Emereas | Founded By Kat Hare

For Australian Defence Force members, veterans and their loved ones who want (or need) to put words to their service life, Emereas is a free service that helps you craft personal statements and stories that’ll benefit you, your family and our community—while we generate organisational change. My three favourite formats: (1) The personal health statement (or member’s statement): it's a timelined impact of your health decline, which means you can stop repeating your backstory and give everyone—from the DVA to CSC, health teams to CoC—the same information without missing any important bits. (2) The life history story: it captures your life and legacy from childhood to post-service, which can be packaged into a book and given to your family and our community. (3) The overshare: it’s the written version of open mic night at a speakeasy bar. It’s a short story, opinion piece or reflection on your military service and how it impacts everyday moments. Oversharing is my go-to format to unpack my military service, which you’re welcome to read over at https://kathare.com.au If you'd like to donate your story to Emereas, it'll help our community generate organisational change. (No biggie). You're also welcome to start here and contribute to our BHAG: Ongoingly learn from our people’s lived experience to drive organisational change and prevent ill-health, realise individual potential and generate institution capability. Achieved in three operational phases: (1) OP OVERSHARE—data collection for awareness and understanding (2) OP PINATA—problem solving through collaboration (3) OP JUPITER—decision making with better inputs/outputs OP OVERSHARE is ready for you to donate your story. If you'd like my help to write about your military service, please send me an email at kat@emereas.com.au or subscribe to my email list at https://emereas.com.au. You'll get the weekly newsletter that unpacks my military service, and inspo on what, why and how to write about your own.