WISDOM PHASE RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN - The Centre for Women & Co.
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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ATSICHS THE CENTRE FOR WOMEN AND CO.’S RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN WISDOM PHASE ARTWORK DEVELOPMENT BY DELVENE COCKATOO-COLLINS
Acknowledgment At The Centre for Women & Co., we recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of this nation. We value and celebrate the uniqueness of knowledges, histories, languages and cultures that have been created for over 60,000 years. The Centre for Women & Co. pays respect to the Traditional Owners upon the land which we work including the Yugambeh, Jagerra and Quadamooka people.
JODY CURRIE,
C E O , AT S I C H S
How it Started
When Stacey met Jody
I first met Jodie at a meeting and The process that ATSICHS has shone through and it was a pleasure
we instantly said to each other that taken us on is transformational, to witness. Thank you to Gail for
we should work together. We didn’t it has given us an opportunity to connecting with Delvene Cockatoo-
know what that looked like at the genuinely listen, learn and know Collins and keeping our authentic
time, we just knew we needed to how we can be responsible for visual connection throughout the
connect. how we work, what we individually development of our plan aligned
bring to our workplace and how to our values and culture. Finally,
Fast forward nearly 12 months and that impacts our community. thank you to Raymond Brunker, you
I am beyond grateful for Jodie’s have been so kind, gracious and
team and how we have been able Building relationships is open. Your dedication, drive and
to work together developing this fundamental in our work and more ability to bring our reconciliation
partnership. importantly in our communities. vision alive is inspiring and we all
Our team is openly committed to thank you so much. We will always
The connection we have with this plan and our vision to develop be connected and for that I am
women each and every day is a new storyline will be our priority grateful.
deeply powerful and so the thought moving forward. It’s not something
of The Centre for Women and we will complete, it will evolve, Our communities will truly be
Co. embarking on connecting change, transform and deepen our better for our connection and I
with Aboriginal and Torres Strait connection to this work. deeply believe that we are stronger
Islander Community Health Service together.
(ATSICHS) and working together on I would like to also share my deep
connecting and reconciliation is a gratitude to Kiana for working Stacey Ross, CEO, The Centre
privilege. on this and bringing together our for Women & Co.
teams. Your passion and purpose
Our Vision for Reconciliation
Developing a new storyline
The Centre for Women and Co.’s friendships, we are committed to
vision for reconciliation will transforming how we think, feel and
acknowledge the rich history, understand the diverse and rich
challenges and hopes of Aboriginal cultures of Australia’s first peoples.
and Torres Strait Islander people by We will be challenged. We will
journeying together in co-creating be moved. But above all, we will
a new storyline at The Centre for lean forward with our hearts and
Women and Co. reach out with our hands. For at
The Centre for Women and Co.,
In developing a new storyline, the reconciliation is as much a spiritual
CFW will help shape the future process as it is an active process in
“
by understanding our past and creating a safe and empowering
present – including understanding service.
the intergenerational injustices WE WILL BE
experienced by Aboriginal and
CHALLENGED. WE
Torres Strait Islander peoples
WILL BE MOVED. BUT
since colonisation, as well as the
ABOVE ALL, WE WILL
continued strength of Aboriginal
L E A N F O R WA R D W I T H
and Torres Strait Islander peoples
OUR HEARTS AND
and cultures in the face of these
REACH OUT WITH
injustices.
OUR HANDS.”
Through authentic and deep
connections and building enduring
Our Reconciliation Action Plan
A journey, not a destination
Reconciliation is a journey, not a as a non-Indigenous agency. It is Our Reconciliation Action Plan is a
destination. The Centre for Women about actualising reconciliation by journey of learning. By accepting
and Co.’s reconciliation journey inner change, not merely by surface truths, building understanding,
embodies this approach by focusing change. and being guided in our growth
on a learning journey that is by Aboriginal and Torres Strait
grounded in Aboriginal and Torres The heart of our Reconciliation Islander people and institutions,
Strait Islander concepts, values and Action Plan is dawned from our we will begin a new arc in our
worldviews. Our learning journey in unwavering belief in Aboriginal reconciliation storyline at The
reconciliation aims to be a panacea and Torres Strait Islander self- Centre for Women and Co.
for ongoing change, for current and determination, akin to our
future teams, beyond the here and organisations own core value of
now. RESPECT.
