Consulting
At Super Native Unlimited, our consulting services include how to apply the Intercultural Framework to your organisation or company, leadership development programs, best facilitation and collaboration processes.
We believe that our frameworks can empower business leaders, organisational leadership and teams to navigate the complexities between cultures. Our consulting work helps communities to articulate and clarify the purpose and intent of their interactions across race, power and cultures. Contact us to learn more.
Our current work and partnerships include:
Mark is employed by Collaboration for Impact as the Lead for Deep Collaboration. Deep Collaboration was created by First Nations and other multicultural Australians, including practitioners, facilitators and community leaders who shared their ideas, experiences and expertise with one goal in mind. That goal was to find a new way to work and lead together. Working together and sharing leadership in new ways can open up new possibilities for all of us and our communities to create a more equitable and inclusive Australia.
Collaboration for Impact is an Australian not-for-profit organisation with a vision for an equitable and inclusive society where people, place and planet thrive.
As the DC Practice Lead, Mark is also working on:
This project is the vision of founding Elder and Mark’s father, Rev. Graham Paulson (now retired). Rev. Paulson’s God-inspired vision came about when Vincent Lingiari – leader of the Wave Hill Walk-off – requested Rev. Paulson to “send back more leaders like yourself.” Rev. Paulson has since devoted his life to developing leaders who are strong in their cultural knowledge, and able to navigate current society to see their communities thrive.
In partnership with not-for-profit organisation Australians Together, Mark continues his father’s legacy and assists with equipping and facilitating Indigenous leadership through Five Stones Leadership.
Mark’s family has been involved in First Nations Christian ministry since the 1960s with his parents, Rev. Graham and Mrs Iris Paulson coming from Fingal and Cherbourg and is honoured to follow his parent’s tradition of supporting Indigenous Christian leadership development.
AFSE was established at the University of Melbourne in 2016 with funding from the Atlantic Philanthropies.
AFSE Fellows are exceptional, mid-career change-makers with a track record in social change initiatives, and experience in Indigenous-focused projects. They are Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders from Australia, Aotearoa and Pacific Nations and they come from a broad range of creative, professional, advocacy and educational backgrounds.
Mark is one of six AFSE Pou – Indigenous intellectual leaders and knowledge holders – working alongside Fellows to bring guidance, sustenance and cultural safety. Building upon established models of Elders-in-Residence at the University of Melbourne, their role is enhanced by the concept of Māori Pou.
Mark joins Professor Daryle Rigney, Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA, Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith CNZM, Dr Mick Adam’s and Dr Donna Ngaronoa Gardiner as Pou and works closely with the AFSE Team including ED Professor Elizabeth McKinley ONZM and PD Associate Professor Nikki Moodie.
One Billion Stars was launched on Martin Luther King Jnr Day, Monday 18 January 2021.
Over 2.4 million stars were woven from over 200 communities in 15 countries including Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, United States of America, Malaysia, Japan, Ireland, Scotland, England, Fiji, Cook Islands, Samoa, Barbados, Tonga and Hawaii. A partnership was formed the Queensland Government, Museum of Brisbane, Lumen Cloud and Human Ventures to design an installation of one million woven stars for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Arts and Cultural Program.
Maryann and Mark are currently developing resources for workshop delivery and self guided tutorials.