SAFE in Oz has developed out of the SAFE (Self-Abuse Finally Ends) program successfully established in Canada by the co-founders Mary Graham and Dr Dorothy Haswell. The consumer program is a unique, innovative treatment for people who self-abuse. It offers those individuals an opportunity to learn to contain their reactions to their problems of living. This is achieved by exploring healing ways to soothe their emotional pain, allowing them to recognise the triggers to self-abuse and breaking the cycle in a supportive peer group environment or with their support worker or therapist. A significantly high number of consumers who have participated in SAFE programs have been able to finally stop their self-abuse and now lead healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.
SAFE in Oz provides training to professionals to allow them to better understand the concept of self-abuse and working with individuals who self-abuse. We also train workers to facilitate, on a group and one-to-one level utilising a module- based consumer recovery package.
This 3 day training workshop will provide workers with the tools to facilitate a SAFE in Oz Consumer Program. 'Your Pathway to Recovery' is a module-based program designed with the vision to achieve an individual's resolve to overcome self-abuse.
The 2 day training workshop - 'An Introduction To Working With Individuals Who Self-Abuse' is a pre-requisite for attendance to 'Your Pathway To Recovery'.
SAFE in Oz provides consultancy support for organisations setting up a SAFE in Oz-Consumer Program.
- Step by step to understanding
- Making sense of self-abuse and of overcoming it
- It's how you think that makes the difference
- Feelings are helpful but feelings are changeable
- Investigating self-talk
- Triggers - action and reaction
- Choice and change
- Taming the chaos
- Connections and commitments
- Living in the present and for the future
- Celebrating Achievements
