Workshop: Relationship Violence: Safety & Family Capacity – Zoom

Tue 8 Apr 2025 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM AEST
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Thinking about violence stirs emotional reactivity. Living in environments where violence and abuse are real threats undermines capacity, agency and self-determination. In applying BFST’s core concepts, a way of thinking about family violence can emerge that promotes agency and safety for both professionals working with family violence and those living in environments where violence and abuse is occurring. This workshop will explore the similarities and differences in case conceptualisation between BFST and dominant family violence intervention models and practice frameworks. This workshop invites participants to think about the process of defining one’s own thinking when in contact with people who are living in environments where violence and abuse is occurring.

On completion of the workshop, participants will have had the opportunity to:

  • Consider BFST and its relevance to working with relationship violence;
  • Reflect on the points of difference between conventional practice frameworks and BFST in relation to clinical interventions with families;
  • Define one’s responsibilities when in contact with people living in environments where violence and abuse is occurring.

Katherine Burke

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Katherine began her social work career working regionally in a generalist counselling setting. Katherine worked with people across the lifespan dealing with a ran

ge of life struggles. This work provided the foundation for Katherine's career long pursuit to understand the role that the family emotional process, the broader environment and experiences of structural and systemic oppression all play in a person's presenting struggles.

Over the 15 years Katherine has worked as a counsellor and therapist, Katherine has worked in the specialty areas of perinatal and infant mental health, family inclusive therapeutic work in the child protection sector and working with families impacted by domestic, family and sexual violence. Katherine has also worked with people committed to breaking generational family patterns through a focus on couple work or work within their family. Katherine currently works with people struggling with parenting, post separation challenges, grief and loss, and people impacted by abuse of all forms (including child sexual abuse and domestic and family violence).

Katherine’s ongoing commitment to finding a way of thinking that could be applied to the diverse range of human experiences led her into the Family Systems Institute (FSI) training programs.