Expressions of Interest

Occupational Performance Coaching – ONLINE

OPC Trainer TBC
Term 1, 2025

Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals

Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC) is an evidence-based, capacity-building intervention approach which involves working alongside clients and their caregivers to achieve goals for themselves, their children and/or their families. OPC is used by allied health professions to support people of all ages, and with diverse health conditions, to achieve personally valued change in life domains. This is an interactive workshop that will enable participants to practice and develop their coaching skills.

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Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance Approach (CO-OP)

Prof Elspeth Froude and Prof Iona Novak
SYDNEY - Term 1, 2025

Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals

The CO-OP Approach can be used with adults and children (over 4 years of age) who struggle with everyday tasks. It has been shown to be successful for clients with a variety of developmental or neurological conditions who experience difficulties with learning or re-learning motor based skills.

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Tools for Toddlers

ONLINE - Over 3 sessions - Semester 1, 2025
Dr Charmaine Bernie Download event flier

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

This workshop will support occupational therapists to develop an understanding of best practice of early intervention principles and intervention approaches for children in the infancy to preschool stage of development

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The Perceive: Recall: Plan and Perform System (PRPP) – Assessment Workshop

5 days – Monday 3rd - Friday 7th March 2025
Assoc Prof Chris Chapparo & Dr Judy Ranka Download event flier

Assessment Workshop

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

This 5 day workshop will provide participants with skills/knowledge with regard to assessment using the PRPP, as well as a basic introduction to intervention. The Perceive: Recall: Plan and Perform System (PRPP) is a process-oriented, criterion referenced assessment that employs task analysis methods to determine problems with cognitive information processing component function during routine, task or subtask performance. The PRPP System is for use with adults and children who have difficulty performing daily tasks. It is suitable for adults and children of either sex and from any cultural background.

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The Power of Attachment

ONLINE (over 4 sessions) - Term 1, 2025
Beth Fulton Download event flier

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

This workshop will support occupational therapists to develop an understanding of how the experiences and relationships of infants/children and their families, can impact on their social-emotional, sensory, motor and cognitive presentation across daily life at home, school and play.

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Understanding our Proximal Senses

3 Days - Melbourne/Sydney - Semester 1, 2025
Assoc Prof Chris Chapparo Download event flier

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to identify aspects of inefficient sensory processing which involves poor registration of proximal (“body”) sensory inputs and use sensory processing, neuroscience and occupational performance theory to explain these disorders.

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The Perceive: Recall: Plan and Perform System (PRPP) – Intervention Workshop

4 days –Semester 1, 2025
Assoc Prof Chris Chapparo & Dr Judy Ranka Download event flier

Intervention Workshop

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists

This 4 day workshop will provide participants with skills/knowledge with regard to intervention using the PRPP (attendance at a PRPP Assessment workshop is a prerequisite). The Perceive: Recall: Plan and Perform System (PRPP) is a process-oriented, criterion referenced assessment that employs task analysis methods to determine problems with cognitive information processing component function during routine, task or subtask performance. The PRPP System is for use with adults and children who have difficulty performing daily tasks. It is suitable for adults and children of either sex and from any cultural background.

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