Healing, recovery and rebuilding after family violence

RMIT's Graduate Certificate in Domestic and Family Violence is delighted to invite you to this important in person panel discussion, exploring healing, recovery and rebuilding after family violence.

Registrations will open at 3.30pm, with the panel discussion commencing at 4pm.

Speakers at this free event include: 

• Nardine Keriakous. Nardine leads two healing and recovery programs at the Good Samaritan Inn, where support into accommodation and employment are used as pathways to focus on rebuilding. 

• Lewching Yip. Lewching is a a survivor advocate with NOOR, InTouch, Australia’s first lived experience network of refugee and migrant survivors. Lewching is also the founder of Project Chosen Family, a peer‑led initiative that co‑designs culturally safe spaces with young people to support early conversations about challenging family dynamics, conflict, and violence. 

• Lauren French. Lauren is a proud Karajarri woman who had the joy of growing up on Larrakia lands in the Northern Territory. She is a Sexologist, Churchill Fellow and has spent the past eight years working in sexual violence prevention. Her work centres on helping move others away from viewing mob through a deficit lens and understanding the very real strengths community holds in preventing harm.   

• Professor Anastasia Powell. Anastasia will share her research into transformation and healing journeys of victim-survivors of family and sexual violence, from her forthcoming book, The Aftermath of Trauma (Palgrave, 2026). 

• MC: Sharon Simon. Sharon teaches into the Graduate Certificate in Domestic and Family Violence and brings over 15 years of experience working in the family violence sector.