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Hope and Healing from Weaponised Shame

Wednesday, May 14, 2025
3:35 PM - 4:35 PM

Overview

Kate Seselja, Founder the Hope Project


Speaker

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Mrs Kate Seselja
Founder
The Hope Project Australia

Hope and Healing from Weaponised Shame

Abstract

Australia is the nation experiencing the highest level of gambling harm in the world per adult population and this keynote addresses how we got here and the hope and healing our gambling harmed communities need.

Biography

Kate is a national advocate for gambling reform, a recovery coach and Founder of The Hope Project Australia. Kate has delivered countless presentations to workplaces, schools, community groups and universities on the impact of gambling harm and her lived experience. Co-Chair of both Canberra Gambling Reform Alliance and Gambling Harm Lived Experience Experts -GHLEE. Kate is a TEDx and keynote speaker and has also been featured extensively in the media, podcasts and news articles over the past decade of her advocacy. Kate is also a proud mum of 6 and recently become a grandma.
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