RESPECT
To achieve this ambitious feat, It is this focus of standing side-by-
we acknowledge the change side and not proclaiming to be “We are open and
accepting of each other
required needs to go deeper an authority – by talking about –
and we talk to people,
than the standard topography Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander not about them. We
respect consumer’s
of most RAPs, often culminating people in domestic and family
freedom to choose their
with a list of checklist tasks and violence. Rather, we support self- pathways to grow
and we stand side by
activities. Instead, our RAP has determination of Aboriginal and
side to create a strong
been intentionally designed to Torres Strait Islander communities sense of belonging and
connection.”
ensemble and cultivate new and institutions to choose and lead
values, behaviours, perspectives, their own pathways, solutions and
connections and ways of being change.
Our RAP Stages of Learning
Wisdom, Dreaming & Achieving and Connection
The Centre for Women & Co. Strait Islander leaders and Elders change from the people that matter, behaviours, and knowledge to enable friendships to flourish.
alongside ATSICHS have taken is the preamble to understanding, the people we serve – consumers further advance the empowerment The final phase of the first
a different approach to our acknowledging and appreciating and community. The Plan will of Aboriginal and Torres Strait CFW RAP is about building
Reconciliation Action Plan. Each difference. Once immersed, encompass all aspects of the CFW Islander communities we walk friendships with Aboriginal and
year The Centre for Women and CFW will work to listen, reflect business, including improvement of alongside. Torres Strait Islander Elders,
Co.’s Reconciliation Action Plan has and empower change directed our practice and safety, changing community, institutions and
by Aboriginal and Torres Strait the lived environments we work in agencies. These friendships
a different theme, interconnected CONNECTION P HASE
with and bloomed from the previous Islander consumers. A community and improving the look and feel of (January 2023 – December and connections will serve
development – a bottom-up CFW. 2023) the purpose of co-delivering
year’s growth. The learning journey
of our RAP approach is harnessed approach – to redesigning the way values based cultural projects
‘Before getting to know others,
across three distinct indigenous CFW thinks, feels, behaves and Dreaming & Achieving is into our agency, including
we must know ourselves’. This
worldviews and values – Wisdom, delivers services is the aim. drawn from the cultural belief the co-development with
mantra brings to life the reality that
Dreaming & Achieving and of Dreaming (often represented local community of a ‘Caring
Connection: relationships in Aboriginal and
as dreamtime). Dreaming is a for Country’ environmental
D R EAMI NG & Torres Strait Islander communities
timeless concept about creation. sustainability initiative.
AC H I EV I NG PH A S E are built upon shared knowledge,
WI SD O M PHA S E Creation of knowledge, learning
(January 2022 – December humility and connection. The
(March 2021 – December 2021) 2022) and understanding – the purpose
CFW have intentionally left
CFW will broaden deep personal for being and the wisdom
Based on the insight of lived connection until after we have gone
insight into the values, behaviours contained. For the CFW it is about
experiences of Aboriginal and through a journey of personal
and attitudes of team to own and understanding the storyline of
Torres Strait Islander consumers insight, acknowledgment and
acknowledge our own cultural CFW – how we have come to
and community, a Dreaming & understanding. Having pedigree
biases and attitudes. Knowing be, our purpose and the change
Achieving Implementation Plan will in the storyline of CFW – owning
ourselves, through deep insight we need to make in actioning
path the course over the next 12 our past, present and future
led by Aboriginal and Torres reconciliation in practical means. It
months detailing recommended responsibility to reconciliation – will
is about improving our awareness,
Wisdom The Centre for Women and Co.’s vision for reconciliation phase one ‘Wisdom’ is to instill values and behaviours consistent with compassion and respect – two of our core values. To marry our values with our actions, we will posture our work according to the following The Centre for Women and Co.’s axiom: Before speaking, we will listen. Before seeing, we will be showed. Before assuming, we will acknowledge. Before knowing, we will understand. Before doing, we will empower. The body of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wisdom has been crafted over centuries. Wisdom is a relationship between knowledge, experience and deep understanding. At The Centre for Women & Co., we commit to expanding and deepening our knowledge, experience and understandings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by walking alongside and widening our mind and spirit to the different learnings we will be taught as we embark on this journey. All teams will adopt a spirit of deep reflection, ownership of their own experiences – good and bad – and act with humility to listen, empower, reflect and learn the wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, consumers and community members.
