May 2024 Annual General Meeting
Date and time
Sunday, 26 May 2024 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM AEST
Location
Kirribilli Neighbourhood Centre 16-18 Fitzroy Street Kirribilli, NSW 2061 Australia
Free for members$25 for non-members
RSVP essential – by 30 April 2024
Over a sumptuous Champagne morning tea in this heritage building with magnificent harbour bridge views, get ready to connect with fellow members, share ideas, and contribute to the growth of our association. Let’s work together to build a stronger and more resilient community. We can’t wait to see you there!
Boost your mind
Did you know that fluency in two or more languages boosts your child’s growth mindset?
Enrol now for a bright future with Mandarin speech, reading and writing.
$55 voucher available to members to go towards Mandarin classes. Check out our membership benefits! Already a member, get your voucher by contacting us.
Recognising the cognitive and personal growth benefits of learning a second language, the Chinese Learning Centre and Resilience Together Association Inc. proudly partner to bring you:
Beginners Mandarin Class for children aged 6 to 13 years old. Entry level class for non -Mandarin speakers.
Location: Castle Cove Public School on Thursdays from 3:30pm to 5:30pm.
Term 2 commences: Thursday 2 May 2024. Children learn and practise Mandarin with friends through games at class and have three books to take home to reinforce learning.
Recent research on a group of more than 800 pupils has highlighted that the more multilingual pupils are, the higher their GCSE (HSC? For Australia) subject scores. Researchers consider that this may be due to children who see themselves as multilingual, may have a ‘growth mindset’, which has a positive influence on academic performance.
Having a growth mindset means having self-belief, understanding that skills and abilities can be developed, and training to reframe setbacks as new challenges to overcome. These are clearly very useful qualities for people who learn a new language. A child learning a language, will face some challenges. The complexity of speech, conversation, reading and writing experiences, can help develop a child’s attitude in a positive way to influence other areas of life. Students who speak two or more languages fluently may find unique opportunities. They may be more motivated to go outside of their comfort zone, develop perseverance and appreciate potential rewards, such as living in another country, experiencing mind-opening cultural experiences, and meeting new people.
Other benefits of learning a second language include:
- improved attention, mental alertness,
- creative flexibility and better problem solving.
- Children that speak more than one language learn to negotiate meaning as a crucial part of communicating in more than one language system.
- This also helps them with problem-solving tasks, and gives children the ability to seek different approaches to solve a problem.
- Better understanding of other cultures and connecting with people that speak other languages
September 2023 – To Care For…
March 2023 – Celebrate
Celebrate Women
Finalists have been annouced! The event has been fully booked.
NSW Women’s Week shines a light on the diverse contribution women make to our industries, communities and society. Partnered with Women NSW, Resilience Together Association Inc (RTAI) celebrates the contribution of women through the NSW Women’s Contribution Awards.
NSW Women’s Contribution Awards is supported with funding from the NSW Government’s 2023 NSW Women’s Week Grants program as well as our sponsors.
The awards will be a celebration of women from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds (CALD). There will an award for each one of these areas:
- Supporting women’s health
- Building women’s resilience
- Enhancing women’s empowerment
- Advancing women’s opportunity
Dress Code: Cocktail or dress celebrating your cultural heritage welcomed.
Outline: The awards will be presented by our Members of Parliament followed by refreshment and canapes.
Nominations for NSW Women’s Contribution Awards are now closed
We are now inviting nominations for the NSW Women’s Contribution Awards. By agreeing to be the nominee, the nominee permits the event organiser and its associated entities to contact them and further consent that their profile will be featured on our event websites and social media as well as at the event. These will provide wide recognition as well as positive endorsement for the nominees and her work. Please email your nominations to event@ResilienceTogether.org.au. The nomination closes on 24 February.
Please include:
1) Your contact details (email and contact phone number)
2) The contact details of the person you are nominating (nominee)
3) A short outline of why you are nominating; including examples of how they have demonstrated outstanding and/or enduring contribution in any one of the following areas.
· Supporting women’s health
· Building women’s resilience
· Enhancing women’s empowerment
· Advancing women’s opportunity
Please include the role the nominee played and the impact her contribution had on women. (no more than 300 words)
5) The period of time, or dates of service (if known)
January 2023 – Boost your mind
Do you know multilingual boosts your children’s growth mindset?
