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    • Where Does Healing Live? Outdoor Therapy invites us to Reimagine the Whos, Wheres and Hows

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    Around the world, Outdoor Therapy practices have been challenging us to question some of our deepest assumptions about healing. Who is recognised as a legitimate facilitator of change? Why are some places considered therapeutic while others are not? What makes a practice worthy of trust? This session is an invitation to creatively rethink the opportunities for therapeutic practice: we will visit different perspectives, listen from varied experiences, connect research findings, and share critical reflections in this collective exploration of where healing resides. About the Presenter Maria Jose (Mache) Treviño Gonzalez is passionate about outdoor experiential learning with a focus on […]

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    Reimagining Women’s Sport in Australia: Changes and challenged

    Reimagining Women’s Sport in Australia: Changes and challenges

    Virtual , Australia

    Deakin University

    Join experts in women's sport for an online conversation about the current state of women's sport in Australia. Recent decades have seen significant advances in women's professional sport in Australia. Multiple successful professional women's leagues have been created, like the AFLW and NRLW, and elite women athletes like Ariarne Titmus and Jessica Fox have put Australia on the map internationally. At the same time, women athletes continue to earn less money and less media attention than their male counterparts. How do women athletes make sense of these advances amidst continued marginalisation? Working together, a team of Deakin academics and ABC […]

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    How Adventure Therapy Works? What Do We Need to Know?

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    This webinar examines an evolving conceptualisation of how adventure therapy facilitates change across diverse practice settings, informed by prior scholarship in the field. It presents a synthesised model of key mechanisms of change, emphasising experiential processes that may shape client outcomes. The presentation explores how these mechanisms intersect with practitioner training and program design. Recent findings on the preparation of adventure therapy providers are outlined, including core competencies, professional pathways, and emerging standards. Critical gaps in the current evidence base are identified, especially concerning training quality, implementation fidelity, and the translation of theory into practice. Finally, the webinar proposes priority […]

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    Book launch – Conversations with Leading Transport Researchers: The Unwritten Rules of Academia

    Virtual , Australia

    RMIT

    Join us for the launch of Conversations with Leading Transport Researchers: The Unwritten Rules of Academia. This book lifts the veil on how world-leading transport researchers navigate their profession, sharing advice for a successful academic career. In this book, the unwritten rules of academia are explored through in-depth interviews with 20 eminent researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds within transport studies. The book is a vital resource for research students and early-career researchers in transport studies looking to confidently navigate an academic career. Professor Geoff Rose, Monash University (Chair) Dr Chris De Gruyter, RMIT University (Author) Panel members: […]

    Bridging the Missing Middle: Evidence from the Charles Sturt University Evaluation of the Human Nature Program

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    This presentation addresses the “missing middle” in mental healthcare - the gap for young people whose needs are not adequately met by traditional services. We introduce the Human Nature Program, a nature-based therapeutic model that delivers  therapy and mentoring outside conventional settings. Drawing on the evaluation of Human Nature by Charles Sturt University, we present evidence of significant positive impacts on participants’ mental health and wellbeing. By combining these findings with powerful stories from the field told by Human Nature mentors, we show how this innovative approach can help bridge a critical service gap. About the Presenter From chasing goannas […]

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    Lived Experiences of LGBTQ+ Religious Youth in a hostile policy landscape: Digital Media, Wellbeing, and Visual Methods

    Virtual , Australia

    Newcastle Youth Studies Centre

    Lived Experiences of LGBTQ+ Religious Youth in a hostile policy landscape: Digital Media, Wellbeing, and Visual Methods This panel discussion will share the empirical and theoretical insights developed from the Australian Research Council Discover Project ‘Youth, Religion, and Sexuality: Digital Media, School Cultures, and Exemptions’. This project explores how LGBTQ+ religious youth navigate the affective entanglements of gender, sexuality, and faith within institutional, digital, and other everyday contexts. We have employed arts-based digital ethnography and photovoice methods to centre emotion, attachment, and embodied experience to understand young people’s subjectivities as well as the effects that religious exemptions from the Federal […]

