Training & Capability Building
Our approach - training that sticks
A one-off awareness session can lift knowledge and confidence but durable change requires more.
Our training programs are structured as modular pathways — beginning with a shared foundation, building into role-specific practice, and embedding change through leadership, policy and organisational systems.
Each module can be delivered as a standalone session or as part of a staged program.
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Trauma-informed Practice
A staged program building your organisation's capacity to work safely and effectively with people who have experienced trauma, including family violence and sexual assault.
Foundation
Introduction to trauma-informed workplaces
Builds foundational understanding of trauma, its impacts on behaviour and engagement, and how to apply trauma-informed principles in your workplace context.
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This training is also available as open-registration sessions — a practical option for smaller teams or individuals.
Role-specific practice
Trauma-informed leadership
Equips leaders to model and embed trauma-informed culture — covering governance responsibilities, strategic oversight and leader-specific responses.
Trauma-informed management
Builds practical skills for managing team members and clients who have experienced trauma — including safe supervision, disclosure responses and referral.
Trauma-informed peer practice
Focuses on day-to-day interactions — recognising trauma responses, avoiding re-traumatisation and supporting colleagues and clients effectively.
Trauma-informed clinical practice
Applies trauma-informed principles to clinical assessment, treatment planning and therapeutic relationships in health settings.
Trauma-informed gender-based violence prevention education
Supporting higher education providers to meet Standard 4 of the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender Based Violence (GBV) 2025. This trauma informed program builds genuine understanding of GBV – its drivers, impact and the role of power. Builds knowledge and confidence to respond with care to disclosures of GBV.
Working in the university or tertiary education sector?
Axiom can customise its programs to support you to meet your obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence 2025
Embed And Sustain
Systems and policy review
Reviews policies, procedures and organisational systems against trauma-informed best practice to identify gaps and embed learning.
Evaluation
Designs and implements pre/post and longitudinal measures to track knowledge, practice change and program impact over time.
Sexual Harassment
A modular program to build workforce understanding of sexual harassment, meet positive duty obligations under the Sex Discrimination Act, and embed systemic prevention.
Foundation
Introduction to workplace sexual harassment
Provides a clear, current grounding in what sexual harassment is, what the law requires, and what behaviours are unacceptable — equipping staff to act.
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This training is also available as open-registration sessions — a practical option for smaller teams or individuals.
Responding to disclosures of sexual harassment
Builds confidence and skills to receive disclosures safely and supportively, including understanding obligations, trauma-informed responses and referral pathways.
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This training is also available as open-registration sessions — a practical option for smaller teams or individuals. Places start from $205 per person, with discounts available for groups.
Positive duty to prevent sexual harassment
Covers the positive duty framework under the Sex Discrimination Act — the seven standards, risk assessment, and how the Australian Human Rights Commission assesses compliance.
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This training is also available as open-registration sessions — a practical option for smaller teams or individuals. Places start from $205 per person, with discounts available for groups.
Embed And Sustain
Systems and policy review
Benchmarks policies and procedures against best practice and positive duty requirements, with gap identification and recommended actions.
Organisational response package
A ready-to-use package including communications templates, response training, employment law referral and psychological support pathways.
Family Violence
A staged program to recognise and respond to family violence — within your workforce and across the communities and clients you serve.
Foundation
Introduction to family violence in the workplace
Builds foundational knowledge of what drives family violence and how to recognise the signs in a workplace context. Equips staff to respond to victim survivors safely and confidently within their role.
Join a public session
This training is also available as open-registration sessions — a practical option for smaller teams or individuals. Places start from $205 per person, with discounts available for groups.
Role-specific Practice
Responding to family violence in the workplace
Builds on foundational awareness to develop the skills and confidence to respond to disclosures across teams, have safe conversations, and embed supportive responses into day-to-day management.
Family violence in financial settings
Focuses on identifying and responding to financial abuse and economic coercion among clients in financial services contexts.
Family violence and elder abuse
Covers the intersection of family violence and elder abuse — including financial, physical and psychological abuse — and safe identification and referral for older clients.
Embed and Sustain
Policy and procedure review
Develops practical safety planning tools, policies, procedures and referral frameworks tailored to your setting and workforce.
Gender Equality and Gender Impact Assessments (GIAs)
Practical skills to meet your obligations under the Gender Equality Act 2020 and WGEA — including GIA methodology, gender-responsive budgeting and gender pay gap strategy.
Foundation
Introduction to Gender Impact Assessments (GIAs)
Builds skills to conduct GIAs that are analytical, intersectional and meet regulatory requirements.
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This training is also available as open-registration sessions — a practical option for smaller teams or individuals. Places start from $205 per person, with discounts available for groups.
Gender-responsive budgeting
Covers how to integrate a gender lens into annual budget planning cycles — relevant to Victorian councils and agencies with GEAP commitments.
Embed and Sustain
Gender pay gap analysis and strategy
Supports organisations to understand WGEA gender pay gap data and develop evidence-based strategies addressing structural, occupational and organisational drivers.
