For more information and a list of the public events, please visit the events page.

The National Day of Reflection is a call for the country to reflect on abuse in care, survivors of abuse, and those who have passed away. The Day was announced during the Prime Minister's formal apology to survivors of abuse in care.

A $1 million National Day of Reflection Community Fund was announced on 28 July 2025 to fund community organised and survivor focused activities to mark the day. While most of the events funded this way are private events for specific survivor groups, a number of events are open to the public and can be found at the event page link above.

For more information and a list of the public events, please visit the events page.

The National Day of Reflection is a call for the country to reflect on abuse in care, survivors of abuse, and those who have passed away. The Day was announced during the Prime Minister's formal apology to survivors of abuse in care.

A $1 million National Day of Reflection Community Fund was announced on 28 July 2025 to fund community organised and survivor focused activities to mark the day. While most of the events funded this way are private events for specific survivor groups, a number of events are open to the public and can be found at the event page link above.

For more information and to register, please see the event page.

Hoake Tātou | Walk With Me has been designed to bring service providers and support agencies together, help strengthen understanding of the barriers men face when seeking help, and highlight the benefits of a purposeful peer support and wellbeing approach to support recovery.

The presentation content includes:

• Safe access and effective engagement of male survivors with support services
• Dispelling some of the common myths about male victims of sexual harm
• Navigate the misunderstandings that create barriers to engagement with support services
• Highlight the role of lived experience as an effective engagement model
• Collaboration and partnerships to welcome and embrace cultural and gender diversity within the male survivor community

In total, 26 events will be held in 17 towns and cities, featuring a panel of presenters at each, including male survivors of sexual abuse.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

Upcoming dates:

• ‍Christchurch: 7  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Nelson: 8  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  North: 15  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  Central: 15  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  Central: 16  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  South: 16  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Hamilton: 29  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  – Lower Hutt: 11  November 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Wellington  – Porirua: 11  November 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  Central: 12  November 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Tauranga: 25  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Rotorua: 26  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Taupo: 27  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Hastings: 9  December 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Napier: 9  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Tairāwhiti: 10  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Whanganui: 11  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍New  Plymouth: 12  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Palmerston  North: 25  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Whangārei: 10  March 2026, 10.00am  & 2.00pm

For more information and to register, please see the event page.

Hoake Tātou | Walk With Me has been designed to bring service providers and support agencies together, help strengthen understanding of the barriers men face when seeking help, and highlight the benefits of a purposeful peer support and wellbeing approach to support recovery.

The presentation content includes:

• Safe access and effective engagement of male survivors with support services
• Dispelling some of the common myths about male victims of sexual harm
• Navigate the misunderstandings that create barriers to engagement with support services
• Highlight the role of lived experience as an effective engagement model
• Collaboration and partnerships to welcome and embrace cultural and gender diversity within the male survivor community

In total, 26 events will be held in 17 towns and cities, featuring a panel of presenters at each, including male survivors of sexual abuse.

Please direct all enquiries to the organiser.

Upcoming dates:

• ‍Christchurch: 7  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Nelson: 8  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  North: 15  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  Central: 15  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Auckland  Central: 16  October 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Auckland  South: 16  October 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Hamilton: 29  October 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  – Lower Hutt: 11  November 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Wellington  – Porirua: 11  November 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Wellington  Central: 12  November 2025, 10.00am  & 2.00pm
• ‍Tauranga: 25  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Rotorua: 26  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Taupo: 27  November 2025, 10.00am
• ‍Hastings: 9  December 2025, 9.30am
• ‍Napier: 9  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Tairāwhiti: 10  December 2025, 2.00pm
• ‍Whanganui: 11  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍New  Plymouth: 12  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Palmerston  North: 25  February 2026, 10.00am
• ‍Whangārei: 10  March 2026, 10.00am  & 2.00pm

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This 4-hour virtual course is designed for workplaces and individuals to equip them with the skills and knowledge necessary to safely and effectively challenge sexist attitude in personal and professional spaces.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: admin@safeandequal.org.au.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This 4-hour virtual course is designed for workplaces and individuals to equip them with the skills and knowledge necessary to safely and effectively challenge sexist attitude in personal and professional spaces.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: admin@safeandequal.org.au.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This 75 minute webinar covers the ways victim-survivors may be located, monitored, and surveilled through technology by abusers. It explores the more commonly used tactics including tracking through purpose-built trackers, inbuilt applications (apps) like ‘Find My’, or through viewing account data, through to the more complex tactics such as accessing the backend of accounts and apps, extracting geolocation data.