Continuing our Journey
EYES MIND EARS HEART
o ve r si ght r eflect io n a n d i n q u i r i n g li s t e n i n g em p ow er i ng c ha ng e
April – July 2021 August – December 2021 2022 2022 – 2023
ABORIGINAL & TORRES ‘DREAMING’
RAP OVERSIGHT T E A M D E V E L O P M E N T:
STRAIT ISLANDER I M P L E M E N TAT I O N P L A N :
COMMITTEE:
• Package a learning program CONSUMER FEEDBACK:
• Establish CFW governance of • Develop a scope ‘Dreaming
of deep inquiry for all CFW
the Reconciliation Action Plan & Achieving’ Implementation
team to unveil our own personal • Conduct qualitative face-to-face
(RAP) to actively monitor RAP Plan for year two of the CFW
beliefs, attitudes, values narrative feedback utilsing the
actions, track progress and Reconciliation Action Plan.
and biases. Understanding, ‘Knowledge Circle’ framework
report learnings. The Plan will be added as
acknowledging and owning to hear the perspectives of
an addendum to the CFW
our own faults and assumptions Aboriginal & Torres Strait
• Develop RAP Oversight RAP as part of the learning
is the first step to learning. Islander consumers, past and
Committee (RAPOC) to assess journey approach. Based on
Training will then open our present, in what we should –
progress against goals, actions the listening, acknowledging
minds into understanding the and must – improve at CFW.
and deliverables. and understanding of
history, evolving changes and The client-centred empowerment
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
• Ensure Aboriginal and Torres thriving cultures and strengths approach will act as a north star
Islander consumers feedback,
Strait Islander peoples are of Aboriginal and Torres Strait of navigation in implementing
the Dreaming and Achieving
represented on RAPOC. Islander peoples. tangible reconciliation steps
Implementation Plan will outline
to permeate lasting change
• Schedule four RAPOC meetings a course of actionable internal
in how we think, feel, behave
per year to monitor and report change and improvements.
and deliver services alongside
on RAP implementation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people at the CFW.
Design Jams
Exploring our team’s personal awareness
When beginning our journey to show how we will be establishing, our team to begin to reflect and valuable for our team and a lot of
reconciliation, it was important to implementing and reflecting on our internalise on our own personal great feedback was received. We
us as an organisation that our entire RAP moving forward. biases, judgments, beliefs and are grateful to have been able to
team was involved in the building practices. It is necessary that we facilitate these jams with ATSICHS
block stages of our Reconciliation Raymond facilitated a fantastic dug deep to gain this internal and we are very thankful for the
Action Plan. It was fundamental for session on what reconciliation is in insight, especially before we begin opportunity to learn from Raymond
our team to be invested in why we the modern era, and we started to to externalise. Raymond really and have him share his time,
are doing this, how we are doing delve into the history, generational highlighted for our team that it is knowledge and experience with
this and what role they have to play hope and explore how we can important that we know how to us. Having a space to bring our
in The Centre for Women’s journey enable empowerment alongside our change before we worry about team together to get involved and
to reconciliation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander what to change. connect around our Reconciliation
clients. Action Plan was a truly powerful
With the support of Raymond from The data collated from this survey experience and we are looking
ATSICHS, we held three design In the design jams we explored our will be used to inform our next forward to building upon what we
jams over the December 2020 and team’s personal awareness and steps in facilitating knowledge have started and created within
January 2021 period with team their knowledge gaps in relation circles from an appreciative inquiry these design jams.