Recognising the cognitive and wellbeing benefits of learning a second language, Chinese Learning Centre (CLC) and Resilience Together Association Incorporated (RTAI) partnered to bring you the free-trial of beginners’ Chinese for children from 4 – 15 years old. The trial will provide your children a postive experinec of the beginner Chinese class. At the same time, the parents of the students are welcomed to participate in the free class of Teacher Fan’s IT to slow down the speed of memory decline – Australia Multicultural Brain Training Camp.
Recent research carried out on more than 800 pupils has highlighted that the more multilingual pupils consider themselves to be, the higher their GCSE scores in all kinds of subjects. Researchers who carried out the study think that this may be due to the fact that children who see themselves as multilingual may have a ‘growth mindset’, which impacts positively on their academic performance.
Having a growth mindset means having self-belief, understanding that skills and abilities are not fixed but can be developed, and being able to reframe setbacks as new challenges to overcome. These are clearly very useful qualities for people learning new languages, an endeavour which is riddled with uncertainty and arguably quite challenging. It is interesting to think that learning new languages, and valuing that complex experience, can help to develop one’s attitudes in a way which will affect other areas of life. Indeed, multilinguals who are aware that using several languages with fluency can provide special opportunities may be more motivated to take risks, persevere with their learning, and to appreciate its many potential rewards, such as living abroad, experiencing mind-opening cultural experiences, and meeting new people.
Other benefits of learning a second language include:
- improved attention, mental alertness
- creative flexibility and better problem solving: Children that speak more than one language learn to negotiate meaning as a crucial part of communicating in more than one language system. This also helps them with problem-solving tasks, and gives children the ability to seek different approaches to solve a problem.
- Better understanding of other cultures and connecting with people that speak other languages
One of our missions is to enhance social and personal resilience through community activities. We connect people through cultural and sporting events. We celebrate our diverse ethnic backgrounds that enriched our lives in Australia. Our wide ranges of events have the ability to tailor for people from diverse linguistic backgrounds and mitigate any language barriers.
We collaborate and engage with both professional and community organisations as well as government at all levels. Working with our affiliated partners, we bring you a wide range of events that will surely provide food for thought and boost your resilience. Why not sign up to our newsletter and be notified of our exciting events.
November 2022 – Empowerment
Shape Your Wellbeing Ecosystem
For the Month of November, we’d proudly support and recommend to you taking part in the initiatives of shaping a wellbeing ecosystem. The ball starts rolling in Strathfield – a highly culturally and linguistically diverse LGA. Take your wellbeing in your hands, learn more and help to shape your wellbeing ecosystem. The journey starts here
A free community seminar to launch Wellbeing Strathfield: Healthier Happier at 6.30pm on Wednesday, 30 November at ACU Strathfield Campus!
Physical, mental, social, environmental and economic wellbeing are interrelated and mutually dependent. You can’t fix one without the other.
This initiative has been the product of 4 months work with over 50 stakeholder groups and we would love residents’ input and involvement.
Wellbeing Strathfield is a 10 year strategy to improve the comprehensive wellbeing of our local area with initiatives owned and driven by the community through partnership with government and business.
SPEAKERS:
Prof Stephen Simpson AC, Charles Perkins Institute
Prof Maree Teeson AC, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use
Tara Veldman, Director, Billard Leece Partnership Architects and Urban Planners
VENUE: Gleeson Auditorium, Australian Catholic University, 25A Barker Rd, Strathfield NSW 2135
TRANSPORT: ACU shuttle buses run every 20-30 minutes from Strathfield Station or there is parking onsite
October 2022 – Food for thought
‘Moments in China’ Exhibition
For the October’s Food for Thought, we’d proudly support and recommend Marcus Reubenstein’s ‘Moments in China’ Exhibition in Chatswood. The photo exhibition reveals the China he saw over 10 years of working, living and traveling in China as a journalist and as an expat.
No matter what your depth of understanding or current perception of China have been, the exhibition is bound to enlighten you with refreshing perspectives, deeply personal sentiment and provocative ‘food for thought’ through his lens. The event is free and runs from 19th to 30th October 2022 at Art Space on the Concourse, Chatswood.
Over a period of ten years from 2009 to 2019, Marcus Reubenstein travelled to more than 30 cities across China, capturing candid images of ordinary Chinese people both in traditional and modern settings.The 20 works for this exhibition were selected from a total of more than 22,000 images; none of the subjects posed for these images. The artist’s hope is to capture moments in such a way as to prompt the viewer to consider the individual subjects against the backdrop of an enormous country of 1.4 billion people.
Wish to be notified for the exciting upcoming events? Contact Us.