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Matty Witney the Youth Worker Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkYX12MASJ4&feature=youtu.be Matty Witney talks of his experiences & challenges living and working in remote Indigenous communities in Australia, and shares a soulful, raw & comical song about being a youth worker... one...
International Women’s Day – Yasmin & Tula’s Story
#Centrestage Celebrates Indigenous Women Leaders on International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019 Yasmin and Tula both originate from Townsville, in North Queensland. Yasmin has both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and Tula’s family is from Moa, St Paul Island...
International Women’s Day – Gracie’s Story
#Centrestage Celebrates Women Leaders & Practitioners on International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019 WHERE ETHICAL FASHION MEETS THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN REMOTE AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES Over the past five years, the inspirational young Grace...
International Women’s Day – Natasha’s Story
#Centrestage Celebrates Indigenous Women Leaders on International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019 Meet the highly engaging Natasha Short, a local descendant of the Jaru people of Halls Creek, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Natasha is the founder...
What is Burnout? Why it Is More Prevalent in Contexts Such as Remote Service Delivery? Prevention is Better Than the Cure
Burnout and recovery are never the result of individual factors, or work-based reasons alone, but rather a combination of both (Salminen, Andreou, Holma, Pekkonen, & Makikangas, 2017). Burnout and other related mental and physical declines in health is an epidemic...
The Inextricable Link Between Confidence and Competence in Remote Indigenous Community Service Delivery
Confidence is something that appears to wax and wane mysteriously at times, throughout people’s career. Even highly successful leaders flounder with insecurities at times throughout the working-life developmental cycle. However, there is increasing evidence to support...
Mentoring Builds Bridges: Group Think & Lines of Professional Discourse
This evidenced based article below was featured in our November 2018 edition of the Central Axis newsletter, alongside other fun and practical pieces that connects, supports and shares knowledge to you as the leaders and practitioners that deliver community services...
Meet the Mentor – Lucille Hart
In the beginning, what motivated you to work and live in remote Indigenous communities? It’s always been important for me to work in an area where I felt like I was making a difference and being true to my values and ethics. I travelled around the Kimberley region...
Meet the Mentor – Be Ward
In the beginning, what motivated you to work and live in remote Indigenous communities? In 1988 I was 14 years old, and I was given a cassette tape of Warumpi Band’s album ‘Go Bush’, by my Aunty. In that same year I remember attending a massive Indigenous...
Meet the Mentor – Yarran Cavalier
In the beginning, what motivated you to work and live in remote Indigenous communities? In the beginning I lived and grew up on the waterfront in Sydney and spent my childhood playing at places that echoed with the sounds of the original people of this place they...
Matty Witney the Youth Worker Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkYX12MASJ4&feature=youtu.be Matty Witney talks of his experiences & challenges living and working in remote Indigenous communities in Australia, and shares a soulful, raw & comical song about being a youth worker... one...
International Women’s Day – Yasmin & Tula’s Story
#Centrestage Celebrates Indigenous Women Leaders on International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019 Yasmin and Tula both originate from Townsville, in North Queensland. Yasmin has both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and Tula’s family is from Moa, St Paul Island...
International Women’s Day – Gracie’s Story
#Centrestage Celebrates Women Leaders & Practitioners on International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019 WHERE ETHICAL FASHION MEETS THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN REMOTE AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES Over the past five years, the inspirational young Grace...
International Women’s Day – Natasha’s Story
#Centrestage Celebrates Indigenous Women Leaders on International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019 Meet the highly engaging Natasha Short, a local descendant of the Jaru people of Halls Creek, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Natasha is the founder...
What is Burnout? Why it Is More Prevalent in Contexts Such as Remote Service Delivery? Prevention is Better Than the Cure
Burnout and recovery are never the result of individual factors, or work-based reasons alone, but rather a combination of both (Salminen, Andreou, Holma, Pekkonen, & Makikangas, 2017). Burnout and other related mental and physical declines in health is an epidemic...
The Inextricable Link Between Confidence and Competence in Remote Indigenous Community Service Delivery
Confidence is something that appears to wax and wane mysteriously at times, throughout people’s career. Even highly successful leaders flounder with insecurities at times throughout the working-life developmental cycle. However, there is increasing evidence to support...
Mentoring Builds Bridges: Group Think & Lines of Professional Discourse
This evidenced based article below was featured in our November 2018 edition of the Central Axis newsletter, alongside other fun and practical pieces that connects, supports and shares knowledge to you as the leaders and practitioners that deliver community services...
Meet the Mentor – Lucille Hart
In the beginning, what motivated you to work and live in remote Indigenous communities? It’s always been important for me to work in an area where I felt like I was making a difference and being true to my values and ethics. I travelled around the Kimberley region...
Meet the Mentor – Be Ward
In the beginning, what motivated you to work and live in remote Indigenous communities? In 1988 I was 14 years old, and I was given a cassette tape of Warumpi Band’s album ‘Go Bush’, by my Aunty. In that same year I remember attending a massive Indigenous...
Meet the Mentor – Yarran Cavalier
In the beginning, what motivated you to work and live in remote Indigenous communities? In the beginning I lived and grew up on the waterfront in Sydney and spent my childhood playing at places that echoed with the sounds of the original people of this place they...