ERA for Change Launch Day 2024
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Keynote: Millicent Kavenaugh— The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Rights-Based Advocacy
This workshop will focus on the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals and how students and teachers might create an awareness of the goals in their schools and communities. The workshop will also provide insight into the UN Human Rights Mechanisms, the responsibilities governments have to uphold the SDG’s, and how they can advocate for action to help reach the goals.
Millicent is a Formation Team Member at the Edmund Rice Oceania Province, and recently completed the Rights Based Advocacy Course at Edmund Rice International, Geneva.
Workshop presenter: John Coleman—L’Arche
John Coleman is a songwriter and painter, and for the last 35 years, has been an active member of L’Arche. L’Arche is an international network of faith-based residential communities in which people with and without intellectual disability share life together. Along with being an Assistant, John served as the Community Leader for L’Arche Hobart and most recently, as the National Leader for L’Arche within Australia. John is frequently invited to lead song writing workshops in other L’Arche Communities within Australia and overseas – most recently in the Philippines and New Zealand.
L’Arche differs from most organisations providing support for people with disability. The fundamental difference is that L’Arche is founded on the knowledge that lives are profoundly enhanced when, over time, people with and without disability develop genuine relationships of friendship with each other.
John’s workshop will focus on the vulnerability that people can face through social isolation. For people with an intellectual disability this isolation can be particularly dangerous. You will be introduced to people within John’s community of L’Arche Hobart via video and his stories. The theme will be the development of mutually transforming relationships as an antidote to loneliness.
Workshop Presenter: Nina Ross—Reconciliation Australia
Nina Ross is a proud Aboriginal woman with connections to Anaiwan and Dunghutti Lands while living and working on Wonnarua Country. She is a mother, wife, artist, and teacher and has 22 years’ experience in secondary schools, including writing educational resources for New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA).
She has written professional teacher learning programs that embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives to build cultural understanding. Nina believes reconciliation is everybody’s business and wants to help educators access and use resources in their classrooms. Since joining Reconciliation Australia’s Narragunnawali team, Nina leads the program’s Professional Learning and Curriculum strategy.
Workshop Presenter: Elise West and Lil Barto—Teachers for Peace
Elise is the Director of Teachers of Peace, she also works with the Medical Association for Prevention of War. Elise's background is in documentary film and television, she spent many years making stories in Latin America.
Lil has been organising in her communities for over seven years across movements for climate justice, First Nations Sovereignty, anti-militarism, and protecting our civil and political rights. She currently works for Wage Peace, a grassroots network.
Workshop Presenter: Alex Conway—White Ribbon
Alex has worked in health promotion, disability and community services across government, corporate and not-for-profit sectors for more than 20 years. This has included working to support First Nations and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities across Australia. He joined White Ribbon Australia in November 2022 as Primary Prevention Partner, having previously been an active Community Partner since 2020.
Alex understands the need of mobilising men and boys to adopt new behaviours and attitudes in order to effect change by using a health promotion lens. He also has a strong sense of place-based community engagement.
Workshop Presenter: Lynne Moten
Lynne Moten is a leading exponent of service-learning programs in schools that build connectedness, wellbeing and resilience in students. She believes these programs must be embedded into the curriculum, and explicitly develop compassion and empathy in students while they discover their meaning and purpose. Emphasis on authenticity, justice and advocacy leads students to an understanding that their life is not about them, building resilience at an age when students need it most.
Lynne has led 20 immersions to India and Cambodia and has vast experience in preparing students for working with vulnerable communities, both locally and overseas. In this workshop Lynne will encourage students to strive to be a servant leader who lives their life with authenticity, meaning and purpose, finding contentment in what they do.
This workshop will focus on the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals and how students and teachers might create an awareness of the goals in their schools and communities. The workshop will also provide insight into the UN Human Rights Mechanisms, the responsibilities governments have to uphold the SDG’s, and how they can advocate for action to help reach the goals.
Millicent is a Formation Team Member at the Edmund Rice Oceania Province, and recently completed the Rights Based Advocacy Course at Edmund Rice International, Geneva.
Workshop presenter: John Coleman—L’Arche
John Coleman is a songwriter and painter, and for the last 35 years, has been an active member of L’Arche. L’Arche is an international network of faith-based residential communities in which people with and without intellectual disability share life together. Along with being an Assistant, John served as the Community Leader for L’Arche Hobart and most recently, as the National Leader for L’Arche within Australia. John is frequently invited to lead song writing workshops in other L’Arche Communities within Australia and overseas – most recently in the Philippines and New Zealand.
L’Arche differs from most organisations providing support for people with disability. The fundamental difference is that L’Arche is founded on the knowledge that lives are profoundly enhanced when, over time, people with and without disability develop genuine relationships of friendship with each other.
John’s workshop will focus on the vulnerability that people can face through social isolation. For people with an intellectual disability this isolation can be particularly dangerous. You will be introduced to people within John’s community of L’Arche Hobart via video and his stories. The theme will be the development of mutually transforming relationships as an antidote to loneliness.
Workshop Presenter: Nina Ross—Reconciliation Australia
Nina Ross is a proud Aboriginal woman with connections to Anaiwan and Dunghutti Lands while living and working on Wonnarua Country. She is a mother, wife, artist, and teacher and has 22 years’ experience in secondary schools, including writing educational resources for New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA).
She has written professional teacher learning programs that embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives to build cultural understanding. Nina believes reconciliation is everybody’s business and wants to help educators access and use resources in their classrooms. Since joining Reconciliation Australia’s Narragunnawali team, Nina leads the program’s Professional Learning and Curriculum strategy.
Workshop Presenter: Elise West and Lil Barto—Teachers for Peace
Elise is the Director of Teachers of Peace, she also works with the Medical Association for Prevention of War. Elise's background is in documentary film and television, she spent many years making stories in Latin America.
Lil has been organising in her communities for over seven years across movements for climate justice, First Nations Sovereignty, anti-militarism, and protecting our civil and political rights. She currently works for Wage Peace, a grassroots network.
Workshop Presenter: Alex Conway—White Ribbon
Alex has worked in health promotion, disability and community services across government, corporate and not-for-profit sectors for more than 20 years. This has included working to support First Nations and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities across Australia. He joined White Ribbon Australia in November 2022 as Primary Prevention Partner, having previously been an active Community Partner since 2020.
Alex understands the need of mobilising men and boys to adopt new behaviours and attitudes in order to effect change by using a health promotion lens. He also has a strong sense of place-based community engagement.
Workshop Presenter: Lynne Moten
Lynne Moten is a leading exponent of service-learning programs in schools that build connectedness, wellbeing and resilience in students. She believes these programs must be embedded into the curriculum, and explicitly develop compassion and empathy in students while they discover their meaning and purpose. Emphasis on authenticity, justice and advocacy leads students to an understanding that their life is not about them, building resilience at an age when students need it most.
Lynne has led 20 immersions to India and Cambodia and has vast experience in preparing students for working with vulnerable communities, both locally and overseas. In this workshop Lynne will encourage students to strive to be a servant leader who lives their life with authenticity, meaning and purpose, finding contentment in what they do.
Resources
- Launch Day Report: era_for_change_launch_day_report_2024.docx
- Keynote PowerPoint: millicent_kavenagh_-_era_4_change_launch.pptx
- L'Arche PowerPoint: larche_and_transforming_relationships.pptx
- Teachers for Peace briefing paper: tas_harmful-influence-in-stem-education.pdf
- Reconciliation Australia school resource list: narragunnawali_era_for_change_resource_list.pdf
