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Plenary - Graham Gee and Deb Dana
Plenary
Plenary
9:00 am
22 August 2025
Plenary 2
Themes
ICTC
Session Program
9:00 am
Child sexual abuse is one of most harmful forms of human violation, and despite four decades of global public awareness, it remains a human rights and public health issue across nations and cultural groups worldwide. Legal systems rarely result in just outcomes and survivors the world over too often experience isolation and the stigma of not being believed. Specialist workforces in this complex area are also at risk of burnout, vicarious trauma and working within fragmented systems.
Associate Professor Graham Gee will present on the efforts of 6 Victorian Aboriginal specialist services and his research team to strengthen workforce wellbeing and prevent burnout, and their recent work on engaging Aboriginal survivors with a lived experience of child sexual abuse to build new initiatives that support healing.
Associate Professor Graham Gee will present on the efforts of 6 Victorian Aboriginal specialist services and his research team to strengthen workforce wellbeing and prevent burnout, and their recent work on engaging Aboriginal survivors with a lived experience of child sexual abuse to build new initiatives that support healing.
Nervous system to nervous system, we are connected around the planet. Our biology is at the heart of our capacity to come into connection, see with compassion, and find our way into safe communication. When the world feels unsafe, cues of danger activate survival responses, and we struggle to hold on to hope. When we are anchored in the safety of a regulated nervous system, pathways of connection come alive, and we can travel those pathways in service of healing. Polyvagal Theory gives us a roadmap to find our way to regulation and offers a way forward in uncertain times. Join Deb Dana to look through the lens of the nervous system and explore ways to listen with curiosity as we answer the essential question, “What does the nervous system need in this moment to find safety in connection?”