ARCOFYRE®: STILL STANDING – Featuring Kirby Brownlow

ARCOFYRE®: STILL STANDING – Featuring Kirby Brownlow

This event is about resilience, redemption, and the power of lived experience. Kirby Brownlow, founder of ARCOFYRE®, shares his journey from state care and incarceration to leading a social enterprise that transforms lives.

Discover how to rise above adversity, challenge systems that weaponise the past, and champion authentic leadership in justice reform and community services.

Join Kirby Brownlow, Founder and Managing Director of Arcofyre, for an unflinching, in‑person talk about what it means to keep standing when systems would rather you sat down.

Across eight years, Kirby has built a justice‑facing NDIS service out of a life shaped by state care, service in the Australian Army and almost a decade behind bars.

This is not a neat “second chances” story. It is about what happens after the second chance is granted—and then slowly taken back through suspicion, carceral surveillance and administrative force.

On the night, Kirby will unpack the real cost of conditional redemption, how lived experience can be weaponised, and how a mix of corporate sabotage, regulatory overreach and back‑channel politics can be turned on lived‑experience leaders who refuse to play small.

It is a live case study of resilience under fire, and a call to protect the right of veterans, survivors, people with disability and justice‑affected leaders to speak and to lead.

What You’ll Experience

• Candid reflections on child protection, custody and building a justice‑sector NDIS provider from the ground up.

• The real‑world mechanics of corporate sabotage in community services—who benefits, who pays, and how to recognise it before it hits you.

• Practical ideas for backing leadership from justice‑affected and lived‑experience communities in your own organisation or practice.

• Where Arcofyre goes from here—and what “still standing” really means when the fight is nowhere near over.

Why Attend?

This event is for advocates, support workers, peer mentors, service providers, lawyers, policymakers, veterans, disability advocates and anyone serious about real change in criminal justice, disability and social enterprise.

Come if you want more than a feel‑good redemption story.

Stay if you want to see how boardroom games and back‑room Machiavellism collide with frontline lives—and what it takes to survive it.

Event Snapshot:

• Speaker:

Kirby Brownlow,

Founder & Managing Director, Arcofyre

• Guest Speakers: TBC

• Capacity: Limited to 200 attendees

Tickets:

• General Admission: $70

• Concession: $35

• Lived Experience (prison): 20 complimentary tickets (free)

Secure your place and be part of a conversation that treats lived experience as real‑world intelligence—not a liability.