Trauma after the Military Coup in Myanmar

Australia Myanmar Institute invites you to a scheduled Zoom meeting

Date: November 28, 2022 (Monday)  

Duration: 1 hour

Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM AEST Time (13:30-14:30 Myanmar/Yangon Time)

Join Zoom Meeting: please click here

Meeting ID: 2852417834

Passcode: 12345 

Moderator : Paul Komesaroff_AMI Board member and also from Global reconciliation

Professor Louise Newman is a child psychiatrist in Melbourne and works in the areas of trauma and its impact on child development and mental health. She works with asylum seekers and refugees and their children and is a past advisor to the Australian Government on the impact of immigration detention and damage to traumatised families. She is an advocate for cessation of offshore “processing” and temporary protection and for an improved and humanitarian response to groups in need of care and protection and mental health services. She is convenor of the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Group and chairs the Victorian RANZCP Racism Awareness Working Group. 

Dr Raymond Tint Way is a psychiatrist in Sydney who has over many years cared for refugees and provided support for Burmese people in both Australia and Myanmar. His interests include the impact and inter-generational effects of living under totalitarian regimes and the treatment for trauma victims and refugees.  He is Vice President of AMI.

Dr Thet Htay is currently working as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Central Queensland, Australia. He is passionate about freedom and democratic movements globally.

He has been actively involved in a variety of Myanmar spring revolutionary movements along with other diaspora across the world.

***NOTE: Zoom can work very well, but it poses difficulties for people with a poor internet connection. So, people from Myanmar (or elsewhere) who might have a poor internet connection or low bandwidth should turn off the video mode and listen to the seminar. You may be able to switch on the video from time to time just to see who is speaking, but definitely don’t use the video mode if you wish to speak yourself.  You can also pose questions using the chat function.  The whole seminar will be uploaded later on the AMI website and Facebook page.