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Connecting with Community is a practical, one-day workshop focused on how relationships grow between people with intellectual disability and community members — and the role we can all play in that.

This is a rare opportunity to learn from an internationally recognised leader in building genuine relationships and community connection.

There’s a strong commitment to inclusion - yet many people with intellectual disability can be in the community - but still miss out on friendships, being known and a sense of belonging.  We still struggle with how to make this happen in practice.

This workshop focuses on how that changes.

The day will draw on Angela’s international experience, alongside local examples from here in the Hunter.

Participants will leave with:

• clear, practical ideas to try
• a focus on one person they support
• a better understanding of how relationships grow over time

Event details

• Date: Tuesday 16 June
• Time: 9.00am–4.00pm
• Location: Newcastle Museum

Cost:

• $80 professionals
• $40 people with disability, family members, advocates and community members
• Free for Social Connectors and people connected to our Community For Everyone project.

What you will learn

• Practical strategies to support friendships and community connection
• How to identify a person’s interests, strengths and gifts
• Ways to connect people with community members and groups
• The role of staff and others as community connectors
• How to support relationships to grow and last over time

Who should attend

This workshop is for anyone interested in building more inclusive communities.

It is for people with intellectual disability, family members, friends, advocates and community members as well as support workers, service providers, NDIS planners and Local Area Coordinators, and people working in local government or community development.

If you care about connection, belonging, and how people become part of community life — you’re welcome!

Transforming Justice offers support to anyone in the Hunter Central Coast and New England regions impacted by sexual harm or responding to sexual harm. We offer our support and accept referrals into our programs from within this region.  

We are offering a Community Practice Circle for community members and anyone responding to sexual harm, whether this is part of your work, or through harm that has occurred in your community, family or network.

This Restorative Practice Circle for responders, is part of our "Community based restorative practice project" in the region.

Questions to help your decide if this is the right space for you:

• Do you want to better understand how restorative practices can respond to sexual abuse?
• Would you like a space to reflect on our emotional, physical, relational and spiritual response in this work?
• Would it feel useful to connect with peers to talk about “violence-informed” care?
• Are you interested in learning transformative ways to support one another, while recognising the ongoing impacts of colonisation on our clients, communities and our work?

We have the ability to accept referrals and support community engagement in a specific region. 

What will the circles involve?

This will be an opportunity for anyone, including people working in organisations, services and networks to connect with others responding to sexual harm disclosures or accountability-taking.

Over three sessions, our Restorative Facilitators will guide a circle discussion on emerging contexts in community responses to sexual harm, to structure support, learning and solidarity with others who take on the important work of offering safe spaces for people harmed, people responsible for harm, and their impacted family members.

About Transforming Justice Australia:

• https://www.transformingjustice.org.au/

Solidarity Circle

Restorative circles offered by Transforming Justice for anyone living or working in the Hunter, New England and Central Coast.

Solidarity Circles offer a safe, supportive space where people who have been subject to sexual harm, come together to share, listen, and connect.

Solidarity Circles are co facilitated & have been shaped together with people with lived experience of sexual harm.