FREE EVENT
Sat, 21 Jun, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Williamstown Bowling Club
BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL Q&A
How to Survive the Next 100 Years
Lessons from Nature
Plus your chance to WIN a trip for 2 to South Africa!
“The perfect antidote to doomscrolling and feeling helpless in the face of seemingly unstoppable global events.”
Dr Jen Bowden, Curtin University
We promise you will leave this lively and informative event with a whole new appreciation for the world around you and real ideas on how to make your own difference!
Learn how community-led conservation is unlocking the power of nature to restore local economies and ecosystems, including ground-breaking work in Port Phillip Bay.
PRESENTATION: Introduction & Feature (7:00 – 7:45PM)
From chimps to mini-cars, brain parasites to whale personhood, farming with bandicoots, stressful grasshopper and human nutrition, the key to avoiding disaster is to work within the natural balance of our beautiful world – contained within our minds and everything around us is the solution to our anxiety.
Ecologist and naturalist Simon Mustoe will reveal to us how we can consume a more balanced variety of knowledge to become healthier and happier by reconnecting with nature.
PANEL: Community-led Conservation & Port Phillip Bay (7:45PM – 8:15PM)
Josie Gibson (CatalystFX) will moderate a Q&A with very special panel guests and experts in community-centred conservation, Anissa Lawrence of the OceanEarth Foundation and Donalea Patman OAM of For the Love of Wildlife Ltd. This is a chance to learn more about how Lessons from Nature are teaching us a new way to look after our local environment, including Port Phillip Bay.
About our presenters
Simon Mustoe, Author, Ecologist and Project Manager of Restore the Bay
Simon Mustoe is an ecologist, artist, expedition leader and naturalist with a passion for connecting humans with the natural world. He’s tumbled in boats amid frigid north Atlantic storms, trekked solo into Madagascar’s remote dry forests and sailed the archipelagos of West Papua. As a teenager he helped produce BBC nature documentaries and as an adult he has worked with some of the world’s leading conservation, wildlife and ecology organisations. His first book, Wildlife in the Balance, received critical acclaim from the likes of Dame Joanna Lumley and Ian Redmond OBE. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Josie Gibson, Director of CatalystFX and The Catalyst Network
Josie Gibson is Director of strategic advisory firm CatalystFX and The Catalyst Network, a changemaker community she co-founded. She is an experienced leadership coach, creative mentor and strategic adviser on complex business and community projects. A former journalist specialising in geopolitics, Josie has held senior roles in diverse organisations, her experience spanning all sectors. On the commercial side, she has co-founded and led several businesses and built thriving networks for senior executives and women leaders in global companies. Josie serves on a number of enterprise advisory groups and is an Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT University’s FORWARD Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation in Melbourne.
Anissa Lawrence, Managing Director and Founder of the OceanEarth Foundation
The OceanEarth Foundation focuses on building resilient communities and reversing nature loss by unlocking transformation change, using systems thinking to scale programs that bring lasting impact. With a background in the corporate world and coastal marine and fisheries conservation across Asia Pacific, she works to enable innovative approaches and dynamic collaborations, foster future change makers and drive community-led actions focused on impact and scaling for our oceans.
Donalea Patman OAM, Founder For the Love of Wildlife Ltd
Driven by a deep love for wildlife, nature and wild places, Donalea founded For the Love of Wildlife Ltd in 2014 to address the escalating extinction crisis. This followed 25 years in design and global corporate communications, where she became Director at just 24. Her leadership led to Australia’s world-first ban on lion trophy imports and national action on the ivory and rhino horn trade. In recognition of her tireless advocacy, she was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2017. Today, she leads Project PanGaia from Western Australia. In partnership with Elder, Preston Thomas – restoring ecosystems, biodiversity and communities starting in the heart of Australia’s Gibson Desert.
