Why do we need to collaborate to strengthen cultures that prioritise safety, mental health and wellbeing for both our staff and those we serve?

How do we do this effectively?

Choice of session from thought leaders, researchers and academics.

🔹 Rabbi Zalman Kastel AM - Building Bridges in Fractured Spaces: Intercultural Understanding as a Foundation for Safe and Inclusive Communities

🔹 Dr Beau Hu and Simangaliso Nyoni - Cultivating Cultural Responsiveness - Supporting Identity and Belonging for Young People

🔹 David Burroghs - Psychosocial Safety at Work: How Organisations Can Assist or Hinder Staff Wellbeing and Mental Health

🔹 Dr Nikki Jamieson - Moral Injury: A New Dimension to Trauma

🔹 Josh Darby - The Whanaungatanga Programme: A New Approach to Mental Ill Health Prevention in Emergency Workforces

🔹 Jahin Tanvir - Equipping Young People for the Future: Wellbeing, Inclusion and Opportunity through Entrepreneurial Education

What is being done across our sectors?

What can we learn from each other?

Select from concurrent sessions from practioners in a range of sectors including schools, education, children and youth, family and community services.

🔹 Louise Hall - Building Capacity to Support the Grief Experiences of Children & Young People Living in Out-Of-Home Care

🔹 Keeva Mostyn - Building Emotional and Grief Literacy: Supporting Whole-of-School Communities Following a Suicide or Other Loss Event

🔹 Brona Walsh - The Power of Paws: Animal Assisted Education Interventions to Support Social Emotional Skills with Students

🔹 Kris Bardon - Supporting Students Experience 'School Can't' to Re-Engage in Learning

🔹 Emma Esposito and Kathleen McInnes - We Belong: The Practical Implementation of Collaborative Practice in Schools

Why do we need to collaborate to strengthen cultures that prioritise safety, mental health and wellbeing for both our staff and those we serve?

How do we do this effectively?

Choice of sessions from academics, researchers, thought leaders and policymakers.

🔹 Kano Ravalji - Belonging, Identity & Mental Wellbeing: A Roadmap for Young People

🔹 Alison Wainwright - Healing Organisational Systems: From Trauma-Affected to Trauma-Informed Systems

🔹 Phil Lambert PSM - Contemporary Leadership for the Human Professions: Safe Harbours or Turbulent Seas?

🔹 Dr Trixie James - Designing for Wellbeing: Building Resilience and Positive Psychology in Adult and Adolescent Learners

🔹 Dr Gemma McKibbin - Responding to Harm, Building Safety: Co-Designed Prevention Strategies for Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Child and Youth Services

What is being done across our sectors?

What can we learn from each other?

Choice of concurrent sessions from practioners across schools, community services, family services, child and youth, and mental health.

🔹 Smeeta Singh - Empowering Educators to Have Brave Conversations: Power to Kids in Schools and the Role of Staff in Safeguarding Children

🔹 Justin Roberts - Safe and Well Schools: Practical Insights from 3000 Educators on Reducing Burnout, Increasing Wellbeing and Enhancing Engagement

🔹 Fiona McCallum - Improving Wellbeing and Building Hope: Supporting Students through Natural Disasters with Stormbirds

🔹 Cameron Burgess - The Invisible Toll: Combatting Vicarious Trauma in Human-Centred Workforces

🔹 Matthew Spicer - Coming Soon