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Self and Community Care ticket
Self & Community Care 📅 Wednesday, 19 March 2025 ⏰ 4:30PM - 6PM (AEDT) 🎤 Facilitator: Co-hosted by Asmaa Guedira, WELA Diversity & Inclusion Lead and Pasanna Mutha-Merennege, WELA Policy & Advocacy Manager, with guest speakers, Neha Madhok, Josie Alec & Rikki Danke In the face of increasing political pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion, this session explores how self and community care serve as essential strategies for resistance and collective well-being. JEDI circles are free for people who identify as BIPOC please use the discount code BIPOC at checkout.
Self & Community Care 📅 Wednesday, 19 March 2025 ⏰ 4:30PM - 6PM (AEDT) 🎤 Facilitator: Co-hosted by Asmaa Guedira, WELA Diversity & Inclusion Lead and Pasanna Mutha-Merennege, WELA Policy & Advocacy Manager, with guest speakers, Neha Madhok, Josie Alec & Rikki Danke In the face of increasing political pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion, this session explores how self and community care serve as essential strategies for resistance and collective well-being. JEDI circles are free for people who identify as BIPOC please use the discount code BIPOC at checkout.
Sales ended Wed 19th Mar 2025, 4:29 pm AEDTFreeFirst Nations Perspectives ticket
First Nations Perspectives 📅 Wednesday, 18 June 2025 ⏰ 12–1.30pm (AEST) 🎤 Facilitator: Nidala Barker (Jabirr-Jabirr/Djugun singer-songwriter, storyteller, and custodianship educator) and guests. 🎤 Co-host: Kara Lena Virik (WELA’s Intensives Producer, Facilitator, and Diversity & Inclusion Lead). Centering the voices of First Nations leaders, this session focuses on Indigenous approaches to justice, equity and environmental custodianship for long-term change. Meet your facilitator: Nidala Barker is a Jabirr-Jabirr /Djugun singer-songwriter, public speaker, and custodianship educator. She is also the co-founder of an alternative education program which centres Indigenous practices at the core of the curriculum and delivery method. In 2021 she released a carbon-neutral EP titled ‘Colours of my people’ which led to the planting of over 20,000 native plants. She currently sits on the board of Green Music Australia and The Returning Indigenous Corporation Meet your co-host: Kara is an interdisciplinary facilitator, strategist, and consultant with a global perspective on gender equality and environmental justice. She has worked internationally with a wide range of nonprofit organisations, universities, and activist networks to develop programs focused on habitat restoration, feminist worldbuilding, and systems change. Kara has designed and facilitated learning experiences across Australia, Europe, the U.S., and the Western Balkans. She holds a Master’s in Urban Management and Policy from the Technical University of Berlin. She currently lives on Kombumerri Country.
First Nations Perspectives 📅 Wednesday, 18 June 2025 ⏰ 12–1.30pm (AEST) 🎤 Facilitator: Nidala Barker (Jabirr-Jabirr/Djugun singer-songwriter, storyteller, and custodianship educator) and guests. 🎤 Co-host: Kara Lena Virik (WELA’s Intensives Producer, Facilitator, and Diversity & Inclusion Lead). Centering the voices of First Nations leaders, this session focuses on Indigenous approaches to justice, equity and environmental custodianship for long-term change. Meet your facilitator: Nidala Barker is a Jabirr-Jabirr /Djugun singer-songwriter, public speaker, and custodianship educator. She is also the co-founder of an alternative education program which centres Indigenous practices at the core of the curriculum and delivery method. In 2021 she released a carbon-neutral EP titled ‘Colours of my people’ which led to the planting of over 20,000 native plants. She currently sits on the board of Green Music Australia and The Returning Indigenous Corporation Meet your co-host: Kara is an interdisciplinary facilitator, strategist, and consultant with a global perspective on gender equality and environmental justice. She has worked internationally with a wide range of nonprofit organisations, universities, and activist networks to develop programs focused on habitat restoration, feminist worldbuilding, and systems change. Kara has designed and facilitated learning experiences across Australia, Europe, the U.S., and the Western Balkans. She holds a Master’s in Urban Management and Policy from the Technical University of Berlin. She currently lives on Kombumerri Country.
Sales ended Wed 18th Jun 2025, 11:59 am AESTFreeGender Identities ticket
Gender Identities While gender binaries attempt to constrain our movements, this session is an invitation to remember the infinite ways we exist, resist, and belong. 📅 Wednesday, 16 July 2025 ⏰ 12–1.30pm (AEST) 🎤 Facilitator: Nevo Zisin (they/them) 🎤 Co-host Kara Lena Virik (WELA’s Intensives Producer, Facilitator, and Diversity & Inclusion Lead) Meet your facilitator: Nevo Zisin (they/them) is a white Ashkenazi Jewish settler living on unceded Wurundjeri Land. They are a storyteller, esteemed educator on transgender topics, TEDx speaker, poet, workshop facilitator in schools and workplaces, and award-winning author of Finding Nevo (2017), a memoir on gender transition and The Pronoun Lowdown (2021), a useful guidebook on all things related to pronouns. They have been in-conversation with Queer Eye’s brilliant Jonathan Van Ness, Transparent producer Zackary Drucker & world-famous spoken-word poet & activist Alok Vaid-Menon. They were a 2022 Varuna Scribe Fellow and are an ambassador for Wear It Purple.
Gender Identities While gender binaries attempt to constrain our movements, this session is an invitation to remember the infinite ways we exist, resist, and belong. 📅 Wednesday, 16 July 2025 ⏰ 12–1.30pm (AEST) 🎤 Facilitator: Nevo Zisin (they/them) 🎤 Co-host Kara Lena Virik (WELA’s Intensives Producer, Facilitator, and Diversity & Inclusion Lead) Meet your facilitator: Nevo Zisin (they/them) is a white Ashkenazi Jewish settler living on unceded Wurundjeri Land. They are a storyteller, esteemed educator on transgender topics, TEDx speaker, poet, workshop facilitator in schools and workplaces, and award-winning author of Finding Nevo (2017), a memoir on gender transition and The Pronoun Lowdown (2021), a useful guidebook on all things related to pronouns. They have been in-conversation with Queer Eye’s brilliant Jonathan Van Ness, Transparent producer Zackary Drucker & world-famous spoken-word poet & activist Alok Vaid-Menon. They were a 2022 Varuna Scribe Fellow and are an ambassador for Wear It Purple.
FreeInternational Outlooks ticket
International Outlooks 📅 Wednesday, 17 September 2025 ⏰ 12–1.30pm (AEST) 🎤 Facilitator: Kara Lena Virik (WELA’s Intensives Producer, Facilitator, and Diversity & Inclusion Lead) and guests TBA Bringing global perspectives to the DEI conversation, this session examines how movements for justice, equity, and inclusion are evolving across different regions and what we can learn from them.
International Outlooks 📅 Wednesday, 17 September 2025 ⏰ 12–1.30pm (AEST) 🎤 Facilitator: Kara Lena Virik (WELA’s Intensives Producer, Facilitator, and Diversity & Inclusion Lead) and guests TBA Bringing global perspectives to the DEI conversation, this session examines how movements for justice, equity, and inclusion are evolving across different regions and what we can learn from them.
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