ANZAHPE ONLINE: Masterclass - Learning, Caring and Belonging: Fostering Psychological Safety in Health Professions Education (22 Oct 2026)

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT

ANZAHPE ONLINE MASTER CLASS

Learning, Caring, and Belonging: Fostering Psychological Safety in Health Professions Education

Presenter: Julie Loveny

Psychological safety is essential for thriving workplaces and learning environments and the psychosocial conditions we experience and create as educators are intertwined with those of our students. When staff are overloaded, undermined or working in unsafe conditions, it becomes significantly more difficult to model the curiosity, openness and professional behaviours we expect of students. Learners, in turn may remain silent rather than to seek help, acknowledge uncertainty or name harm. Psychosocial risks and increasing stress erode wellbeing, trust and the overall quality of learning.

Without a shared understanding, clear expectations and intentional modelling and design, it is challenging to identify and address psychosocial risks and foster psychological safety.

This masterclass will explore how staff and student experiences sit within broader workplace wellbeing, legal responsibilities and professional standards, and how building positive workplace and learning environments where people feel seen, heard and valued is a shared responsibility.

By the end of this masterclass, participants will be able to:

Explain how psychosocial conditions in workplaces and learning environments shape staff and student capacity to engage, learn and provide safe care and services.
Distinguish between psychosocial safety and psychological safety and describe how they intersect for staff and learners.
Recognise key psychosocial risks affecting educators and learners in their own contexts.
Identify practical strategies to design and facilitate learning environments that foster psychological safety for both educators and students.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:

Julie Loveny is a social worker, academic at the University of Western Australia, and organisational development practitioner specialising in leadership, workplace wellbeing, psychosocial risk and psychological safety. She works at the intersection of research and practice, partnering with leaders and teams to translate evidence into everyday practices and behaviours that make work safer and more human.

As a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, grounded in Brené Brown’s research on courage and vulnerability, Julie is particularly interested in how everyday moments of curiosity and care can build trust and psychological safety, especially in clinical and educational settings. Her recent work includes the Leading Thriving Workplaces project, a multi year initiative with health professions partner organisations funded through the WA Mentally Healthy Workplaces Grant Program, combining qualitative research, survey data and capability building workshops to strengthen positive workplace practices.

Julie’s interests span staff–student wellbeing interconnections in universities and the critical role leaders play in enabling speaking up cultures, managing psychosocial hazards and modelling positive workplace practices. She believes people matter, and that workplaces must intentionally foster psychological safety, so that everyone has the conditions they need to thrive.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Kind Regards,

Kathryn Fitzgerald
Professional Development Portfolio
ANZAHPE

A recording of this session will be made available to all ANZAHPE registrants following the session.

ANZAHPE ONLINE PD: What does meaningful patient partnership in health professions education look like? (19 Nov 2026)

Thu, 19 Nov 2026 02:00:00 GMT

ANZAHPE ONLINE Professional Development Program

What does meaningful patient partnership in health professions education look like?

Presenters: William Godolphin, Cathy Kline, Mandy Young and Angela Towle

Date: Thursday 19th November 2026
Time: 1.00pm - 2.00pm (AEDT)

Join us as we reflect on more than 20 years of experience partnering with patients and community members to enrich the education of future healthcare professionals at the University of British Columbia.

Drawing on practical examples—including the Interprofessional Health Mentors Program—we'll explore why patient partnership matters, the many roles patients can play in teaching and learning, the benefits for students and patient partners, and what we've learned about building and sustaining meaningful partnerships over time.

Designed for educators, this session will share guiding principles, lessons learned, and real-world examples to inspire and inform your own work. Whether you're just beginning to partner with patients or looking to strengthen an existing initiative, you'll leave with practical ideas to help shape your approach.

This presentation explores the "why" behind meaningful patient partnership and provides the foundation for our companion Masterclass coming in early 2027. Participants interested in putting these ideas into practice are encouraged to attend the interactive Companion Masterclass, where we'll take a deeper dive into the practical "how" of designing, implementing, and sustaining meaningful patient partnerships through tools, strategies, and real-world examples.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS:

Dr William Godolphin has been a teacher and researcher for many years, with projects and publications ranging across lipoproteins, breast cancer prognostic factors, clinical laboratory toxicology, laboratory automation and medical education. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.

Cathy Kline is Assistant Director, Patient and Community Engagement, and works closely with the directors of Patient and Community Partnership for Education at UBC Health to provide leadership for operationalizing strategic plan objectives related to patient and community engagement. She builds capacity for sustainable patient and community partnerships by developing and leading strategies to advance the inclusion of people with lived experience throughout UBC Health’s core areas of collaborative health education, interdisciplinary health research, and health systems.

Mandy Young is a parent of a medically and behaviourally complex child and has six years of experience working in the non-profit peer support sector. Mandy has been a valued partner of Patient and Community Partnership for Education (PCPE) for over 10 years, volunteering as a Health Mentor and workshop facilitator for health care students. She is also a member of the UBC Health Patient & Community Advisory Committee and a recipient of the R. Paul Kerston Community Educator Award for expanding student learning beyond traditional boundaries and making a difference to student learning at UBC. Mandy brings her passion, dedication and advocacy experience to her role as community engagement coordinator.

Dr Angela Towle's expertise, especially in the management of change, builds on her past experience in health services development and change in medical education with the King's Fund, London, UK. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Senior Scholar in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship at UBC, and Academic Director of the UBC Learning Exchange in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Between 2002 and 2010, she was Associate Dean, MD Undergraduate Education in the Faculty of Medicine.

This event is FREE for ANZAHPE members. Non-members are welcome to join this discussion for a small fee.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Kind Regards,

Kathryn Fitzgerald
Professional Development Portfolio
ANZAHPE

A recording of this session will be made available to all ANZAHPE members following the session.

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