Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Fostering Realistic Hope

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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Fostering Realistic Hope is the Bouverie Centre's free group workshop for a family carer, friend or partner of someone experiencing BPD or BPD symptoms.

Whether seeking guidance, support, or a space to share your experiences, this workshop offers a welcoming environment where families can learn and grow together and the opportunity to connect with others who understand your journey.

Duration
1 online workshop day, or 2 in-person workshop days
Mode
Online, In person
$0.00

If there are no available options below, all currently scheduled workshops are now full. To be notified of newly scheduled workshops, please see the "Workshop Expression of Interest" section below.

Key facts

Course category
The Bouverie Centre
Options
Option 1 13 August 2025 (condensed online version) 9:30am - 4:30pm (AEST)Online (Live)
Option 2 5 & 6 June 2025 9:30am - 4:30pm (AEST)In Person (Melbourne)
Duration
1 online workshop day, or 2 in-person workshop days
Prerequisite/s
There are no prerequisites for this short course
Certification
Certificate of Completion

Workshop Expression of Interest

If you cannot attend the workshop options above, please complete our workshop expression of interest form, and we will notify you by email when a new workshop is scheduled.


In Person options are delivered across 2-days at The Bouverie Centre in Brunswick, VIC.

Online options are a condensed version of the in-person workshop, and delivered via Zoom on a single day.

Workshop style

Fostering Realistic Hope invites participants to share and respond to their and others' experiences of living with BPD and the effects it has on their lives and relationships.

This workshop is facilitated by Dr. Peter McKenzie. With his expert knowledge and expertise, you will explore your understanding and ideas around the factors contributing to the experience of BPD and the impacts on relationships and families. The workshop aims to provide realistic ways to promote and support positive relationships and initiatives.

Whether seeking guidance, support, or a space to share your experiences, this workshop offers a welcoming environment where families can learn and grow together and the opportunity to connect with others who understand your journey.

What will you learn?

Practices you will be introduced to include:

  • Sharing, witnessing, and contributing to each others' stories
  • Relational mindfulness
  • Restarting reflection / "re-storying" the conversation
  • Acknowledgement / validation
  • Relational limit setting

What we hope you will take away:

  • A better understanding of the effects of BPD on families' lives through the sharing of experiences and knowledge
  • The capacity to identify and resource coping initiatives that make a difference for you and your family
  • The ability to mindfully notice habitual and unhelpful relational-interactional patterns that we often become stuck in
  • A mindful space for reflection and realistic action

Relevant audience

This workshop is for a family carer, friend or partner of someone experiencing BPD or BPD symptoms. Professionals and healthcare and welfare practitioners are welcome to attend Working Relationally with Borderline Personality Disorder.

Our Working Relationally with Borderline Personality Disorder workshop is for professionals and healthcare and welfare practitioners and lived and living experience workforce to support your work with your clients and incorporate skills into their practice.

Contact The Bouverie Centre

If you have any questions about this course, or are curious about our other courses and workshops, please get in touch at bouverie.training@latrobe.edu.au, thank you.

You can browse our list of professional development courses and workshops here and see what is coming up on our calendar here.

Terms & Conditions

We recommend that, before your purchase, you review The Bouverie Centre's Terms & Conditions on registration and payment, discounts, cancellations (including transfer of registration, refunds, and credit notes), privacy and data collection, and intellectual property here.

Frequently Asked Questions

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What certification will I receive?

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  • Microcredentials:  You will receive a digital credential that confirms the skills you’ve acquired, any assessments you’ve completed and potential pathways for credit or advanced standing towards a degree. 
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Please note that short courses or microcredentials are not formal qualifications under the Australian Qualifications Framework but may be eligible for consideration as advanced standing (credit) towards a degree.

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Microcredentials are short courses that are assessed, carry academic credit, and to deliver specific skills or knowledge.  While they can be taken as standalone courses, many are designed to be combined or ‘stacked’ with other microcredentials to form the equivalent of a subject within a degree program.  Upon successful completion, you’ll earn a digital credential that outlines the skills and credit obtained, and any opportunities for stacking.

For La Trobe microcredentials, any advanced standing or stacking pathways are clearly expressed on the course page.   

What is advanced standing?

Advanced standing refers to credit for prior study or formal learning that can be credited towards a qualification, thereby reducing the number of subjects required to complete a course. For short courses or microcredentials (if these have been completed through recognised institutions or platforms and are deemed equivalent to La Trobe University subjects), credit may be granted either for specific La Trobe subjects or as unspecified credit towards elective requirements of a La Trobe course.

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