Conversation Café and Events

Blue Borage Conversation Café

Real Conversations. Evolving Forward.

Real conversations for real change. Blue Borage’s Conversation Café is a virtual gathering space for survivors, allies and professionals to explore healing, advocacy and hope through lived-experience-led panels, creative expression and courageous dialogue.

🎧 Audio coming soon for accessibility: Listen to the content we’ve shared on each page of our website.

What People Are Saying

Even if it is difficult to talk about, it is far worse to live it in silence.

Our stories are different but so relatable. Thank you all.

This is the first time I’ve been in a room with both survivors and concerned parents. It felt like healing began there.

I didn’t know how much I needed this until I heard others speak the same things I’ve never dared say aloud.

Upcoming Events

Each 90-minute session welcomes survivors, supporters and curious professionals into a safe, trauma-aware space. Conversations aren’t therapy — they are creative, empowered and brave.

🔗 Each event below links directly to its own Eventbrite page to register, view your local time, and pre-submit questions. 📝 Note: While the organiser records each event, the recordings are not shared, to protect the integrity of the space we hold for our participants. The recordings help guide future themes and shape the summary emails sent to participants.

JULY 2025: Global Messages of Hope

🧩 Creative Advocacy, Activism and Legacy

Event 1:
🗓️ Tuesday 9 July | 🕗 8:00–9:30 AM AEST
🎤 With: Risa Shaw, Maggie Bell, Susan Dunlop, Quinn
🔗 Register here (Eventbrite)
Event 2:
🗓️ Monday 21 July | 🕠 5:30–7:00 PM AEST
🎤 With: Maggie Bell, Deb Aldrick, Rhiannon Pineau, Susan Dunlop
🔗 Register here (Eventbrite)

AUGUST 2025: What Justice Might Look Like: A Roundtable on SSTA and Repair

⚖️ A Guided Roundtable Conversation: Survivor, Parent, Ally & Practitioner Perspectives

Event 1:
🗓️ Wednesday 6 August | 🕘 9:00–10:30 AM AEST
🔗 Register here (Eventbrite)
Event 2:
🗓️ Monday 25 August | 🕠 5:30–7:00 PM AEST
🔗 Register here (Eventbrite)

SEPTEMBER 2025: Survivor & Parent Q&A Panel

💬 50% of net registration fees go to training the support teams at 5WAVES.org

🗓️ Wednesday 10 September | 🕘 9:00–10:30 AM AEST
[🔗 Register here](Link Coming Soon)

OCTOBER 2025: Who We Leave Behind, Who Moves Forward

🌿 Forgiveness vs Reconciliation in fractured families.

Event 1: Tuesday 8 October | 9:00 AM AEST
Event 2: Monday 20 October | 6:30 PM AEST (5:30 PM AEDT)
[🔗 Register links coming soon]

NOVEMBER 2025: From Silence to Influence: A Showcase of Survivor Visionaries

🎂 Susan’s 60th Birthday Series
A powerful moment to pause and reflect: look where we started, where we are now, and where we’re heading. November’s event celebrates the brave voices shaping our global survivor movement through memoirs, novels, art and poetry, documentaries, podcasts, advocacy, and bold organisational dreams. If you supported this community by attending the Conversation Cafes series 1 and 2 from January to June, you are welcome to share your memoir, other projects, and aspirations in our showcase. A gathering of changemakers, truth-tellers, and visionaries lighting the way into 2026.

Event 1: Wednesday 5 November
Event 2: Monday 17 November
[🔗 Register links coming soon]

DECEMBER 2025: Navigating the Silly Season

💗 With Self-Love and Protecting our Beautiful Hearts

Event 1: Wednesday 3 December
Event 2: Monday 15 December
[🔗 Register links coming soon]

What to Expect

Curated Panel and Round Table Conversations: drawing together international lived experienced storytellers, survivors, professionals and artists
Structured Dialogue: Facilitated discussion, presubmitted questions, live Q&A.
Creative Showcases: When appropriate, panelists share creative work, poetry, music and visual arts or advocacy projects.
Global Community: Designed to welcome participants across time zones, with two sessions per theme when possible.

Each 90-minute session is a space for insight, shared learning, and courageous connection. 💡 You don’t need to speak — just come as you are.

Who Are These Conversations For?

Survivors of SSA and other forms of intrafamilial abuse or trauma. We know that SSA doesn’t stand alone in many of our stories – if you experienced one form or both, we see you. You are not alone.
Survivors of sibling abuse (emotional, physical, psychological). Likewise, there is an undercurrent of each of these forms of abuse in most SSA stories or in the families of survivors.
Allies, loved ones, activists and advocates, and those with a commitment to breaking cycles of harm.
Educators, social workers, therapists, and mental health professionals seeking deeper understanding.
Parents and carers wanting to create safer, more aware family environments.
Anyone drawn to activism and advocacy, healing, justice, and compassionate systems change.

Join the Conversations

Follow Blue Borage on eventbrite.com.au to see upcoming panel themes and register for sessions.

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Ticket Info

Standard Registration: AUD $40

Eventbrite will convert the amount based on your location. Approx. $40 AUD = $26 USD | £21 GBP | €25 EUR (subject to exchange rates). This covers panel coordination, event and tech administration costs, planning and hosting, post-event summary creation, and pre- and post-event communication with our participants.

Community Discount Codes for subscribers of the 5WAVES.org or INCESTAware.org newsletters and the Bright Futures community of practice in Australia. The discount code will be shared in the newsletters.

Stay Connected

Follow Blue Borage on EventBrite and across social media:
– Instagram and Facebook or search: @blueboragetraining
– LinkedIn: Blue Borage
– Website: www.blueborage.com.au