Training Programs
Dee Donaldson Consulting currently delivers two flagship training programs, each targeting a distinct professional audience and purpose. Both programs are grounded in the proprietary Relationship Coercion Mapping Framework™ and are available for delivery across Australia — face-to-face or, where operationally appropriate, adapted for online delivery.
Both can be offered as standalone workshops or sequentially as part of a broader workforce capability pathway, and can be tailored to the specific sector and organisational context of the engaging organisation.
Program 1: Recognising & Responding to Coercive Control
Building recognition capability across your workforce.
Target Audience
This program is designed for frontline workers, team leaders, and managers across the domestic and family violence, policing, justice, corrections, child protection, healthcare, and private sectors. No prior specialist knowledge is assumed. The program is suitable for multi-disciplinary teams and mixed-level audiences, and is equally effective as an entry point for organisations with no existing coercive control training framework.
What Participants Will Learn
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to identify coercive control as a distinct and systematic pattern of behaviour — distinguishable from discrete incident-based abuse — and understand the psychological mechanisms through which control operates over time.
Participants will develop a working understanding of how coercive control presents across different contexts, build the analytical vocabulary to discuss it accurately within professional settings, and gain practical recognition skills applicable to their day-to-day work.
Format & Delivery
Available as a half-day workshop. Face-to-face or online delivery is available by arrangement. The program is readily adaptable for induction training, mandatory DFV training compliance, whole-of-organisation professional development days, and staged capability-building programs across multi-site organisations.
Suitable For
This program is appropriate for organisations building baseline coercive control literacy across a multi-disciplinary workforce; meeting mandatory or regulatory training requirements; or seeking a rigorous foundation program for staff prior to more advanced practitioner-level training.
Program 2: Mapping the Patterns and Impacts of Coercive Control — Relationship Clarity Mapping in Practice
A structured framework for direct practice.
Target Audience
This program is designed for practitioners who work directly with victim-survivors of coercive control — including psychologists, social workers, DFV counsellors, case managers, allied health professionals, and for police members sitting within DV units where identifying and assessing coercive relationship patterns in intimate partner relationships is a core role requirement.
Participants should have a foundational understanding of domestic and family violence prior to attending. Formal specialist training is not required, though Program 1 is recommended as a precursor for participants with limited prior exposure.
What Participants Will Learn
This program provides practitioners with structured access to the Relationship Clarity Mapping framework — the practitioner-facing application of the Relationship Coercion Mapping Framework™ (RCMF) for working with victim-survivors.
Participants develop a systematic approach to mapping coercive control patterns in direct practice: identifying and documenting the behavioural tactics employed, their sequencing, their psychological mechanisms, and their cumulative impact on the victim-survivor's functioning, decision-making, and self-perception.
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The workshop will also introduce participants to the screening tool within the framework, the Relationship Autonomy & Coercive Control Screener™ (RACCS), a self-report screening tool using functional analysis to map the domains of the coercive behaviour pattern domains of the RCMF within an individual intimate partner relationship context to the frequency and severity of harms experienced by victim-survivors *.
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Relationship Clarity Mapping supports client clarity by targetting a victim-survivor's confusion and ambivalence related to cognitive dissonance — one of the most significant barriers to disclosure and safety planning — and strengthens professional documentation, providing a structured basis for risk assessment, case formulation, and reporting. Key to delivering RCM to victim-survivors is the adoption of a deliberate trauma-informed and non-pathologising approach that supports autonomy and agency.
Practitioners leave with immediately applicable skills for use within their existing clinical or case management practice.
* The RACCS screening tool is available for individual purchase by victim-survivors through the WiseWOMAN Studio website (founded and operated by Dee Donaldson). WiseWOMAN Studio contains online programs, psychoeducational resources and tools for women who may be experiencing domestic abuse or coercive control to access directly. Click on this link to access WiseWOMAN Studio https://www.wisewomanstudio.com
The RACCS can also be licensed to individual organisations for use with clients. Should your organisation be interested in accessing the RACCS for frontline client use, contact Dee Donaldson Consulting via the Contact page to discuss a limited licensing agreement.
Practitioner Workbook
Each participant receives a practitioner workbook for use within their professional practice. The workbook provides guided tools for applying the RCM framework across client sessions and supports accurate case documentation over time.
Format & Delivery
This training is available as a full-day workshop face-to-face or online. This program is not offered as a half-day format given the practitioner skill development required, however may be delivered across two half-days depending on organisational requirement.
Delivery & Availability
Both programs are available for delivery to organisations across Australia. Dee Donaldson delivers all training personally, ensuring consistent quality and the analytical depth that comes from direct, integrated expertise in both the clinical and operational dimensions of coercive control.
Enquiries are welcomed from organisations seeking single-session delivery, multi-site programs, or sequential training pathways combining both programs.
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Both programs can be contextualised to the organisational and sector environment of the engaging organisation, and are available for delivery in corporate, government, community sector, and clinical settings.
Intellectual Property & Copyright Notice
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Relationship Clarity Mapping™ (RCM™), including but not limited to its conceptual framework, mapping methodology, regulatory modelling structure, assessment tools, screening instruments, worksheets, structured session materials, psychoeducational content, diagrams, formulations, written materials, and associated documentation, is the original intellectual property of Donna-Marie Donaldson.
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All materials are protected under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (Australia) and applicable international copyright conventions.
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No part of the Relationship Clarity Mapping™ series may be:
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Reproduced, copied, scanned, photographed, recorded, digitised, stored, uploaded, or redistributed in any format (including electronic or digital format)
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Shared via email, cloud storage, learning platforms, websites, social media, or other digital distribution channels
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Adapted, modified, translated, summarised, rebranded, reverse-engineered, or incorporated into derivative works
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Used for training, teaching, supervision, professional development, commercial, organisational, or research purposes
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without prior written permission from the author.
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Materials provided to clients are licensed for personal therapeutic use only and may not be redistributed or repurposed.
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The Relationship Clarity Mapping™ framework, including its structure, dimensional impact model, regulatory sequence mapping, and session architecture, may not be replicated or adapted in whole or in part.
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AI & Data Usage Restriction
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The Relationship Clarity Mapping™ materials may not be used for artificial intelligence training, machine learning dataset development, model fine-tuning, automated content generation, or any computational replication or derivative modelling purposes.
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Jurisdiction
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This intellectual property notice is governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. Any disputes arising in relation to the Relationship Clarity Mapping™ materials shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.
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Unauthorised use constitutes infringement and may result in legal action.