Ready Minds, Ready Teams: Watch the Recording and Build Your Mental Resilience for Severe Weather

As Queensland moves through another severe weather season, staying prepared is about more than checklists and emergency kits. A ready mind helps you stay calm, make clear decisions and support others when it matters most.

Last month, Get Ready Queensland partnered with the Australian Red Cross to deliver ‘Ready Minds, Ready Teams’, a free one hour webinar designed to equip Queenslanders with practical strategies for building mental resilience before, during and after severe weather.

More than 120 people from across state and local government, community organisations and workplaces joined the live session, making it one of our most engaged preparedness webinars to date.

If you missed it or would like to revisit the tools and insights shared, you can now watch the full recording below.

What the session covered

The webinar explored simple, evidence based ways to strengthen your personal and team readiness, including how to:

• Build clarity, confidence and calm ahead of severe weather

• Manage stress and respond more effectively in challenging situations

• Support colleagues, family and community through shared resilience practices

• Create a holistic household emergency plan and prepare an emergency kit

Delivered by experts from the Australian Red Cross, the session focused on practical actions that anyone can take to improve their mental preparedness and help their team be ready for whatever the season brings.

Webinar presentation and resource links

The presentation slides can be found here ready minds presentation 

The Australian Red Cross prepare you mind resources and RediPlan resources links are below.

https://www.redcross.org.au/prepareyourmind/

https://www.redcross.org.au/prepare/

Here is a link to The smart Get Ready Queensland Severe weather household emergency plan 

Looking ahead: more resilience and preparedness webinars in 2026

Due to the strong interest and positive feedback, we will be repeating this webinar in early 2026.

We are also developing a new program of online sessions, delivered with partner experts, covering topics such as:

• Building resilience at home and with your family

• Strengthening wellbeing and decision making in emergencies

• Workplace preparedness and fostering team readiness

   

More information and dates will be shared soon, bookmark this page and come back to for updates in January 2026

For now, enjoy the recording, share it with your networks and keep building your readiness, because resilience starts with a Ready Mind and a Ready Team.