Workshops
Site Tours 19th April, 2010
Full Day Workshop 22nd April, 2010
9:00am - 4:00pm
PART A - Alice Springs Desert Park
9:00am - 12:00pmDesert Knowledge CRC invites you to join them for a site tourКof one the most successful training and employment programs in central Australia run by the Alice Springs Desert Park.
The Desert Park achieves a high percentage of Aboriginal employees through a program
that is underpinned by aКstrongКrelationship
with traditional owners of the Alice Springs area. The
employment environment is one of an
inter-cultural learning
environment where race issues aren't singled out. There is strong promotion of
learning from each other and peers.
A Q & A session will take place afterwards.
Your site tour leaders
Dr Jocelyn Davies,
Core Project Leader,
Livelihoods inLand Project,
Desert Knowledge CRC and CSIRO
Mr Gary Fry,
Park Manager,
Alice Springs Desert Park
PART B - Aboriginal Hostels Limited
1:00am - 4:00pmAboriginal Hostels Limited invites you to join them for a site tour at one of their hostels. You will get a unique opportunity to view a temporary accommodation facility, staffed predominantly by Aboriginal people.
Experience first-hand successful accommodation service delivery, which integrates health, education and employment benefits.
Sit down for lunch with the residents and chat with them about life in one of the hottest, yet breathtaking areas of Australia.
A Q & A session will take place afterwards.
Background: Aboriginal Hostels Limited has provided temporary accommodation services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since 1973.ККAHL operates its own hostels as well as supporting community organisations to operate theirs.
About your site tour leader:
Keith Clarke was appointed General Manager of Aboriginal Hostels Limited in 1996. He is Aboriginal, was born in Alice Springs and completed his tertiary education in Adelaide.
9:00am - 4:00pm
This workshop provides the opportunity for participants to understand how stakeholders in a strategic initiative can interact to create circumstances where Shared Responsibility for delivery of services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples might be achieved.
Representative projects are selected from participants as exemplars to explore the concepts, enabling them to identify:
- Stages of development through which each project has passed
- Assumptions which the stakeholders bring to the projects, and the extent to which the assumptions are addressed
- Skillsets that the stakeholders bring to the projects, and how these skillsets pre-determine the outcomes
- Skills that would need to be mobilised for shared responsibility to be a possibility.
Participants will be invited to compare the stages of development of their project. They will also be invited to design interventions that could be made to align their project more strategically with regard to the underlying values of the stakeholder groups involved and the desired outcomes.
Workshop objectivesIt is intended that participants will understand:
- Assumptions and cultural differences between
different stakeholders groups in collaborating to achieve real outcomes - How their mindset and others pre-determines the likelihood of successful outcomes
- How the role of an Intercultural Facilitator greatly increases the likelihood of success
- The need for negotiating a balance of power and authority between stakeholders
About your workshop leaders
Collaborative Systemic Change Pty Ltd (CSCPL)
Dave Goddard, Director, has worked with Indigenous communities in all states and territories as well as overseas, over the past two decades.
Nick Norris, Managing Director, has held senior executive positions in education,
defence and business. He has also conducted facilitator training
in Australia and the United Kingdom.
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