Please direct all questions to the organiser.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This 75 minute webinar covers the ways victim-survivors may be located, monitored, and surveilled through technology by abusers. It explores the more commonly used tactics including tracking through purpose-built trackers, inbuilt applications (apps) like ‘Find My’, or through viewing account data, through to the more complex tactics such as accessing the backend of accounts and apps, extracting geolocation data.

Please direct all questions to the organiser.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This interactive, online training module will assist professionals to effectively identify, understand and resist invitations to collude with men who use family violence.

Participants who attend this training will be able to:

• Explain the causes, mechanisms, and purpose of family violence
• Explore perpetrator accountability
• Identify core beliefs held by men who use violence
• Identify 'smoke screens' used to conceal violence
• Use invitational approaches to build rapport and enhance reflection
• Understand the nature of collusion and how to resist invitations to collude
• Examine shame and values
• Motivate change and referral readiness
• Understand safety planning and referral pathways

For questions, please contact the organisers directly: resisting.collusion@gmail.com.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This interactive, online training module will assist professionals to effectively identify, understand and resist invitations to collude with men who use family violence.

Participants who attend this training will be able to:

• Explain the causes, mechanisms, and purpose of family violence
• Explore perpetrator accountability
• Identify core beliefs held by men who use violence
• Identify 'smoke screens' used to conceal violence
• Use invitational approaches to build rapport and enhance reflection
• Understand the nature of collusion and how to resist invitations to collude
• Examine shame and values
• Motivate change and referral readiness
• Understand safety planning and referral pathways

For questions, please contact the organisers directly: resisting.collusion@gmail.com.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This symposium aims to:

• examine existing UK policy and legislation surrounding domestic abuse;
• develop strategies that government, police and other stakeholders should implement to reduce incidences of domestic abuse and increase the number of convictions of perpetrators;
• discuss how support for victims and survivors can be improved.

Please direct queries to the organiser: info@publicpolicyexchange.co.uk.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This symposium aims to:

• examine existing UK policy and legislation surrounding domestic abuse;
• develop strategies that government, police and other stakeholders should implement to reduce incidences of domestic abuse and increase the number of convictions of perpetrators;
• discuss how support for victims and survivors can be improved.

Please direct queries to the organiser: info@publicpolicyexchange.co.uk.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This workshop will explore the complex relationship between suicide and intimate partner violence, examining the tensions, challenges and opportunities in policy and practice. It is devastating when an intimate partner violence victim takes their own life because they are subject to such torment, pain and entrapment. To prevent such suicides, it is essential to strengthen coordinated responses to both victims and perpetrators.

Through the lens of social entrapment and coercive control, this workshop will explore how patterns of threat and risk posed by perpetrators of intimate partner violence can lead to suicide by victims. Using Jane Monckton-Smith’s 8-stage timeline of coerced suicide, this workshop will encourage critical reflection and practice possibilities to strengthen risk assessment, safety planning, multi-agency cooperation, and documentation.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: admin@shantiworks.com.au.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This workshop will explore the complex relationship between suicide and intimate partner violence, examining the tensions, challenges and opportunities in policy and practice. It is devastating when an intimate partner violence victim takes their own life because they are subject to such torment, pain and entrapment. To prevent such suicides, it is essential to strengthen coordinated responses to both victims and perpetrators.

Through the lens of social entrapment and coercive control, this workshop will explore how patterns of threat and risk posed by perpetrators of intimate partner violence can lead to suicide by victims. Using Jane Monckton-Smith’s 8-stage timeline of coerced suicide, this workshop will encourage critical reflection and practice possibilities to strengthen risk assessment, safety planning, multi-agency cooperation, and documentation.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: admin@shantiworks.com.au.

For more information and to register for the online training, visit the webinar events page.

This workshop focuses on understanding the concept of vulnerability and explores factors that contribute to vulnerability, risk and child abuse. Participants will learn how to identify when children and young people are vulnerable to abuse and neglect, and how to intervene early.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and to register for the online training, visit the webinar events page.

This workshop focuses on understanding the concept of vulnerability and explores factors that contribute to vulnerability, risk and child abuse. Participants will learn how to identify when children and young people are vulnerable to abuse and neglect, and how to intervene early.

Please direct all queries to the organiser.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This workshop will provide participants with easy-to-learn-and-apply solution focused tools and techniques to support victims of severe trauma and stress and childhood abuse and neglect.

