Creating Conversations
Creating Conversations is an event series designed to bring people together with the understanding that domestic and family violence is a ‘shared social issue’.
Featuring Dr Linda Coates and Dr Allan Wade from the Centre for Response Based Practice, the series supports individuals, communities and organisations in the service system and wider ecosystem, to understand domestic and family violence and to reflect on how to respond in ways that uphold dignity and build on safety.

"We all have a role, we all have a part, whether we want to take it up consciously or not." | Centre for Response-Based Practice

Creating Conversations events are 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.
Explore the Creating Conversations content | Short and long form videos and conversation cards Explore the short form videos of Dr Linda Coates and/or Dr Allan Wade “Social Responses are the most potent preventative powerful force” (Centre for Response-Based Practice) Link to videos | Participants | Feedback | Creating Conversation Kit Resistance, Response and Evidence “If we get better at addressing violence we get better at almost everything. Because it is at the bottom of so many diverse forms of suffering” (Centre for Response-Based Practice) Link to videos | Participants | Feedback | Creating Conversation Kit Resistance, Safety and Language “In the most abject and horrible circumstance – how is it that people retain dignity, and preserve dignity and the dignity of one another.” (Centre for Response-Based Practice) Link to videos | Participants | Feedback | Creating Conversation Kit Explore the masterclass long form videos of Dr Linda Coates on Language and Violence “The problem of violence is inextricably linked to the problem of representation.” (Centre for Response-Based Practice) Video of the Masterclass on Language and Violence with Dr Linda Coates (90mins)| Participants from the ecosystem | Participant feedback Go to the Insight Exchange Language Lab to read or download the related resources accompanying this masterclass Explore the masterclass long form videos of Dr Linda Coates and/or Dr Allan Wade Masterclass with Seventh Day Adventist Church South Pacific Division (AdSAFE and Disciple Ministries Team) AdSAFE and SDA Video (75 mins) | Participants & Participant Feedback Masterclass NSW Health Education Centre Against Violence (ECAV) NSW Health ECAV Video Part 1 (98 mins)| NSW Health ECAV Video Part 2 (54 mins) | Participants & Participant Feedback Lecture with University of Sydney Faculty of Law Students Law Students Video (86 mins) Read the feedback of participants attending the following Masterclasses