The Red Gum Recovery framework — movement, mindfulness and community for veterans, first responders and their families.
Why Red Gum
works better
Yoga, breathwork and meditation designed to calm the nervous system safely.
Strength, mobility and lifestyle coaching led by qualified facilitators.
Groups and family wellness days with people who understand the journey.
Stress management, mental wellbeing education and warm referrals when more support is needed.
Our programs
Idle Hands
Delivered with Adelaide Gem & Mineral Club
Hands-on lapidary and silversmithing with the Adelaide Gem & Mineral Club — polishing stones, making jewellery, working a round table with people who are happy to teach. Beginners welcome, other days available.
Idle Hands
Delivered with Fallen Forge
Leather work, general metal work and forging in a working workshop. Steady, physical, hands-on making alongside people who get it. Drop in unannounced, or register your interest first if you’d rather.
Nothing listed here yet.
Partner-delivered programs are still being confirmed. If you run something that belongs here, we would rather list yours than build a second one.
Tell us about itAlso in development
Pathways to ongoing healing · Veterans Strong · First Responders Reset · Strong Families & Rise Again · Rural Recovery Roadshow — not open yet. Tell us which one you want first.
Programs marked available now you can walk into this week. Everything else, register interest and you go on the launch list.
For anything running now, the session time and place are on the card. No referral, no diagnosis, no paperwork.
If walking in cold isn’t on, register interest and we’ll call — what you need, which program fits, whether family come too.
Come as often or as rarely as suits. For programs still in development, you get first offer on a spot when dates land.
Straight answers
The short version of everything above, in the words people actually search for.
No. There is no referral, no diagnosis and no paperwork. If a program is marked available now, you can walk in this week. If you’d rather talk first, register your interest and we’ll call you.
No. Every Redgum program is free or fully subsidised. No participant ever pays.
Veterans and ex-serving members; first responders, including police, fire, ambulance and SES; victims of crime; and the partners, children and carers who live alongside them.
Right now: Gem Club at Tea Tree Gully (Wednesdays 5–8pm · Tea Tree Gully); Fridays at Fallen Forge (Fridays 9am–4pm). Programs currently run in South Australia. Times and places are on each program card, and more programs are in development for 2027.
Yes. Partners, children and carers are welcome, and family days are built around the whole household.
Register your interest and we’ll call you. We’ll talk through what you need, which program fits, and whether family come too. There’s no obligation.
Start a conversationWe refer warmly to psychologists, counsellors and crisis support when more help is needed. If you are in immediate danger call 000. Lifeline is 13 11 14, and Open Arms, for veterans and families, is 1800 011 046.
Not open for booking yet. Leave your details and you’re first in line when dates are confirmed.
We’ll be in touch before this program opens — a real conversation first, no automated sequence. If things get harder in the meantime, Lifeline is 13 11 14, any hour.
