CESPHN runs a full calendar of events which can be found on the Event Registration page. We also support external organisations who also run education and these events can be found below. If you would like to advertise on our external events page, please complete the online form. Once you have submitted the form, these will be reviewed and uploaded at our earliest opportunity and an email will be sent to you advising the outcome of your request.
We welcome you to submit events for the upcoming 3 months. Please be advised that there may be delays due to increased demand, or over holiday periods. Once your event has been published no changes can be made.
Please note that events must be held in the next 12 months, be hosted within the CESPHN catchment, and be relevant to general practitioners, allied health professionals, practice nurses, practice managers or practice staff.
Central and Eastern Sydney PHN has full discretion to reject external event requests or cease the promotion of any external events on our website.
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Thursday, 14 August 2025, 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
CBT-E offers a promising new evidence based treatment framework for adolescents recovering from eating disorders. Similar to the adult version of CBT-E, the adolescent version is a personalized intervention that targets key maintaining features of eating disorders and provides an additional framework for working with an adolescent client, including involving family members as support. It is an individual treatment designed to enhance an adolescent’s agency and autonomy, build engagement and can be applied transdiagnostically. This one day workshop will support you to apply this model of treatment.
Read MoreThursday, 4 September 2025, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) was originally designed as a placebo comparative treatment in a clinical trial for the treatment of anorexia nervosa, and showed promising results. Since then SSCM has continued to be used, and shown to be a valid and effective treatment for anorexia nervosa. SSCM combines a range of tools including clinical management, psychoeducation and encouragement with a supportive therapeutic style, working collaboratively with clients to target specific eating disorder symptoms. The aim of the therapy is to empower clients to make a link between their symptoms, eating behaviour and weight, and to support them to gradually return to normal eating and weight.
Read MoreMonday, 8 September 2025, 10AM to 5PM AEST
Enhancing our client’s motivation to change and building their self-efficacy is absolutely paramount when it comes to treating people experiencing eating and body image issues- including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. This one day workshop for allied health practitioners provides an introduction to/ refresher of motivational interviewing with a specific application to eating disorders. In particular the workshop will emphasize how to work with clients in precontemplative, contemplative and determination/ preparation stages of change.
Read MoreMonday, 15 September 2025, 9.00 am – 4.00 pm
Many people who have undergone or are considering Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery also struggle with disordered eating and in the absence of any specific training eating disorder clinicians may be struggling with questions like: How do you assess for eating disorders following Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery? What is dumping syndrome? Slider foods? Plugging? How might cognitive behavioural therapy change? What does ‘normal’ eating look like post Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery? Should their eating disorder have been treated before the surgery?
Read MoreFriday, 31 October 2025, 9AM to 3PM AEDT
In this online workshop Gemma and Colleen will draw on their own experiences, recent research, and clinical practice innovations to outline foundational care principles and autism accommodations that create support and safety for autistic young people. The second half of the workshop will focus specifically on ways to adapt eating disorders therapy to better meet the needs of autistic young people and their families.
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