People's Experiences
Levi Saunders
Sam Boag is Founder of the NDIS support organisation ‘I Can Jump Puddles’. She shares here her experience of a largely undocumented head injury as a result of a bike crash sustained in 2016 as she was training for the City to Bay. Sam speaks of her difficulties resulting from this before going into how I Can Jump Puddles reflects her learnings through this experience.
Larissa MacFarlane is a prolific Melbourne artist with a remarkable outlook. Their approach to brain injury has contributed to their artistry and approach to community. A fierce self advocate, their public outreach is used to empower other’s expression of disability. Discovering the Social Model of Disability changes the perception of disability. Larissa’s work directly attends to this.
Daryl Taylor is a highly skilled and accomplished community professional. As a neurodiverse person, his up bringing involved many challenges where he used his gifts to make sense of the world; twice exceptional indeed. Earthship, his home is in the most fire prone area in the world, he took the lessons learnt from the fires of 2020 to rebuild a remarkable, underground abode; ‘Pyro/Terra-tecture’ with wombat dreaming.
Kate Stephens is Ade’s wife, business partner and ‘Chief of Stuff’. She is passionate about holistic health and the dignity afforded to people. Her life changed alongside Ade’s in order to accommodate his needs and services. They talk about how they run A2K Media alongside leading their lives. Part 3
Ade Djajamihardja matches his resources to his requirements and has shifted his expectations in order to embrace what life has thrown. As a long time media professional his strokes altered the trajectory of his ambition to inhabit the disability, equity and inclusion space and here, together with wife, business partner and wife Kate Stephens, talk about their Disability Justice Lens series of training for the screen industry. Part 2
Ade Djajamihardja is a media professional whose 2 Hemorrhagic Strokes devastated him however they have not removed his wry sense of humour. He speaks about his journey to meeting Kate and the formation of A2K Media. Part 1
Jen Willis has sought peak experiences throughout her life, from studying multiple degrees to climbing Mt Everest. A diagnosis of MS urged her to look at her priorities with new perspective. Through scaling her internal mountains, she has learnt to change her personal approach to the stories she tells herself to enable ongoing success.
Edward Roussac is an Autistic singer/songwriter from St Albans in Melbourne. Here he speaks about his work, the inspirations and studies contributing and how his life is improved using this.
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.
Paul Pritchard is a world renowned climber who experienced an injury in 1998 that was a catastrophe for 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’.
Justine Martin is an international keynote speaker, coach, author, podcast host and publisher. Known as the ‘Queen of Resilience’, Justine talks about her experiences. We also hear about the ways she uses her offerings to empower and help others be heard.
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 an elite athlete career.
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 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.
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