9:30 am - Opening remarks from our fabulous event MC, Tasneem Chopra OAM

9:40 am - Acknowledgement of Country
Nartarsha Bamblett

Culture and faith are a source of inspiration and strength for many and can play an important role in enabling change in primary prevention. 

Understanding the shared values of different communities helps us tailor engaging and culturally responsive messaging that connects to communities. 

This session will draw on existing experience in community-led message development with multicultural and faith communities. Join our panel of experts as we unpack how to create meaningful, relevant, engaging and culturally-safe prevention messaging with and for multicultural and faith-based communities.  This panel event will also feature the launch of a resource developed through the Connecting Communities program, delivered through a partnership between the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health and Safe and Equal. 

Moderated by: Naomi Taranto & Lucy Peckham
Panellists: Dr Saranbeer Kaur, Fazlinda Faroo, Vahideh Eisaei & Praveena Rajkobal

This workshop will explore how to design and deliver messages to convince men and boys as part of progressing social change to prevent family and gender-based violence. Building on The Men’s Project’s key learnings and approaches, this workshop will look at how prevention practice and messaging can focus on transforming masculinities and gender norms, while addressing unhealthy dominant forms of masculinity. This workshop will also explore the latest Man Box research and highlight ways that primary prevention practitioners can engage with men and boys in their work.

Please note all workshops require pre-registration and are capped at 30 per workshop.

Facilitators: Alex Dentener & Drew Hanger

This workshop builds on the Transfemme project (transfemme.com.au) conducted by Zoe Belle Gender Collective and explores how to design effective messaging that promotes respect and equality, and challenges cisnormativity and transmisogyny. Transfemme initially focused on the cis male partners of trans and transfeminine women, but family and friends also have an important role in fostering environments of understanding and respect.

Unfortunately, widespread cisnormativity and transmisogyny continue to drive high rates of violence, sexual assault, and sexual objectification and fetishisation for trans women. This workshop will cover insights from this groundbreaking primary prevention work as well as tips on how to incorporate similar messages into broader messaging campaigns.   

This workshop will be live captioned.

Please note all workshops require pre-registration and are capped at 30 per workshop.

Facilitators:  Starlady & Jackson Fairchild 

Sharing lived experience can be a powerful way of engaging audiences and sharing messages to promote change. These experiences tap into human emotions and the values that drive ideas and actions. Supporting victim survivors to share their lived experience is commonly done to raise awareness of family and gender-based violence and encourage action through primary prevention efforts. How can we ensure that messages are authentic, and that the practices used to collect and share lived experiences are safe and ethical? 

Through an interactive panel with survivor advocates, this session will focus on the ways in which prevention practitioners can safely work with victim survivors of family violence to inform prevention messaging and activities.

This workshop will be live captioned.

Please note all workshops require pre-registration and are capped at 30 per workshop.

Facilitators: Conor Pall, Dr Amar Freya, Jay & Kym Valentine

Effective primary prevention is about large-scale social change. It must inspire a broader movement for gender equality, and work with and across a number of allied movements to be successful. 

This panel session will explore lessons about messaging from broader social justice movements across the country that aim to reach into communities, connect with them where they are at, and address where the drivers of family and gender-based violence overlap with additional experiences of oppression and discrimination. 

Join this panel to explore promising and proven messaging strategies and techniques from across social change movements that can help to end family and gender-based violence. 

This session will draw from the experiences of some of Australia’s leading voices to identify ways that messaging can speak to specific and cross-cutting issues to build momentum for change.

Moderated by: Dr Emma Fulu
Panellists: Amani Haydar, Jackie Turner, Indre McGlinn & Nicole Lee

This workshop will be focused on responding to resistance and backlash that is experienced when doing primary prevention work. It will explore how strategic and values-based messaging can help practitioners pre-empt and plan for that resistance. It will also explore how to incorporate values-based messaging to more-effectively respond to resistance when it occurs.

This workshop will be live captioned.

Please note all workshops require pre-registration and are capped at 30 per workshop.

Facilitators: Olivia Franklin & Trent Larkman

This workshop will look at how to craft effective messaging for primary prevention through campaigns, with a focus on understanding audiences and engaging values to motivate and inspire change. We will dig deeper into the evidence that helps us inform the way we build and deliver campaigns, exploring lessons from some large-scale prevention campaigns across Australia. We will also consider gaps in our knowledge and learning from other social change campaign experiences to cultivate ideas about how we can continue to strengthen campaigns to achieve lasting change.

Please note all workshops require pre-registration and are capped at 30 per workshop.

To prepare for this workshop:  

We ask that you consider the prevention activity you do with and across your community, the shared learnings that you hold, consider things that have worked well and opportunities to continue to strengthen the work you do. Consider whether you currently use/embed a strengths-based approach to the messages you use across your campaigns and prevention activity. Bring this along to share with other workshop attendees   

 


Facilitators:  Jackson Fairchild, Hayley Williamson, Leanne Fairbrother, Luke Butler & Ro (Pheonix) Bersten

This workshop will explore how broader prevention programs can work with and for local communities to create and share prevention messages. We will unpack and brainstorm how to engage, consult and design with local communities in partnership, and work together meaningfully to shape messages that matter and that work.  

This workshop will focus on sharing and brainstorming approaches to working with and engaging local communities to create effective and convincing messaging. It is collaborative effort with members of the Victorian Women’s Health Services Network, drawing on their experiences through community programs.

This workshop will be live captioned.

Please note all workshops require pre-registration and are capped at 30 per workshop.

Facilitators: Avega Bishop, Kate Diamond-Keith, Katrina Baraquiel, Meghan Cooper & Natalie Opasinis

Primary prevention must work across a broad range of settings where people live, work, learn and play to affect real and lasting change. 

Achieving this requires engaging staff and leadership to grow their openness and support of primary prevention work, and convince them of their role in cultivating respect, care and safety in their communities.  

This panel will feature experts who will explore how messaging works to help progress prevention efforts across key settings, like sporting clubs, local governments and schools. Panelists will discuss why tailored messaging is critical for reaching broad audiences and building shared commitment to a positive future free of family and gender-based violence.

It will also explore how to adapt and draw on various messaging and advocacy strategies to build engagement and create change within their unique settings.

Moderated by: Hala Abdelnour
Panellists: Bonnie Coogan, Cassie Lindsey, Julie Kun & Katrina Marson

During the lunch break, we welcome you to participate in an opt-in 20-minute class hosted by Georgia Verry of the Conscious Combat Club.

Trauma-informed kickboxing

If you'd like to connect to your body, regulate your nervous system and release some stress, we welcome you to spend 20-minutes of your 45-minute lunch break participating in a trauma-informed kickboxing class. No equipment or prior experience required. This session is designed to be practiced from your desk and is suitable for bodies of all-abilities.

Click HERE to join the Zoom meeting!

Building a world free from violence is long-term work and we need to bring policymakers and funders on the journey with us. With an ambitious National Plan aimed at ending family and gender-based violence in a generation, and the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence recommendations acquitted, how do we build and sustain momentum for primary prevention?   

This session will examine how messaging can help strengthen political will and action for primary prevention across different policy landscapes and jurisdictions. Panelists will also discuss governments’ key role in primary prevention – as funders, supporters and enablers of positive change. 

We will also explore experiences and lessons in advocacy across the country, focusing on how to design effective messaging that builds a shared commitment towards ending family and gender-based violence. 

Moderated by: Amanda Alford
Panellists: Somali Cerise, Betul Tuna, Joe Ball & Moo Baulch