Wantok Wanderers 🇵🇬🇦🇺

Due to monotropism, some autistic people hyperfocus on one thing at a time. This brings joy and a flow state but can mean it takes longer to transfer attention from one thing to another.
 
Read about our National Autism Trainer Programme: annafreud.org/training/healt…
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My first orchestral review for ArtsHub is now live — Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ’s ‘American Stories’ feat. emerging Aust'n trombonist Jonathon Ramsay, 4.5 stars. artshub.com.au/news/reviews/m…

We understand that people are looking for change in the military environment and post-service support. Commissioner Peggy Brown recently outlined what success could look like. #DVSRC

I'M GOING TO BE IN PLAYSCHOOL!!!

Family Day at ANVAM HQ

Registrations essential ⬇️
Limited 🎫 remaining for Jackie Case - Storytime 📕 & Artmaking 💫 anvam.org.au/events/storyti… #veteranartscommunity #families #carers #artsbasedengagement #communitybuilding #buildingcommunity Victorian Dept of Families, Fairness & Housing

Art therapy may also be especially useful in cases of moral injury 👉 militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/169/e1…

3rd Brigade Military Camera Team in Wewak, Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬🇦🇺

It's not every day that Chief of Navy Australia posts about a program specifically designed for #Defencepartners & parents. I'm buoyed by the way that Navy has gotten behind this trial. I hope to see backing of other innovations created by families 4 families in the near future #socent

1/2 ‘I often lived on soup, was late paying my rent and had an out-of-control credit card debt,' says TEDx alum, @RuthClareAuthor on how literally the cost of mental health support impacted her life (due to trauma resulting from being a child of a Vietnam War Veteran).

Details of our next working picnic tomorrow.

‘Through critical participatory, qualitative, quantitative & arts-based methods, our research team is focused on the relationships between arts participation & health in communities’ via
artsforeverybody.org/art-health-res…

What's your classic go-to phrase that no one outside the military uses? news.clearancejobs.com/2020/04/07/mil…

#VeteranArtsCommunity 📖

The ADF Creative Arts Association promotes artistic endeavour, expression & collaboration within #YourADF . Creativity is a vital component for how people think. It helps us to understand & be prepared to operate in advanced & complex environments.

Siege of Tobruk #veteransarts
Oct 1941 - 400 Aussie soldiers in an ammunition cave. ‘Highlight is one soldier’s stirring rendition of The Legion of the Lost, with the massed voices of the makeshift military choir bringing the song to a rousing finale’ via nfsa.gov.au/collection/cur…

'Art is how we explore, express, and process what words cannot—art is the channel through which the authorship of our narratives can be reclaimed and new horizons can be shaped.'

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3rd Brigade Military Camera Team in Wewak, Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬🇦🇺

A good start to the PNGDF Smartphone Photography Course in Wewak, covering photo composition, the benefits of positive public perception of the force, and how it can assist on operations. Supported by participants of our earlier course in Port Moresby to provide context 🇵🇬🇦🇺