Connect with others. Join our events.
We organise regular events, big and small, to bring Northern Rivers community members together.
Rising Together
Join us for Plan C’s Rising Together Community Resilience Events
We are thrilled that the Northern Rivers Community Foundation grant is helping to support empowering events aimed at supporting our community to transition from flood recovery to disaster resilience.
We are excited about our upcoming calendar of small community gatherings where collaboratively designed + facilitated sessions will focus on transitioning from trauma to resilience. We’re keeping registrations capped at 25 to create opportunities for deeper connections. (We will create waiting lists)
From May to December, we’re hosting gatherings across the Northern Rivers LGAs. You are more than welcome to register for any event, even if you live/work in a different LGA. If you are passionate about transitioning from trauma to recovery and building resilience then these sessions are for you!
Each gathering will:
strengthen connections between CCRs + community members and anyone interested in building community networks
provide inspiration from shared stories
develop disaster-preparation + resilience skills/strategies
be fun and offer a counter-balance to the hard work you’ve been doing in communities
improve wellbeing and get support to recover from floods/bushfires/Covid
Facing Up: how do we live in the midst of the climate and ecological crises?
Facing Up is a series of trauma-informed conversations that focuses on the social, economic, cultural, political, emotional and spiritual consequences of the ecological crisis.
In a series of public conversations, held monthly from March to November this year, some of Australia’s leading thinkers consider our place in a rapidly transformed world, and how we might think, feel and act in ways that are grounded, empowering and life-affirming.
Our starting point is an acceptance of the prevailing scientific evidence on the climate predicament and destruction of biodiversity. As we’re all aware, this predicament points to an extremely precarious future for all planetary species. Inevitably, we will have to face up to many pressing questions:
How and where are we to live in such circumstances?
How do we deal with troubling emotions?
What will future communities look like?
What forms will power and politics take?
What will climate activism look like?
What role do racial justice and gender equity play in all this?
What can we learn from Indigenous cultures?
The Facing Up sessions are held every last Wednesday of the month, from March to November, alternating between the Brunswick Picture House, the Regent Theatre in Murwillumbah and the Bowling club in Lismore.
The list of guest speakers and details of times and locations are provided here. Register to our email distribution list to remain updated.
Join us and learn how we can grow our acceptance and strength to support each other in this period of significant change. And ultimately Face Up to the challenges ahead.
Supported by the Northern Rivers Community Foundation and Healthy North Coast
Workshops and field visits
In addition to our CCR training, First Aid training and Psychological First Aid training, we organise regular and free workshops and field visits focused on regenerative practices and community resilience.
The purpose of these workshops and field visits is to nurture the CCR network and help CCRs deepen their skills.
Examples of community workshops include a 4h workshop on setting up a community radio communications system; a 6h workshop on herbal first-aid; a 3h workshop on grants writing; a 1-day workshop on growing food in your backyard, etc.
Examples of field visits include a 2h visit to someone's place who renovated their house to be flood or bushfire resilient; a 1h gathering around emergency communication self-powered trailer; a 2h visit to a suburban food-growing backyard, etc. Such field visits are followed with shared lunch/drinks to allow further connection time among participants.
Enroll in our CCR program to attend these workshops and field visits.