Explore the Potential and Principles of Open Dialogue:
One-Day Exploration of Open Dialogue (Virtual)
Explore the Potential and Principles of Open Dialogue: One-Day Online Exploration
We invite individuals, service teams and organisational leaders to learn about Open Dialogue and how implementing the approach will strengthen professional practice, and build and retain your workforce.
Join us for an informative and inspiring day with participants who work in mental health from around Australia to deepen your understanding of the Open Dialogue Approach.
Explore the skills and practice to understand what Open Dialogue can add to your work.
Gain an inspired overview of the origins, principles, elements, evidence-base and application potential of the Open Dialogue Approach across different services and settings – in Australia and globally.
The Open Dialogue Centre has expert facilitators, who will draw from their knowledge of Open Dialogue and its relationship to positive outcomes in mental health. Through their unique experiences, they will reflect on how Open Dialogue can have a practical application in different health contexts – in Australia and globally.
About the Approach
Open Dialogue is a way of listening, of being present with a person and their network, and of ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard. It places relationships as foundational to prevention and recovery pathways through social network meetings.
It is recognised by the World Health Organisation as an approach that elevates the voice and agency of the individual and their rights – enabling responsive and compassionate care that involves family and community.
It is also a way to deliver on many of the priorities and recommendations that have been articulated in a number of Commissions, research papers and reviews into mental health.
You will learn about:
- Develop your understanding of the positive outcomes for people, families and their social network.
- Gain an understanding of what Open Dialogue is and why the World Health Organisation (WHO) references Open Dialogue as a way to address the many issues that are inherent in a bio-medically based mental health system.
- The core principles of Open Dialogue and how they can be adapted to different clinical and non-clinical settings;
- Unique and powerful ways to strengthen listening and responding;
- The potential for more collaborative and coordinated ways of working;
- The value of involving social networks and how they enable agency and voice to be elevated; and
- Discover how Open Dialogue can support workforce transformation and coordination across services in a community.
This workshop is ideal for mental health clinical practitioners, lived experience professionals and peer workers, school health and wellbeing coordinators, community leaders, and anyone interested in exploring how Open Dialogue can add to their work.
We will also touch on how the Centre is supporting the Open Dialogue network in Australia to unlock ongoing learning opportunities and you will be invited to be part of future opportunities that stem from our events and partnerships.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear more from our highly experienced facilitators:
Register now for this rewarding experience – places are limited, via the registration form below
Facilitators: Tilly Read and Yasmin Ishaq
Date:
11 September 2026
Time:
9.00am to 3.00pm (AEST)
Location:
Virtual (login details will be sent prior to the day)
Cost:
APS Member: $220.00 + GST ( Total $242.00)
Standard Fee: $250.00 + GST (Total $275.00)
If you are a Lived and Living Experience Worker(LLEW), reside in Victoria and would like to apply for a course Scholarship, please click on the button below to check your eligibility and apply. Scholarships are limited.
Tilly Read has extensive experience in Open Dialogue training. As a Community Practice Lead in the UK, Tilly has been instrumental in spearheading initiatives centred around Open Dialogue, including the ODDESSI Trial and Peer Supported Open Dialogue methodologies.
Tilly is from Devon in the UK and has been instrumental in designing training to support how teams plan, collaborate and foster culture change. She is a clinical practice lead who brings nearly a decade of experience as a registered mental health nurse. She develops ways to strengthen the understanding of how Open Dialogue can be transformative for organisations and the workforce, with deep knowledge around Peer Supported Open Dialogue, organisational clinical processes, better outcomes for people and families and guidance around developing truly person-centred approaches.
Tilly led the implementation of the ODDESSI trial in Devon. ODDESSI is a large randomised control trial in the UK, researching the effectiveness of Open Dialogue in crisis and continuing metal health care within the National Health Service in the UK.
Yasmin Ishaq is a relational psychotherapist, social worker and Open Dialogue trainer and clinical supervisor who brings decades of experience working in the UK public sector in a way that is trauma-informed, family-inclusive and strengths-based.
Yasmin was the Open Dialogue lead for mental health services in Kent as part of the NHS in the UK until 2021. she also developed previous new initiative to start the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service in East Kent in 2005 and the primary care mental health social work service in 2015.
From 2016 – 2021, Yasmin led the first standalone NHS Open Dialogue service in the UK, and evidenced that the approach could be developed, sustained, and provide positive outcomes for individuals and families accessing specialist mental health services.
Her approach incorporated the principles of Open Dialogue in a way that elevated a non-judgmental emphasis around understanding individuals and families within a cultural, social, psychological and environmental context.
Working in various roles as a Practitioner and Manager across Youth and Adult services in the UK, Yasmin brings extensive experience in supporting clinical and non-clinical teams to adopt Open Dialogue. She has been part of the development and delivery of several years of Open Dialogue foundation courses, train the trainer courses, introductory courses and workshops for organisations (from formal services to small charities) looking to support their practice development and approach to delivering Open Dialogue.
Yasmin also speaks and teaches from a family lived experience perspective which has informed her practice, training and service development.
Please complete the form below to register for this workshop
Registration Form
Payment Options
For direct transfer Bank Details are:
BSB: 082-356
Account: 24 100 7959
Please include your NAME as the reference
If you require an invoice for payment please advise via email
training@opendialoguecentre.org.au
Please note your booking will not be finalised until payment is received.
For Credit Card payments please select the Stripe payment button below.
Your place is confirmed upon receipt of payment and your registration form.
Some feedback from our past participants