UsherKids Australia is proud to be present three Effective Communication in Health Care Workshops hosted by Rachel Callander.

Deeply moving, inspiring, hopeful and practical, Rachel delivers workshops that are revolutionising how people communicate with each other.

Rachel is a TEDx presenter, speaker, trainer, award winning artist and the author of two books- Super Power Baby Project and Super Power Kids. These exceptional books celebrate the lives and abilities of children with a range of disabilities and conditions, and have been inspired by Rachel’s late daughter Evie, who was born with a very rare chromosomal condition. In the two and a half years of Evie’s life, Rachel learnt a lot about the use of language in the health system, and has spent the subsequent years continuing to explore the impact and implications of how it is used – to positive and negative effect. Our language shapes our landscape. The words we speak influence the behaviour, attitudes, and beliefs of ourselves and others. Within high-stakes contexts, such as the sharing of difficult information, our words carry an enormous emotional weight. They can alienate and add trauma, or they can honour and empower.

Rachel is completely engaging and unassumingly unique, drawing her style from three distinct perspectives:

• Her motherhood to Evie, and the years of experience as a parent in the health system.
• Her perspective as an artist, applying right-brained emotional strength to a conversation often filled

  with left-brained statistics and facts.

• Her work with the Thought Leadership Business School where she has learned to build concepts

  and ideas into something strong, communicable, effective, and then to tailor those ideas to specific audiences.

  Rachel holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA) from the Dunedin School of Art in New Zealand, is a Master Photographer in the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography (NZIPP) and is an international award winning photographer and author.