Australian BPD Foundation Conference 2025 - Flagship Event for BPD Awareness Week

“1 in 10: Uniting for Change” is the Australian BPD Foundation’s flagship national conference, uniting clinicians, carers, consumers, and policymakers around one urgent goal: ending the tragic statistic that one in ten people who die by suicide have a borderline personality disorder diagnosis. 

This conference is one of the largest events in Australia focused solely on BPD, spotlighting treatment, advocacy, and lived experience.

Please note: This is a recorded event and will include discussions around suicide and mental health. Support services will be available throughout.

Lived Experience and Keynote Sessions:

• A/Professor Sathya Rao AOM: 'Suicide Prevention in BPD'
• Hayley Peckham: 'Living with BPD'
• Dr Peggy Brown AO: 'Keynote Speaker: Understanding BPD' 

Panel Sessions and Guest Speakers:

• Panel: Working together to make 1 in 10 history.
• Panel: Suicide prevention and BPD with SaferCare Vic, Lived Experience, Clinicians.
• Panel: Driving reform - Improving National Mental Health Responses for Complex Needs like BPD chaired by Dr Peggy Brown.
• Panel: Carer panel of family or other carers of people with lived experience of BPD.
• Snapshot of current research:
  • • Dr Julian Nesci
    • Professor Paul Camell
    • Dr Dianna Barstch

PLUS much more…………..

Note - the event will be streamed LIVE and RECORDED. Registered users who have purchased online access for the conference will receive a link 24 hours prior to the event. Recordings will be made available days after the conference for viewing.

Networking Event:

Join us after the conference for an optional networking event with drinks and nibbles in the atrium - separate registration is required for this event.
This event starts at 5:30pm at the same location as the conference.

Amora Hotel Riverwalk Melbourne
649 Bridge Road 

Richmond Victoria 3121

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