October 2016

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Hello From Helen

News From the Centres

New “What’s Happening”

UPCOMING EVENTS

PARTNER OF THE MONTH

October 03rd - Public Holiday

(Queen Birthday)

October 15th - Palmwoods Bush

Dance

October 07th & 08th - Kenshinryu

25th Anniversary Seminar

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October Birthdays...

Deborah Selleck Lynette Young

Dennis Oliver Cavell Hyland

Luke Fitzgerald Phoebe Skuthorpe

Jodene Kelly Meaghan Holland

Jy Luck Michael Dooley

Emily Balmer

This year’s theme is “Kings & Queens”. Come dressed to impress in your best costume.

Saturday November 26th, 2016 Sebel Pelican Waters, 38 Mahogany Drive, Pelican Waters

Tickets $48pp Trainee Tickets $20 (subsidized by Compass)

RSVP 5445 9116 or

bookings@compassinc.org.au (bookings close November 18th. Please advise any special dietary requirements at the time of boking)

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IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN!

2016 Gala & Awards Night

Welcome to the October edition of the

Compass newsletter. I can’t get over

how fast this year is going. I trust

everyone had a refreshing break over

the holidays and you’re ready to power

through what’s left of 2016. It has been

a very exciting time over the past

month, with Open Days, EOI’s coming

in, talks around funding or lack there

of, and reviewing the 2017 Compass

Calendar. I have enjoyed having a

“consolidation” year, but what lies

ahead for Compass is shaping up to be

something pretty special.

The Compass brand is strong across

the Sunshine Coast and every

potential new trainee has had

Compass in their top 3 picks for 2017.

We have slightly changed the look and

the feel in way we are promoting

Compass and it is generating a great

deal of positive feedback. The trial

days are commencing over the coming

month and I for one am looking forward

to a healthy intake of new trainees next

year.

A special thank you must go to our

good friends at Cricks Nambour. Matt,

Dan and the team once again helped

make the 2016 Compass Charity Golf

Day another hugely successful event.

With 86 golfers and another 10 guests

for lunch, the day was again

unforgettable. Loads of prizes, raffles,

auctions and giveaways raised a

massive $23,000 that will be put to

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good use in the Compass Assistance

Dogs program. Special thanks must

also go to all the Hole Sponsors, prize

donors and our guest speaker Clint

Robinson who endured a barrage of

questions and “man crush” moments

from his biggest fan Matt Murray.

During September I also took a trip

down the Bruce Highway to attend the

Fresh Futures Market held in Ipswich.

The expo invites over 80 service

providers from the Disability and

Mental Health sectors to come

together and present their business to

more than 400 prospective clients and

families. The day was a huge

success, with over 40 EOI’s handed

out over the course of the day, along

with numerous possible collaborations

with other organisations in the area.

Something to keep an eye out for over

the coming month, is the design and

construction of the first portion of the

Sensory Garden at our Caloundra

campus. Over the past month we

have been approached by the team

from SmartCity to undertake some

practical work experience in a

community based organisation. As

most of you are aware, it has been a

long time in waiting for the roll out of

the Sensory Garden and this

collaboration will allow for a staged

approach until its completion. Rob

also has plans to commence work on

the pizza oven that will be the main

attraction of the area.

The Compass Assistance Dogs

program gained some added traction

over the month, with an invitation to

the Maroochy RSL staff and families

breakfast. Continuing on from their

generous sponsorship of Watson,

Compass was invited to attend as an

introduction to all staff. This was truly

inspiring, not only with the sheer

amount of numbers that attended, but

the way in which we (mostly Watson)

were immediately taken in as part of

the Maroochy RSL family. Thank you

to CEO Clare Patton and her team for

this opportunity and we look forward

to what the future holds for the two

businesses. Just a quick note for

those that haven’t booked in their staff

Christmas Party as yet… Hosted by

Hot 91 the Maroochy RSL Tinsels and

Ties Christmas Gala is one not to be

missed. $10 from every ticket sold will

be donated to

the Compass

Assistance

Dogs

program.

Please call

Maroochy RSL

events team 07

5443 2211 to

book your

tickets. Hope to see you there.

Until next month , I will wish you all

the very best and look forward to

speaking with you soon.

Cheers DJ

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Malo!

