The fabulous Dr Hayley Boxall shines a light on family and partner violence by teaching us about "desistance", and practical ways that we can encourage people to stop choosing to use violence.

15 years have passed since the tragic event when Brenda Lin's parents, brothers and aunt were murdered. Brenda shares her extraordinary story of resilience with Patty Kikos.

Dr Tim Moore is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of Child Protection Studies. He stories and some cautionary tales with Patty Kikos from the lessons he learned as a youth worker.

Tarryn Cherniayeff shares her extraordinary story of empowerment with Patty Kikos. From relinquishing control and access to her own money, to uncovering her ex’s gambling addiction and ice pipe. None of that was as shocking as the money he’d stolen, or the amount of loans he’d taken out in her name.

The party is over. Now that the Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge has finished for another year, we look back and reflect on the 2022 challenge and remember why it’s important to continue shining a light on domestic and family violence in our communities.

The first Run Against Violence Virtual Team Challenge was held in 2017. 5 years on, we speak with 3 of our original Team Captains, Margie, Ben and Belinda about why they are still passionately involved with the Run Against Violence and how conversations in their community have changed over that time.

The Katherine Women’s Legal Service (KWILS) is a not-for-profit community legal centre based in Katherine in the Northern Territory that provides free legal services in the Katherine region. In fact, they cover an area the size of Victoria & Tasmania combined.

Siobhan Mackay is the CEO of KWILS and has a unique insight into the challenges faced by domestic and family violence victims, and the support services available to them, in remote and regional communities (including our First Nations and Indigenous women).

How do we drive change in our community, one conversation at a time? In this episode, we’re joined by two women - Kathy Kelly and Jane Caro - who have, in their own ways, played a pivotal role in changing our way of life

Pat Farmer is a multiple world record holder for endurance running. He has run the length of India and Vietnam, through the Middle East, across Australia, around Australia and across America a couple of times. And, wait for it, from the North Pole to the South Pole. In this episode, he helps us celebrate the start of the 2022 Run Against Violence today. Pat shares his advice on how to achieve your goal for the Challenge and what to focus on when times get tough.

The theme of this year’s RAV Virtual Challenge is today’s conversation is tomorrow’s way of life. But how do the conversations we have today shape our community and our lives? We explore this question in this episode with a survivor of domestic and family violence about the impact that telling her story has had and from a journalist on the power of stories.

Sue and Lloyd Clarke became passionate and vocal advocates for the criminalisation of coercive control after their daughter Hannah and Hannah’s 3 children Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey were murdered by Hannah’s estranged in February 2020 in a case that shocked and galvanised the nation.

Hannah had been a victim of coercive control for many years. Coercive control is a phrase we all recognise but many of us don’t understand what it is.

Do conversations have the power to create real change to our way of life? Are they the key to ending domestic and family violence within our community? In this special episode, Jen Brown, the host of the 2022 RAV podcast shares her thoughts and reflects on what she’s learnt from the Run Against Violence community about the power of conversations.

How do we change the culture in our community about family and domestic violence? That’s what we explore in this episode of the Run Against Violence. You’ll meet the dynamic duo of Robyn Harmon and David Harmon. Robyn is school teacher, Assistant Principal and facilitator of the Love Bites program that the Run Against Violence proudly supports. David has lead the charge via their local Rotary Club in Ballina to change the culture in the community around family and domestic violence.

The 2022 Run Against Violence Virtual Challenge is fast approaching. So in this episode, we explore how to not only survive but thrive during the challenge with our guests; run coach Lyndal Maloney from Serotonin Running, busy mum and business owner Tara Edwards and the Silver category age record holder, Judith Dear who is a spritely 79 years of age.

In April 2022, Sandy Suckling set out to run 1,100km from Broken Hill to Melbourne to raise funds for and awareness of the Run Against Violence. In this episode, Sandy shares her experience of escaping from family violence, what she’s learnt about the power of conversation and why she describes running as therapy.

So registrations for the 2022 Run Against Violence Virtual Challenge are open and pouring in. Teams are being registered. People are looking for teams and teams are looking for people. So let’s chat to 3 people about how they rally the troops. In this episode, you’ll meet Sammy Bruderer, Mark Grima and Natalie Bartoli and hear as they share experience with the Virtual Challenge, how they find and organise their teams and how they keep themselves and their teams connected and motivated during the challenge.