Community Conversations

The day will be a screens on session that is participatory and immersive.  There will be a lunch break and smaller breaks across the day.

Community Conversations is a proven method to engage people from all walks of life to encourage active participation in broad community conversations.

“Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.” Margaret Wheatley

Join us for this one day workshop where we will share a range of ABCD and other strength based methods to host meaningful community conversations to move from problems to possibilities. We will share stories, tips and tricks to create safe spaces that encourage community participations.

The workshop will cover:

• Skill building in hosting and facilitating a range group processes

• Practice in forming “powerful” questions

• Increasing diverse community participation

• Importance of co-designing an interactive community conversation

• Intentionally shifting talk into action

Anyone who wants to explore participatory processes and practices for moving dialogue to action and collaboration in communities:

• Community members and not for profit leaders
• Community organisers and their teams
• Business leaders and social entrepreneurs
• Next generation leaders and other young activists
• Department leaders, policy officers and program managers
• NDIS directors, team leaders, planners

Please contact us if cost is a barrier to your participation or you require an invoice for payment. Please contact us if cost is a barrier to your participation.  or you require an invoice for payment. Tickets are not refundable after 7 days before the event date.

Your hosts for this training are:

Fiona Miller - Fiona is a creative conduit with a diverse back ground that includes community development, creative & visual arts, early years, education, bushfire recovery, inclusion, community houses, community gardens and more. Having worked within a variety of organisations/agencies and local governments she has a broad understanding of the diversity of organisational structures.
As a facilitator, graphic harvester or community member, contributing to community for making great places and participating in community led projects that are sustainable are her focus. She loves nothing more than watching people and projects grow and uses creative arts, ABCD and strengths based practices as platforms for discovering and exploring community futures.
Supporting our young people to explore their own place within community is something she sees as particularly important. Everyone deserves to feel safe and be included and we can build relationships and have fun while we do it.

Vic Tyler - I am an educator and trainer I established and managed a tertiary college known as “Art and Pottery School”. I established a primary and secondary school” Fern Valley Montessori School” I am a current Director of “Kieran and Matt’s Place Ltd’ a not for profit that manages a group home that uses self-management principles and focuses on Person Centered Practice and active support to achieve goals and outcomes.

I have completed the Masters of Health Science (Developmental Disability) with The University of Sydney with major studies in Mental Health and Disability. I have experience in preparing Behaviour Support Plans and Support Coordination and client assessment to enable a good life and to reduce restrictive practice. I have a passion for inclusion of people who are marginalized. Empowering and enabling community has been a major driver throughout my life journey.

Luke Gilray - I have been working in the disability sector for the past 10 years.  I have had a wide range of experience from working in youth crisis
management, Disability Employment Services, Transition to Work Programs, Australian Disability Enterprises.

I spent two years as a Local Area Coordinator and have spent the last two years as a Support Coordinator. I started in the sector due to lived experience helping my mother to support my brother growing up who has complex disabilities.