Deep Collaboration
An introduction to CFI's Deep Collaboration content and practice to improve your awareness and skills in leading groups and initiatives where First Nations and other Australians are leading change together.
Deep Collaboration Fundamentals Online (Zoom): Program valued at $35,000 per participant. Participant contribution: $2,600 +GST
“Deep Collaboration Fundamentals” builds foundational skills and awareness in the practice of Deep Collaboration. This workshop series is designed for practitioners and leaders to increase their awareness and understanding of the patterns of behaviour and dynamics of power that show up when First Nations and other Australians are collaborating. You are invited to continue your learning in an ongoing community of practice with other Deep Collaboration learners.
Whether you are a facilitator, leader for an initiative or part of a team that works with First Nations and other Australians, this workshop series and ongoing community of practice can improve your awareness and increase your understanding to make you more effective in leading change together.
Who is this workshop series for?
For enquiries, contact learning@cfi.org.au
Please read the Learning Program: Terms and Conditions before purchase.
Throughout the workshop series, participants will:
Be part of a learning network that is facilitated by a team of two facilitators (a First Nations and non First Nations facilitator)
Learning format: Deep Collaboration Online is entirely online over Zoom.
1 x welcome & orientation
4 x short-day workshops
1 x mid-point group check in
Option for participants to form an Ongoing Community of Practice meeting every other month – Online
Participants will be required to set aside approximately 2 hours between sessions for preparation and personal reflection. Learning has been designed based on this commitment to learning between sessions.
The workshop series will be hosted on Zoom. Participants will be required to download Zoom and Chrome in order to be able to participate.
We encourage all participants to use their video throughout. Internet access is required to participate.
We recommend participants use a desktop/ laptop whilst participating (rather than a mobile phone).
Participants will be given access to CFIs Learning Management Systems where workshop materials and resources will be made available.
Price per person:
Deep Collaboration Online (Zoom): Participant contribution: $2600 +GST
Please read the Learning Program: Terms and Conditions before purchase.
Please contact us learning@cfi.org.au if you would like to discuss package offers, large group discounts and tailored sessions for your organisation.
Facilitator
A Darumbal Woman with bloodlines to Vanuatu and New Caledonia, Fiona has worked in Education for 35 plus years regionally, nationally and internationally – working in different contexts: city, rural, regional, remote and very remote communities.
Fiona has been instrumental in the setting up and the creation of the Federally funded Mackay Connected Beginnings project which is directed and guided by community voice. Fiona currently manages her own consultancy business called Cyclic Konnectionz to build Cultural Capability to value our First Nations People.
Facilitator
Bianca is a first-generation Australian of Welsh-English and Norwegian-Swedish immigrants. Her bloodline runs further to Ireland, Scotland, Finland and the Baltics. She was born in the lands of the Wadawurrung and calls palawa lands home.
Bianca brings to life processes that realise a thriving present/future with greater systemic interrelationship and reciprocity. She works in ways that offer the possibility of deep transformation and connection - both personal and cultural.
She is a skilled facilitator and continues to weave her practice from diverse knowledges; power intelligence, social entrepreneurship, systems theory, transformative pedagogies, adaptive and regenerative practice.
She holds an MBA, Advanced Diploma of Group Facilitation and Collaboration, a Bachelor of Engineering (honours) and is a certified Diamond Power Index coach.
Program Manager
Muktasree is a distinguished advocate for women’s rights, sexual orientation, and indigenous peoples' rights with over 22 years of experience. An award-winning journalist, feminist, rights activist, and researcher with a law background, she founded Supporting People and Rebuilding Communities (SPaRC), an indigenous women-led organisation in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts. She is a Core Group Member of Sangat, A Feminist Network, and serves on the board of Action Aid Bangladesh. Muktasree works to reshape the philanthropic, feminist, rights, and development sectors through indigenous and feminist viewpoints.
Her contributions extended to organisations like South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) and the UN Women Bangladesh Civil Society Advisory Group. She has lectured at Asian University for Women and worked as a consultant and journalist with international agencies and leading Bangladeshi newspapers. Muktasree is the first indigenous woman from Bangladesh to receive numerous awards, including the UNICEF Meena Media Award and fellowships from the UN OHCHR among others.
