Infant Attachment and Cross-Cultural Application in a Family Relationships
Event details
Dates: Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 April 2026
Time: 9 am – 4:30pm
Venue: Red Mulga Event Centre, Alice Springs Desert Park
Cost: $320 per person (incl. GST). This includes workshop materials and catering (lunch and morning / afternoon tea)
For more information, please email: pathwayas@ra-nt.org.au or call Relationships Australia – NT on (08) 8923 4999 and ask for Jimena.
Overview
2-day workshop by Alison Elliott and Jenn McIntosh
28 and 29 April 2026
Who should attend?
Professionals engaged in the Family Law Sector and helping professions that work closely with separated families with young children.
Day 1 provides prerequisite learning for Day 2.
Please note: This is a 2-day workshop and the ticket price includes both days. When registering on Eventbrite, please select one date only, this will register you for the full workshop across both days.
Day 1 – Foundations of Infant Attachment Observation and Approaches to Healing Conversations
Day 1 builds confidence in observing the ways in which very young children show us their attachment worlds: their need for care and the shape of their trust in those who care closely for them. We explore culturally safe approaches to assessing and supporting attachment health in families with prior experiences of trauma.
Attachment is considered through both a dyadic lens and an Indigenous collectivist lens. Participants learn to recognise secure, anxious, ambivalent and disorganised attachment patterns through film examples and guided discussion. Reflections on First Nations families’ experience are offered and invited throughout.
The afternoon introduces the MERTIL program, offering practical tools and language to support healing conversations and strengthen early relational trust with parents, caregivers and professionals in family law contexts.