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Click here to find out about our 2008 Spring School Training event

Click here to find out about our 2008 Spring School

Introduction

Innovative Resources, the publishing arm of St Luke's Anglicare hosts workshops in most states every year. Join us in 2008 in Sydney, Adelaide and Bendigo.

Our seriously optimistic® workshops demonstrate ways in which card packs, stickers, books, photographs, illustrations and a whole range of tactile resources can be used to create change-oriented, strengths-based conversations.

Our workshops are highly interactive and provide participants with hands-on experience in using high-quality resources that can help us uncover our strengths, goals, feelings, and stories.

In our workshops we endeavour to:

We offer workshops from four hours to two days. We will tailor workshops to meet the special needs of any organisation, and we travel.  To find out about hosting a tailor-made seriously optimistic® workshop at your organisation, contact our Training Coordinator on ph: (03) 5442 0515 or email info@innovativeresources.org

 

2008 seriously optimistic® workshops

Workshop venues, times, catering and registration:

download our registration form

2008 calendar - click on a workshop name to view an info PDF

Sydney

Training venue:

Mary MacKillop Place

7-11 Mount Street, North Sydney

www.marymackillopplace.org.au

 

June 23

Tools of the Trade

1 day ($180)

June 24

Tools for Team-building and Group Work

1 day ($180)
Adelaide

Training venue:

Relationships Australia bookshop

49a Orsmond Street, Hindmarsh

Ph: (08) 8245-8111

www.rabooks.com.au

July 7 - 8

The Travelling Toolshed

2 day ($360)

July 9

Tools for Team-building and Group Work

1 day ($180)

July 9

Celebrating Girls

1 day ($180)

July 10 - 11

Storycatching

2 day ($360)
Bendigo

Training venue:

To be advised

Oct 13 - 14

The Travelling Toolshed

2 day ($360)

Oct 15

Tools for Team-building and Group Work

1 day ($180)

Oct 15

Celebrating Girls

1 day ($180)
 

  Our Facilitators...


Russell Deal

Russell Deal is director of Innovative Resources. Russell's great passion is creating strengths-based tools. His vision and originality are stamped on most of the materials published by Innovative Resources.

His legendary workshops showcase many of these tools and have inspired thousands of human service workers to rediscover the power of art in their practice.

 

 


Di O'Neil

Di is the Executive Director of St Luke's Anglicare. She has significantly influenced the development of St Luke's philosophy and practice and the strengths-based movement in Australia.

Co-author of Beyond Child Rescue and Promoting Family Change: the optimism factor, Di is inspired by the hero inside each person she has met.

 

 


Jane Bennett

Jane Bennett

Jane has been working in the health and fertility sector since the 1980s as a counsellor and trainer for health professionals. She is the author of A Blessing Not a Curse and co-author of The Natural Fertility Management Contraception Kit (with Francesca Naish).

 

Jane has been facilitating workshops for girls entering puberty and traversing adolescence since 2000, exploring and celebrating body image, relationships and physical integrity. She has been using Innovative Resources' tools in her own workshops for many years, and is now passionately sharing this experience facilitating workshops on their behalf.

 


More information...

Contact our Training Coordinator on (03) 5442 0515 for more information on any of these workshops or to discuss how we can tailor a workshop to suit your needs.

Other workshop ideas (contact us to lodge your interest)

Phone: (03) 5442 0515 (international +61 3 5442 0515)

Fax: (03) 5442 0555 (international + 61 3 5442 0555)

Email: info@innovativeresources.org

 

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