Knowing what to say and do when you are approached by someone in distress can feel overwhelming when you are not equipped with the specialist knowledge and skills to respond efficiently and effectively.

By virtue of your role at work, there will be times when you may be the first point of contact for someone in crisis and needing immediate assistance or for someone just needing a bit of comfort or consoling. In community and human services we often fall into the roll of the ‘Accidental Counsellor’ without a professional framework in which to work with our clients.

Even without a formal qualification in counselling it is important to have a tool kit of counselling techniques and questioning frameworks to provide the necessary support to clients when they are anxious, angry, experiencing grief and loss or a challenging time in their life......read more

Amovita is excited to welcome Andrew Purcell to the team.

Andrew is Amovita’s Multi-Media Consultant and began his career in the Human Services industry.  He has worked in this field extensively in Australia and the United Kingdom where he began event photography and videography.  This work soon  established itself  as being the professional direction he wished to pursue.

Returning to Australia in 2008 to work as a Program Manager for a not for profit organisation. There in honing his technical skills before establishing his company Real Media Productions in 2010....read more

Amovita Consulting is looking for a Volunteer Administration Assistant to support the team in completing a very vital piece of work. We are seeking someone who:

• Is highly positive
• Has access to the internet and your own computer
• Has experience with computer programs, particularly Email, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
• Has a friendly and pleasant phone manner
• Great time management skills

This position would suit a retiree, stay at home parent or a student, as you can choose what hours and what days suits you. We believe that this piece of work will take approximatley 1 month to complete, based on completing around 5 - 10 hours a week.

For more information, please email your resume and a brief outline of your interest in project work to info@amovita.com.au

Many professionals work in often stressful, complex and busy work environments. Providing and receiving quality professional supervision is vital to being able to maintain high performance in the work place, reduce sick leave, workers compensation costs and increase productivity.

Amovita’s professional supervision model is one of the leading models in supervision practice today and is one of the key highlights of the presentation.

If you conduct supervision, engage in supervision or would like to know what high performance supervision is all about, this presentation is for you.

This course will provide you with a professional framework for ensuring you provide quality supervision and you achieve what you need from your own supervision. 

You will observe a LIVE supervision session using the PASE model and have the opportunity to engage in an observational supervision process in your work environment....read more

LAST CHANCE FOR 2011

Amovita will be delivering this training presentation on Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th December at the Caboolture Enterprise Centre and there are only 5 places available. Contact us to register your place.
 

So, I’m 30. This is my 30th year on earth, I’ve lived approximately 10,978 days, taken around 316 billion breaths and slept for around 100,000 hours (how nice does that sound!).

As I commence my 30th trip around the sun, I’m reflecting on where I am now and how I got here; No, I don’t mean sitting in my lounge room, where Cranky the Wonder Cat is having his usual daytime nap and I’m surrounded by photo’s, objects and things that I’ve gathered over the years – I mean how did I become who I am?

As I sit and think of all the things I thought I’d be, have accomplished or be doing, I realised that I haven’t really ticked any of the virtual boxes that have floated around in my head.

I’m not married, I don’t have kids, I don’t own a house, I haven’t visited the UK or Europe, my butt is nowhere close to fitting into a size 10 pair of jeans, I haven’t invented something or seen a shooting star, I’ve never been a contestant on a TV show or been to New York, I’m not fluent in another language and I’ve never really understood politics.

So that’s a few of the things I thought I would have achieved, and as I was considering why I haven’t achieved those things, it dawned on me……read more

The Accidental Counsellor

LAST CHANCE!!! DON' MISS OUT

In 2012 Amovita Consulting will only be offering the Accidental Counsellor training presentation in house, so this will be the last opportunity to attend our public training.

We do have great news for you though, we will be delivering the Accidental Counsellor training in November in both Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.

Brisbane - Thursday 10th November

Gold Coast - Thursday 17th November

Click here to express your interest in attending the Brisbane or Gold Coast presentation.

Click here to view the course outline

Supervision for High Performance

This 2 day training presentation will be held on Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th December at the Caboolture Business Enterprise Centre.

There are only 5 places left in this very popular course, so please book now to confirm your place.

Click here to express your interest in attending this presentation

Click here to view the course outline.

Youth Care Support Services (YCSS) is a licensed human services organisation providing specialist residential care services to children and young people aged twelve to seventeen (12-17) with high to complex support needs.
 

YCSS is seeking a positive and highly experienced Senior Practitioner who will play a critical role in coordinating and leading the Team Leaders and Residential Support Workers across all practice and service delivery areas.
 

Click here to view the position description.
 

Applications including a cover letter, response to selection criteria and resume should be sent to Astrid Lewis.

Our 1 day training courses are $259 (inc GST), and our 2 day training courses are $485 (inc GST) and include:

• A certificate of attendance (professional development training)
• Valuable opportunity to meet with other professionals in a positive environment
• Fabulous food (morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea)
• Positive and high performing presenters
• An Amovita Consulting gift voucher to use towards another Amovita program, presentation or service (valid for 12 months)
• Discount for 3 or more participants and group discounts available
• We can also provide a quotation or proposal for in-house trianing
   

Contact Amovita to make an enquiry or to book for an upcoming presentation.

Phone: 0420 234 638 or email: info@amovita.com.au

Everything we do is based on agreements we have made – agreements with ourselves, with other people, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves.

In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have many agreements that come from fear, deplete our energy, and diminish our self-worth.

In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible….read more

“Thank you so much for an enlightening and most valuable work shop, I absolutely believe professional supervision is such an important process and have commenced implementing regular and structured professional supervision for my team with expectations that this will in time transform my support workers to become a more cohesive team, more confident, better skilled, better aligned with our organisational values/philosophies and feel far more supported within our workplace.

Being a “glass half full” kind of person I see this process as a “must do and do well” tool for all work places, keep at it Tracey as the work you do is very important!”

Liz Edwards – Support Worker Team Leader, Spiritus