Events

Two day workshop to explore alternative ways of knowing, speaking and being together to explore asymmetric power relationships and the politics of development. In conjunction with the Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University, with Professor Chris Roche.

Being alive in complex times demands more of us than our habituated responses. It requires us to pay attention to each other in more serious ways, to learn to stay in relation despite our differences, and to endure and explore conflict. To make a difference ‘out there’, we have to first make a difference ‘in here’. Rather than avoiding or collapsing our differences, collapsing into tribes or becoming polarised, we need to learn to go on together in uncertainty to see if we can produce something different. Our futures, and our children’s futures may depend on it.

Two-day seminar/experiential learning opportunity with Australian INGOs and La Trobe University on managing in uncertainty. An antidote to the dominant tendency of talking in managerial abstractions, what we now term ‘management speak’. It focused instead on what programme participants actually find themselves doing in the daily messy reality of organisational life, which involves dealing with power and politics, and processes of inclusion and exclusion. Funded by the La Trobe Building Healthy Communities Research Focus Area and the Institute for Global Development at the University of New South Wales.