Welcome to Decoding Us™ DFV Awareness Education Powered by HCCA
Decoding Us™ helps people look beyond the obvious signs of domestic and family violence and better understand the behaviours that can be harder to recognise. Through education and practical examples, we explore when everyday relationship behaviours may begin to cross the line into manipulation, restriction, coercion or control — including patterns that can be disguised as care, concern, jealousy or protection. The aim is to help people recognise patterns, understand the role of power and control, and feel more confident identifying when something in a relationship may not be okay.
Healthy Connection
Explore what respect, trust, communication, boundaries and individuality can look like in healthy relationships.
Understanding the Signs
Learn to recognise unhealthy patterns, manipulation, coercive control and behaviours that can be mistaken for care.
Know What's Right for You
Build confidence in identifying your needs, values, boundaries and dealbreakers — because relationships aren’t one-size-fits-all.
Understanding Domestic & Family Violence
Educational webinars exploring the patterns, behaviours and impacts of domestic and family violence.
Domestic and family violence is not always easy to recognise. It does not always involve physical violence, and controlling or abusive behaviours can sometimes appear subtle, confusing or even ordinary when viewed in isolation.
HCCA’s educational webinar series explores domestic and family violence, coercive control and related forms of abuse through accessible, trauma-informed education. Each webinar focuses on a different topic and can be attended individually.
Seeing the Unseen
Understanding Non-Physical Abuse & Coercive Control
Abuse does not have to leave a bruise to have a profound impact.
This one-hour webinar explores how seemingly small behaviours can combine to create patterns of power, restriction and control.
We’ll explore:
● What coercive control can look like in everyday life
● How seemingly small behaviours can form a pattern
● Control disguised as care or concern
● Spoken and unspoken rules within relationships
● The role of power, restriction and fear
● Why non-physical abuse can be difficult to recognise
Who Is It For?
Victim-survivors, friends and family, informal supporters, community members and anyone wanting to understand domestic and family violence better. No previous knowledge or experience is required.
The webinar combines research, professional knowledge and lived-experience insight to make complex patterns easier to recognise and understand.
About The Facilitators
Decoding Us™ is facilitated by Linda and Emma, who bring complementary backgrounds in education, counselling, wellbeing and facilitation.
Together, they create a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive learning environment where participants can explore complex and sensitive topics in clear, everyday language.
Their approach is practical, trauma-informed and conversation-focused, with an emphasis on understanding behaviours, recognising patterns and giving participants information they can apply in real life.
No pressure. No judgement. Just honest conversations, practical education and space to learn.
Future Topics
Decoding Us™ will continue to explore topics that help people recognise harmful relationship dynamics, understand patterns of abuse and control, and build greater awareness around healthy relationships.
Future topics include:
- The Hidden Playbook — Understanding Manipulation
- When Reality Gets Rewritten — Understanding Gaslighting
- Care or Control? — When Concern Becomes Restriction
- Why Don’t They Just Leave? — Understanding the Complexities of Leaving
- After Leaving: When the Abuse Doesn’t End — Understanding Post-Separation Abuse
- When Money Becomes a Weapon — Understanding Financial Abuse
- Someone Told Me They’re Being Abused. What Do I Do? — Responding Safely to Disclosures
Additional topics will continue to be developed as part of the Decoding Us™ education series.
Webinar Details
Format: Live online via Zoom
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: $35.00
Personal Disclosure: Never Required
Dates:
📅 TBC
⏰ 7:00–8:00 pm AEST (Brisbane)
💻 Live online via Zoom
🎟️ $35 per person
🔞 Adults 18+
Certificate of Completion
Participants who attend the full webinar will receive a digital Certificate of Completion from Decoding Us™ | HCCA.
Decoding Us™ for Workplaces & Organisations
Looking to bring meaningful conversations about healthy relationships, boundaries, coercive control and non-physical abuse into your workplace or organisation?
Decoding Us™ offers practical, accessible educational sessions designed to build awareness, encourage understanding and support prevention.
Sessions can be tailored to suit workplaces, community organisations and professional groups, with options for online or in-person delivery.
Interested in arranging a session for your team?
Contact us to discuss your organisation’s needs and how we can work together.
Important Information
Decoding Us™ provides general education, information and awareness only, covering topics including healthy relationships, boundaries, domestic and family violence, sexual violence and coercive control.
Content is general in nature and does not constitute legal, medical, psychological or other professional advice. Individual circumstances vary, and participants are encouraged to seek appropriately qualified professional or specialist support where needed.
Participation in Decoding Us™ programs or webinars does not establish a counsellor-client or therapeutic relationship with Holistic Care Counselling & Advocacy (HCCA).
Need Support?
This series provides education and information and is not a crisis or emergency service.
Emergency — 000 If you or someone else is in immediate danger.
1800RESPECT — 1800 737 732 National domestic, family and sexual violence counselling and support, 24/7.
DVConnect Womensline — 1800 811 811 24/7 Queensland domestic and family violence crisis support.
Lifeline — 13 11 14 24/7 crisis support.
