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26 August 2022 | Adelaide Convention Centre, SA

National Recovery Forum

Cost

Free

The National Recovery Forum will bring people involved in disaster recovery together to develop connections and share knowledge, ideas, inspiration and good practice for communities to recover well from disasters and build a resilient future.

Throughout Australia we continue to see the impacts of disasters on different communities, individuals and families and we know the predictions for future disaster impacts. There is a broad call to build recovery capability in both the professional workforce and in our communities in early relief and recovery through to long term resilience.

Disaster recovery is complex societal work and at its best is about people’s strengths, dignity, healing and about how we go about building generative communities. Frameworks that help us to navigate complexity encourage the bringing together of multiple perspectives to make sense of what is going on.

You are invited to join community members and recovery practitioners from around Australia to build and share knowledge and practice about disaster recovery, and connect, reflect, and inspire each other about recovering well from disasters and building resilient futures.

Special thanks to the National Recovery Forum program committee: 

Michelle Dunscombe, Jeder Institute (Chair); Bronwen Sparkes, Emergency Management Australia; Catherine Gearing, Social Recovery Reference Group; David Newell; Helen Styles, University of Sydney; Louise Mitchell, Bushfire Recovery Victoria; Miranda Hampton, Adelaide Hills Council; Peter Piggott.

 

Program

8:30 am   Registration opens – tea and coffee on arrival
9:00 am  

Welcome to Country - Tiahna Silvy

Welcoming remarks
Andrew Coghlan, Australian Red Cross
National Recovery Forum Hosting Team

9:30 am  

Opening address: stories of recovery

Adam Weinert, Resident Adelaide Hills Bushfires 2019
Bronwen Sparkes, Survivor Black Saturday Bushfires 2009

9:45 am  

Multiple perspectives: what have you seen done well in recovery?
In this session, delegates will take part in a small group activity to discuss and share recovery experiences.

10:30 am    Morning tea
11:00 am  

Wisdom circle: lived and learned experience

What is essential to recovering well from disasters and building resilient futures for people and communities?

Lisa Gibbs, University of Melbourne, Sam Savage, Australian Red Cross First Nations Recovery Group, Wendy Graham, National Recovery and Resilience Agency, Leanne Barnes, Canberra and Regions Joint Organisation, Jenny Lloyd, Former Deputy Chair of Mallacoota and Districts Recovery Association Committee

11:30 am  

Multiple perspectives forum: speed talks

Hear from an array of speakers as they present on recovery approaches, initiatives, experiences and research. 

 

Dr Kate Brady, University of Melbourne: Do we all mean the same thing when we talk about disaster recovery?

Dr Andrea Baldwin, QLD Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health and Sarah Eagland, Royal Far West: Common ground: Birdie and the Bushfire Recovery Program 
Danielle O’Hara, University of Queensland: Exploring conflict in disasters
Elly Bird, Resilient Lismore: Lismore flood

Jeremy Hillman, Resilience NSW: Nimble approaches to engaging remote communities in bushfire recovery

Lain Dare and Jacki Schirmer, University of Canberra: Supporting the role of community assets in community disaster recovery

12:30 pm   Lunch
1:30 pm  

Conversations that matter (held concurrently) What are the conversations we need to have now for us to all recover well from disasters and build resilient futures?

In this session, delegates will be invited to host or contribute to disaster recovery conversations on a range of topics that will be crowd-sources on the day. Hear each others stories, lessons and experiences. 

3:00 pm   Afternoon tea
3:15 pm   Closing and graphic harvest reflection: What have we heard and what are we taking forward?
3:30 pm  

Final activity
Connect with other delegates to reflect on your experience of the day.

4:00 pm   Thank you and close

 

Speaker profiles

   Lisa Gibbs

   University of Melbourne

 

 

 

   Sam Savage

   Australian Red Cross First Nations Recovery Group

 

 

 

   Wendy Graham

   National Recovery and Resilience Agency 

 

 

 

   Leanne Barnes

   Canberra and Regions Joint Organisation

 

 

 

 

Jenny LloydJenny Lloyd

Former Deputy Chair of Mallacoota and Districts Recovery Association Committee 

Wisdom Circle: learned and lived experience

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  Dr Kate Brady

  University of Melbourne

 

 

Do we all mean the same thing when we talk about disaster recovery?

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 Dr Andrea Baldwin

 QLD Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health

 

 

 

 Sarah Eagland

 Royal Far West

 

 

 

Common ground: Birdie and the Bushfire Recovery Program 

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 Danielle O’Hara

 University of Queensland

 

 

 

Exploring conflict in disasters 

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 Elly Bird

 Resilient Lismore

 

 

 

Lismore flood

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Jeremy Hillman

Resilience NSW

 

 

Nimble approaches to engaging remote communities in bushfire recovery

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 Lain Dare

 University of Canberra 

 

 

 

 Jacki Schirmer

 University of Canberra

 

 

 

 

Supporting the role of community assets in community disaster recovery

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Please direct any queries about the National Recovery Forum to AIDR Events Coordinator, Greg Taylor: events@aidr.org.au