ABOUT US
WHO WE ARE
Ending Moral Injury Caused by Intersectional Abuse in Systems
GIDII Advocacy, is the advocacy arm of WOW Chaplaincy. Our advocacy work has become increasingly more important to the outcomes we seek to influence. Our core focus is on healing Moral Injury in Systems and providing tools for activists and advocates to help them stay the course.
To do this we provide 3 core foundational services:
1. Advocacy on System Design to Support Vulnerable Populations
2. Training and Courses on Moral Injury and Self Care
3. Documentaries and Popular Culture Initiatives
Building awareness to incite change requires determination, skill, patience and a huge amount of self care. It is not easy. Join us as we work to end the patriarchy and build a new way of doing life together with care, kindness and a commitment to addressing harmful systems for all. In the new era of AI it has never been more important to care for each other. Technology brings massive advances for humanity. It is also a red flag for potential harm.
OUR STORY
Through groundbreaking documentaries, advocacy training, and strategic campaigns, we unite leaders across Health, Finance, and Government to end moral injury in systems. By bringing lived experiences to the center, we foster relationships that drive ethical leadership, improve business outcomes, transforming organizational cultures and creating pathways for meaningful, systemic change.
OUR FOUNDATIONAL PLINTHS
HEALTHCARE
Women have higher levels of chronic disease and poorer mental health linked to sexism, violence and chronically poor incomes. Women experience gender discrimination in healthcare which can result in delayed access to care, misdiagnosis, and neglect. There is also a predisposition to medicalise the trauma and retraumatisation women and other vulnerable populations are subjected. Harm results in a reaction. Usually that reaction is a cry for help to stop the harm.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Women do not enjoy the same access to financial services as men. Even before the pandemic, fifty-six per cent of all those without a bank account were women - meaning that nearly a billion women are unbanked. There is also a gender protection gap, with fewer women using insurance than men. Source: ILO In Australia, Workers Compensation and Superannuation Products such as TPD and Income Protection all intersect with each other during claims assessment, often causing acute unnecessary moral distress.
GOVERNMENT
GIDII works to ensure vulnerable populations are heard and harm is minimised in government policies.
We urge the dismantlement of colonial systems that are also drivers of gender inequality. We believe in better system design and that requires engagement with multiple stakeholders. We also believe that all citizens genuinely want a kinder, more compassionate society. We bring issues to the fore to incite community discussion and positive change.
COMING SOON: SHATTERED - THE DOCUMENTARY
As Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard delivered her misogyny speech on Tuesday October 9 2012, 5 women were confronting their own misogyny at work and moral injury impacting their lives.
The incisive Gillard ‘misogyny speech', as her words came to be known, continues to energise and motivate women who need to stare down sexism and misogyny in their own lives.
This documentary told through the eyes of workplace chaplain Kathie Melocco talks to the abuse women have been subjected to in the $60 billion workers’ compensation system. Originally known as Workman’s Insurance when social insurance was first introduced to Australia around the time of Federation (1901) it was only as a result of the women’s movement in the 1970's that it included women workers and became known as Workers’ Compensation.
These courageous 5 women harness their rage at the mistreatment they have been subjected to tell their stories of what it means to loose their careers, be demeaned in medical investigations, subjected to intersectional economic abuse, kept ill and injured due to refused or delayed medical treatment, have their careers intentionally shattered and how workplace bullying and harassment perpetrators exploit the system, often stalking their targets for years after injuring them, enabled by legislation that side steps the critical issue : where is the duty of care to these women?
Despite the #METOO and #TimesUp movements and Harvey Weinstein’s conviction shedding light on toxic workplace practices, workers’ compensation where injured women seeking solace, comfort, care and healing continues to be a graveyard of discarded women that society forgets and stigmatises.