Celebrating Community Leadership.
This four-episode series speaks to thirteen community leaders about how they each harnessed and developed new skills in the face of disruption — featuring the voices of some of the Bega Valley's most active and creative emerging leaders. They share insights about how the Far South Coast NSW not-for-profit sector is now planning collaboratively for the future, through a place-based capacity building partnership program.
From the regions to the cities, this series teaches us all how we can become better and more influential leaders in our homes, workplaces and communities.
Series Image by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash
Series Music “As We Make, We Mend”, by Dean Gray & Anna Martin-Scrase (Wolumla School of Music)
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Celebrating Community Leadership.
This four-episode series speaks to thirteen community leaders about how they each harnessed and developed new skills in the face of disruption — featuring the voices of some of the Bega Valley's most active and creative emerging leaders. They share insights about how the Far South Coast NSW not-for-profit sector is now planning collaboratively for the future, through a place-based capacity building partnership program.
From the regions to the cities, this series teaches us all how we can become better and more influential leaders in our homes, workplaces and communities.
Series Image by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash
Series Music “As We Make, We Mend”, by Dean Gray & Anna Martin-Scrase (Wolumla School of Music)
In this episode, we’re going to take stock of some of the key challenges all Community Leaders face, and some of the unique ways rural Community Leaders respond to them.
It’s about Filling the Gaps, and embracing the spirit of doing the best you can with what you have.
“One thing that the Council have done recently that is really good is sharing information and that has actually been amazing and also through different programs where organization gets to meet each other and network. Everyone's so busy, everyone works so hard, so it's hard to actually get together and organize things. But if there's an organization that organize stuff, it's amazing.” — Anna Lindstrand.
You’ll meet three local Community Leaders: Anna Lindstrand from Potoroo Palace, Jacqui Filby who works with Police citizens Youth Clubs NSW, and Angela George from the Eden Killer Whale Museum.
Anna, Jacqui and Angela outline short-term responses but also, at times, the need to look at the bigger picture. They detail the different types of organisational and community trouble-shooting they encounter, and how they grow, learn, harness the wisdom of others, and in the process build community and strengthen people's individual skills.
Anna, Jacqui and Angela reflect on Leadership, what that word means to them; what leadership means to people in rural and regional areas; and of what community leadership in regional places like the Bega Valley can teach us all, no matter where we live, about community leadership as a whole.
Series links:
Bega Valley Shire Council
Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal
Investing in Rural Community Futures Program
Australian Rural Leadership Foundation
Interviewees:
Ep 1:
Eden Visitor Centre
Palliative Care Australia
Bega Valley Business Forum
Ep 2:
Eden Killer Whale Museum
Potoroo Palace
Police Citizens and Youth Club (Far South Coast)
Ep 3:
Eden Community Access Centre
Kate Liston-Mills (author and community advocate)
Cobargo Community Access Centre (closed), redirect to Cobargo Community Development Corporation Limited
Ep 4:
Cobargo & District Energy Transition (Renewable Cobargo)
Grow the Future (Bega)
Stepping Up
Celebrating Community Leadership.
This four-episode series speaks to thirteen community leaders about how they each harnessed and developed new skills in the face of disruption — featuring the voices of some of the Bega Valley's most active and creative emerging leaders. They share insights about how the Far South Coast NSW not-for-profit sector is now planning collaboratively for the future, through a place-based capacity building partnership program.
From the regions to the cities, this series teaches us all how we can become better and more influential leaders in our homes, workplaces and communities.
Series Image by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash
Series Music “As We Make, We Mend”, by Dean Gray & Anna Martin-Scrase (Wolumla School of Music)
