When sifting through pages of notes to write up a conference, it’s often difficult to know where to start. Opening the WINGS meeting in Sydney in March, Barry Gaberman (Ford Foundation), Chair of the WINGS Coordinating Committee,  set out three clear aims for the conference: the workshops were to impart skills, the plenary sessions were to ‘allow us to soar’, and the final afternoon was to be ‘a visioning exercise for WINGS’. In so doing he provided a perfect framework for looking at the three days that followed.