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Welcome to the Peregrine Centre’s Learning Platform. Check out what’s new and upcoming from us below, listen to a podcast episode or browse our collection of resources, curated for rural mental health practitioners

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Active Learning

The Peregrine Centre hosts free face-to-face and online training events on a variety of mental health topics, as requested by practitioners across NSW. We offer a mix of professional training led by experts in their field, and group learning opportunities with your peers led by our Local Project Officers; we call these Applied Practice Activities (APAs).

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Trauma Informed Practice – Two Day Training, Cooma

Join CEO of Knightlamp, Stephan Friedrich, for a two day workshop (3rd & 4th Dec) which will highlight core frameworks of the Knightlamp Approach®: the role of chronic hyperarousal, traumatic triggers and relational patterns in a person’s presentation
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Trauma Informed Practice – Two Day Training, Lithgow

Join CEO of Knightlamp, Stephan Friedrich, for a two day workshop (27 & 28 Nov) which will highlight core frameworks of the Knightlamp Approach®: the role of chronic hyperarousal, traumatic triggers and relational patterns in a person’s presentation.
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Guided Learning

Our Guided Learning modules have been developed to support your online learning with tailored resources to get you started and have a taster of a range of topics. While these are not formal trainings, they are intended to help you ‘dip your toes’ into a topic.

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Building Research Capacity Workbook

This workbook will step you through different aspects to consider when designing a research project. It is particularly helpful when applying for the The Peregrine Centre Small Research Grant.
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Getting Started With Mindfulness

This workbook has been designed to complement our 2023/24 podcast series, Getting Started With… where we take a look at a number of the very common modalities for therapy and practice, and we try and help you get started with ... Mindfulness.
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Getting Started with DBT

This workbook has been designed to complement our 2023/24 podcast series, Getting Started With… where we take a look at a number of the very common modalities for therapy and practice, and we try and help you get started with ... DBT.
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Guided Learning

Our Guided Learning modules have been developed to support your online learning with tailored resources to get you started and have a taster of a range of topics. While these are not formal trainings, they are intended to help you 'dip your toes' into a topic.
View All

Trauma Informed Practice – Two Day Training, Cooma

Join CEO of Knightlamp, Stephan Friedrich, for a two day workshop (3rd & 4th Dec) which will highlight core frameworks of the Knightlamp Approach®: the role of chronic hyperarousal, traumatic triggers and relational patterns in a person’s presentation
Find Out More

Trauma Informed Practice – Two Day Training, Lithgow

Join CEO of Knightlamp, Stephan Friedrich, for a two day workshop (27 & 28 Nov) which will highlight core frameworks of the Knightlamp Approach®: the role of chronic hyperarousal, traumatic triggers and relational patterns in a person’s presentation.
Find Out More

Podcasts

Tune into The Peregrine Centre’s insightful podcasts. Hear leading experts unravel complex mental health topics, spark thought-provoking discussions, and equip you with practical insights you can readily apply in your practice.

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Understanding Birth Trauma

Birth is a time of big change, and for some people these changes are traumatic. Join Dr Dayle Raftery as she speaks with Dr Cassandra Sundaraja about what makes a birth traumatic, and how to support people who have had birth trauma.
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Looking Through the Lens: Aboriginal Mental Health Clinician

A lot of professions make up the mental health workforce, but what do they all do? Through this short podcast series, join Dr Dayle Raftery as she speaks with different mental health professionals about the lens they view mental health through.
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Looking Through the Lens: Occupational Therapy

A lot of professions make up the mental health workforce, but what do they all do? Through this short podcast series, join Dr Dayle Raftery as she speaks with different mental health professionals about the lens they view mental health through.
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Practice Toolkits

Rural practitioners often have to be across a lot of areas. Our practice toolkits contain tips and tricks for working with different client groups, or in different modalities. These topics have been selected based on requests from MH practitioners around NSW. We have collated helpful resources for you and the people you work with to support your practice.

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Leadership and Management in Mental Health

What is the difference between leadership and management? Do you have to be a manager to be a leader? Whether you’ve been managing for a long time, or are just starting out, we’ve designed a toolkit to support your reflection and learning on what makes a leader, and how to get the most out of your team.
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Working with Family and Carers

Families and carers can be great assets to our work, but much of our training focuses only on the individual. This toolkit provides an overview of working with family and carers, as well as a collection of helpful resources to support this important work.
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Working Well in Multidisciplinary Teams

A multidisciplinary team (MDT) is a group of health professionals from different disciplines working together to care for the multiple needs of a consumer. This toolkit is an introduction to some ideas on working well in an MDT, including what you can do to help your MDT function well, how your team can get on the same page, and what to do when things go awry.
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About

This portal has been created as part of the joint partnership between The Peregrine Centre and NSW Health, in conjunction with the Rural Mental Health Partnership Grant.

Within the portal, The Peregrine Centre has curated a collection of learning materials across areas important to mental health practice.

Access to this portal is free for anyone who works in the mental health field. Resources will be continually updated, with the content being informed through feedback from practitioners on the ground across New South Wales.

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