The conference program will be an exchange of ideas on the conference theme "Pathways to Meaningful Living". Speakers will engage the delegates through presentations, panel discussions and multimedia, offering their personal views and professional perspectives, and inviting delegates to make their own contributions.

Morning
  Registration and meet with delegates
 

Welcome

Genevieve Timmons
Conference Convenor
 

The art of meaningful living - where we start

  • Relationship with self and others
  • Preciousness of time
  • Co-existence or separatism?
Lama Choedak Rinpoche
Director Jamchen Buddhist Centre
 

The importance of place

  • Purposeful living and the daily hum-drum
  • Creativity, sacredness and inspiration from our land
  • Connecting with the earth or ransacking the cradle - which way?
Brian Walters
Senior Counsel
 

Compassion and service

  • The challenge of 'the Big C'
  • 'Professional compassionates' and bringing it into our personal life
  • Carrying the torch as custodian of family values
Lynne Haultain
Senior Advisor CPR Communications & Public Relations
 

The significance of 11/11

  • Ned Kelly was hanged in 1880
  • The end of WW1, with the Armistice signed in the Forest of Compiegne in 1918
  • The dismissal of Gough Whitlam in 1975
  • The Jandamarra uprising in the Kimberley in 1894
  One Minute Silence Remembrance Day
  Morning Tea
 

Welcome to Country

  • Forgiveness and sharing in the face of loss
  • Enduring commitment
Joy Murphy AO
Wurrundjeri Elder
 

Investing in our inner lives

  • Balancing the personal and professional
  • Finding the spine to pursue wholeheartedness
Prof Rob Moodie
Nossal Institute for Global Health
 

Recipes for a good life

  • Food and happiness
  • Cooking as a vehicle to connect family
  • Teaching children to peel carrots!!
Gabriel Gate
Best-selling author and chef
 

VOX POPULI *

Lynne Haultain
Senior Advisor CPR Communications & Public Relations
Afternoon
  Lunch and Reporting in...
 

Engaged citizens

  • Communities taking the lead
  • Engagement and sufficiency around scarce resources
Mary Crooks
Executive Director Victorian Women's Trust
 

Better late than never – a conversation with my grandmother.

  • Living with the past
  • Connecting through time
  • Understanding my place in the world
Karen Mahlab
Director Pro Bono Australia
 

Anchoring the ego... or being hijacked

  • Essentials of mindfulness at our desks
  • Laying bare the self
  • Ego-driven responses - implications for our work
Christine Edwards
Chief Executive The Myer Foundation

Promoting humanity through the Arts

  • Arts as the mechanism for the inner voice
  • Music and moving the spirit
Carrillo Gantner
Actor and founder of The Playbox Theatre
  Afternoon tea
 

Expanding the possibilities

  • When the rubber hits the road
  • Tools and tips for the way ahead
Lama Choedak Rinpoche
Director Jamchen Buddhist Centre
 

VOX POPULI *

Lynne Haultain
Senior Advisor CPR Communications & Public Relations
 

Voices of the conference from the Keynote Listener

Brian Walters
Senior Counsel
 

Farewell

Genevieve Timmons
Conference Convenor



* VOX POPULI...

"public opinion, a brief sentiment shared by most people, the voice of the people"

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