Online Courses

Upskill with self paced training for you and your team.

Take these online courses to build knowledge and skills for your organisation.

These self paced online courses can be taken at a time that suits you and used to train your staff and volunteers.

If you have trouble accessing a course that you purchased, please contact us here for assistance.

Course certificates

Each course registrant can download a Certificate of Completion at the completion of each course.

Creating a Workplace Wellbeing Plan on a Page

A Workplace Wellbeing Strategy allows you to demonstrate and act on a commitment to mental health and wellbeing in your organisation. This course guides you through how to create a wellbeing plan on a page.

Course overview

This course is relevant for organisations of all sizes, whether just getting started with wellbeing, or looking to build on existing initiatives and actions.

You’ll be stepped through the process of creating a plan to guide your actions and ensure an integrated approach to wellbeing and resilience.

It includes user-friendly templates that you can fill in as you develop your own plan.

The six pillars of wellbeing and resilience underpin a good wellbeing strategy.

Training videos on each of the pillars show how they contribute to developing an integrated approach.

You’ll be guided through some specific actions you can take in each pillar to help inform your organisational priorities.

Course Specialist: Leanne Hart

Leanne is a trauma-informed facilitator who combines people and culture, leadership, health, safety and wellbeing to help social sector organisations build organisational, team and individual wellbeing. She draws on over two decades of experience working locally and globally with corporate, privately-owned, charities and social enterprise organisations.

Course specs

  • 2 modules
  • 7 videos (each video is between 4 minutes and 8 minutes in duration)
  • 1 download that includes:
    • Workplace Wellbeing plan on a page editable template.
    • How to use guide.
    • Example of a completed plan.
    • 6 action plan templates (for each of the 6 pillars).

More about this course

Course length
Approximately 2 hours.

Price
AUD $125 + GST

Resilient Responders

This course equips frontline staff with the knowledge and skills to maintain psychological safety for themselves and their peers when exposed to the distress of others, and builds their skills for preventing and responding to psychological trauma in their clients.

Course overview

This course equips frontline staff with knowledge and skills to maintain psychological safety for themselves and their peers in regard to exposure to the distress of others, as well as skills for preventing and responding to psychological trauma in their clients.

It includes:

  • A modern integrated understanding of psychological trauma and how it can be prevented and resolved
  • Understanding and preventing vicarious trauma, burnout, empathy fatigue and existential despair
  • Debriefing workplace exposure to psychological trauma
  • How to have brief empowering conversational interventions with clients that can help to prevent and resolve trauma, but don’t look like therapy

Course Specialist: Adam Blanch

Adam Blanch is an Australian Psychologist who specialises in the treatment of psychological trauma and provides training to practitioners and frontline responders in trauma prevention and treatment. Adam brings over 35 year’s experience working with 40+ treatment approaches.

Course specs

  • 8 modules
  • 41 lessons
  • 8 training downloads

More about this course

Course length
Approximately 5 hours.

Price
AUD $195 + GST

Income Diversification: Build a Roadmap for Success

Income diversification is on many strategic plans, a theme at board meetings and the number one topic for CEO's. This course is a roadmap to help you identify and plan the best approach for your organisation.

Course overview

Income diversification. It’s on many strategic plans, a theme at board meetings and the number one topic for CEO's. But many CEO's tell us they look at a blank sheet of paper and think ...

  • What’s the best approach for our organisation?
  • How do we test the strength of a new approach?
  • What are other organisations having success with?

And with only 10% of grant submissions being successful, how can you spend your precious time and resources more effectively?

“There were so many gems .. it was like shopping at Tiffany’s”

Our Income Diversification Webinar Series over July 2024 was a big hit and is a roadmap to help you find those answers, and identify and plan the best approach for your organisation.

Each 75-minute session features experts from the Benefolk Network of specialist consultants, accountants, strategists, marketers and fundraisers, who will help you assess, plan, set realistic goals and create your roadmap to implementation. They are in the trenches everyday with clients on this very topic and ready to pass on their pearls of wisdom.

Course specs

  • 1 welcome video from Benefolk CEO / Founder
  • 6 one hour recordings from live webinars
  • 6 slide packs containing frameworks, tips and tools
  • a certificate of completion, which can be utilised as part of sector continuing professional development.

Bonus - all purchases include:

  • 10% off voucher for Benefolk Strategy Clinic
  • 20% off voucher for Benefolk Expert Bar
  • Free 30 day trial of Seer Data's Impact Measurement platform for data collection, storage and storytelling.

More about this course

Course length
Approximately 6 six hours.

Price
AUD $275 + GST

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