Conversations that matter. Leadership for Change. Spaces for Healing.
Explore upcoming events, live trainings, panel conversations, and speaking appearances featuring Susan Dunlop, founder of Blue Borage. Join us for courageous conversations, trauma-informed leadership sessions, and advocacy-driven events designed to inspire healing, prevention, and systems change.
Upcoming Events
Blue Borage Conversation Café | Monthly Panel Series
Where: Virtual on Zoom | Once or Twice a Month
What: Monthly curated panel or round table guided conversations featuring survivors, advocates, and professionals discussing sibling sexual abuse, trauma recovery, and systemic change.
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2026 Seven Conversations on SSTA Symposium (date claimer)
When: We will be back for more on Thursday 12th November 2026.
How: Online
Your First Step To Empowered Living
Where: Online | From January 2026
What: Make the Shift From Disempowered to Empowering Dynamics at Home and Work.
With: Susan Dunlop
Step out of chaos, family or workplace drama, and reactivity and move into clarity and conscious
choice. In this practical, experiential six-class program, Susan Dunlop draws on her lived experience and her work delivering The Empowerment Dynamic (TED)®* and 3 Vital Questions (3VQ)® self-leadership
frameworks across the Asia–Pacific region.
Includes: Each attendee will be given access to The 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Work and Life with the Power of TED* (The Empowerment Dynamic) online modules combined with six (6) x 90-minute facilitated discussions to deepen the learning together.
Dates are flexible: Register Your Interest Here and we will be in contact to plan with you.
Private group bookings for organisational teams are welcome, attract discounts, and may be scheduled at times to suit your team – wherever you are, globally.
Letting Go: A Ten-Session Guided Journey
Where: 10 Sessions, 90 minutes, monthly commencing January 2026
What: A small group series for adults and families affected by sibling sexual trauma
With: Susan Dunlop
Many of us who grew up with intrafamilial or sibling sexual trauma and abuse (SSTA) learnt to survive by holding on.
All family members navigating life beyond disclosure, from we have learned by coming together in our Conversation Cafes throughout 2025, often stay in our heads, keep watch, make ourselves small, or become the ones who hold everything together.
Letting go is not instinctive for those with so much going on around us, that we cannot control, or within us, and it can feel overwhelming and exhausting to be in that chaos.
The very idea of ‘surrender’ feels unsafe.
This new series offers a slow, steady space to explore David R. Hawkins’ Letting Go and the companion Guided Journal, with a small group of people who understand this landscape.
You do not need to be ready to “let go”. You are welcome to attend, with curiosity about exploring the idea of “letting go”, softening your inner grip, slowly and safely. Learn more here.
Past Events & Appearances
Blue Borage Seven Conversations on SSTA Symposium | Full Day Event
Where: Virtual on Zoom | November 14th, 2025
What: Seven Conversations was a global online symposium exploring the many layers of sibling sexual trauma and abuse.
We brought together lived-experience voices, parents, practitioners, researchers and advocates. Conversations moved between personal insights, clinical perspectives, legal considerations, the mind–body connection and the everyday realities families face after disclosure.
The detailed recordings, transcripts and resources from the day are now available only to registered participants, for privacy considerations and to protect presenters’ work.
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International Childhood Trauma Conference 2025
Where: Melbourne, Australia | August 18–22, 2025
What: Digital Poster Presentation: From Silence to Empowerment: Preventing Harm and Empowering Survivors of Sibling Sexual Abuse
Drawing from lived experience and five years of research, this presentation shared practical strategies to break cycles of dysfunction and empower survivors and their families, highlighting the role of conscious communication and trauma-informed leadership. Also presented during the Seven Conversations Symposium on November 14 as a bonus workshop for our attendees.
Daniel Morcombe Foundation | Bright Futures National Symposium 2025
Where: Twin Waters Resort, Sunshine Coast | August 7th and 8th
What: The contextual safeguarding approach provides a child protection and wider safeguarding response to contexts beyond families in which abuse has occurred, including environments where children spend their time such as school, neighbourhoods and the internet.
Over two days, child safe organisations, community leaders and professionals in the children’s education and care sectors, exchanged ideas on promising practice in the prevention of HSB. The symposium showcased community-led initiatives with an emphasis on innovative research and projects that are centred on contexts and environments.
The growing evidence-base coming out of the many diverse places and spaces from across Australia were platformed with a focus on implementation and evaluation – acknowledging that what works in one context may not translate to another. We were honoured to be invited to have a table at the Blue Borage Resource Showcase.
Daniel Morcombe Foundation Webinar | Bright Futures Series 2025
Where: Virtual | April 2025
What: Webinar Presentation
From Heartbreaking Reality to Realistic Hope: Lived Experience as a Compass for Preventing Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB)
This was a Pecha Kucha-style presentation that highlights how lived experience can inform prevention efforts, foster safer communities, and reshape how we respond to childhood harm.
Podcast Shows
In Conversation with Kristi McVee July 2025.
Work With Susan
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