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 | 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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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, will exchange ideas on promising practice in the prevention of PHSB, with more presenters to be announced over the coming months. The symposium will showcase 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 will be platformed with a focus on implementation and evaluation – acknowledging that what works in one context may not translate to another. Register Here. You will find Susan at the Blue Borage Resource Showcase. If you’re there please drop by and say Hello!

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 shares practical strategies to break cycles of dysfunction and empower survivors and their families, highlighting the role of conscious communication and trauma-informed leadership.

Past Events & Appearances

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.

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