Spectrum conferences
Spectrum hosts a yearly conference covering diverse themes, aiming to unite health professionals, researchers, distinguished experts, and individuals with lived or living experience of personality disorder and/or complex trauma.
Spectrum conferences
Spectrum’s annual conference plays an important role in bringing together people from across the globe, including people with lived experience, researchers, clinicians, and prominent experts in the treatment of personality disorders and complex trauma.
The conference provides attendees with opportunities for deepening mutual understanding, broadening their knowledge, professional development, improving their skills, and building confidence in their clinical and peer work.
Spectrum Conference 2026 - Risk to Recovery
For clinicians responding to BPD and complex trauma, working with suicide and self-injury can be especially confronting and challenging. That’s why Spectrum’s 2026 conference is focused on helping our attendees to develop the tools to save and change lives. The event will bring together the real-world clinical insights, the latest evidence-based practice and lived experiences perspectives to explore how clinicians, families, and systems can best respond to severe and persistent suicidality in the context of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and complex trauma.
Join us on Friday 27th March to discover how global research and local innovations in Australian healthcare settings are shaping effective interventions, including structured generalist treatments such as Good Psychiatric Management, Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
Please see the full program here:
Spectrum Annual Conference Program 2026
Get your tickets here: https://SpectrumConference2026.eventbrite.com.au
🔊 Accreditation and CPD Points
This event has been accredited with CPD Educational activity/hours with the following Professional Colleges:
* RANZCP
* RANZGP
* ACMHN
* ACRRM
Please share this flyer with your colleagues:
Spectrum Annual Conference 2026 with accreditation
🔊 You will hear from keynote speakers including:
Professor Brin Grenyer - President, International Society for Study of Personality Disorders and Director of Project Air Strategy at the University of Wollongong
Associate Professor Jillian Broadbear - Head of Research and Innovation at Spectrum
Associate Professor Sophie Adams - Victoria’s Chief Psychiatrist
By incorporating lived experience perspectives throughout, our conference will provide valuable insights into the approaches that are most helpful for people experiencing suicidality.
Attendees will leave with evidence-informed strategies, greater confidence, and a deeper understanding of how to support people and clients to transition from risk to recovery in this challenging area of mental health.
Location:
In-person: Clarendon Auditorium, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf
Lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided.
Online: A link will be sent to your registered email address a few days before the event