Speaker and Presenter

I have presented at various events around Sydney and collaborated on friends and colleagues podcasts, documentaries and workshops. I have presented and run workshops for various business groups as well as facilitating my own workshops and seminars.  

Sharing my story

Jackie shares her story of leaving domestic violence in Melbourne and starting a new life in Sydney in 1987. City of Sydney in collaboration with The Brown Council storytelling event “Them Heavy People, This City, That Decade. Green Square Library Saturday 29 January 2022

Your Brain On Comedy Documentary

Join Tina Zaman, M.F.A, creator & organizer of Tight5comedyau, Australia’s first and only antiracist comedy club, as she gets Sydney Comedians of Colour, friends plus trauma expert Jackie Nugara to break quarantine and chat about the role of creativity, humour & live stand-up comedy performance in cultivating social change, mental health & mindfulness in artists & audiences al

Your Brain On Comedy Podcast Episode 1

May 29 2021 Psychotherapist & trauma expert Jackie Nugara emerges from quarantine to walk us through how first person storytelling triggers responses in the brain & how stand up comedians can go beyond limited thinking to effect positive social change while performing to live audiences.

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