THURSDAY WORKSHOPS 2.15pm – 3.30pm
Bev Ryan
Debbie Hilton
Michael Brummidge
Sue McGinty
Rikki Anderson
Bev Ryan
It’s Your Time: the 50+ advantage
Positively Productive Apps
The Joy or Writing Stories
The Tropical Brain and Mind
Serious about Farm Safety
Bev has been a career changer herself – quite a few times – and
has experienced career-changing events after the age of 50, one
of which was the opportunity to become a certified career coach
while managing a mature worker employment program.
Bev went on to publish a national women's magazine and now
loves her own portfolio career as a career transition coach and
book coach, because everyday she supports enlivened people to
achieve their own career-changing goals.
Workshop Details
This workshop is designed for women over 50 who
 Want to reclaim or refresh their life and their career,
 Start a new business
 Set up a portfolio of income streams.
The Worksop will cover
 Your own 'meaningful work'
 Your personal value proposition
 Developing an entrepreneurial mindset
 Profiting from passions.
Debbie Hilton
Bio - Debbie Hilton has over 20 years of experience providing
administration support for small to large businesses.
Debbie utilizes her technology skills and a flair for logistics to
manage and support in-house and public events
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EcoBiz workshops
PR events
Organizational meetings
Media workshops.
Debbie's experience in these areas also reach across a number of
industries including Public Relations, Manufacturing, Real Estate,
Transport, Consulting, Engineering, Retail and Community
Development.
Debbie has qualifications
 Multimedia and Bookkeeping
 Training in Workplace Health and Safety
 Payroll & HR, Administration
 IT (software, systems, hardware maintenance)
 Community Services and Web Development.
Thanks to a passion for new technologies and a love of learning,
Debbie has continued to update her skills, knowledge base and
seeks out ways to improve productivity and efficiency.
Workshop Details
The Positively Productive Presentation takes participants on a discovery journey through
apps and web based services that can make their lives easier and improve their business
productivity.
A PowerPoint presentation and a live demonstration of;
 Productivity apps and web services
 Including asana, harvest, jing and Google services
 Attendees will be given the opportunity to participate in the demonstration.
Michael
Brummidge
Bio - Michael knows we seek routine and comfort in our lives but
are enthralled by the unexpected; a funny moment in a story, a
quirky photo, or a film that touches our hearts. Through digital
technology we communicate and inspire.
He studied at James Cook University graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts (Honours) and worked for media production studios in
Townsville and in Brisbane; you can still hear his jingles on radio,
television and at the cinema. Michael is motivated by three main
passions:
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To meet interesting people every week,
To do something useful every day,
To explore forty countries by the age of forty.
He knows our modern lives are complicated, diverse and littered
by moments of clarity. He's aware of the cultural revolution
taking
place,
where,
thanks
to
advances
in
technology, everybody can now be creative; we can all write,
take photos, make films and are simultaneously the creators of
the stories we love, and the audience.
He has produced work for AIMS, ANHU, The Discovery Channel
and National Geographic, from locations all around the
world. And remember to recommend which country Michael
could explore next, he's got four more to explore.
Michael continually develops useful skills and knowledge for
project development, business strategy, multimedia storytelling
and community engagement. In 2011 Michael joined the awardwinning ABC Open team.
Workshop Details
Our overall aim of the ABC Open workshop is is to provide participants with the skills and
knowledge required to create and tell stories and publish these stories on the ABC. This
practical writing workshop session will focus on. The workshop encompasses
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Helping participants develop skills and knowledge required to write for online audiences
The joy of writing short stories - look at one of the ABC Open 500 words writing themes
How to create interesting titles, teasers and captions for social media
Blogging if time permits
Participants need: pen, paper, computer/tablet/smartphone.
Sue McGinty
Bio - Sue is Professor in the School of Indigenous Studies at JCU.
Prof McGinty education and achievements include
 Education and Indigenous Australian Studies
 Teacher and researcher with special expertise in
Indigenous Education
 Winning several nationally competitive grants
 Publishing many papers in her field of research as well as
on issues in higher education
 Postgraduate Teaching Award winner
Sue’s papers and research focus on examining ways of
reengaging young people who have disengaged from schooling,
and to create digital repositories for Indigenous histories. She
has been a successful supervisor of graduate students winning
an Australian Learning and Teaching Program Award for
Postgraduate Teaching and Supervision in 2009.
She has published, with Koo Yew Lie from Malaysia and Mahnaz
Saeidi from Iran, a cross-country study on research students'
perceptions of the role of supervision and cultural knowledge in
thesis production.
She is currently working with Dr Cathy Day on developing a
Foundation for the research of issues associated with the brain
and mind in the context of the tropics.
Workshop Details
For communities to flourish, individuals must also flourish which requires healthy minds
and bodies.
Populations in the tropical regions of Australia are the subject of major stress, trauma and
other diseases of the brain and mind. These range from children suffering from various
forms of abuse and neglect which can lead to serious physical and mental health issues, to
veterans returning from deployment to war zones with post-traumatic stress disorders.
Stress can also be found in farming communities, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
communities, and living in the tropics has its own set of issues.
Participants will be involvement though a “think tank”.
Ricky Anderson
Bio - Ricky is a Senior Advisor for the Injury Prevention and
Management Program Agriculture Unit, Department of Justice
and Attorney-General, and grew up in Mount Isa, Queensland.
 Bachelor of Sport and Exercise
 Post-Graduate Diploma in Science, Exercise Physiology
(Clinical),
 Diploma of Government (Workplace Inspections)
 Certificate IV in Government (Investigation)
Six years as a Work Health and Safety Inspector, Workplace
Health and Safety Queensland
She is currently competing in Ironman triathlon races trying to
qualify for the Hawaiian Ironman World Championships and ran
a marathon in Florence recently. Ricky’s next challenge is a
marathon this coming November in Las Vegas.
Workshop Details
WHSQ Agriculture Unit has developed the 'Serious about Farm Safety' guide for small to
medium sized businesses.
The guide contains information, samples and templates to assist these businesses to meet
the compliance obligations through developing a safety management system.
The Guide is an overview of the elements of developing the safety management system
and help to demystify the process which they can then apply to their own business.
Each participant will receive a copy of the guide, including the templates, on CD.