Event Overview:
The Australian Institute of Health & Safety invites you to our upcoming webinar, Using Perspective-Taking to Reduce Psychosocial Risk, presented by Neural Networks Concepts on 28th July 2026.
As psychosocial risk continues to be embedded into Australian WHS frameworks, organisations are being challenged to move beyond policies, surveys and compliance activity toward the leadership behaviours and conversations that genuinely shape psychological safety.
Many psychosocial risks are not created by one isolated event. They often build over time through repeated moments where people feel unheard, dismissed, misunderstood, unsupported or unsafe to speak up. Leaders also don’t always know how to open the critical conversations around performance. For WHS/OHS professionals, this creates a practical challenge: how do you help leaders slow down, test their assumptions and understand the human impact of behaviour before issues escalate into complaints, claims or harm?
This practical, evidence-informed webinar introduces Perceptual Positions – a simple three-lens reflection and conversation tool that helps WHS/OHS professionals and people leaders examine workplace situations from the perspectives of self, other and observer. Participants will explore how this approach builds self-awareness, empathy and reality testing, and how it can be applied to psychosocial risk control.
Participants will also receive a practical 3-Position Psychosocial Risk Reflection Tool they can use immediately to support more balanced conversations.
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain how single-perspective thinking can contribute to psychosocial risk and identify situations where leaders may unintentionally dismiss, escalate or mismanage workplace concerns.
- Apply the Perceptual Positions framework - a three-lens reflection tool encompassing self, other and observer - to explore workplace concerns from multiple angles and separate intent from impact.
- Integrate self-awareness, empathy and reality testing into leadership and WHS conversations to help build a psychologically safe work environment.
- Distinguish between individual assumptions and observable evidence when assessing psychosocial hazards.
- Use the 3-Position Psychosocial Risk Reflection Tool responsibly - supporting leaders to respond constructively.
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday 28 July, 2026.
Time: 12:30 - 1:30pm AEST (Canb, Melb, Syd)
Cost: AIHS Member: Complimentary | Non Member: $33 (incl. GST)
Format: One hour Zoom webinar
Event Speakers:
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Rosalinda Batson - Director, Neural Networks Concepts
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Rosalinda Batson is a leadership and emotional intelligence specialist and Director of Neural Networks
Concepts, a globally recognised Australian consultancy with over 25 years’ experience supporting organisations
to build safer, healthier and higher-performing workplace cultures.
As an Accredited EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 Practitioner and Trainer, Rosalinda specialises in the practical application
of emotional intelligence to leadership, psychosocial safety and culture, with a strong focus on measurable behaviour
change. She has led the development of frameworks that map emotional intelligence competencies to psychosocial
hazards outlined in the Australian Model Code of Practice: Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work, enabling
organisations to use assessment data to evaluate risk and design targeted mitigation strategies.
Rosalinda's work spans both the private and public sectors, including government, financial services, healthcare and
insurance. She has a particular interest in how unconscious bias, assumptions and our individual "map of the world"
shape the way leaders interpret and respond to the people around them, and what becomes possible when we
develop the self-awareness to see beyond our own perspective.
A confident and collaborative facilitator, Rosalinda brings practical strategies, evidence-informed tools and a genuine
passion for building the kind of leadership capability that makes workplaces genuinely safer for people.
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Dr. John Gora - Director, Neural Networks Concepts
Dr John Gora is one of Australia's leading authorities in Leadership, Culture Transformation and Workforce
Performance, with 25 years' experience supporting some of Australia's most respected organisations to build
confident, high-performing and psychologically safe workplace cultures.
With a PhD in Psychology, qualifications as an NLP Master Practitioner and Emotional Intelligence Facilitator, John
brings a uniquely practical and evidence-informed lens to the human side of leadership and risk. He understands how
mindset, assumptions and behavioural patterns shape the way leaders respond to people, and how those responses
can either reduce or amplify psychosocial risk.
John has extensive experience working with Boards, CEOs and executive teams across banking and finance, healthcare,
professional services, government, mining and manufacturing, and not-for-profit sectors. His work focuses on building
the capability, character and self-awareness of leaders who are responsible for setting the tone, upholding values and
creating the conditions in which people can perform and thrive.
He is highly engaging, insightful and known for respectfully challenging the status quo, making him particularly
well-suited to exploring how leaders can slow down, examine their assumptions and have more constructive
conversations before workplace issues escalate.
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