CREATING CONVERSATIONS
Creating Conversations sessions are designed to create opportunities to participate in cross-sector conversations - listening and responding to domestic, family and sexualised violence. The conversations draw from Insight Exchange insights and resources. Each session invites you to consider how your work (and our collective efforts) respond to people who are silent about, or silenced by, violence and abuse. There is no one preference or path for support. Every responder, community and industry matters.
This page outlines what Creating Conversations have happened, what materials were in focus, and the range of sectors involved in the conversations. Click on the coloured tiles below (opens in a lightbox) featuring examples of responses from participants involved in Creating Conversations sessions in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
If you have a question about Creating Conversations sessions you are welcome to reach out via Contact Us. Note: Our Creating Conversations session originally scheduled for Oct 2024 has been repurposed to support a listening initiative with people impacted by institutional violence and abuse.
CREATING CONVERSATIONS 2023 - 2024
In 2023 & 2024 Creating Conversations sessions provide opportunity to participate in cross-sector conversations responding to Insight Exchange ideas and resources.
September 2024 (Melbourne) | Building on the engagement of the hotel industry to uplift understanding and responding, this second session in Melbourne was initiated by Accor Group and facilitated by Insight Exchange and involved 12 guests from three parts of the Hotel Industry - Apartments and Realty, Hotel Management and Guest Services. Together we explored and responded to the resources: Follow My Lead, Talk and My Safety Kit as well as the Voices of Insight Collection.
July 2024 (Adelaide) | Together in this session we explored the following resources: Follow My Lead, My Safety Kit, Being Safety and an Introduction to economic abuse, as well as the Voices of Insight Collection. The guests included 42 people working in hospitality, security, health, education, primary industries, research, police, corrections, animal welfare, specialist services, peak bodies, medical, men’s behaviour change, communications, finance, transport, peak bodies and legal services.
July 2024 (Melbourne) | The session, initiated by Accor Group and facilitated by Insight Exchange, involved 40 guests from the Hotel Industry. Together we explored the resources: Follow My Lead, Talk and My Safety Kit as well as the Voices of Insight Collection. The guests included people working in three Hotel Groups, including roles in managed hotels, apartments and leases, sales and hospitality services and Qantas lounges, and peak body participation.
May 2024 (Paramatta) | The session involved 34 new and returning guests. Together we explored the resources: My Dignity - My body is mine, Intimate Dignity, Reproductive Dignity and Working with distressing content. The guests included people working in Hotels, Clubs, Police, Support Services, Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Research, Service responses for men who use violence, Australian Human Rights Commission, National Helplines, Arts, Research, Children's Hospital, Restorative Justice, University Teaching, Local Council, Community & Faith Based services, National Helplines, Humanitarian Agency, Women's Health NSW, and DCJ.
April 2024 (Bankstown) | This session, hosted by Bankstown Sports Club and supported by Insight Exchange involved 40+ responders from the local Bankstown community including people working in youth, legal and community services, health staff from Lidcombe and Bankstown Hospitals, local and neighbouring Clubs industry team, local businesses and specialist services. Together we explored Follow My Lead, My Safety Kit, TALK, Dad Your Choice Hurts me and Introduction to economic abuse, as well as the Voices of Insight Collection.
Oct 2023 (Sydney City) | To build on these insights and conversations, together with new and returning guests we explored the resources below (May 2023), as well as I am I can and new resources: Dad - your choice hurts me & Being Safety and an Introduction to economic abuse. The session involved 47 people working in Aboriginal Community Housing, Arts, Australian Human Rights Commission, Community Restorative Services, Corrective Services, Education, Men's Behaviour Change, Royal Agricultural Society, Security Industry, Women’s Health and Equality, Centre for Women's Economic Safety, Children's Services, Department of Communities and Justice, Gaming Industry, Helplines (National), Retail Industry, Workplaces, Hotel Industry, Insight Exchange, Police Services, University & Research, Support Services (NSW & QLD) & Clubs Industry.
May 2023 (Sydney City) | The session involved 31 people working in Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Research, Service responses for men who use violence, Clubs, Forensic Medical, Support Service, Community Restorative Work, Australian Human Rights Commission, National Helpline, Arts, Research, Security, Corrective Services, Local Health District, Hotel Industry, Restorative Justice, University Teaching, & Police. Together we explored the resources: Talk, Fear, An Imperfect Letter and Follow My Lead (Workplace Sexual Harassment).
CREATING CONVERSATIONS 2017 - 2018
In 2017 - 2018 'Creating Conversations' events were designed to:
- Provide an opportunity for people and organisations that wouldn’t normally intersect or come together.
- Create the conditions for conversations that enable sharing and learning about each other’s challenges, contexts and contributions.
- Discover the possibilities for individual, organisational and collective responses and pathways for progress.
In 2017 Insight Exchange hosted its first Creating Conversations session involving fifty guests from across different sectors to exchange insights about understanding of and responses to violence and abuse. The first three Creating Conversations sessions (2017-2018) featured guest speakers Dr Linda Coates and Dr Allan Coates from the Centre for Response Based Practice. These sessions were recorded and made digitally available in short videos supported by digital facilitator Gavin Blake. The videos are hosted on the Insight Exchange Vimeo Channel.