C&K 2024 Conference
Every Day Matters: For every child. For you. For impact.
C&K’s annual conference is back in 2024, and will be on Saturday, 20 July 2024 at the Royal International Convention Centre in Bowen Hills, Meanjin Brisbane. Early childhood professionals, policymakers, researchers, and academics will have the opportunity to come together to discuss Every Day Matters.
More than 600 attendees are expected to attend and connect, exchange ideas and learn from some of Australia’s premier early childhood education and care experts.
A range of interesting ideas, research, projects and stories of practice will be shared on topics including reconciliation, gender identity and diversity, social justice and trauma-informed practice. Delegates can attend workshops, interactive roundtable discussions and presentations to explore the conference themes in more depth. The program is being developed, so check back for regular updates.
The event will be hosted by Catharine Hydon, a passionate early childhood advocate, with extensive experience across the sector. Catharine will draw on her unique experience to motivate and inspire attendees to explore excellence in early childhood service provision.
600+
ECEC attendees
20+
presenters
30+
exhibitors
GINA CHICK
Gina Chick is an international rewilding facilitator, helping people of all ages learn to be at home in the wild. Her nature connection programs weave ancestral hunter-gatherer technologies into modern life, mining strategies that kept Homo Sapiens alive for 350 000 years for lessons to enrich our lives now. She recently spent 67 days surviving in the subzero Tasmanian wilderness in the middle of winter, completely solo and often barefoot. She wove a waterproof shelter, slept in a hand-sewn possum fur coat and lived on fried worms, lizards, grubs, trout, and eel. Gina filmed her adventures with a photographer's eye for beauty and inspired 1.5 million people to look at nature differently along the way. She runs Rewild Your Child camps eight weeks a year, where 200 people come together to create a village in the wilderness, focusing on nature connection. These were Australia's first rewilding family camps and have been running for over a decade. She also runs solo wilderness rite of passage programs and group survival quests. Gina's articles have appeared in The Guardian, News.com.au, Mamamia and SBS.com.au. You can find her hugely popular blog, Unmet Friends, on Substack. Her first book is due in 2024.
An hour with Gina is a journey through a vastly textured landscape, an adventure likely to leave you feeling inspired and connected and ready to embrace the wild in all its forms, possibly even without shoes