Disrupting Tradition Innovative Strategies in Family & Estate Law
The Honourable Robert Benjamin AM SC
Keynote Speaker – Family Law Stream
Robert Benjamin AM KC has a dinstinguished professional resume including presently as Tasmanian’s Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor, with a past history as a Commissioner for the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (a form of Royal Commission), Justice of the Family Court of Australia, Presidential Member of the AAT and President of the NSW Law Society.
He uses and teaches trauma-informed practice.
Understanding Trauma
Gain insight into how trauma affects the brain, body, and behaviour — and its impact on clients, colleagues, and practitioners.
Recognising Vicarious Trauma
Learn how to identify vicarious trauma in legal practice, and explore the concept of vicarious resilience as its positive counterpart.
Practical Trauma-Informed Strategies
Take away tools and approaches to integrate trauma-informed principles into daily practice, from self-care to client interactions.
Trauma Informed Practice as an essential foundation for family lawyers
Recently, there has been a movement towards trauma-informed legal practice. Trauma impacts upon the self, work colleagues, litigants, legal practitioners, judges, court personnel and witnesses.
This presentation will discuss the nature of trauma and the mechanics of how it impacts on the brain, mind and body, and illustrates differing trauma types, including vicarious trauma and its counterpart vicarious resilience.
Vicarious trauma is an occupational hazard of working within the legal profession and makes self-care strategies and workload reduction discussions essential. This discussion will explore the core tenets of trauma-informed practice. It will include measures and trauma-informed strategies to use in practice.