from all The Centre for Women and to Aboriginal and Torres Strait model with our Aboriginal and
Co. sites. Islanders peoples, culture, history Torres Strait Islander clients. We will
and affairs and focused in on continuously reflect on this survey Kiana Caust, Integration & High
These sessions were key in this further through an interactive and come back to it to re-assess Risk Team Case Manager
highlighting what reconciliation is workforce survey. how we as a team are developing and The Centre for Women and
and its importance within the work and growing. Co.’s RAP Lead.
we do and within broader society. The survey incorporated interactive
It was also a space to unveil to the live polling and was conducted The design jams were extremely
team our storyline for our RAP and with anonymity to hold space forDelvene Cockatoo-Collins
Artwork workshop and artwork development
Delvene Cockatoo-Collins is a Time capsule May 2019, and
Quandamooka woman and artist Redlands Coast Branding Strategy.
who lives and works on Minjerribah
- North Stradbroke Island, Recurring themes across Delvene’s
operating her business ‘Minjerribah artwork and expressions are
Art Studio and Cottage’. Based in the stories of her family’s lived
a studio and retail store in Goompi experiences on North Stradbroke
- Dunwich, and open to the public Island, her responses to images
everyday, Delvene’s products and and texts related to her family,
services include commissions, the relationship to her great-great
public art, talks, workshops, grandmother, through a body
licensed stationery, ceramics, small of work, titled Six Generations,
sculptural works, and hand printed Traditional mat making techniques,
homewares. and the use of clays and pigments
found across Quandamooka
Recent highlights include, including the islands and mainland
Reconciliation Action Plan Artwork around Moreton Bay.
for the Star Entertainment Group,
‘Eugaries’ Public Art Place marker Delvene is the designer of the Gold
for Mooloomba - Point Lookout, Coast Commonwealth Games
Artwork for Fish Lane light boxes 2018 Prizewinners Medals,
for ‘Shared Connections’ public Commemorative Medal, the large
art program with Blaklash Projects inflatable Migalu, which featured
for Brisbane City Council, Ceramic in the Opening Ceremony and the
Coolamon for the Queens Wharf costumes for the medal presenters.Weaving Workshop
with Delvene Cockatoo-Collins
Holding space for reflection
When we initially connected with The twinning process felt hard effected how we could approach
Delvene about the possibility of the on our fingers and hands. As we the weaving process but being in a
RAP artwork, she spoke about the twisted the raffia, we teased the focused, purposeful space, allowed
workshops holding a space where length of the strand from under hour us to take the time to explore and
the team could connect around hands and we worked to keep it reflect on our approach, with
some of the things we spoke about untangled which felt smooth and Delvene’s guidance.
during the design jams. Delvene light.
“
emphasised how this kind of
creative space can be a space for When the twine was complete we
“
healing and connection and how wove it around in a spiral, using
enabling the team to be part of the blanket stitch to connect the sides. PA R T O F T H E
process around the composition of FA C I L I TAT I O N O F
the piece can promote connection Everyone’s twine and weave was THIS WORKSHOP
to the final piece and Reconciliation different. Some twine was loosely I S F O R S TA F F T O
Action Plan going forward. twisted with longer patterns created TA L K T H R O U G H
down the strand, movable and THEIR PLAN. IT’S
Over a relaxed morning, sitting on fluid. Others were, tighter, and less ALMOST AS IF THE
beanbags and listening to music, pliable. This effected how the spiral
C O N V E R S AT I O N S
Delvene guided us in using raffia took shape and how the stitches
REMAIN WOVEN AND
strands to twine and weave pieces became part of the piece.
EMBEDDED IN THE
to contribute to part of the final
ARTWORK.”
artwork. Our approach and method from
the beginning of the process, - Delvene Cockatoo-Collins(07) 3050 3060
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