We’ve arranged for our amazing international speakers to give a masterclass the day before the conference, so that we can all learn first hand from either The Care Lab or Shannon Weber. The masterclasses are not included in the conference ticket.
11 November 2025, 1:30—4:30pm
U City, Tarntanya—Adelaide, Australia
$198 incl. gst
30 minute afternoon tea included
THE CARE LAB
CARE REVOLUTIONARIES
CAPACITY: 50 PEOPLE
Can we talk about that?
Exploring taboos to unlock creativity
With Lekshmy & László of The Care Lab, you will discover some of the taboos that exist around care. We’ll explore together how we might use taboos as keys to unlock our potential for more compassionate and caring conversations.
The context of care is riddled with taboos; hidden themes and questions that we consciously, as well as subconsciously, have learned to navigate, avoid, ignore and in some cases even fear. Taboos exist on a personal, collective, organisational and societal level. In such a context, how can we bring our true selves to care for one another with authentic compassion? How are taboos blocking our capacity to care?
In this masterclass we’ll look at a framework, toolkit, and techniques to reveal and then work with taboos—practicing skills for bringing this new superpower into the context of your own work, teams and organisations.
SHANNON WEBER
HOPE ARCHITECT
CAPACITY: 25 PEOPLE
Hope Factory:
An interactive workshop for building organisational hope
Shannon Weber brings us Hope Factory—where leaders practise and build hope together. Interactive experiences developed from evidence-based practices teach practical methods for illuminating sustainable hope practices in communities and organisations.
Through collaborative exercises including Walls of Respair and Personal Hope Action Plan development, participants will learn tools to develop hope as a resilience strategy and skill for future-building. You’ll learn to notice existing hope signals, practise “respair” (recovering from despair), and choose hope habits that support both individual and organisational well-being.
Hope isn’t something we passively wait for—it’s a skill we build together.