Discover the possibilities with insights from local, national, and international experts in intergenerational practice. Explore innovative local projects and approaches to intergenerational practice. Engage in immersive workshops led by young creative professionals from Perseverance Street Theatre Company. Network with community members, intergenerational practitioners, health care professionals and researchers.
When: Thursday 21 November 2024, 9am - 3.30pm
Where: UniSC Gympie, 71 Cartwright Road, Gympie
Register: Here
Registration fee: $25.00. Students free (please use the code HealthAge). This includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
Meet the Speakers
Keynote Speaker, Professor Tokie Anme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
Tokie Anme, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of International Community Care and Life-span Development: Empowerment Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan. She serves on the President of International Systems Sciences in Health-Social Services, and President of Japanese Academy on Systems Sciences for Health Social Services. She is one of the leader of evidence based child care, healthy longevity, intergenerational activities, co-creative wellbeing research and practice, and international community empowerment.
Topic: Co-creative Wellbeing for Empowering inter-generational Opportunities: Worldwide action research and theories. Wellbeing, encompassing peace of mind, happiness, health, and welfare, has long been discussed concerning individual welfare. However, a person cannot achieve and maintain wellbeing alone. We can achieve wellbeing only when we are together with others and with our environment. Indeed, human survival is supported by Co-creative Wellbeing that exists with others and with the environment.
This lecture delves deeply into this novel way of being and aims to develop a more thorough understanding of the wellbeing and prosperity of co-survival in the future
Associate Professor Jennifer Cartmel, School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University
Associate Professor Jennifer Cartmel is from the School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University and a member of the Australian Institute of Intergenerational Practice. AIIP is a community organisation aims to bring together intergenerational stakeholders to advance mutually beneficial, evidence-based intergenerational activities to generate inclusive, age-friendly communities for children, teenagers, older adults, families and carers, the workforce, volunteers and the wider community.
Topic: New learnings about joining young and old. Intergenerational programs have mutual benefits to all those who participate. The opportunities for children to achieve outcomes such as contributing to and connecting to the world and having a strong sense of wellbeing are heightened through intergenerational initiatives.
In this session Jennifer shares some of the projects in which she has been involved in recent times. Jennifer has been working with university students on research projects, organisations planning and implementing programs and visits across Australia to chat with children and young people and older adults about their experiences. Jennifer will also discuss some of the insights she has discovered about how to sustainably integrate intergenerational programs into the practice of childhood services.
Angela Jacobsen, Program Coordinator, Paper Planes Intergenerational Play, ComLink Australia
Angela Jacobsen is the Program Coordinator and the driving force behind the highly successful Paper Planes Intergenerational Play program for Comlink Australia. She is a qualified & experienced Diversional Therapist with a nursing background.
Angela is passionate about the continual growth and development of Paper Planes. She plans to further invest time in understanding and measuring the positive outcomes of ‘risk-taking’ and the impact to the health and wellbeing of our wonderful participants.
Topic: Paper Planes Intergenerational Play Program, From Pilot….to Take Off. This presentation unveils the transformative outcomes of Comlink Australia’s Paper Planes Intergenerational Play Program facilitated in the Kindergarten Classroom, where children interact with senior members of the local community during weekly Play-based Learning Sessions of the Education Curriculum.
Dr Andy Ward, songwriter, producer, researcher and Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Music, UniSC
Dr Andy Ward is a songwriter, producer, and researcher focusing on contemporary songwriting, popular music production, and popular culture. His work spans multiple major and independent record labels and is internationally awarded, with his most recent major label project receiving 3 gold records from the European market.
Andy brings his years of industry practice to academia, and today continues to work with major record labels and music publishers on developing songs and artists from around the world.
His research is focused on creative practice music, health, and wellbeing, de-weaponising music, music industry research, regional and remote music, sustainability in creative economies, and further establishing songwriting-as-research.
Topic: Intergenerational considerations in research and teaching. Dr Ward will discuss ongoing intergenerational Work Integrated Learning project highlighting the interdirectional action that takes place between all participants. In addition, I explore the ways in which two distinct research projects embrace intergenerational connection to explore both creativity and wellbeing, and the future of the retirement sector.
Chris Seiboth, Executive Lead Community Services, Lutheran Services
Chris Seiboth is an experienced senior executive providing operational leadership of hospitals, aged care, community-based health and social services in South Australia and Queensland. He has led major capital investment and service realignment projects that delivered improved access to care and support through collocated and integrated service centres.
Topic: The Interoperability of Place - applying Universal Design Goals & Principles to Intergenerational Space and Programs. Lutheran Services historically has designed, constructed, and commissioned services and facilities for discrete target groups including residential aged care, retirement living, mental health and disability services. These services have been designed to meet the specific needs of the identified clients without consideration of other potential users. The presentation will outline our interoperable design journey and showcase the opportunities, inherent challenges, and learnings we have encountered.
Perseverance Street Theatre Company - immersive workshop
Perseverance Street is an independent theatre company proudly based in Gympie, Queensland. They build thoughtfully imagined and remarkable new work infused with an authentic connection to people and place. Their work is shaped by a strong focus on representing regional voices and stories. They are committed to building theatre with purpose by utilizing the transformational power of drama, applied theatre and performance to foster wellbeing, resilience and connectedness. A hub of cultural exchange in the Wide Bay Region, Perseverance Street supports young, emerging and or regional artists by providing an inclusive space for the development of creative skills and practice.
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