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7 Great Reasons for Women to do Leadership Training

7 Great Reasons for Women to do Leadership Training

Get any group of motivated women together and the day is sure to be full of surprises, lots of different stories and, of course, lots of laughter.

Women play a unique role in community efforts, we bring different views and are often faced with distinct challenges and obstacles.

Leadership events for women encourage the sharing of stories, and increase skills for personal and community change.

The recent Women in Leadership Symposium in Manjimup was no exception.

There were many áhah’ moments as we reflected on leadership styles and began to recognize and identify with the differences between stereotypical leadership and life-affirming leadership models.

The understanding that leadership can be from ‘behind’ or from the ‘front’, and we all have our own innate way of being a leader led to great discussions about individual experiences and many acknowledgments of times in the past where each of the participants had indeed shown great leadership.

powerlessness, finding you power, corgae, empower yourself, leadership, womens leadershipAs the group began to reflect on their own stories and the journeys they had each progressed through in their personal environmental and landcare journey their turning points were revealed. Quite often the story itself followed a path that had progressed from a sense of powerlessness to one of discovering and owning their power to make change.

Taking the time to reflect and in turn be motivated by your own story, and the stories of other women, is a powerful thing in itself. 

It becomes the ‘story of us’ and is a passionate and motivating narrative for collective momentum and social change.

Add to this some deeper skills in self-reflection, deconstructing perceived and real barriers, identifying who or what you need to make change or move forward, and how you can support and include others in the process in a clear and purposeful way all contributes to the development of valuable leadership skills.

 

Here’s what the participants had to say and 7 reasons why you might like to get along to one of our leadership courses for women in the future.

  • It’s great to meet other women from all different roles in the environmental sector.
  • It’s always good to revise and define our own leadership styles and understanding the styles of others.
  • Increasing awareness of moods and emotions and being mindful of these roles in your-self and others can make communication and change- making more powerful.
  • Sharing experiences and stories in a group that really gets what you’re talking about is empowering in itself.
  • Reaffirming some things you know about yourself and awakening other qualities and attributes is so worth it.
  • Gaining some clarify about what’s next and some steps toward making it happen.
  • Get refreshed, revitalized and re-energised.

 

We are currently developing more workshops for the South coast regions. One will be based in Albany and the second in the lower South West.

If you are interested in future workshops or discussing leadership and capability skills development for your group or organisation and would like to know what else is possible please get in touch. 

Contact Dawn or Louise on [email protected] or by phone (08) 9848 3310

This event is supported by Royalties for Regions, StateNRM and the Department for Communities.

 

 

Photo featured Image: L-R Jacquie Foster, Nerilee Boshammer, Emma Maesepp, Jacqueline Lahne (back row), Dawn Atkin, Bev Lockley, Louise Duxbury (back row), Andrea Salmond. (Absent from photo Evelyn Collin and Donna Carman). Womens Leadership Symposium, Manjimup, September 2017.

 

 

 

Supporting Women’s Leadership  for Landcare & the Environment SYMPOSIUM

Supporting Women’s Leadership for Landcare & the Environment SYMPOSIUM

Women play a unique role in community efforts, we bring different views and are often faced with distinct challenges and obstacles. These one-day events for women will encourage the sharing of stories, help increase skills for personal and community change, and provide resources and mentoring for future guidance.

Wed 13th September – Katanning, 9.30am to 4pm
Thur 21st  September  – Manjimup, 9.30am to 4pm

Join us: link up with other women, share what really matters to you, identify your unique leadership style, and explore how you would like to expand your leadership and make a difference in landcare and the environment.

A post event, one to one mentoring opportunity is included in the registration to further support your leadership journey.

Fee $70 (per workshop) | Early Bird Special is $58 (register and pay before 4th September)

To register for a workshop nearest to you please Dawn or Louise on [email protected] or by phone (08) 9848 3310

This event is supported by Royalties for Regions, StateNRM and the Department for Communities.

 

 

Supporting Women in Leadership Roles

Supporting Women in Leadership Roles

Women play a unique role in community efforts, we bring different views and are often faced with distinct challenges and obstacles.

These one-day events for women will encourage the sharing of stories, help increase skills for personal and community change, and provide resources and mentoring for future guidance.

It is hoped that bringing this experience to the region will be of great benefit to begin to support and mobilise women in leadership roles in the Great Southern and  the South West of Western Australia.

We look forward to women across the southern regions of Western Australia coming together to link up with other women, share what is really important, identify and own their unique leadership styles, and explore ways to expand their leadership potential and continue to make a difference in Landcare and the environment.

In addition to the workshops  a series of post event, one to one mentoring opportunities are included to further support the leadership journey out in the community.

Join us. To register for a workshop nearest to you please  contact Dawn or Louise on [email protected] or by phone (08) 9848 3310

These  workshops and mentoring opportunities are supported by Royalties for Regions, StateNRM and Department for Communities.

 

 

Symposium for Women in NRM, Landcare and Environment

A regional symposium, consisting of two one day events to support women in the NRM, Landcare and Environmental sector will take place in the Great Southern and Lower South West during September and October.

The symposium leverages the outreach of the WELA – Women in Environmental Leadership Action Leadership Program that took place in Victoria 2016 and 2017. The program included participants from most states and diverse backgrounds in the sector.

It is hoped that bringing this experience to the region will be of great benefit to begin to support and mobilise women in leadership roles in the Great Southern and South West. Events will be hosted in Katanning and Manjimup and aim to attract women in the surrounding areas and catchments. (For more information click here.)

Dr Louise Duxbury will be a key speaker and co-facilitator at the event. Dr Duxbury, a WELA facilitator, Founder of Green Skills Inc, and long term resident of the Great Southern brings almost four decades of experience, insight and passion in the environmental sector.

Dawn Atkin, Symposium Coordinator said “We hope this first symposium series will seed the path for more leadership development and networking opportunities for women in the sector and across the region. Our aim is to strengthen development of resources and pathways and mentoring opportunities for the future.”

The one day leadership events that make up the symposium will each include two speakers, opportunities for women to share their experiences, connecting and leadership skills development. All participants will also have access to a one to one mentoring opportunity after the event to support their ongoing development.

This symposium has been made possible by The StateNRM Community Capabilities Grants Program and the Department of Local Government and Communities Grants for Women Program.

For more information or to register your interest please contact Dawn Atkin (08) 9848 3310 or [email protected]

 

DRD Emerging Leaders

DRD Emerging Leaders

Green Skills partnered with Karrak Consulting in developing and delivering a pilot leadership program for the southern regions of Western Australia in 2015 funded through the WA Department of Regional Development.

16 regional emerging leaders from across different sectors of local communities signed up for the  4 x 3.5 day weekend workshops in York in June, Denmark in July, Dryandra in September and Donnelly River in October.

Participants engaged in private coaching, group action learning, phone sessions and working on their own community projects between the weekend gatherings.

Feedback from the majority of the participants was outstanding and many of them are more fully engaged in initiatives in their own communities with greater confidence in themselves and how to engage others.