ChangeFest Learning Network with Barkly Backbone Community Researchers

Name: ChangeFest Learning Network with Barkly Backbone Community Researchers
Start: 2024-10-15T12:30:00+1100
End: 2024-10-15T14:00:00+1100

Tue, 15 Oct, 12:30pm - 2pm AEDT

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15 October – Barkly Backbone Community Researchers

Working in the Middle Space: the Barkly Community Researchers and our way of understanding, measuring, evaluating and learning in the Barkly.

This session will explore the work of the Barkly Community Researchers Program. The Community Researchers are working with the Barkly Backbone Team to gather data and stories from community members across the Barkly – focusing on strengthening youth and training opportunities in the Barkly. In this session, you will hear directly from the Community Researchers about bringing together Wumpurani (Aboriginal) and Papulanji (Non-Aboriginal) into the Middle Space- a shared way of working. Walking together on one path to better understand, measure, evaluate, learn and improve things for people in the Barkly.

You will also have the chance to discuss the Community Researchers' work with other attendees and share thoughts and ideas.

About the Barkly Backbone Community Researchers

The BB Community Researchers started in August 2024. They are local Wumpurani (Aboriginal) ladies from Tennant Creek and other communities in the Barkly. BB Community Researchers work as a team together to give local people a voice to better understand the challenges and make positive changes in the Barkly.

About ChangeFest Learning Network

The ChangeFest Learning Network is a regular opportunity for all of us across the ChangeFest Movement to share practice and learn, to connect and build, and to take a deep breath and reflect. It will provide us all with the space to listen and hear from each other in ways that will help us in our own work for community-led system change – whether it be in communities, government, large for purpose organisations and businesses. This session is our second event of the Learning Network and is one of three monthly lunchtime sessions in 2024 being held on the third Tuesday of the month (online). Each event will be free and provide opportunity to explore a story of community-led change – and an opportunity to connect with each other across the ChangeFest Movement.

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ChangeFest is the nation-wide movement for community led systems change in Australia. As the ChangeFest Movement we are committed to learning and acting toward:

First Nations voice being centred in local, regional and national decisions.

Power and authority being harnessed for greater equity and collective agency, over top-down deficit based responses.

As collaborators we align our power and resources to healing and transformation grounded in place, whether that be local, regional or country-wide in scale.

These aims are directly informed and led by the ChangeFest Statement which has sat at the heart of our Movement since the very first Gathering in Logan in 2018. You can read the ChangeFest Statement here.

Community led systems change is a growing field with many approaches and initiatives. Each year more people and partners are coming together to re-imagine and influence how change happens through community-led collaborative action.

ChangeFest celebrates the significance of place and the progress being made. It supports the movement to learn and strengthen our understanding of community-led approaches and is a demonstration of how initiatives across diverse lands are encouraging collaboration across sectors, meaningful engagement, and elevating First Nations and community voices as a pathway for transformative change.

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