RETHINK NEURODIVERSITY
A New You interviews and explores both those living with and those treating neurological difference such as Acquired Brain Injury, MS, Parkinson's and other conditions; genetic, degenerative or regenerative. An online archive will supply a platform for future viewing and research benefiting both professionals and those newly diagnosed.
At the National Brain Injury Australia Conference, speakers and visitors comment on the quality of the conference.
Phil Heuzenroeder speaks about the work of Wild At Heart. His dedication to disabled artists and also with the Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir continues to change people’s lives every day.
Edward Roussac speaks about his musicianship, the studies contributing to it and how he gains from this
Wendy Haeker came from the US, through NZ to land here in Melbourne. As the Client Services Team Leader for Guide Dogs Victoria, her journey has been almost as interesting as what it takes to get a dog from young puppy-hood to a functioning support animal providing life sustaining assistance to those who need it.
Kevin Boyce has a cavalier attitude that serves him very well post brain injury. He is warm hearted and friendly and, hailing from a town outside of Warnambool in regional Victoria, sustained his injury on a motorbike. He speaks about his multiple positions on advisory boards, as an end of life supporter and his experience working with guide dogs as a result of losing his sight when injured.
Heath Murphy, a retired paramedic, speaks of his new career found in support work. As one of Kevin Boyce’s assistants, we speak of what it is like to carry this out in a regional township and how the work contributes to his sense of self and community.
Paul Pritchard is a world renowned climber who experienced an injury in 1998 that devastated him initially, yet he has gone on to build a life, relationships and a revived adventuring career with the launch of a recent TED talk and a film, premiering on the 1st of October called Larapinta: End to End – documenting a remarkable journey celebrating the ‘Dignity of Risk’.
Deborah Byrne speaks about ‘Brain Injury Association of Tasmania’, the groundbreaking ‘National Assistance Card’ and her journey as the executive officer of BIAT for 20 years. Her service to advocating for our brain injured peers has been truly worthy of esteem.
Nigel Munt, Senior Lawyer from Aussie Injury Lawyers, gives legal tips to do with compensation and the rights of people who have had an injury.
Justine Martin is an international keynote speaker, coach, author, podcast host and publisher. Known as the ‘Queen of Resilience’, Justine talks about her experiences.
Nick Rushworth from Brain Injury Australia talks about the National Injury Brain Conference in Adelaide in September.
Nigel Munt (Senior Lawyer) from Aussie Injury Lawyers gives legal tips and tells stories of compensation claims.
Brent Alford has been president of Brain Injury Matters and speaks about his fall from a height in 2011 that left him with severe brain injury. His resulting efforts have him working on his elite athlete career.
Poppy Egan is the organisations first manager with lived experience. Though Brain Injury Matters has always been ‘member led’, to have a survivor responsible for the organisation is a boon indeed. She speaks about the formation of a women’s group to counter in a sector where men are over represented.
Brent & Poppy talk about their world of Brain Injury.
Brent as the voice of the peer and Poppy, a peer also, brings a refreshed perspective to managing a the service brought by the self-advocacy network; in a sector where lived experience workers are so overwhelmingly rare in comparison to those non-disabled.