At the end of the workshop attendees will be able to:

• Demonstrate an increased understanding of severe trauma and/or stress.
• Know the difference between the ‘victimhood’, ‘survivor-hood’ and ‘living life well’/’thriver-hood.’ What adult survival of childhood abuse and neglect really means and looks like.
• Understand the basic solution focused tools and techniques used with this group of service users.
• Use a variety of specialised tools and techniques for helping those involved move towards living life well.
• Recognise how the techniques can be applied to all types of trauma.
• Appreciate the risks and pitfalls when working with those struggling with severe trauma and/or stress.
• Highlight the most helpful and useful questions to ask.
• Understand the key ways to look after yourself and do this important work.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: faye@grow.co.nz.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This workshop will provide participants with easy-to-learn-and-apply solution focused tools and techniques to support victims of severe trauma and stress and childhood abuse and neglect.

At the end of the workshop attendees will be able to:

• Demonstrate an increased understanding of severe trauma and/or stress.
• Know the difference between the ‘victimhood’, ‘survivor-hood’ and ‘living life well’/’thriver-hood.’ What adult survival of childhood abuse and neglect really means and looks like.
• Understand the basic solution focused tools and techniques used with this group of service users.
• Use a variety of specialised tools and techniques for helping those involved move towards living life well.
• Recognise how the techniques can be applied to all types of trauma.
• Appreciate the risks and pitfalls when working with those struggling with severe trauma and/or stress.
• Highlight the most helpful and useful questions to ask.
• Understand the key ways to look after yourself and do this important work.

Please direct all queries to the organiser: faye@grow.co.nz.

For more information and to register, please see the event page.

Responding to crime and other demands for police service requires measuring these in a way that accounts for wide variations in types of crime and incidents—not all are equal, yet have traditionally been counted equally. Crime Harm Indices (CHIs) have been increasingly adopted in recent years to help factor in differences between crime types, based on the amount of harm they cause. But CHIs are crime specific and don’t tell the whole demand story.

This webinar introduces a complementary tool to help factor in differences between crime and other demand types. The Police Response Effort Index (PREI) differentiates crime and demand types by the amount of effort (time) it takes police in responding to them. This seminar describes the PREI and presents some examples of how it can be used to provide additional insights into crime and demand

Please direct all questions to the organiser: nziscs@waikato.ac.nz.

For more information and to register, please see the event page.

Responding to crime and other demands for police service requires measuring these in a way that accounts for wide variations in types of crime and incidents—not all are equal, yet have traditionally been counted equally. Crime Harm Indices (CHIs) have been increasingly adopted in recent years to help factor in differences between crime types, based on the amount of harm they cause. But CHIs are crime specific and don’t tell the whole demand story.

This webinar introduces a complementary tool to help factor in differences between crime and other demand types. The Police Response Effort Index (PREI) differentiates crime and demand types by the amount of effort (time) it takes police in responding to them. This seminar describes the PREI and presents some examples of how it can be used to provide additional insights into crime and demand

Please direct all questions to the organiser: nziscs@waikato.ac.nz.

For more information and to register, please see the event page.

This webinar is intended for educators and youth serving professionals. It explores how online harm is changing, with new technologies driving rapid shifts in both the nature of the issue and the tactics used.  

This 45-minute webinar will cover:

• the latest trends in cyberbullying as seen by our eSafety investigators
• recognising the signs and developing strategies to build protective factors
• strengthening communication with families to support early intervention and safer digital habits.

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, please see the event page.

This webinar is intended for educators and youth serving professionals. It explores how online harm is changing, with new technologies driving rapid shifts in both the nature of the issue and the tactics used.  

This 45-minute webinar will cover:

• the latest trends in cyberbullying as seen by our eSafety investigators
• recognising the signs and developing strategies to build protective factors
• strengthening communication with families to support early intervention and safer digital habits.

Please direst all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

In addition to strangulation, this workshop also introduces topics such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), sexual violence, threatening behaviour and other factors including ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) to enhance decision-making and ultimately safety for victims, families and whānau.

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Define strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence
• Describe the signs, symptoms and injuries associated with strangulation
• Know some of the resources available to facilitate effective documentation
• Understand behaviours often associated with strangulation including TBI, sexual violence, threats and separation
• Apply learnings to risk assessment and safety planning

If you have any questions please contact Rob Veale on 027 4988653 or email robveale@xtra.co.nz.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

In addition to strangulation, this workshop also introduces topics such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), sexual violence, threatening behaviour and other factors including ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) to enhance decision-making and ultimately safety for victims, families and whānau.

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Define strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence
• Describe the signs, symptoms and injuries associated with strangulation
• Know some of the resources available to facilitate effective documentation
• Understand behaviours often associated with strangulation including TBI, sexual violence, threats and separation
• Apply learnings to risk assessment and safety planning

If you have any questions please contact Rob Veale on 027 4988653 or email robveale@xtra.co.nz.