Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup - 12 February 2024

We have an extra special event for February, an in-person event to meet and chat with Nataly Tormey to discuss trauma-informed design and other inclusive research projects and ideas.

Please RSVP to attend this event in person at the Southern Cross Club, Woden. The booking allows for people to buy their own food and drink at the restaurant and join us in the Community Lounge.

4.30-5.00pm - networking and order dinner
5.00-5.40pm - Nataly presentation + intro to one story
5.40-6.00pm - Nataly, Wendy and Bri talk about one story
6.00-6.30pm - Dinner
6.30-7.00pm - Additional networking

Please email [info@ozewai.org](mailto:info@ozewai.org) if you wish to share any tools, communication methods or anything else we should consider to ensure you can fully participate in this event.

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Nataly is a well-known, passionate and inspiring leader in Care Advocacy, Care Advisory and Care Design, who brings a depth of experience over two decades. A Registered Nurse (DIV1) Nataly champions accountability, and responsibility in care practices, applying design principles to protect the practice of care in organisations across governance, culture, innovation, experience and impact.

Nataly has worked across the community and corporate sectors including health and social care and education. Nataly integrates her lived/ing experiences into her work and has been invited to share lived/ing experience insights to shape design in this space.

Nataly’s initial work as a social entrepreneur developed an initiative co-designing 200+ locally-led, community-driven social enterprises created to address unmet social and health community needs. For this work she was awarded Women of Influence - Financial Review (2018), Australian Small Business Champion Awards - Finalist Childrens Services (2019), Westfield Local Hero (2019), and Top 6 Finalist for Kenneth Myer Fellowship (2021).

Later Nataly was engaged by Meld Studios working as a Senior Designer. Meld Studios is an award winning Design Agency. During this time Nataly worked on large-scale social and health projects where she led inclusive and trauma-informed research approaches and design that contributed to more inclusive spaces in the justice system, ticketing in transport, co-design workshops that build future strategy and coaching for internal teams to improve their practice of design.

Currently Nataly is dedicated to Care Design, the act of designing to protect the practice of care. Nataly is on an world-wide adventure, as a sole parent world-schooling her children, and world-working. Nataly is researching Care and Relationships: Across Different Cultures and Communities and facilitating local meet ups to connect people who are passionate about Care, Design and Impact.

Image description: a photo of Parliament House in Canberra in the background of balloons and people visiting for the Enlighten event (Photo: Alex Norton)