A collective of dedicated practitioners will convene to deeply reflect and discuss strengths, challenges, opportunities and dynamics that exist in the work of engaging between the middle spaces and our own contexts.
Additionally, I am super excited to announce I’m taking a 12-month sabbatical!
That’s right—an entire year to write, reflect, rest, and embrace spontaneity with my amazing wife Maryann and our wonderful family. The Paul Ramsay Foundation Fellowship and the unwavering support from Collaboration For Impact have combined to make this possible. I am eternally grateful for the support and encouragement from both organisations to enable me to access the gift of time for the next year.
Three Leadership Gardens
My project idea is to develop a Three Leadership Gardens Framework.
I also want to thank and acknowledge the Paul Ramsay Foundation and Collaboration for Impact for their support.
Leadership collaboration across racial divides: bringing conversations to the middle spaces
I am using the metaphor of Three Leadership Gardens to signify the cultivated, curated, and cared-for space where practitioners come together, discuss their leadership challenges, and learn with and from each other.
The Three Leadership Gardens seeks to address some key learning areas for practitioners arising from Deep Collaboration and for those who work in the spaces of leadership development that involves First Nations and other multicultural Australians.
Using Deep Collaboration practices, I will hold separate leadership learning circles for First Nations practitioners and Non-Indigenous Australian practitioners. Each learning circle will have a topic for preparation reflections and the discussions will gather insights and learning to bring into the Combined Middle Space.
This Three Leadership Gardens Framework draws on my work for the Intercultural Framework.
Be encouraged and encourage others.
Mark YP
