SASVic training

What we offer

SASVic offers training for SASVic member services and other professionals.

SASVic’s 2025 offering:

Before booking training, make sure that you’ve read our cancellation policy.

SASVic Member Forums

SASVic offers six member forums for staff working in specialist sexual assault and harmful sexual behaviour services. For 2025, SASVic has moved to a collective training format. Training will be delivered remotely, with staff attending on-site as group. Our training team will be in touch with each service individually to organise training.

If you have any questions about this, please email training@sasvic.org.au

Members only

Supporting Victim Survivors through the Legal System online series

Join experts across Victoria Police, the Office of Public Prosecutions and the legal profession to learn about the legal process and supports for victim survivors of sexual assault. This event will run across four online sessions. You only need to register once. Once registered, you will be provided with dates, links and updates for each module.

This online series is only available to staff from the Victorian specialist sexual assault sector.

Learning objectives

Module 1: Overview of the justice system, police process and progression to the criminal course
Module 2: Witness supports and the court process
Module 3: Compensation options
Module 4: Restorative Justice

Members only

Foundations in Sexual Violence 6-Day Short Course

Join Dr. Fiona Vera Gray from London Metropolitan University, alongside a range of local guest speakers, for a 6-day short course covering topics such as feminist theory and historical perspectives, sexual violence, child sexual abuse and intersectional framings. Dr Fiona Vera Gray is the Deputy Director of The Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU), recognised as a centre of excellence and the only one in Europe focusing on all forms of violence against women and children. This course draws on content from CWASU’s Women and Child Abuse Master’s program, tailored for a local context.

When: March 25-26 & April 1-3
Where: Melbourne
SASVic Member Price: $680 (incl. GST).
Non-Member Price: $1,480 (incl. GST).

Untouched: Sex and Intimacy

Join Susan Stark and Kendra Russell for this full-day in-person training which aims to build foundational skills and knowledge for works seeking to increase their capacity and confidence in providing support to survivors of sexual abuse and violence, regarding issues related to sex, intimacy and pleasure. Untouched adopts an intersectional feminist and somaic approach to supporting victim survivors reclaim sex and intimacy as powerful sites of healing and transformation. It provides practical tools and resources, drawn from Sexological Bodywork, Somatic Sex Education, Somatic Experiencing and Wheel of Consent frameworks. For practitioners new to somatic work, prior completion of ‘Foundations in Feminist Somatics is recommended.

When: Thursday 20 March OR Friday 21 March
Where: Collingwood
Price: $467.50 (incl. GST.)
Member Price: 25% discount available for SASVic Members. If you work for a SASVic member service, please use discount code ‘MEM25’

Foundations in Feminist Somatics

Join Susan Stark and Kendra Russell for this full-day in-person training designed to provide practitioners with foundational skills in feminist somatics. This workshop provides an introduction, as well as practical tools and resources to support counsellors to increase their capacity and confidence in integrating somatic frameworks within 1-on-1 sessions with victim survivors of sexual assault. Drawing from Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Politicised Somatics, this workshop contextualises somatics within an explicitly intersectional feminist framework. Through experiential learning and interactive activities, it also supports practitioners to bring awareness to and inhabit their own nervous systems to resource the healing of victim survivors. Please note: This training is recommended for practitioners new to somatic work, particularly those planning to undertake ‘Untouched: Sex and Intimacy’.

When: Wednesday 19 March, 9.30am - 4.30pm
Where: Collingwood
Price: $467.50 (incl. GST.)
Member Price: 25% discount available for SASVic Members. If you work for a SASVic member service, please use discount code ‘MEM25’

Bespoke training for other professionals

SASVic offers external training for other professionals by request. SASVic has provided training to a range of workforces to date, including family violence practitioners, health professionals and legal professionals. To create a world free of sexual violence, we need a whole of community approach to preventing and responding to sexual violence.

If your workplace is interested in attending training with SASVic, please email training@sasvic.org.au to find out what we can offer and to get a quote.

SASVic’s Cancellation Policy

  1. Cancellations:

  • Cancellation on or before two weeks prior to the event commencement date - full refund.

  • Cancellation within two weeks prior to the event commencement data - no refunds available, unless in extenuating circumstances. We may offer a credit where possible.

  • ‘Extenuating circumstances’ include injury and/or illness preventing attendance, including caring responsibilities for a person who is injured/unwell. We will also consider other extenuating factors that have prevented attendance.

  • All requests for refunds must be made in writing to the SASVic Training Team (training@sasvic.org.au)

  • In some cases, a minimum number of participants is required for a training to be viable. In the event a session needs to be cancelled, your registration fee will be refunded in full.

  1. Transfers

  • Registrations may be transferred to a colleague at any time prior to the event by contacting SASVic Training Team (training@sasvic.org.au).