You Decide What You’ll Pay To…
Attend 5 Days Of Premium Mental Health Professional Development Training, Direct To Your PC….
Dear Practitioner,
This is your opportunity to attend something truly unique and valuable.
The professional development Super Summit will reshape and revolutionise how Mental Health Professional Development is accessed. It’s an unprecedented event that brings together many of Australia’s leading specialists, training providers and practitioners, culminating in a Professional Development event never before experienced in Australia… or the world.
PLUS…
…you decide how much you want to pay to attend… all of which goes to charity.
That’s right!! Have you ever attended a premium quality professional development event where you set the price attendance?
Over the 5-days from Monday 23rd February to Friday 27th February, Australia’s leading provider of mental health professional development in collaboration with Australian Counselling Association is hosting the Mental Health OPD Super Summit. It’s a 5-day training extravaganza not to be missed.
Here’s a preview of what you’ll receive:
Let’s face it, ongoing learning presents a challenge. In an ideal world we’d all like to continually develop our knowledge and skills. But the reality is sadly that lifestyle restraints mean we rarely achieve a fraction of the professional development what we’d like to.
The geographic limitation of interesting events in our proximity; the prohibitive cost of live events; the intrusive time commitment, all add up to making professional development extremely difficult despite our best intentions.
We’ve removed all boundaries to training.
The Mental Health PD Super Summit is streamed direct to your desktop. All you need is an Internet connection and PC to access the most extensive collection of skills and knowledge assembled at one time.
And if you can’t attend in real-time, you can access ALL the content for 30-days after the event, at your convenience.
If you are unable to attend any of the workshops in ‘real time’ you won’t miss a thing. Everything… videos, workshops, courses, assessments, e-books, articles - even the live chat content - will be available for you to access after the event.
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Ongoing Professional Development is a mandatory requirement for almost every mental health Member Association. Summit events are pre-approved to contribute toward PD Points for numerous Associations.
Associations that have not pre-approved events, can be approached on an individual basis and will likely provide approval based on the high quality content and content providers.
Pre-approved Associations include:
* Please note that Associations may have differing reporting and proof of attendance requirements. Please refer directly to your Association for these details.

Your Registration Fee Goes Directly To Helping Kids In Need
All proceeds from the Mental Health Super Summit go to Kids Helpline Charity. Every single cent that’s donated to attend the Super Summit, without deduction, goes directly to helping the kids.
With Your Help, Together We Can Raise Over $30,000.00
When you register for the Super Summit you decide what registration fee you want to pay. There is no minimum (for the highest quality PD education available). There are no other fees or charges to attend and every cent of your registration fee goes directly to Kids Helpline Charity.
We believe that with your help the Mental Health Super Summit can raise over $30,000.00 and help children across the nation lead a happier, safer and more fulfilled life.
Help Us Help The Kids
Raising $30,000.00 is an audacious goal. No doubt about it.
We need your support and that of industry professionals across the country if we are to reach our target of $30,000.00 for Kids Helpline. We can’t do it alone, we need your help and collaboration.
As you can appreciate there is an enormous amount of time, work and effort that goes into putting on an event of this magnitude. Dozens of leading industry professionals from around the nation are giving their time and expertise free of charge to provide you with the highest quality training at only the cost of your donation.
These are the same leading trainers and experts that regularly earn thousands of dollars per event. But for you and for charity, they are investing their time pro-bono to give you premium training and raise money for charity.
You’ll get access to 620-hours of quality training worth well over $5,000.00 for only the cost of your donation.
We are sincerely appreciative of the many respected industry identities for sharing their skills and knowledge; and for the wonderful people at Kids Helpline who are providing resources, collaborating with content, and reaching out to their professional networks.
But we need YOUR help too!!!!
To maximize the exposure of the Mental Health Super Summit we ask you to ‘spread the word’ and ensure this message gets to the inbox of all of your industry friends and colleagues.
This is your contribution to the many hours of premium quality training and resources you’ll receive worth thousands of dollars.
And we’ve made it extremely easy for you to ‘spread the word’. Simply fill in the registration form and in the space provided put your colleagues name and email address. We’ll do the rest by sending them an invitation to attend the event.
So what do you get for your charitable donation?
