Deep Collaboration through Collaboration For Impact presented a webinar on 28th June 2022 - 'NAIDOC Week Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!'

The event was convened by Mark Yettica-Paulson, Nikki Moodie, Anna Powell and Carolyn Curtis.

In this two-way conversation participants walked away with:

• A better understanding of the active roles they can take to demonstrate the 2022 NAIDOC theme - Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!

• Improved understanding of ways to build trust over time between First Nations and other Australians

• Better awareness of what it takes to address the needs of First Nations and others to work together as allies, partners and in solidarity

Our gratitude to participants who offered such positive testimonials…

“The Deep Collaboration NAIDOC Week webinar provided rich and accessible thoughts, views and experiences from leaders for change. I am reminded of the necessity for working together, in a relationship, nurturing trust in the work of acknowledgement, truth and justice with first nations peoples and other Australians.” - Participant, Anonymous

“Brilliant panel and MC taking the time to deeply consider questions, provide substantial context and examples and listen to each other. Learned so much I can use immediately to deepen our commitment to Get Up, Show Up, Stand Up Allyship in the workplace and in relationships to achieve equity and self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and communities” - Dr Ellie Francis-Brophy, Program Implementation, The Smith Family.

In this webinar, Associate Professor Nikki Moodie, a Gamilaroi woman and the Program Director for Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity at the University of Melbourne with Mark Yettica-Paulson a Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung man who is the Deep Collaboration Practice Lead for Collaboration For Impact, explored different ways that First Nations can take up the call to action in the NAIDOC Theme, including how to embrace our history of collective activism and bring it into contemporary forms activism and cultural action.

Panellists Carolyn Curtis, the CEO of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) and Anna Powell, the CEO of Collaboration For Impact, also explored different ways that allies can take up their roles of support consistent with the NAIDOC theme, including what might be done alongside First Nations partners and what can be done within dominant cultural institutions.

You can find more information on Deep Collaboration on this website, and download a free copy of Lost Conversations via this page.

Watch the recordings of the 2021 three-part series of Addressing Australia’s Lost Conversations here.