Date & time: 21 & 22 May 2024, 10:00-16:00 CET
Location: Zoom
Language: The event will be in English.
Audience: Our event is designed for professionals working with perpetrators and/or survivors of domestic violence who want to learn more about using fatherhood as a motivator for longterm behavioural change.

• Mobilise men’s care for children as motivational factor for stopping their abuse
• Ensure that safety and healing of children are central to the work done with fathers who use intimate partner violence
• Assess perpetrators as parents
• Address men who use violence in their parental role
• Cooperate with child protection services

Session 1: Impact of IPV on children

• Learn how to introduce impact of intimate partner violence on children in an engaging and effective way
• Understand the concept of children’s resiliency and how to support it

Session 2: Working with men who use violence

• Understand how perpetrators can cause direct and indirect harm to their children
• Learn how to apply psychoeducational work on the topic in the overall perpetrator programme

Session 3: Assessing fathers

• Learn how to assess parental competencies of the men in your programme
• Get tools to addres the lack of parental competencies with men who use intimate partner violence

Session 4: Trauma and inter-generational transmition of violence

• Understand the concept of trauma and how it intersects with domestic violence
• Learn techniques for leading men who use violence through their own experiences and how to connect these insights with parenting

Session 5: Getting personal

• Learn how to raise personal stories and work on individual level with men in group
• Learn how to work with feelings of shame

Session 6: Children in high conflict separation

• Understand the complexity of high conflict separation and its impact on children
• Learn how conduct child-centred perpetrator work in these cases

Session 7: Child-centred parenting

• Understand concepts of child-centred parenting, positive behaviour management and modeling
• Apply these concepts in your work in strengthening men’s parental capacities

Session 8: Working with child protection systems

• Build your skills in effective cooperation with child protection services
• Understand your role and how you can contribute to the safety and wellbeing of children

Children living in households with intimate partner violence (IPV) are more than witnesses; they are always also victims of the violence in their parents' relationships. Effects of exposure to IPV and domestic violence are often severe and long-lasting, continuing intergenerational cycles of abuse, trauma and harm. When perpetrators understand the impact of their behaviour on their children, it usually becomes a core motivation that leads them through the process of change. Additionally, men who use IPV tend to lack capacities for child-centred parenting, which need to be developed. This two-day training enables you to effectively work with fathers who use violence, motivate them to make much-needed changes and equip you with engaging tools and techniques.