With costs escalating in the last couple of years your training dollar doesn’t usually go far these days. At a traditional professional development event the presenter wouldn’t even clear her throat for a few hundred dollars…
…But at the Super Summit you’ll receive thousands of dollars of valuable training and resources over 5 action packed days for the price that you decide.
Take a look at the schedule:
Please note that this schedule is subject to change
Day 1 - 23/02/09 - Self-Harm, Depression and Suicide| Time | Title | Presenter |
| 9:00 | The Cutting Room Floor | Prof. Graham Martin OAM, MD, MBBS, FRANZCP, DPM |
| 09:40 | Self Harm & Self Care: Counsellors Playing Monkey In the Middle | Dr. Randolph Bowers PhD, Med Counse, GradCertHigherEdu, BA, HMACA, RSACA |
| 11:10 | Schema- Focused Therapy: An Integrated Approach to Assessment and Treatment for Patients Who Self Harm | Dr John Barletta PhD, MAPS |
| 11:50 | The Relationship Between Non-Fatal and Fatal Suicide Behaviours | Prof. Diego De Leo MD, PhD, DSc, FRANZCP |
| 13:20 | 30min lunch break | |
| 13:50 | Counselling Without Self Injury | Prof. Graham Martin OAM, MD, MBBS, FRANZCP, DPM |
| 15:00 | The Triple S Methodology of Suicide Minimisation | Adrian Hellwig M.Com, Btheol, GradDipCounselling, MCCA, CMACA |
| 16:10 | Live Chat with Adrian Hellwig | Adrian Hellwig M.Com, Btheol, GradDipCounselling, MCCA, CMACA |
| 16:45 | Cutting In, Cutting Through – Understanding and Working with Self-Harm Patients | Dr Wendy McIntosh RGN, RMHN, Grad Dip. MH, MN |
| 18:10 | Recovery Oriented Strategies for Working With People Who Self Injured | Margaret McAllister BA Qld., Med Aust. Cath., EdD Qld.UT, RN, MHN, FACMHN, MRCNA |
| 18:45 | Self Harmed: Ask the Questions of Survivors You Want Answered | Zoe Ferris & Nellie Worringham QBE |
| 19:55 | Forum: Panel of 80 carers, experts and individuals on self-harm | Prof. De Leo, Assoc. Prof. Webster, McAllister, Self Harmers and Individuals |
Day 2 - 24/02/09 - Alcohol and Drugs| Time | Title | Presenter |
| 10:00 | Substance Abuse and Self-Harm | Prof. Ian Webster |
| 10:35 | Drugs and Alcohol | Dr. Nadine Pelling, PhD, MA, BA (Hon Psych) |
| 11:10 | Alcohol & Drug use amongst children and adolescents | Helen Bailey - Kids Help Line |
| 11:40 | The Rise and Rise of Depression in a Competitive, Winner/Loser World. | Richard Hill BA (UNE, Linguistics), DipProfCouns |
| 13:00 | 30min lunch break | |
| 13:30 | Live Chat | Richard Hill BA (UNE, Linguistics), DipProfCouns |
| 14:10 | A Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach to Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation | Dr. Clive Jones Dipt, DipCouns, BEd, MEd, GradDipPsych, PhD(psych), MAPS |
| 14:55 | Live Chat | Dr. Clive Jones Dipt, DipCouns, BEd, MEd, GradDipPsych, PhD(psych), MAPS |
| 15:30 | Working with Addiction: A Counsellor's Insight (tentative title) | Kathleen Casagrande Dip.Prof.Couns., Cert.IV Work. Assess. |
Day 3 - 25/02/09 - Therapies in Action, Diagnosis and Psychopharmacology | Time | Title | Presenter |
| 9:00 | Paediatric Bipolar Disorder: a controversial diagnosis | Dr. Peter Parry |
| 10:50 | Live Chat | Dr. Peter Parry |
| 11.25 | The Sucessful Role of Natural Therapy in Treatment of Mental Health Issues | Janetta Haim BA, M. Litt, ATMS, D&N, VT, ASCH , ACA (affil), ABNLP (affil) |
| 12:50 | 30min lunch break | |
| 13:20 | Shifts happen: Toward a relational approach to mental health | Michael Reed BSW, MSW (Clinical), PhD (USyd, Med/Psych), AccMAASW, FMGANZ |
| 14:25 | What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)? | Mary Sawyer BA, MApp Psych, RN |
| 15:10 | Forgiveness In Action | Jenny Richards BA, B. Soc. Admin, MSW (AASW) |
| 16:05 | The Power of Role Reversal and Psychodramatic techniques | Peter Howie BSc, DipComputing, President of ANZPA |
