COUNTDOWN TO PERTH
PASG 2026 begins October 11, 2026
REGISTERED BRAND
Thrivers Speak® is the survivor-led home for this work.
Thrivers Speak® is the registered brand anchoring this survivor-led platform. Nothing About Us, Without Us (NAUWOU™) Conferences sit within the Thrivers Speak® brand family as survivor-inclusion conferences of adult survivors.
The front page now focuses on PASG 2026, the Survivor Representation Initiative, and the current brand direction.
PASG 2026
Survivor-informed criminological work is headed to Perth, Australia for an international professional audience.
Survivor Voices
Adult survivors bring evidence, pattern recognition, testimony, and lived context into rooms where decisions are made.
Representation Fund
Your support helps remove the barriers that keep survivor voices out of conferences and professional spaces.
CURRENT PRIORITY
Help Place Survivor Voices in the Room.
The Survivor Representation Initiative supports adult survivor participation in conferences, research spaces, policy conversations, and professional education opportunities.
This is not simply travel support. It is an investment in representation, credibility, and survivor-informed change.
Estimated need for PASG 2026 presentation.
CURRENT CORE VOICES
Focused Leadership While the Next Platform Is Built.
Dawn McCarty
Founder of Thrivers Speak®, co-founder of NAUWOU™, survivor advocate, criminology and cybersecurity professional.
Dr. Alyse Price-Tobler
Clinical psychotherapist, MCAP, PhD researcher, co-founder of NAUWOU™, and insider researcher focused on adult survivors and the mental health professionals who work with them.
Andrew Folkler
Contributor and aligned voice in survivor-informed education, awareness, and systems change.
GET INVOLVED
Choose How You Want to Support the Work.
Become a Sponsor
Support survivor representation at PASG 2026 and future professional spaces.
Read the Message
Explore the Children Are Not Weapons campaign and survivor-led awareness work.
Connect with Us
Reach out about sponsorship, collaboration, survivor participation, or speaking opportunities.
Representation Requires Resources.
Help ensure adult survivor-informed expertise is present where these issues are researched, discussed, and shaped.
