Changemaker Workshop - Armidale (Region 5 NSW)

Become a Changemaker:

• Assess your region's readiness for change.
• Explore how change happens and how to overcome resistance.
• Learn what it takes to be a positive change agent, have the drive to build new things, how to manage setbacks and work creatively and purposefully with others.

Start community conversations:

• Understand the local ecosystem; undertake purposeful and inclusive engagement; create robust and authentic conversations.
• Learn how to have difficult conversations, suspend judgement and assumptions, and build trust and transparency for connection and diverse relationships.

Care for your community:

• Unpack what forms and shapes a community.
• Considering the impacts of drought, trauma and other events, 
• Acquire the necessary tools to balance giving and taking in a community and to better support others.

Shape your community's future:

• Explore ideas to shape the future 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.

*This is a face-to-face workshop only. 

*Catering and participant resources provided. 

*Before you register, we ask that you make sure you can commit to attending the two full days.

*We are able to provide your employer with a letter of support to attend this workshop.
*If you are registering for multiple participants, please include individual email addresses against each registration.

*Bring along a friend or co-worker you know will benefit from this workshop as well!

This workshop is sponsored with thanks to the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund. It is delivered by the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation and part of the Helping Regional Communities Prepare for Drought Initiative. For more information visit rural-leaders.org.au.

For any technical assistance please contact Gemma Rostron at support@rural-leaders.org.au or 0421 031 418.