Constantly Learning offers specialised training and workshop packages to facilitate reflective practice and practical knowledge for housing justice work.

All sessions are informed by direct practice knowledge, diverse lived experiences, and contemporary research.

Sessions include facilitator led content with reflective training exercises and a learner workbook. Some sessions include expert guests such as people with lived/living experience of housing precarity and multiple disadvantage.

In-house intensives (across Australia, including regional) or online sessions can be scheduled to suit your group.

Constantly Learning is committed to increasing the capacity of homelessness, social housing, and housing justice work. Rates are negotiable to maximise these benefits. Lived/living experience led projects are charged using a Pay What You Can model.

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Housing justice work is challenging. People in need of housing justice supports are vulnerable and experience multiple marginalisations. People working in housing justice are at risk of burnout, vicarious trauma, and post-traumatic stress. Many people working in housing justice also have lived experiences of the challenges they are trying to solve. High quality supervision and opportunities for reflection and debriefing are critical.

Supervision and Debriefing Supports for Housing Justice supports learners to explore and practice supervision, reflection, and debriefing strategies. This course emphasises self-awareness, systems thinking, and the development of tools to to support effective and sustainable housing justice work.

This training session is suitable for frontline and leadership roles in homelessness, social housing, and housing/social justice work.

Housing justice work involves complex communications with diverse stakeholders. People working in housing justice need to be able to communicate and collaborate with people experiencing multiple marginalisations, multidisciplinary teams, and formal structures and systems.

Communication that Gets Results supports learners to develop communication skills for clarity, connection, and collaboration. This course emphasises self-awareness, strategies for building trusting and respectful relationships, and the skills required for solutions focused communications. 

This training session is suitable for frontline and leadership roles in homelessness, social housing, and housing/social justice work.

Learner feedback: “I really enjoyed the many self reflection and mindfulness opportunities throughout this training. It helped me integrate the content and make connections between trauma informed self care and my trauma informed practices in my everyday life. An engaging session that allowed for deep discussion.”

Almost everyone who experiences homelessness or housing precarity has experienced additional trauma. People working in homelessness, social housing, and housing justice can impact, and be impacted by, these trauma experiences.

Trauma Informed Practices for Everyone supports learners to develop resources for working reflectively and in consideration of their own trauma, the trauma of others, and the systemic contributors to trauma. This course emphasises practices that can contribute to personal wellbeing, social care, and social change.

This training session is suitable for anyone interested in social justice and wellbeing.

Participant feedback: “Skye is the perfect person to help any organisation to reflect on and to go back to first principles. To reflect on personal values, community values, societal and cultural values, company values, organisational values, and see how and where they join, and where they conflict, and get awareness about that whole process. That is the secret sauce to success.”

The Values Focused Strategic Planning workshop focuses on identifying, and differentiating, the values of a group. This includes personal reflections on individual values alongside the development of shared group values, supporting a nuanced understanding of how our values guide our work.

This workshop session can be useful to clarify values at the beginning of a project, as part of the strategic planning, or to recentre shared values following group conflict or confusion.

This workshop session can be included as part of broader strategic planning efforts or as a standalone workshop.

Safe, Brave, and Difficult Conversations builds on the skills developed in Communication that Gets Results.

Safe, Brave, and Difficult Conversations supports learners to use their clear, connecting, and collaborative communication skills to navigate conversations and relationships that involve conflict and/or sensitive topics. This course emphasises self-awareness, trauma informed communication, and the development of safe and brave relationships that support mutual learning and accountability. 

This training session is suitable for frontline and leadership roles in homelessness, social housing, and housing/social justice work. This training assumes the learners already have well developed communication strategies and are looking to deepen their skills.

While housing vulnerability can affect anybody, some people are more likely to experience housing precarity than others.

People working in homelessness, social housing, and housing justice are able to work more effectively, and supportively, if they understand how different experiences of identity and marginalisation can affect people’s experiences.

Reflecting on Intersectionality and Diversity supports learners to reflect deeply on the impacts of power, privilege, and diversity on choice, communication, and relationships. This course emphasises an awareness of self and others, and the development of supportive and accountable relationships. 

This training session is suitable for frontline and leadership roles in homelessness, social housing, and housing/social justice related work.

Lived/living experience advocacy can be a powerful tool for transformation in housing justice work. Effective lived/living experience advocacy requires a balance between complex communication with diverse stakeholders and the navigation of our own personal impacts of traumatic experiences and structural violence.

Connecting Communication and Wellbeing for Lived Experience Advocates supports learners to develop communication skills for clarity, connection, and collaboration as well as working reflectively and in consideration of individual experiences and systemic contributors to trauma. This course emphasises self-awareness, practices that can contribute to personal wellbeing, and the skills required for solutions focused communications.

This training session is suitable for lived/living experience advocates and the people who support them.

Australia is experiencing a steadily and rapidly increasing housing crisis. Home ownership is out of reach to most. Fewer people can afford a decent rental. For almost 20 years now, the number of people who experience homelessness in Australia has been steadily increasing. Why are we here? What happened to the safety nets?

Demystifying Affordable Housing supports learners to develop a better understanding of the housing systems in Australia so that their housing justice work can be targeted and coherent. This course addresses critical questions about why the cost of housing is so high; how social, public, community, and affordable housing relate to each other; and how we might approach a future where housing is affordable.

This training session is suitable for frontline and leadership roles in homelessness, social housing, and housing/social justice work.