This means “hello” in Tongan! I have

just returned from two wonderful

weeks in Tonga as part of my annual

leave. Tonga is made up of 177

individual islands and really is a

paradise. I was privileged to go

swimming with the hump back whales,

who migrate every year up from the

Antarctic, by the east coast of

Australia and then stop at Tonga

where the female whales give birth to

their calves. A big thank you to the

management and staff who stepped in

and ensured the centres ran well in

my absence; I don’t think anyone

really missed me as it appeared to be

business as usual when I returned!

The staff and trainees have returned

from a well-earned rest over the

September holiday break and have all

settled back into their centres and

programs. We held a very successful

two days of training for all of the staff

where we focussed on a review of

specific policies and procedures and

also had an inspiring talk from an

education expert Jonathon Anstock,

who provided a very inspirational

session on how to work effectively

with students of all ages. The staff

particularly benefitted from a session

with Ian Newton who challenged us on

our current eating habits, especially

the consumption of sugar! As a result,

a number of us have committed to a

30 day challenge where we have

given up not only sugar, but all

processed foods, grains and our

addiction to the occasional glass of

wine, or other alcoholic beverages.

We will keep you informed as to our

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progress. I am very impressed with

the dedication shown so far, given we

are only two weeks into the challenge.

October promises to be a busy month;

we will be preparing for the visits by

potential trainees and their families

and scheduling trial days for them. A

number of the centres will again host

Open Days and both trainees, families

and staff are commencing work on

their costumes for the Awards Night

scheduled for the 26th November. We

are receiving some great feedback

and suggestions for the theme of

Kings and Queens, with some people

keeping this a secret, so they can

surprise us all on the night. I will look

forward to seeing the innovative

costumes on the evening.

Until next month,

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September Memories

Considering Martial Arts? Con-

tact us to find out more today!

Erin Cameron, Palmwoods trainee, spent the month of August completing a 400km walk, The European Peace

Walk. She has walked across Hungary, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia, to reach Italy, with

her friend Gail, and her mum. She walked through villages

and woods, staying with host families along the way. As

well, she visited the cities of Zagreb, Ljubljana, Trieste, Vi-

enna, Bratislava and Buda-pest. Well done Erin! We are

proud of you.

Just a couple of the beautiful

photos Helen took while she

was away.

News From The Centres

COMPASS GYMPIE

COMPASS CABOOLTURE

The team in Gympie celebrated another busy term by visiting the Cobb & Co tourist park outside of town. Pirate ship, petting zoo and flying fox adventure playground contributed to a

fun day all fuelled on a sausage sizzle by the lake. Excellent day, great company and well earned rest.

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We enjoyed a really busy month with lots of hard work in our gardens for our Open Days and

preparations for our spring planting. We have put in new gardens and recycled some old tyres for

herbs and flowers too. Our centre looks “blooming terrific!”

We are starting to pick fresh

salads and herbs for our

food prep session.

We continue to enjoy our walks around the park and have

enjoyed seeing the green foliage emerging with the recent

rains and warmer weather.

We have been discussing a new venture that will see us try-

ing new things in the kitch-

en, we can’t wait to see how

this goes, can you guess!

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COMPASS FARM

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This month has seen our

tomatoes and strawberries take

off .. We give the farm kitchen all

our fruit which is then made into

green tomato chutney and

strawberry jam .

Graydon has single-handedly

stripped back and painted the old

outside chairs and table . Amazing

effort that took over a week to

complete . Well done Graydon

Our chooks are laying it on, so we

now have Free Range eggs available

at $5 per dozen.

The CEU Group has

been designing

canvases which can

hold family photos.

CPV have been busy glazing our pottery and learning about displaying

our products in Wabi Sabi Caloundra. Jy is holding one of his amazing

vases. (pic far right). Our sensory garden is also about to being upgrades

and we are extremely excited to get the garden beds up and running!

COMPASS CALOUNDRA

CTU has also been working on a new

vibrant range of Tie-Dye for summer!

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COMPASS PALMWOODS

On Thursdays we have two groups which go travel training.

We learn about public transport, road safety, stranger

danger and community access. Places we’ve been include:

Caloundra, Landsborough, Caboolture, Morayfield,

Nambour, Mooloolaba, Maroochydore & Kawana.

We took our longest trip to Roma St Station. When we

arrived, we had lunch at a café. We had a little bit of time to

go to go to Roma St Parklands. It’s lovely there! We saw

lots of water fountains, gardens and birds and Sophia

made friends with a water dragon.

We love our travel training day It’s always such a great

adventure. With lots to see . Jenna and Sophia’s favourite

place to go is Kawana Shopping World

.Sam’s favourite place is catching the train, Brisbane Roma

St Brisbane.

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