Stoked Surf Therapy

06/06/2025

Look. We’re not usually ones to toot our own trumpets, but something pretty special happened last month… 🎺

Our Palnth Indigenous program was lucky enough to taken home the Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion Award, honestly, we’re still Stoked! 🌊

There’s something hard to explain about the programs we run—there’s a kind of magic in the air, and if you’ve been part of it, you’ll know what we mean. So to have that feeling acknowledged with an award? That’s pretty unreal.

Massive shoutout to the South West Sports crew—thank you for the love. And to our team and community—you’re the heartbeat of this thing.

12/02/2025

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 🪸🐠

We’re not ones to toot our own trumpet, but stoked WEEK 2 is going to be a topper of a session.

It’s always a good day when wonderful things fall in your lap.

HOW’s THIS FOR A LINE-UP ⬇️

This Monday cooper three movers and shakers will join us at the surf club.

♻️Youth Change Maker and Documentary maker Kal Glanzig

🌊PRO SURFER and Mental Health advocate Cooper Chapman

🪸Young whipper snapper Tilly from Surfers from Climate Change.

We can’t wait to welcome this bunch and soak up what they have to say.

I hear Coopers gonna jump in the water with us after so he can watch our surfing and take some notes lol 😜

If any community folks want to come and gatecrashing the session, flick is a message yeeeow!

09/02/2025

Another community six-weeker program kicks off tonight!

Looking forward to swinging open the surf club doors and welcoming a brand new group of Stoked folks Yeeow!

Huge shakas to the mighty .slsc for lending us their place and supporting our program 🫶

23/01/2025

📢 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN

After a tip top break we’ve rolled back into the office, just in time to roll out another Warrnambool 6-weeker!

This program is for young folks aged 14-24 who want to learn to surf waves, meet new people and improve their well-being ooooh yeah! 👍

Application link in bio

Or head to www.brophy.org.au/stoked

10/01/2025

09/12/2024

Warrnambool SIX-WEEK COMMUNITY PROGRAM you have been a dream 🌊 ✨

Couldn’t have asked for more. The friendships, the engagement, the participation, the waves, the yarns, the dinners and the laughs.

Merry Christmas durtbags. See you next time ✨

31/10/2024

We’d like to give a heartfelt shakas to our friends and we could have done this without you.

We’ve pulled another INDIGENOUS YOUTH PROGRAM 🖤💛❤️

For the next 6-WEEKS we’ll be back on the shores of PALNTH. hitting the waves with this mob is an absolute honour.

Roll on the party waves, good yarns, post-surf feeds and the magical sunsets yeeeow 🐚 🌊 ✨

25/09/2024

Our WARRNAMBOOL 6-WEEKER community program is back!!

Riding the waves of life can be stressful!! 🤨

Nothing like giving our brains a good wash out in the ocean to shake off some of that stress and fill up our resilience cups 💦

Applications are now open for young folks aged 14 - 25 who would like to hit the waves and improve their mental health through surfing 🌊

Each week our crew get together to YARN about all things life, hit the SURF and EAT some delicious post surf tucker! 🍎

Roll on November and bring on the STOKE Yeow!

Link to online applications open via the Brophy website (link in bio).

Or get in touch for a paper form 🩵

T: 5561 8888
E: stoked@brophy.org.au

11/09/2024

Highlight of our year was being nominated for the CELEBRATING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AWARD 🙌.

Thank you for recognising our programs and the fancy dinner! ✨

We’ve got something a bit special up our sleeves with this summer. We think you’re gonna like it. It’s time to LEVEL UP THE LINEUP 🌺 🏄‍♀️ 💪 ✨

11/09/2024

COMING SOON 📣

FROM WAVES TO WORK is a cool new spin of program from Stoked Surf Therapy 🌊

Using the YARN SURF EAT model as an alternative approach to supporting young people with their pathways to work and study.

Using the therapeutic benefits of the ocean & surfing to build confidence, self-belief, local connections, skills and stoke! ✨✨✨

Each week participants, local employers, industry experts and mentors come together to learn, connect and hit the surf 🤙

From Waves to Work is a 6 week surf program for young people aged 16 - 25 who are engaged with an Employment Service Provider.

VOLUNTEERS AND LOCAL EMPLOYERS NEEDED!
Interested in getting involved?
Want to meet potential new employees? Or just fancy hitting the waves and having a good time. Get in touch with Zoe.

T: 0403 907 540
E: zdamman@brophy.org.au

CHAT TO YOUR EMPLOYMENT SERVICE PROVIDER TO APPLY! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Locations:
WARRNAMBOOL
PORT FAIRY
PORTLAND

T: 0403 907 540
E: zdamman@brophy.org.au

27/03/2024

That’s another 6-week YOUTH SURF THERAPY program wrapped up! 🤸🏽‍♀️

Just when we thought the young folks couldn’t get any cooler and our mentors can’t possibly get any more legendary, another string of utterly brilliant humans walked through the Stoked doors. Ready to give us a chance, open their hearts, meet new people and hit the waves 🌊

This program was time to give a slightly younger bunch a go. They took to it like little surfing ducks to water! Our YARN SURF EAT way of rolling kind of works with everyone, it’s a framework we’re pretty damn happy with!

Big shakas to the 14 MENTORS, 20 YOUNG PEOPLE and WONDERFUL SURF COACHES from

Huge Shakas to our partner .slsc for making us feel so welcome at the club and having your meetings in a cupboard when we’re using the hall ☺️

We’ll be back in November with another community 6-weeker! Watch this space for some wild new developments this year yeeeow!

15/03/2024

HELPERS NEEDED!! 🙏

I’m truely gutted when I can’t get to these events. Mainly because there are such epic fun, but also because they rely heavily on having lots of volunteers.

If you are free this Saturday, please register to help. You honestly don’t need any surfing experience. One of the main roles is to be there to share the Stoke and offer a helping hand to those who need. Be ready to help hold a board, hold a hand, help someone get to there feet, be an extra pair of eyes and through a few high fives!

I totally recommend you get down to the beach Saturday morning and fill your feel good cup! 👌

Please don’t assume that they’ll have enough hands!

sorry I can’t be there, have a sick day and see ya at the next one! 💙