Childhood, harmful patterns & accountability
How violence and early experience can shape what becomes normal. Earlier recognition, women’s safety and the responsibility that remains with the person causing harm.
Pete Bates · Lived-experience speaker
Speaking & Organisations
A direct conversation about how harmful patterns develop, the choices people make and the responsibility that stays with them.
For Australian organisations, conferences, workforces, schools and youth-sector settings exploring childhood adversity, addiction, prison, accountability and rebuilding.
Subject matter
Experience with consequences attached.
Addiction, offending & consequences
Influence, choices and the cost of crime. Taking apart the mythology of toughness, the street and prison without dressing the consequences up.
Isolation, connection & rebuilding
Prison, psychological pressure, purpose and discipline. Lived experience of finding connection and rebuilding a life after prolonged isolation.
A format for your audience
Space to speak.
Room to question.
45 minutes
Lived-experience presentation
15 minutes
Discussion
A 45-minute lived-experience presentation followed by a 15-minute discussion. We shape the themes and questions around your audience, purpose and setting.
Tell us if a different duration or facilitated conversation would better suit your event.
Understanding what shapes behaviour does not remove responsibility. Childhood adversity never excuses violence against women, and it does not determine a child’s future.
Organisations
Begin with the audience and the purpose.
Enquiries can come from conferences, NGOs, councils, workplaces, recovery and addiction organisations, education leaders and services working with harmful behaviour and its consequences.
The brief matters more than the label. Tell us what the room needs to understand and why this perspective is relevant.
Discuss an organisational brief →Adult workforce conversations
Corrections, Youth Justice, child-safety and family-violence workforces can explore lived experience of systems, adaptation, consequences and accountability.
Pete + Belinda by brief
Two perspectives where the question needs both.
Pete’s lived experience and Belinda’s corrections perspective can bring different views of harmful patterns, consequences, systems, women’s safety and children before offending.
A joint conversation is considered against the purpose of the engagement. Roles, preparation and scope are agreed together. Suitable enquiries for Belinda independently are also welcome.
Discuss Pete + BelindaFor adult decision-makers
Schools & youth-sector enquiries
Schools and youth-sector organisations are welcome to enquire. Tell us about your students, setting and what you want the conversation to achieve.
Pete’s approach is direct conversation about choices and consequences, including the mythology around toughness, crime and prison.
Published conversations
Hear the public work.
Interviews offer a sample of Pete and Belinda’s public communication.
Australian True Crime8 July 2026From Prison to Preventing Violence Against Women↗Real Crime with Adam Shand / FIVEAA8 March 2026Peter and Belinda Bates↗
Media information and more interviews →Scope & quote
A session shaped around your brief.
Pricing is by quote. Audience, format, preparation, presenter choice, travel and accommodation inform the scope. Online and in-person options can be discussed.
Tell us what you’re planning. We’ll confirm fit, format and practical requirements with you.
Scope & safety →Professional enquiry
Tell us what you’re planning.
Prefer email? petebatesproject@gmail.com