Deep Collaboration Webinar: Shifting our National Narrative with Collaborative Partnerships

January 26 represents an ongoing opportunity to have conversations that matter. If we are going to make changes to our national narrative, it will require collaborative partnership efforts similar to the ones we will be hearing about in this webinar. The event will be convened by Grant Paulson with panel speakers Reuben Berg, Ashlee Wone, and Anna Powell.

The ongoing impacts of colonisation combined with optimistic future trends leave us with a present reality charged with pain, promise and pride. If we are going to make changes to our national narrative, it will require collaborative partnership efforts similar to the ones we are hearing from in this webinar. Whether it is reimagining the justice system in NSW, working on Treaty making in Victoria, or navigating a national intermediary, each of our guests works through multi-layered complexity with multiple stakeholders. In this webinar, they’ll be offering leadership insights that we can apply to change our national Australian narrative.

The yearly dialogue about January 26 is a classic arena for Lost Conversations. A Lost Conversation is a dialogue that we never get around to discussing. It is a conversation that we feel should happen, but somehow never find the right conditions or opportunity to have. Like trying to connect the ends of magnets that do not want to meet, lost Conversations are things that we don’t, or feel we can’t, discuss, and therefore, we never do. This year conversations about January 26 will be significant as we move closer to state-based treaty processes and national processes of truth-telling, and constitutional reform.

We see competing values play out, with positions becoming more and more polarised and the status quo prevailing. The difficulty we have navigating competing values results in us avoiding difficult conversations.

In this webinar, we will be discussing how supporters of First Nations and social justice can navigate the conversation spaces of nation-building, reconciliation, truth-telling, treaties and constitutional reform. We will challenge you to identify and think about the roles or voices that predictably offer opinions on January 26. Using the practice of Deep Collaboration, we will explore how to not only identify these roles but also how to take steps to change the tone of the conversation around you.

Join us as we explore the work to be done by First Nations communities, allies and other stakeholders to address the Lost Conversations of January 26 and beyond in 2022.

Detailed information about the event is on our website: https://collaborationforimpact...

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You can find more information on Deep Collaboration here and download a free copy of Lost Conversations.

Watch the recordings of the 2021 three-part series of Addressing Australia’s Lost Conversations here.