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    Reimagining Women’s Sport in Australia: Changes and challenged

    Reimagining Women’s Sport in Australia: Changes and challenged

    Virtual , Australia

    Deakin University

    Join experts in women's sport for an online conversation about the current state of women's sport in Australia. Recent decades have seen significant advances in women's professional sport in Australia. Multiple successful professional women's leagues have been created, like the AFLW and NRLW, and elite women athletes like Ariarne Titmus and Jessica Fox have put Australia on the map internationally. At the same time, women athletes continue to earn less money and less media attention than their male counterparts. How do women athletes make sense of these advances amidst continued marginalisation? Working together, a team of Deakin academics and ABC […]

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    HUMMING INTO 2027: Empowering teachers to strengthen Humanities in their school

    Virtual , Australia

    Katrina Davey

    This event is aimed at Humanities and Social Science (HASS) educators across Australia, particularly those in secondary schools. Based on my recent book release, Humming Along (Amba Press), I wish to support educators with their upcoming preparation and planning of HASS units and courses for 2027. Term 4 provides the perfect opportunity for Humanities faculties to reflect on and update courses, maybe even try a new approach. This online webinar will provide practical strategies and advice on faculty collaboration, analysing HASS curriculum and assessment data, refreshing new units and ideas, and how best to upskill staff in the various subject […]

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    Considering the Tale of the Spinning Wheel: Beyond Crisis Management in Outdoor Learning and Outdoor Adventure Therapies

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    Outdoor learning and outdoor adventure therapies, like all therapeutic approaches, are shaped by ethical dilemmas. However, unlike many therapies, these dilemmas unfold in dynamic and unpredictable environments where challenge, uncertainty, and risk are often integral to the experience. Rather than offering simple answers, this talk explores how ethical principles can help practitioners recognise and navigate these tensions. Using a familiar fairy tale as a narrative guide, we consider how beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and other ethical principles support everyday ethical decision-making. We examine how practitioners and organisations are required to justify not only how their interventions prevent harm and respond to […]

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    Creative Flow Open Studio: An Experiment in Everyday Creativity

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    Why is it so hard to sustain something we know is good for us, and what might happen if we designed the conditions differently? How might rhythm, shared practice, and accessibility reshape the way we engage in everyday creativity? We know that regular creative engagement is linked with improved wellbeing, yet many people struggle to maintain a creative practice amidst the demands of everyday life. This presentation shares the story of Creative Flow Open Studio, a simple experiment that began with one question: What happens if we make just thirty minutes of creative practice part of each weekday? After beginning […]

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    Nature, People and Place: Exploring multiple dimensions of human and nature relationships

    Virtual , Australia

    Mosaic Insights

    Our relationships with nature and Country are diverse and deeply connected to how we experience place, wellbeing, belonging and the world around us. By exploring how people connect with nature, what they value in those experiences, and how these connections vary across people and places, we can gain powerful insights into what helps communities and environments thrive. Mosaic Insights invites you to join us for a webinar bringing together voices from social science, community and creative practice, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge, to explore the many ways people understand, experience and relate to nature and Country and what […]

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    Never Mind the Neurobullocks: The Three Biggest Myths of Neuroscience

    Virtual , Australia

    Charles Sturt University

    Ana Lund will share the three neuroscience myths that live rent-free in your brain and in your textbooks and why they need an eviction notice. Attendees will explore how these misconceptions arise, why they endure, and the consequences they have for therapeutic practice and human understanding. Rather than dismissing neuroscience, Lund advocates for a more thoughtful, evidence-informed integration of neuroscience into social and therapeutic contexts. About the Presenter Ana Lund is an integrative psychotherapist with a foundation in Transactional Analysis and a member of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). Ana holds a PhD in science and has spent […]

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