Creating Conversations
Creating Conversations is an event series designed to bring people together with the understanding that DFV 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 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.
Dr Allan Wade, 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.
Previous Creating Conversations Events
“Social Responses are the most potent preventative powerful force” (Dr Coates)
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” (Dr Wade)
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.” (Dr Wade)
Link to videos | Participants | Feedback | Creating Conversation Kit
Language and Violence (Language Lab)
“The problem of violence is inextricably linked to the problem of representation.” (Dr Coates & Dr Wade)
Link to the Language Lab for the Video | Participants | Feedback | Resource Kit | Tool for Social Responders | Tool for People with Lived Experience of Violence
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)
Masterclass with Workplaces and Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) – Participants & Participant Feedback
Masterclass on Re-purposing the Cycle of Violence - Participants & Participant Feedback
Masterclass with Practice Exchange Participants - Participants & Participant Feedback
Conversations series with Dr Linda Coates and Dr Allan Wade.