Behind The Couch — Caddyshack Project

July 12, 2024:

Teddy Cook is ACON’S Director of community health, where he oversees client services and LGBTQ+ health, equity, and harm reduction programs and wellbeing. Watch his powerful speech to parliament in 2021 as then Vice President of Australian Professional Association of Trans Health (AusPATH).

Dai Aoki is an active member of the Sydney gay community and has been HIV positive for more than 20 years. Dai migrated to Australia in 2001, from Japan. Dai is also a keen advocate for HIV positive people, a HIV positive public speaker with Positive Life NSW Positive Speakers Bureau (PSB).

Zainab Ali Kahiye is a Somalian woman who has lived with HIV for 40 years. A mother of six and grandmother to eleven, Zainab has called Australian home since 1998. Fluent in English, Somali, Swahili and Indonesian, Zainab works as an interpreter and co-worker with the Multicultural HIV and Hep C Service (MHAHS). She is a HIV positive public speaker with Positive Life NSW Positive Speakers Bureau (PSB).

Saul Ibister is a Sex worker activist and President of Touching Base Inc. Saul has over 30 years’ experience as a sex worker in both New Zealand and Australia and is co-editor of the Touching Base Policy and Procedural Guide for disability service providers supporting clients to access sex services (2010). Saul has a keen interest in professional development as a sex worker and has experience seeing clients with a range of special needs.

Julie Bates is the Principal of Urban Realists Planning & Health Consultants. She is also a sex worker and has been a harm reduction advocate and sex worker rights activist for more than half her life. Today she is a political lobbyist for the decriminalisation of sex work and social researcher investigating harms associated with legislative regimes that criminalise aspects of the sex industry. Her sex work practice today focuses on senior citizens living with a range of disabilities including dementia both in and outside of care facilities.

Dianne Nyoni is a national public speaker, blogger and entrepreneur. Dianne is a loving mother of four children and has previously worked in the field of Domestic Violence and supporting people through trauma. She has a degree in Social Science and has been on numerous boards and was the former chair of the National Women’s Network for women living with HIV. Dianne is passionate about raising awareness and empowering people to stop new HIV infections after surviving her own AIDS diagnosis 15 years ago.

Fast forward to now and why we shifted to being online and more intentional about our digital presence. We touched on the “On The Couch” webinars in the April 2023 blog.

OTC is a bit like the old iceberg analogy. The one hour webinar is the tip of the iceberg, but loads goes into making that one hour actually happen beneath the surface. We have a modest budget for speakers as of course we want to honour and value people’s time (but most guests appear pro bono) and we do the bulk of the back end work to make the experience as seamless as possible for them.

It’s one of those strange things that when you look at the overview of an annual calendar, take out all the school holidays and bump in and out around public holidays (obvs December and January are a wipe out), there are only a few solid months to promote and run webinars. We have found 6-8 OTC guests per annum to be the ideal amount.

Creating a webinar checklist involves selecting guests, locking in a date, building tickets, PowerPoint book ends, thumbnail tiles for promotion across all platforms and so on. One of the things we need to be very mindful of, is, if we do record the webinar, is the guest happy to have that loaded onto our YouTube channel in perpetuity, or for a limited time, or as an unlisted video that only those people who registered will get the link to. Maddy also likes to use bites from the recording to use for reels on The Gram, all with the hosts permission and consent of course! Coming soon! We are behind the scenes turning the publicly listed webinars into podcasts. Launching in June 2024!

Anyway, a quick look back at previous online OTC episodes and some of the fab guests you may want to catch up on either by watching or listening to the recordings.

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