Training

Online workshops

Touching Base currently offers two types of online training workshops:

Service Provider Awareness Training (SPAT) for individual support workers/carers and service provider organisations within the Disability & Aged Care sectors

Professional Disability Awareness Training (PDAT) for sex workers

Please follow the links above for more details about these two streams of training or to add your name to our waiting list so you can be notified of the next workshop dates.

Presentations or shorter in-house training

We can also provide tailored presentations or shorter workshops of between 1-4 hours, for organisations wanting to provide in-house training sessions for their staff. Please email us via training@touchingbase.org to seek a quote.

CANCELLATION POLICY: If you cancel more than two weeks before the training day you will receive 100% refund. Cancellations received after this time will receive 50% refund. There is no refund available for non-attendance or cancellation on the actual day of training. Touching Base Inc reserves the right to cancel a workshop and in this case a full refund will be provided. Touching Base Inc is not responsible for any costs incurred by participants in attending our training.

Professional Disability Awareness Training (PDAT): Participants at a PDAT workshop who are not sex workers/sex industry workers may be asked to leave the workshop and will have their registration cancelled with no refund.

Touching Base endorses The Uluru Statement from the Heart and acknowledges First Nations as the traditional custodians of country throughout Australia, their diversity, histories and knowledge, and their continuing connections to land and community. As Australians all, we respect our nation’s First Peoples, their cultures, and Elders of past, present and future generations.