Events

Guest Speaker - Justin Madden OAM
AFL Player with 332 games with Carlton and Essendon football clubs, President of hte AFL Players Association (1990 - 1997),  AFL Sports Commentator, Member of the State Parliament of Victoria 1999 - 2014

Dave Burt -- Founder and Director of SALT - Sport and Life Training
Dave has served as the Sports Chaplain and Head of Welfare at the Eastern Ranges Football Club, and has represented the Victorian Co-ordinator fo Sports Chaplaincy Australia and the Crisis Response Chaplain for a number of Football leagues.  Dave will provide us with an update on SALT's expansion into Victorian sport.
 

Tickets:  $60.00 per person (includes a cooked breakfast) - 50c fee per ticket applies
Book online https://www.trybooking.com/CBJHX

Proceeds from the event go to SALT to support their work with sporting clubs and schools in the promotion of positive attitudes and relationships in life.

For table bookings:  Please contact Julian Badenach 
jbadenach@woodards.com.au  or  0414 609 665
 

Dr Tiffani Howell is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University. She is interested in all aspects of human-animal relationships, including animal welfare.  Tiffani recently completed a four-year trial, funded by the Australian Department of Veterans’ Affairs, to understand the effectiveness of assistance dogs as an adjunct to treatment for veterans with PTSD. She has also recently jointly led a project commissioned by the Australian National Disability Insurance Agency, in which existing scientific literature was reviewed to determine the effectiveness of assistance dogs. 

Micro mobility is an emerging feature of our community.  Whilst the City of Whitehorse is yet to engage in a trial of these travel modalities - Geoff will take us into the work of micromobility, the benefits, challenges and societal impacts.

Think "Old People's Home for 4 year old" and Old People's Home for Teenagers and you are thinking along the right lines.  This work is more than a script for our ABC and Mark is in the centre of it.

Mark is the  ‘Coordinator Swinburne University Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults’ and he will share the essential elements of the work that he is doing, some of it, with the help of Rotary Clubs in Booroondara.

Responding to the request for more information - this will be an online session - as our meeting venue is not available.   Settle in, BYOD (bring your own device!) and let's take a walk through the features that are now at our finger tips.

Please make sure you have logged into the member area of our website before the meeting.

Responding to the request from our Club Assembly - Ian has been asked by our Ken Miller (current District Governor) to provide an update on the progress and highlights of the merger that will see the two current areas known as District 9810 and District 9820 become a new larger District 9815.

Ian has just returned from USA where he attended International Assembly (training school for District Governors!) and we anticipate that he will have an insight into how we are progressing compared with other mergers in the Rotary world.

Dean Bragonier is the Founder and Executive Dyslexic of NoticeAbility Inc, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students with dyslexia identify their unique strengths and build self-esteem.

Shaped by the challenges associated with his dyslexia and after struggling through the traditional secondary education system, Dean became a diligent and successful college student who developed a true love of learning at Bates College. Upon graduation, Dean embraced his entrepreneurial instincts and acquired a small seasonal restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard Island that he transformed into a successful full-scale enterprise. It was through this endeavour that he was able to contextualize his years of laborious academic learning and discover the true gifts of his dyslexic mind.

As a social entrepreneur, Dean has founded his own nonprofit organizations and served as a board member and advisor to a number of others. NoticeAbility is the culmination of Dean’s passion for education and his conviction that the advantages of dyslexia far outweigh its associated challenges.

Join us from 7:00 a.m. (with a tight finish at 9:00 a.m.) for the International Women's Day Breakfast which will be celebrated at Box Hill Town Hall.