THE HEAL SERIES – Hope, Empathy, Acceptance & Learning
Session 2: Tangled in a Complex System
Date: Tuesday 27 October
Time: 11.00AM – 12.30 PM
Location: Zoom online
Facilitators: Lainie Terbogt and Kathryn Eberly Family Therapy – Restoring Families
About the HEAL Series
The HEAL series—Hope, Empathy, Acceptance and Learning—focuses on the impact of caring. Each session combines psychoeducation, group facilitation, shared lived experience, and practical tools and strategies that carers can apply in their caring role.
Carers may choose to participate in one, two, three, or all four sessions.
Session Overview
Carers often navigate multiple services while advocating for children with complex needs. The cumulative demands of these systems can significantly affect wellbeing and contribute to stress, uncertainty and feelings of powerlessness. This workshop explores the impact of system complexity on carers and provides practical strategies to strengthen regulation, advocacy, communication and self-care while navigating complex systems.
Presenters
Lainie Terbogt and Kathryn Eberly are highly experienced social workers and family therapists. They have worked in the out-of-home care system for more than 20 years and, through their private practice, Restoring Families, have supported more than 500 carer families.
Over the past six years, more than 300 kinship and foster carers have participated in their training sessions. Lainie and Kathryn have presented at the national Kinship and Foster Carer Conference, as well as other summits and symposiums, and have previously delivered training for Carer Kafe.
The session is designed for kinship, foster and permanent carers.
