BE-Treat - RE-Set Sessions For Rural Women

Kim is a coach, educator and facilitator with over 30 years of experience working with rural businesses. Kim’s work is inspired by nature and her experiences in farm business management, holistic management, regenerative agriculture, systems thinking, permaculture, biodynamic farming and gardening. Kim spent 12 years working as a Rural Financial Counsellor so has worked with hundreds of farming businesses experiencing natural disasters and her rural property was impacted by the Tingha Plateau fire in 2019.

https://www.reinventingagriculture.com.au/

Dinah is the designer and operator of Pearl Button Bridal the south coast’s only sustainable and ethical bespoke bridalwear business. Dinah has been working on sustainability in fashion for the last 20 years. She has brought her forward thinking perspective to bridal wear to create original and conscious designs for modern brides. Dinah’s property and business was impacted by the 2020 summer bushfires.

http://www.pearlbutton.com.au

Dimity is a registered psychologist and rural women’s advocate based just outside of Moree, working for the DPI as a Project Officer within the Rural Women’s Network team. Dimity’s family are dairy farmers from Scone and, as a result, she has always been hugely passionate about rural, regional and remote agricultural communities and ensuring they are sustainable and thriving. After having her own founder business journeys with women’s networking and events businesses Savvy Birds and GRO Events, Dimity transitioned from her psychology career in occupational rehabilitation, WHS, HR & private practice to the world of women’s events, innovation and startups. For the past 12 years, Dimity has worked across Tamworth, Armidale, Moree, the Hunter and the NENW, helping individuals and businesses with mental health, injury management and innovation. Most recently Dimity completed an innovation role with the University of New England’s SMART Region Incubator to support startup founders in their goals to create successful scaling businesses from rural, regional and remote areas.

Over the last 15 years, Catherine has worked in management, strategic and leadership roles in the agricultural, research and regional development sectors in Australia and internationally. Catherine is UNE’s 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award winner, a graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership Program, a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and was the 2012 WA Rural Women of the Year. In her spare time, Catherine loves cycling, horse riding, travel and exploring the outback. She is also passionate about finding a cure for cancer and has raised over $100,000 to put towards research, education programs and patient support.

Kylie is the Managing Director of e-hub Health which delivers automated, evidence-based online self-help programs for mental health. The programs include moodgym, a cognitive behaviour therapy training program with over 1 million registered users worldwide (moodgym.com.au). Kylie has personally experienced depression and anxiety and is passionate about empowering individuals to manage their mental health through quality and accessible resources. She works with organisations around the world to provide access to online self-help programs. Read about free self-help programs for Australians at assist.ehubhealth.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylie-bennett-ehubhealth/

Judy Atkinson identifies as a Jiman / Bundjalung (Aboriginal Australian) woman. With a PhD from QUT, her primary academic and research focus is in the area of violence and relational trauma, and healing for Indigenous, and indeed all peoples. She was awarded 2011 the Fritz Redlich award for Mental Health and Human Rights from the Harvard University Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery program.

Her book: Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines: The transgenerational effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, was sub-listed for a human rights award. Judy retired at the end of 2010, so she can focus on working with communities in Australia and Papua New Guinea in trauma informed and trauma specific educational – healing work, what she calls educaring – an Indigenous Healing Practice.

http://www.wealli.com.au

Anna is a creative nurturer, super-connector and lateral thinker. She is a registered clinical art therapist with a Masters in Art Therapy. She has been working with families, children, adolescents with a range of emotional and behavioural challenges for the last 20 years. 

The main themes Anna works with relate to safety, building trust and resilience, and ways to regulate emotions. Anna uses a trauma-based approach to her art therapy work which focuses on empowering clients with supportive coping skills to help manage lifelong issues.

In 2013, Anna founded the Mama Creatives community, which provides a safe and nurturing platform for creative women to share their stories and feel reconnected to their creative spirit.

https://mamacreatives.com/

Priscilla, The CPR Chick, is your one-stop-shop for Body, Mind and Soul upgrade! Having worked as an RN in the Cardio-thoracic ICU and General Intensive Care unit for over 16 years, she has an extensive knowledge about the body, its mechanisms, the impact, prevention and management of chronic diseases. Priscilla’s business – The CPR Chick – was born after the tragedy of losing her younger brother to suicide and to the lack of CPR skills. Being in the business of saving lives, she has jump-started many hearts and witnessed the power of CPR. The CPR Chick is on a mission to save lives through education. Today Priscilla wears many hats. She is a Health Coach, Mental Health trainer, Leadership trainer, speaker and coach. She understands the power of the Body, Soul, and Mind connection, and simplifies complex medical terms so you can remember, and implement. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscillajaya/

Sue Curley qualified with the International Yoga Teachers Association in 2005. Complimenting this with her Laughter Leaders certificate 2010. Since then, Sue has been sharing appreciation of Laughter to a wide range of organisations and students. We all feel better when we laugh. That’s because of a biochemical process going on in our bodies. Sue loves the way Laughter Yoga is a fun, accessible and effective brain exercise program. In practising Laughter Yoga, you learn to be less stressed, more creative. You develop a positivity to deal with negative situations, along with hope and optimism to cope with difficult times.

Kylie is an author, songwriter, artist and adventurer. A wife to one very gorgeous husband and mum to two teenage boys she has spent many years as an owner/operator within the rural hospitality industry and over the years has dabbled in other small business enterprises and creative projects.

Now with a stand-up Comedy show added to her diverse range of creative exploits Kylie has just signed a publishing contract to release her first book in 2021.

Letitia is passionate about rural communities and comes from a prior agriculture background in production, commodity trading, natural resource management and industry development. However, after seeing first-hand the devastating consequences of poor mental health on her community and wanting to be part of a positive practical solution, she undertook postgraduate studies in Counselling and Psychotherapy. After working as a therapist, Letitia joined the Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) in North Western NSW three years ago. She promotes early intervention through awareness and understanding, and works towards having all people living in rural and remote NSW linked to the appropriate mental health information, resources and services.

Dr Amanda Jefferys is Clinic Director for University of New England Psychology Clinic providing around 2000 sessions per annum to the community. Amanda also works locally providing clinical psychology services to her community in Gunnedah. Being a true rural Psychologist is demanding and Amanda services her community, the community at large and also trains and supervisors Psychologists in their training.

https://www.practicalhealthconsulting.com.au

Danielle moved from the inner City to Cobargo in 2004 and since then has made her life in this small rural community. She has raised 4 children, my eldest is at University on a Dean’s Scholarship doing a double degree and three teenage boys are at home. Her youngest has Autism and Epilepsy.

Danielle has been an active volunteer including managing the school uniforms for 8 years, canteen duty, has been involved with the Cobargo Skate Park and BMX track and since 2005 has been on the committee of the Cobargo Folk Festival. Since January 5 2020 Daniell has been a volunteer coordinator of the Cobargo Bushfire Relief Centre (approx 40hrs/week) supporting the community to access the support they need. 182 homes were lost in the Cobargo region, she also reaches out to other areas within the Shire and further afield.

https://www.facebook.com/cobargobushfirereliefcentre

Dale has been a teacher of writing and literature for over two decades. Writing has always been an integral part of her life. She is an avid reader and writer and believes that through personal writing we can self counsel, celebrate our lives and share our stories which can then help other women to celebrate and process the inevitable trials that are part of life.Dale says that people think that writing is only something individuals do to earn a living but it is the pure joy, relaxation and the ability to share our life stories that are central reasons why people write.