The Australian Rural Leadership Foundation has announced it will facilitate the upcoming Changemaker Workshops, under the Future Drought Fund’s Helping Regional Communities Prepare for Drought Initiative.
The aim is to foster self-awareness, community engagement, resilience, leadership skills, and the ability to create positive change while considering diverse perspectives and community wellbeing.
Run in partnership with AgBiz Assist, this workshop is open to individuals who have a strong desire to drive meaningful change within their community, an interest in finding innovative solutions for complex challenges, a commitment to exploring new approaches for building a thriving community, and an interest in driving local action to prepare for drought effectively.
Over the course of the workshop, participants will come away with a range of knowledge and tools.
Join a network of changemakers across rural, regional and remote Australia:
- As a collective, delve into your region's readiness for change.
- Explore how change happens, practise how to adapt to change and how to overcome resistance.
- Become a changemaker, adapt your skills to enable your involvement in creating new and exciting things, manage setbacks and work collectively and purposefully with others.
Take part in diverse community conversations:
- Understand the local ecosystem. Undertake purposeful and inclusive engagement, step into informed and authentic conversations.
- Learn how to have those conversations, suspend judgement and assumptions, and build trust and transparency for connection and diverse relationships.
Create momentum within your community:
- Unpack what forms and shapes a community.
- Learn how a community can be more inclusive.
- Considering the impacts of drought, trauma, and other events, gain the tools to better support others and balance giving and taking within a community.
Contribute to and inspire your community's future:
- Explore ideas to shape the future that you would like to see for your community.
- Understand the importance of language and the power of storytelling in motivating and mobilising others.
- Learn what makes a good story and how to connect with the hearts and minds of others.
ARLF Chief Executive Matt Linnegar said the foundation had delivered more than 126 leadership programs in the last 30 years, dedicated to building thriving rural, regional and remote communities.
“Just over the past three years, we have run leadership programs in over 25 communities across the country building local leadership capacity and networks to bring new understanding, perspective and skills to move forward,” Mr Linnegar said.
“This Changemaker Workshop empowers individuals who wish to make a real difference in their communities by providing them with skills in assessing their region’s readiness for change, positive change agency, purposeful engagement and storytelling to shape communities.
“We believe that through collaboration and purposeful engagement, positive change is not only possible but also achievable.”
The workshop will be held on March 18–19 at the Lakeside Community Centre, Glasshouse Function Room, Benalla Showgrounds, Bridge St West, Benalla. This is a fully subsidised workshop with catering included across both days.
For more information or to register for this event, visit qrcodes.pro/SLcgeB/
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