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COMPLEX NEEDS WORKSHOP - 3rd March 2026 - CAIRNS

$295.00

3rd March, 9.30 to 4.30pm

Rydges Esplanade Hotel, CAIRNS

We begin with expanding our awareness of what complex needs actually means, moving beyond the notion of ‘the complex client’ and instead, focusing on better  understanding complex needs and how they can impact the person and others.

We explore the interaction between complex needs and the challenges faced in clinical and psychosocial work, providing practical and workable strategies for engagement and effective working, along with guiding principles. Case examples are utilised to ensure relevance and application to your work

FULL CATERING and CERTIFICATES SUPPLIED

3rd March, 9.30 to 4.30pm

Rydges Esplanade Hotel, CAIRNS

We begin with expanding our awareness of what complex needs actually means, moving beyond the notion of ‘the complex client’ and instead, focusing on better  understanding complex needs and how they can impact the person and others.

We explore the interaction between complex needs and the challenges faced in clinical and psychosocial work, providing practical and workable strategies for engagement and effective working, along with guiding principles. Case examples are utilised to ensure relevance and application to your work

FULL CATERING and CERTIFICATES SUPPLIED

You will learn:

Greater understanding about how AOD, Mental health, Disability and Psychosocial needs interact with each other and influence a person’s emotions, behaviour, health and wellbeing outcomes.

Enhanced practices that support a person’s meaningful engagement in wellbeing and recovery work.

How to recognise and effectively navigate key factors that impact risk and safety outcomes.

Effective practices that improve care planning and a person’s wellbeing and positive mental health outcomes.

How to better navigate relationship challenges in complex needs work.

Effective referral practices.

THE TRAINER

Brett Bridges is a specialist clinician in complex needs providing a range of consultative, training and clinical services to enhance practice, activating critical thinking, and enable a more functional and capable response to people with complex needs. This includes utlising person centred, recovery focused and trauma informed thinking in response to complex needs and significant risk and safety challenges.

Brett’s experience includes the specialist fields of personality disorder, acute mental health, complex care, forensic mental health, alcohol and other drugs, intellectual disability and corrections. Brett is a co-director at Our Curious Minds alongside Dr. Andrew Carroll where they provide training and consultation services in mental health related risk and safety, de-escalation, vicarious trauma and working with complex needs.