Petrea King (Quest for Life) talks with the Queensland Rural Women’s Network about trauma, loss and grief. She provides practical guidance about how these affect children, adults and communities and what we can do to ease the pain and difficulty, for ourselves and others. This information takes the form of video discussion and interview. These […]
It was important for me to attend the ceremony today to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Canberra Bushfires. This was an important marker in time for many of us – ‘before’ the fires and ‘after’ the fires. Like others present I remember the day clearly and have my own story of fear, action, […]
Sometimes children and others find comics a useful way to understand or come to terms with a recent disaster like a fire. The oatmeal.com/comics provides a short comic strip about a boy and one of the family cats – particularly when the family’s house burns down. This might be useful as a […]
Having spent the past couple of days at the South Coast of NSW on annual holiday, I am only too aware of the fires burning around this state and Tasmania. I’m sure there are others as well. My gratitude and admiration go out to the Fire Fighters and the Emergency Services personnel who are trying […]
As Christmas approaches I am realising that I’ve been reading, listening to others, and learning about disaster recovery and community resilience for 9 months now. The more reports and documents that I read, the more people in local government, in the emergency services and in the non-goverment sector that I meet, the more impressed I […]
Some more information has been added to tools, links and resources – continuing the process of learning about what resilient communities are doing for themselves in recovery.
Pat tells her story of surviving the fires, a project for women that was implemented after the fires, and of how this experience has changed her view (and her husband’s) of her fire plan. (Please be aware that some viewers may be concerned about some language at the end […]
Initially I was concerned that much of the literature that I would read, would be highly ‘academic’ – in the sense that it would be ‘disconnected from the real world’. I have now read approximately 150 articles or books and I am finding that it is very focussed on the real world. Many writers […]
Ideas and information in support of my work, arrive regularly from friends. People are beginning to learn that I’m doing this research. They are keen to help and so they send me things that they notice. I love that my friends do this – it is a personal demonstration of community support and resilience – […]
There is so much information available about disaster management and disaster response. It is quite a daunting task to become well read and well informed about this topic area. There is a large amount of information about disasters overseas – research has been done about disasters across Asia and for large scale recent disasters like […]