Professional Learning Opportunities
Empowering organisations, businesses, schools, and community services with tailored professional learning for growth, safety, and impact.
Why Choose Us?
Our tailored professional learning programs are designed to build safety, support wellbeing, cultural change, growth and drive impact across organisations, schools, and community services. Backed by research and best-practice methodologies, our offerings are facilitated by a multi-displinary team experts who bring decades of experience across education, community services, business and psychology. They have supported hundreds of schools, businesses and organisations across Australia to manage change and bring real-world experience to every session. Our professional learning is grounded in three decades of practice and experience of over 2,000 staff in our own community services, residential care settings, schools, outreach education programs and delivering learning to partner organisations.
Our Professional Learning Opportunities
Below are some of the options we can provide for professional learning. If you are curious about these options, or others, contact us to discuss your goals.
- Leading Difficult Conversations
- Managing Change
- Professional Coaching
- Professional Supervision
- Managing Conflict and Communication
- Professional Mentoring
- Principal and School Leader Wellbeing
- School Middle Leaders Coaching
- Wellbeing in the 'Helping Professions'
- Empathetic Leadership
- Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
- Recovery and Coping Strategies
- Secondary Traumatic Stress
- Prevention and Recovery Strategies for Secondary Traumatic Stress
- Combatting Vicarious Trauma and Secondary Traumatic Stress
- Child Safety
- Reflective Practice
- Building Psychological Safety
- Organisational Cultural Change
How Our Process Works
- Consultation: We consult with you to understand your goals, needs and organisational strengths, ensuring the learning journey is tailored to your organisation and is grounded in a strengths-based approach.
- Co-Design and Development: We develop with you a customised, evidence-based training program aligned to your specific context.
- Delivery and Implementation: We provide interactive workshops, coaching, and experiential learning sessions using evidence-based learning principles to ensure lasting impact.
- Follow-Up Support: Post-training support to embed learning and ensure sustainable change.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is The MacKillop Institute's professional learning, and why is it important?
Our professional learning can take many forms from short half-day and full-day workshops to longer engagements. We work with you to co-design and tailor it to your needs and goals. We support individuals, teams and your whole organisation to enhance knowledge, skills, and competencies. Our professional learning drives growth, builds organisational capacity, and strengthens cultures of continuous improvement.
How do you deliver training for businesses and schools?
Our learning programs can be delivered in-person, online, or through hybrid models with our cutom built learning management system (LMS) to meet the diverse needs of clients and maximise accessibility.
Can you travel to us?
Our preference is to deliver training in-person to build relationships and rapport with all our learners and clients. We will travel to you wherever you are in Australia.
What are the benefits of managing change in an organisation?
Effective change management reduces resistance, enhances engagement, and increases the success of organisational transformations. Our training equips teams to manage change confidently.
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Learn More About Some of Our Options
Combatting vicarious trauma in the workplace
Vicarious trauma is an occupational challenge for many people working in community services and other industries where workers are supporting others impacted by trauma. Our Vicarious Trauma Training teaches practical strategies to identify and prevent vicarious trauma and maintain healthy teams
View moreEmotionally Intelligent Leadership
Emotional intelligence is an integral part of good leadership and plays an important role in building healthy and well-functioning teams. Our module incorporates both theory and practical strategies, to help you lead with confidence and a better understanding of others.
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Trauma-Informed Practice
Our Trauma Awareness Module is ideal for staff who work directly with clients. Gain a shared understanding of trauma and its impact, how it might present in the people around us, and how best to respond. This training will also teach participants how to use a trauma-informed problem-solving framework to organise client services.
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