| 16:55 | Live Chat | Peter Howie BSc, DipComputing, President of ANZPA |
| 17:30 | Psychopharmacology and the Counsellor | Dr Travis Gee BA(Hons),MA,PhD, MACA(Clin.),Assoc.MAPS |
| 17:55 | Counselling Via Email: Ongoing Client Disclosing Sexual Abuse | Jean Addison - Kids Help Line |
Day 4 - 26/02/09 - Family and Relationships| Time | Title | Presenter |
| 10:00 | All About Kids Helpline | Wendy Protheroe - Kids Help Line |
| 10:20 | Live Chat | Wendy Protheroe - Kids Help Line |
| 10:55 | Resilience Coaching: A Psycho-Immunisation Strategy | Alison Nipperess BA (Psych) |
| 12:10 | 30min lunch break | |
| 12:40 | Holding Sacred Space: Working with Foster Kids | Rebecca Joy - Kids Help Line |
| 13:05 | Shared Parenting and the Family Law Act | Michael Lynch Accredited Family Law Specialist |
| 13:45 | Talking to young people – Techniques for parents | Peter Henderson - Kids Help Line |
| 14:15 | Relationship Breakdown: Challenges and Strategies | Louise Whitehead |
| 15:05 | Live Chat | Louise Whitehead |
Day 5 - 27/02/09 - Children and Adolescents| Time | Title | Presenter |
| 10:00 | Bullying: the Impact and Options for Change | Kristina Hollowat - Kids Help Line |
| 10:30 | Engaging Involuntary Adolescents: a Facilitated Discussion | Kids Help Line Counsellors |
| 11:10 | Talking to Adolescents about Sex: Facilitating Rights, Respect and Responsibility | Pablo Fernandez - Kids Help Line |
| 11:45 | Live Chat | Pablo Fernandez - Kids Help Line |
| 12:15 | 30min lunch break | |
| 12:45 | Counselling Children Who've Experienced the Trauma of Abuse | Lisa McLean - Kids Helpline |
| 13:15 | Male Developmental Stages | Michael Sutton - Kids Help Line |
| 14:15 | Live Chat | Michael Sutton - Kids Help Line |
| 14:50 | Working with Depression in Adolescent Males | Kerrie Gaelen, Jenni Allen - Kids Help Line |
| 15:30 | Closure Chat - ask your questions about the Mental Health Super Summit | Summit Team |
We’re all about making PD training convenient. So it wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense if you could only access the training live.
Once you register you’ll receive a unique username and password to the event. You use these each day to access the live events in real-time, and also to access the content for 30-days after the event.
All the content, including all video workshops, will be available to you via your username and password for 30-days after the event.
A primary collaborator of the Super Summit is Counselling Academy, the leading PD trainer for Mental Health professionals in the country.
Counselling Academy has graciously donated dozens of courses and hundreds of hours training for a full 30-days absolutely FREE OF CHARGE. For a full 30-days from your event registration you get unlimited access to ALL Counselling Academy courses (with the same username and password you use to access the Super Summit). At the end of the 30-day free trial period, you don’t need to do a single thing to continue your access. Your membership simply rolls over and your $27 per month ongoing access is initiated. If you don’t want to continue your Counselling Academy membership you simply cancel within the 30 day trial period.
Reserving your spot at the Mental Health Super Summit is easy. It’ll only take about 1-minute and is completely secure. Simply go now to the online registration page. Just fill in your details and nominate your donation amount.
You’ll immediately be emailed confirmation of your registration and donation. And you’ll be added to the Summit contact list for updates, including your personal links to the event.
Simply register securely here now…
Registrations to the Summit are now over.
To find out more information, please email info@mentalhealthsummit.com.au.
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