Using the wisdom of indigenous cultures newly arrived communities to inspire BC in mainstream Australia. Who is teaching who?
SHOW ME THE CHANGE
Complexity and the Art of Evaluation – Reporting Sheet
Leader: Candice Feuerring
Participants:
Key Points:
• Indigenous Sustainability Festival – St Kilda
• WTC – could seek to tie in sustainability messages
• Strength of faith communities – focus on volunteering
• Linking sustainability messages into religion
• Reconnecting the 1st generation back to their culture
• Issues with engaging older people from CALD more likely to engage
• Issues with translating into languages and whether 1st generation use their language to extend their …….. ?? / older generation
• Difference between tailoring messages v’s generic communications
• Difference between how you approach sustainability for different groups
• Accessing community leaders from CALD groups to inform programs and provide advice on messages = these community leaders are generally happy to be active and are already doing this
• Remembering that CALD groups are diverse within themselves, not all of one community has same priorities
• Visiting community groups and going to them and where they are already, meeting = connect with existing networks. Outreach is vital! “Don’t ask communities to come to you, go to them”.
• Talking stick / message stick = idea of having conversation and that being passed onto others
• Issues: involving diverse groups
• Need for a process of enquiry = we should be teaching each other
• Mainstream needs to learn and embark on a process of enquiry and provide space for everyone to be teachers
• 1st generation creates community then the 2nd generation lives bi-culturally
• 2nd generation may have more choices because of their ability to live bi-culturally
• The knowledge of the 1st generation in creating community is something that should be learn by mainstream
• Existing networks spread the message much quicker than recreating new networks = building on existing networks / structures is undervalued
• Ethics of asking people to do something that you will step away from = how do you go in and work with a community as a paid person and then ask others to do it voluntarily
• How do we turn a specific non-mainstream message into mainstream and why do we need to do it?
• Why do we focus on difference?
• What has happened in our lives that was difficult and how we respond to it?
• People from other cultures come with experience and adversity that brings insight and resilience
• Vulnerability brings strength
• Last 15 years = problem with identity / politics
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