Mapping your community

Our day will be highly immersive and participatory including a lunch break and smaller breaks across the day.

This workshop provides a great opportunity for anyone who wants to explore participatory processes and practices, that can identify and mobilise the strengths and assets of individuals, organisations and community groups in their communities.

Jeder Institute is excited to offer our Mapping your Community workshop. This workshop will focus on the six assets of ABCD. We will share asset mapping tools to identify, connect and activate their community assets to create opportunities.

“The appeal of ABCD lies in its premise that communities can drive the development process themselves by identifying and mobilizing existing, but often unrecognized assets, and thereby responding to and creating local economic opportunity.” Dan Duncan  

This training is interactive and participatory, where you get to use the tools and resources which you are learning about. These tools and resources can be used directly with the communities who you work with.

Asset Mapping is an effective way to map the skills, talents, abilities, and passions of individuals, and to discover the strengths, networks, and resources of communities and organisations. This workshop will cover:

• The WHY, The HOW, The CONNECTION and The OUTCOMES of Asset Mapping
• Key Steps to Asset Mapping
• Tools share with others to identify, connect and activate your community assets

Join us on an interactive journey of discovery.\

This training is for anyone who is:

• 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
• ANYONE with a passion for community connecting and doing great things together.

Your hosts for this event 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.