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Moving from Lateral Violence to Lateral Kindness
Thu, 05 Nov
|University of Wollongong (UOW), Sydney C
Explore how exclusion, silence, gossip, undermining and loss of trust can move sideways through teams and how lateral kindness can help build cultures of dignity, belonging, accountability and repair.
Time & Location
05 Nov 2026, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm AEDT
University of Wollongong (UOW), Sydney C, Darling Park, Tower 1, Level 2/201 Sussex St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
About the event
Peer-to-peer encouragement for AAMHP members
Moving from Lateral Violence to Lateral Kindness: Power With, Not Power Over brings internationally recognised coach, supervisor and educator Lily Seto to Sydney for a practical and reflective exploration of the relational dynamics that can quietly damage teams, workplaces and professional communities.
For AAMHP members, this workshop gives useful language to something many practitioners, supervisors and leaders will have encountered: harm does not always move from the top down. It can travel sideways through exclusion, gossip, silence, undermining, avoidance, resentment and small repeated behaviours that gradually erode trust and belonging.
The concept of lateral kindness offers a different response. Rather than simply identifying poor behaviour, the workshop explores how we move from “power over” to “power with” strengthening dignity, accountability, connection and the capacity to repair relationships when harm has occurred.
This is particularly relevant for members working in clinical supervision, counselling teams, community organisations, peer services, leadership, HR, coaching or organisational…