Education and professional development
The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience invests in individuals and organisations to build knowledge and skills that support disaster resilience. AIDR offers regular professional development and learning opportunities to benefit the disaster resilience sector.
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Contact us to tailor professional development opportunities for your organisation: events@aidr.org.au
About the program
Learn more about courses and events delivered by AIDR
Events calendar
Browse and register for upcoming AIDR events
Australian Disaster Resilience Conference
The nation's premier event focused on contemporary disaster resilience practice and research
Australian Disaster Resilience Index Workshop
Join this hands-on, experiential workshop that will provide a customised exploration of the research and website tools in your local or agency context
Decision Making Under Pressure: New Skills for the New Normal Masterclass
Enhance your ability to make high consequence decisions
DRANZSEN Forums
Explore effective models of disaster resilience education to reduce risk and strengthen communities
Facilitating Successful Debriefs Masterclass
Debriefing offers a valuable opportunity to review activities undertaken
Leadership in Adversity Masterclass
Explore the leadership skills required to work in increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, sometimes chaotic and ambiguous (VUCCA) environments
Leading Diverse Recovery Teams Masterclass
This masterclass for recovery leaders focuses on enhancing the capability of recovery leaders to work with diverse stakeholders on complex issues to align cooperative goals and purposes
Leading Multi Agency Teams in Deep Uncertainty
This masterclass focuses on enhancing the capability of leaders to launch and manage high functioning interdependent teams to operate effectively in disaster, crisis and adversity
Lessons Management Forum
Share good practice, learnings and innovations in lessons management
Managing Organisational Crises Masterclass
This Masterclass focusses on the key elements that enhance executive and board crisis leadership and what factors may undermine meeting goals and expectations
Meteorology for Disaster Managers Masterclass
Take your understanding of the weather and natural hazards to the next level
Planning for Spontaneous Volunteers Clinic
Upgrade your skills to plan for and manage spontaneous volunteers
Volunteer Leadership Program
The Volunteer Leadership Program equips emergency sector volunteers with the skills and confidence to grow as leaders
Past events
View recordings, read proceedings and explore resources from previous professional development events.
NAIDOC Week webinar (2024)
View the recording of the Fires, Floods, Pandemics: Exploring Indigenous Leadership in Disaster Responses webinar
Gender and Sexuality in Disaster Risk Reduction (2024)
View the recording of the Gender and Sexuality in Disaster Risk Reduction webinar
Leave Nobody Behind webinar series and National DIDRR Forum (2023-2024)
View recordings from the Leave Nobody Behind webinar series on disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (2023)
View the Fighting Inequality for a Resilient Future webinar recording
National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Summit (2023)
View proceedings from the National Indigenous Disaster Resilience Summit
Resilient Businesses, Thriving Communities webinar (2023)
View the recording of the Resilient Businesses, Thriving Communities webinar
National Recovery Forum (2022)
View the Participant Harvest Report, Graphic Harvest and photos from the Forum held in August 2022
From Risk to Resilience Summit (2022)
View proceedings from the From Risk to Resilience Summit
Recovery Matters webinar series (2021-2022)
View recordings from the Recovery Matters webinar series
Knowledge Networking series (2021)
View recordings in the Knowledge Networking webinar series
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (2020)
Learn more about business leaders perspectives about good disaster risk governance.
Understanding Disaster Risk Forum Proceedings (2019)
View presentations and videos from the series of national forums held in October 2019
Designing effective risk and warning communication (2017)
Professional development resources to support effective risk and warning
Engagement Matters (2017)
Explore proceedings from workshops on community engagement for disaster preparedness, response and recovery
National Recovery Workshop (2017)
Read the Report from the National Recovery Workshop held on 7-8 August 2017.