosh and Aldo Gurgone